WATCH: Bill Maher Exposes Western Media Hypocrisy - Nigeria's Christian Genocide Ignored Because 'The Jews Aren't Involved'

On the September 26, 2025, episode of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, the host unleashed a blistering critique of Western media double standards, highlighting the near-total silence on the brutal genocide against Christians in Nigeria. Joined by CNN's Michael Smerconish and Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), Maher's discussion began with Syria's controversial return to the UN General Assembly, its first since 1967, but quickly shifted to the horrors unfolding in Nigeria. Rep. Mace decried the UN's decision to allow Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa to speak, pointing out the irony: “We saw the world leaders come to New York this week, the UN summit, and we had the president of Syria there… while he’s there speaking at the UN, there were Christian villages in Syria that were being burned down.”

Maher seized the moment to call out what he sees as selective outrage, pivoting to Nigeria's escalating nightmare. “If you don’t know what’s going on in Nigeria, your media sources suck. You are in a bubble,” he fired. “Where are the kids protesting this?” He laid bare the scale of the atrocity: “They are systematically killing the Christians in Nigeria. They’ve killed over 100,000 since 2009. They’ve burned 18,000 churches. This is so much more, these are the Islamists, Boko Haram, this is so much more of a genocide attempt than what is going on in Gaza. Well, because the Jews aren’t involved. That’s why. It’s the Christians and the Muslims, who cares?”

Maher's remarks align with grim realities documented by human rights groups. Boko Haram, the Islamist terror group founded in 2002 and infamous for the 2014 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping, has waged a relentless campaign to impose Sharia law, displacing over 2.5 million and destroying more than 19,100 churches since 2009, an average of three per day. Allied with Fulani extremists and ISIS-West Africa Province (ISWAP), these militants have targeted Christian farming communities in Nigeria's Middle Belt and northeast, blending religious jihad with land grabs. In 2025 alone, over 7,000 Christians were killed in the first 220 days, with Nigeria accounting for 82% of global faith-related Christian murders. Recent escalations include Boko Haram's January raids in Borno State, displacing 4,000 Christians from villages like Chibok, and a May 27 assault on an army base in New Marte, repelled but costing two soldiers' lives. Just this month, over 200 Christians were massacred in a single night by Fulani jihadists in north-central Nigeria.

Rep. Mace echoed Maher's frustration: “No one will talk about it… You can’t read about it on mainstream media. It’s sad.” Her comments underscore a broader failure: while Gaza dominates headlines, Nigeria's crisis, fueled by blasphemy laws in 12 northern states and federal inaction, receives scant attention. In response, Sen. Ted Cruz introduced the Nigeria Religious Freedom Accountability Act in early September 2025, calling for U.S. sanctions like travel bans and asset freezes on Nigerian officials enabling violence. The bill aims to redesignate Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern under the International Religious Freedom Act and maintain designations for Boko Haram and ISWAP as terror entities.

Maher's unfiltered takedown serves as a wake-up call, exposing how media bias, often amplified by anti-Israel narratives, mutes the cries of persecuted Christians. As Nigeria's death toll climbs toward 185,000 since 2009 (with 125,000 Christian victims), the world must confront this forgotten war on faith, lest hypocrisy erode global moral clarity.