The news story in the Sun Journal (May 9) about the 500 killed in Nigeria caused me to question the balance in reporting the news that comes out of Africa.

Then I saw the column in the Perspective section also on May 9, and I thought I may have rushed to an incorrect judgment.

It turns out that I was not wrong.

Notice that within the first line of the story about Nigeria, it is made perfectly clear that the atrocities were committed by Christians against Muslims. However, regardless of the fact that infinitely more numerous attacks, rapes, murders, enslavements and displacements have occurred against Christians at the hands of Muslims, there is no mention of this in Sunday’s column.

Most of the wars that rage in Africa are religiously based and revolve mostly around the conversion, removal or execution of Christians. Again this warrants no mention. Why don’t you inform Sun Journal readers that an estimated 1.5 million Christians have been slaughtered, and several more million made into refugees by Islamic jihadists since 1983 in Sudan alone.

I have no choice but to believe that the Sun Journal’s goal is not offending Muslims. It is not a happy story, but I wonder why you will not tell the whole story?

Frank Phillips, Auburn

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