Religious rights advocates told Congress Thursday there's a direct link between religious persecution and terrorism.
Nigerian human rights lawyer Emmanuel Ogebe testified that terrorism has actually spread because the Obama administration has downplayed religion in its foreign policy.
Ogebe said the State Department continues to minimize the plight of Christians in Nigeria.
He pointed out that one State Department ambassador who traveled to numerous countries where persecution is taking place, failed to meet with any Christian representatives during those trips.
Meanwhile, Obama has said the Islamic State, or ISIS, is not a Muslim group.
That may be one reason Ogebe told lawmakers that the administration has a "see no jihad, hear no jihad, say no jihad" policy when it comes to ISIS in Iraq and the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram in Nigeria.
"There is nothing ISIS has done in Iraq that Boko Haram hasn't already done in the last three years," Ogebe testified.
Meanwhile, Ogebe reported to Congress that Boko Haram has taken over six more cities in Nigeria in recent days.
He said the group just forced one of the nearly 300 Christian girls it captured to become a suicide bomber. He said they strapped her with explosives a few weeks ago and blew her up in a school.
He also said that last year at this time Boko Haram set up a road block and then used chain saws to behead nore than 150 Christians.
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