The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs has accused secessionist elements and bigoted religious leaders of spinning the yarn of alleged Christian genocide.

In a statement on Sunday, the supreme Islamic body in the country pointed out that the alleged Christian genocide narratives were skewed to gain imperial powers.

“Muslims have found themselves in the vortex of heightened Islamophobic hysteria that seeks to criminalise Muslims through spinning narratives that are inconsistent with the reality of insecurity in Nigeria.

“The agenda of the secessionist elements and bigoted leaders is to turn Nigeria to a war theatre where Muslims would be annihilated in millions through the spurious Christian genocide that was manipulated to gain the attention of imperial powers,” said NSCIA.

Citing the massacre of over 200 people in Kwara, the Islamic council stated, “In this unprecedented anti-Islamic obsession, Muslims are being asked to denounce what they did not endorse, while those who have been victims of attacks are being framed as aggressors.

“Muslims have thus become ‘double victims’ who are on the one hand the major victims of Boko Haram, banditry and Lakurawa, the most heinous of such incidents happening in the underreported gruesome murder of about 200 Muslims in Kwara state and also, on the other hand, the victims of negative narratives that erase Muslim suffering.”

Additionally, the council alleged that the “culture of inequality against Muslims is being entrenched because Christians have foreign powers to defend them while Muslims appear defenceless”.

NSCIA reiterated that Muslims in Nigeria and Islam “are being taunted, scandalised and condemned because a mob with a Muslim identity took law into their hands and murdered Deborah for an alleged blasphemy”.

“In contrast, Pastor Dio Idon of ECWA, Kasunwa Magani, Southern Kaduna, was on 4th January 2026, killed and totally burnt by a Christian mob that accused him of witchcraft,” stated the Islamic council. “However, the media have been silent on the religion of the mob in the Christian-dominated community.”