"Here's your husband cane. Allah command you to beat your wife."
Posted on 04/15/2014 10:28:49 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
Islamists kidnap 100 schoolgirls, who face living hell as sex slaves
By Associated Press
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Suspected Islamic extremists abducted about 100 female students from a school in northeast Nigeria before dawn Tuesday, but some of the teens managed to escape from the back of an open truck, officials said. The girls were abducted after midnight from a school in Chibok, on the edge of the Sambisa Forest that is an insurgent hideout, said Borno state police commissioner Tanko Lawan. Gunmen killed a soldier and police officer guarding the school, then took off with at least 100 students, a State Security Service official said.
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From the article:
Insurgents from the Boko Haram terrorist network are blamed for attacks that have killed more than 1,500 people this year alone. The group — whose name means “Western education is forbidden” — has targeted schools, mosques, churches, villages and agricultural centers in increasingly indiscriminate attacks.
It seems like about once every other day we read of an outrage like this is Nigeria. Where the heck is the government? Why are they not actively stomping Boko’s guts out?
I wonder what the Faculty and Student union at Brandeis University thinks.
Nigeria is split between a Christian south and a Muslim north.
Aggressive action against Muslim “activist groups” risks antagonizing their co-religionists and increasing their support. Could eventually lead to civil war, so the government walks softly and carries a not very big stick.
Cair to protest this article in the next ten minutes.
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