Posted on 05/14/2014 2:08:53 PM PDT by kingattax
Hillary Clinton wasn’t the only Obama administration official who went to bat for Boko Haram over the past few years.
Soon after John Kerry took over as Secretary of State, the U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Terence P. McCulley, accused the Nigerian government of butchery during a confrontation with Boko Haram terrorists in Baga, a Nigerian town on the shores of Lake Chad, and in May 2013 threatened to withdraw U.S. military aid from the West African nation.
Boko Haram militants attacked a Nigerian military outpost in April 2013 outside Baga, killing one soldier. Following the three-day battle human rights activists, including the George Soros-funded and liberal aligned Human Rights Watch, which is not exactly known for its impartiality when it comes to reporting on Islamic issues, claimed the Nigerian military wantonly slaughtered 183 civilians and burned down over 2,000 homes and businesses.
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BokObama.
lolz
In general, if its bad for America then Obama is for it.
I agree the US military should not be the global hostage rescue team, but I think State Dept’s reason was Nigeria is ‘mean to gays’.
Watch what would happen if Russia sent a team to find and rescue the girls.
Obama sides with Muslims. He’s a whiter shade of Boko Haram.
Hey Hillary: #BringBackOur9YearOldChildBrides
If Republicans were smart, they would use this in the debates when ole Hillary runs for President....
But alas, I am sure that will be another missed opportunity like Romney when he should have called out Crowley for having back up support for Obama....
I had completely forgotten about this. Glad to see someone in the media doing their job. This is a big deal.
It must be tough being a Marxist Muslim with a hatred for white Christian males that have jobs.
It is still my contention that Obama was selected for the presidency by a group comprised of Marxists and Muslims. It might be the agenda 21 group or some faction within the UN looking to implement the one world government.
Think about it for a second. If you want to destroy the strongest country the earth has ever known, there is no better person on the planet than Obama. He hates America and all of its values, he’s untouchable because he is black and all of his inner circle are either Muslims or Marxists. Plus he has protection from criticism in the form of a complicit media.
The only way to implement a one world government is to destroy 2 countries. The US and Israel. Case closed.
Yet another foreigner policy victory by THE FOREIGNER. I wonder if MRS. WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE will call for a RE-SET BUTTON with them
It can't. Look at Spain during the Reconquista. They had to reclaim Spain farm by farm, town by town. They had to fight Spainiards and other Christians who would collaborate or accomodate the muslims. They had to match brutality with brutality.
My belief is that destruction of the middle class began in the Clinton Administration. I was wondering how it would be accomplished, and now we have finally seen how they did it. Part and parcel of it was to cower the MSM as thoroughly as possible, or buy them off. It is with sadness that I see that we are in the twilight of the world’s greatest Democracy. How very sad.
STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL: “JUST NOT ACCURATE” TO CHARACTERIZE BOKO HARAM AS MUSLIM
Robert Spencer
5/15/2014
More fantasy-based analysis from the Obama Administration.
As I explained in this article, in abducting and enslaving the schoolgirls, Boko Haram is operating in accord with widely accepted understandings of the Qur’an and Islamic law. Muslim writers who have claimed that Boko Haram is in violation of the Qur’an have not even mentioned its verses sanctioning sex slavery of captive women. Similarly, here the State Department official, apparently Robert Jackson, flatly asserts that Boko Haram’s philosophy is not Muslim, but doesn’t support his claim. It would be refreshing to see it supported for once, but don’t hold your breath.
“State Dept. Official: ‘Just Not Accurate’ to Characterize Boko Haram as Muslim,” by Bridget Johnson, PJ Media, May 15, 2014 (thanks to Anne Crockett):
A State Department official told a Senate hearing on terrorism in Nigeria this morning that “Boko Haram is trying to portray its philosophy as being a Muslim philosophy, and that’s just not accurate.”
Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs Chairman Chris Coons (D-Del.) referenced a hearing that he held two years ago, in which lawmakers learned that Boko Haram was training with Al-Shabaab and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in an area the size of Texas.
“The hearing that we conducted two years ago could almost literally be repeated today in terms of ongoing structural challenges that have led to this insurgency and have created the conditions and sustained, and in some ways accelerated, the conditions for Boko Haram,” Coons said.
Ambassador Robert Jackson, principal deputy assistant secretary of state for African affairs, stood in on the panel of witnesses for Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who was reportedly traveling. Thomas-Greenfield acknowledged to a House panel last November that while Boko Haram has a “religious bent to what they do, they are non-discriminating in their attacks on people.”
“We join the world, the people of Nigeria and the parents of these children in expressing our outrage at Boko Haram’s shocking acts and its perverse ideology,” Jackson said. “This tragic kidnapping calls us to redouble our efforts to defeat a malicious terrorist organization that has troubled Nigeria for more than a decade.”
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) questioned Jackson about whether the administration is properly characterizing the threat.
“Is the prime motivator here of this instance, in your opinion — is the prime motivator the desire to deny young women access to education and empowerment?” Rubio asked.
“Senator, I actually think the prime motivator is to raise more funds for Boko Haram through ransom,” Jackson replied. “However, the fact that Boko Haram opposes Western education is certainly a reason why these girls were targeted.”
“Can I suggest that I think there’s another motivation that’s not getting nearly enough attention, and that is that this is clearly motivated by an anti-Christian attitude of this group,” Rubio continued, citing “a grotesque statement” from Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau: “It is either you are with jahideen, or you’re with the Christians. We know what is happening in this world. It is a jihad war against Christians and Christianity. It is a war against Western education, democracy and constitution… This is what I know in Quran. This is a war against Christians and democracy and their constitution. Allah says we should finish them when we get them.”
“I don’t think there’s any doubt about what’s motivating them,” Rubio said. “One of their leading motivators here is this is not simply — and there’s no doubt that this is a part of it, but this is not just about girls going to school and it’s not just about raising money. There is a strong anti-Christian element of this organization and of this activity. Am I right in saying that?”
“Senator, there is a strong anti-Christian element, but I would offer that more of the thousands of people who have died as a result of Boko Haram’s activities are Muslim than Christian,” Jackson said.
Rubio stressed “we should not ignore the fact that there is a religious persecution aspect of this that is very significant and deserves attention, especially in light of what we are seeing not just in this part of the world but multiple areas of the world, where we are seeing horrifying instances of religious persecution against Christians, which, in my opinion, has been underreported.”
“Senator, I respectfully suggest while anti-Christian sentiment is a strong motivator, the fact of the matter is that Boko Haram is trying to portray its philosophy as being a Muslim philosophy, and that’s just not accurate,” Jackson said.
“I’m not claiming that this is somehow driven by legitimate teachings of Islam. What I’m arguing is that there is a strong anti-Christian element to this and that it is part of a broader anti-Christian persecution that we are seeing repeatedly throughout the world. Would you disagree with that statement?” the senator asked.
“I do not disagree, but I continue to want to emphasize that Boko Haram terrorizes all people,” the State Department official responded.
Jackson said about 85 percent of the more than 200 teens taken from the Chibok secondary school are Christian. Nigeria’s population includes about about 60 million Protestants and 20 million Catholics, according to Pew.
Rubio stressed that a crime against Muslims “is no less worse or less bad than a crime against Christians.”
“What I’m trying to put aside — what I’m trying to put forward here is that we cannot continue to ignore that persecution of Christians is a leading motivator not just of what’s happening in Boko Haram but in other parts of the world, as well, but in this specific instance, they are clearly motivated by anti-Christian attitudes and anti-Christian beliefs,” he said. “And I don’t think that’s even debatable, given their very own statement.”…
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