Posted on 10/02/2019 8:16:19 PM PDT by robowombat
Nigeria: Hundreds of children and adults freed from “house of torture” Islamic school
OCT 2, 2019 11:00 AM BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
“Nearly 500 men and boys have been rescued from a building in the northern city of Kaduna, where the detainees were allegedly sexually abused and tortured.”
Slavery, chaining, beatings and starvation were also reported; the children who suffered were as young as 5. It all happened at an Islamic Center, a fact that BBC readers of the article below have to read far into the story to find out. Yet this alarming fact should have been in the headline and the lead paragraph, as it would have been had it been Christians or Jews committing these atrocities in a synagogue or Church.
France 24, in contrast to the BBC, used this headline: “Nigeria frees more than 300 ‘abused’ students from Islamic School.”
The New York Post reported:
Officers raided the building…. following a tip and found the victims, who were kept in “the most debasing and inhuman conditions in the name of teaching them the Koran and reforming them…The building’s owner told authorities that students had been brought by their families to learn the Quran or because they had problems such as drug addiction….The victims were abused. Some of them said they were sodomized by their teachers.
“Islamic schools in Nigeria have for years been dogged by allegations of abuse and accusations.” Earlier this year, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, said that the Nigerian government planned to “eventually ban the schools, but would not do so immediately.” What he is waiting for?
“Nigerian ‘torture house’: Hundreds freed in Kaduna police raid,” BBC News, September 27, 2019:
Nearly 500 men and boys have been rescued from a building in the northern city of Kaduna, where the detainees were allegedly sexually abused and tortured, Nigerian police said.
Children as young as five were among those in chains at what was thought to be an Islamic school, officers said.
Kaduna police chief Ali Janga told the BBC the building was raided after a tip-off about suspicious activity.
He described it as a “house of torture” and a place of human slavery.
Eight suspects, most of them teachers, were arrested. The police chief said the detainees – some with injuries and starved of food – were overjoyed to be freed.
The detainees said they had been tortured, sexually abused, starved and prevented from leaving – in some cases for several years.
“I have spent three months here with chains on my legs,” Bell Hamza reportedly told Nigerian media.
“This is supposed to be an Islamic centre, but trying to run away from here attracts severe punishment; they tie people and hang them to the ceiling for that.”
Some of the children told police that their relatives had taken them there, believing the building to be a Koranic school.
Two of the children freed by police said their parents had sent them from Burkina Faso. Police believe the rest are mostly from northern Nigeria.
Islamic schools are popular in the region but there have long been allegations of abuse in some schools, and of pupils forced to beg for money on the streets
Is this a second house?
MSM: “What does this have to do with Donald Trump?”
The only way this crap is ever going to stop is the eradication of Islam as an ideology.
Typical Islamists. Ask afghanis. Ask pakis. Ask Persians.
Islam, moslem, satan all is same same.
The left lost their party to the camel squad, honor killings have already shown their face here, sharia law is on the way and the schools are not far behind if they don’t exist already.
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