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Boko Haram Appears to Be Using Abducted Girls as Suicide Bombers: Experts (#BRINGBACKOURGIRLS)
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| 1-15-15
| Alexander Smith
Posted on 01/15/2015 4:20:33 AM PST by SJackson
Three suicide bombings by girls aged as young as 10 suggest that Nigeria's Boko Haram has employed a new tactic of forcing abducted children to blow themselves up, according to experts.
The Islamist sect has been carrying out almost daily killings and kidnappings across northeast Nigeria in a campaign of violence now in its sixth year. Deadly attacks on Saturday and Sunday were carried out by three young female suicide bombers. These came just days after a week-long killing spree by Boko Haram, in which the group torched at least 10 towns leaving around 2,000 people unaccounted for.
It is not clear if the girls were coerced or were even aware they were strapped with explosives, which may have been detonated remotely. But experts say that Boko Haram appears to be using the children it kidnaps such as the 276 Chibok girls who sparked the #BringBackOurGirls social media campaign and using them as a readily available supply of suicide bombers.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abductions; bokoharam; bringbackourgirls; chibok; childsuicidebombers; hashtag; islam; nigeria; slavery; suicidebombers
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To: buffaloguy
They don’t volunteer. They are left in the area with bombs strapped to their bodies which are detonated remotely by the terrorists. These are not suicide bombers. They are victims of murder.
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posted on
01/15/2015 5:57:55 AM PST
by
P-Marlowe
(Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
To: SJackson
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posted on
01/15/2015 6:18:18 AM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Steven Tyler
Thats what happens when you de-humanize groups of people and attach a label to the group, such as Kafir or apostate.
Nothing blocks you from committing monstrous acts against the Kafir or apostate. ...If you're a Muslim.
Christ taught us to love our enemies and to pray for them.
To: P-Marlowe
Forensics could probably determine this. Unfortunately, CSI: Nigeria never took off.
To: SJackson
To: rdcbn
What kind of people do this sort of thing?Muslims.
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posted on
01/15/2015 7:20:26 AM PST
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
To: FreedomOfExpression
Christ taught us to love our enemies and to pray for them.He did not, however, require that we submit to being murdered by them.
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posted on
01/15/2015 7:25:24 AM PST
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
To: SJackson
Matthew 25: 41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed , into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: 42 For I was an hungered, you took a picture but gave me not meat : I was thirsty, took a picture but you gave me no drink : 43 I was a stranger, you took a picture but ye took me not in: naked, you took a picture but clothed me not: sick, and in prison, you took a picture but ye visited me not. 44 Then shall they also answer him, saying , Lord, when saw we thee an hungred , or athirst , or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? 45 Then shall he answer them, saying , Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. 46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
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posted on
01/15/2015 11:41:46 AM PST
by
Jan_Sobieski
(Sanctification)
To: SJackson
Break out the White House prayer rug.
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posted on
01/15/2015 12:07:37 PM PST
by
onedoug
To: JimRed
<Christ taught us to love our enemies and to pray for them.>
He did not, however, require that we submit to being murdered by them. If you would refer to the context of my reply, I was replying to the post that dehumanizing kafirs and apostates makes murdering them easier.
I was clumsily attempting to point out the difference between Christian and Muslim teachings in this regard.
The Koran says to kill apostates and non-Muslims, and the Imams dehumanize anyone not Muslim or even not Muslim enough, which makes it easier to murder them. This is being done daily in the name of their religion.
The western world in general but particularly Christians hold themselves to a higher standard. And since Jesus taught us to love our enemies them and pray for them, those following his teachings do not wantonly kill non-Christians or apostates, dehumanized or not.
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