{"id":48384,"date":"2026-04-12T08:08:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=48384"},"modified":"2026-04-12T08:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:08:21","slug":"john-cleese-blasts-worlds-silence-on-massacre-of-nigerian-christians-by-islamists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=48384","title":{"rendered":"John Cleese blasts world&#8217;s silence on massacre of Nigerian Christians by Islamists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F04%2Fcleese.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall%261775966213\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft wp-block-nypost-editor-partner-article-links\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cMonty Python\u201d actor John Cleese warned this week that the world has failed to live up to the ideal of saying \u201cBlack lives matter\u201d when it ignores <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/09\/03\/world-news\/thousands-of-christians-deliberately-targeted-and-killed-in-nigeria-report\/\">anti-Christian terrorism in Nigeria<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous news sources around the world, including The Associated Press, reported that according to local military and officials, at least 26 people were killed in three separate Easter\u00a0attacks in northern Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>This has caused multiple prominent commentators to not only criticize the terrorism rife in the region, but the silence of the international community that they argue is politically-motivated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looks rather as though Black Lives Don\u2019t Matter,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JohnCleese\/status\/2041548074460311930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cleese lamented on Tuesday<\/a>, adding what appears to be a sarcastic critique of liberal media by writing, \u201cAlso, writing about it would damage the image of the murderers who killed these poor people.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>John Cleese questioned why liberal media ignored the killing of 26 Christians in northern Nigeria. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for the 2015 Tribec<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cleese had been responding to a post from the Chair of the DOJ Task Force to Combat Antisemitism and Senior Counsel at The Justice Department, Leo Terrell, who had asked, \u201cWhy isn\u2019t the world talking about the massacre of Christians by Islamist terrorists??!!!!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While Cleese is very much a liberal himself \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/11\/us-news\/monty-python-star-john-cleese-questions-whether-world-cup-should-be-held-in-us-after-ices-minnesota-presence\/\">condemning President Trump<\/a> and his allies frequently \u2014 he has been on an ongoing multi-week campaign blasting how liberalism has turned a blind eye toward radical Islam.<\/p>\n<p>He had recently made headlines for condemning a mass Muslim prayer that\u00a0occurred in Trafalgar Square,\u00a0a British military memorial.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Cleese lamented on X that \u201cBlack Lives Don\u2019t Matter\u201d after the killings received little coverage. <span class=\"credit\">X\/John Cleese<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Members of a Catholic church take part in the Stations of the Cross procession on Good Friday in Lagos, Nigeria, April 3, 2026. <span class=\"credit\">EMMANUEL ADEGBOYE\/EPA\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>These gatherings follow a growing trend of mass Islamic prayers of up to thousands of people in iconic Western landmarks.<\/p>\n<p>While these are often organized with government permission, critics like Cleese argue these displays represent a\u00a0cultural gesture of domination,\u00a0occupying highly symbolic public spaces to signal a shift in national identity.<\/p>\n<p>Cleese also made waves\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JohnCleese\/status\/2033510372628427037?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">by tweeting<\/a>, \u201cThe UK has always been based at the deepest level on Christian values, regardless of dogma.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the many mistakes made by churches, for centuries British people have been influenced by Christ\u2019s teaching. If these values are replaced by Islamic ones, this will not be Britain any more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>John Cleese is one of many British public icons who were once liberal darlings, but have since spoken out against far-left dogma, similar to how \u201cHarry Potter\u201d author J.K. Rowling has since <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/04\/16\/world-news\/jk-rowling-celebrates-uk-supreme-court-ruling-that-trans-women-are-not-legally-women\/\">waged a long-term campaign against transgender ideology<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another prominent example includes atheist commentator Richard Dawkins, the author of \u201cThe God Delusion,\u201d who has argued that Christianity is something of a bulwark for European civilization and has identified himself as a\u00a0\u201ccultural Christian.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/12\/world-news\/john-cleese-blasts-worlds-silence-on-massacre-of-nigerian-christians-by-islamists\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMonty Python\u201d actor John Cleese warned this week that the world has failed to live up to the ideal of saying \u201cBlack lives matter\u201d when it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}