Nigerian Islamist Leader Threatens to Sell Kidnapped Girls
Source: New York Times
DAKAR, Senegal In a video message apparently made by the leader of the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of hundreds of schoolgirls nearly three weeks ago, called them slaves and threatened to sell them in the market, by Allah.
Western education should end, Mr. Shekau said in the 57-minute video, speaking in Hausa and Arabic. Girls, you should go and get married. The Islamist leader also warned that he would give their hands in marriage because they are our slaves. We would marry them out at the age of 9. We would marry them out at the age of 12.
The message was received by news agencies in Nigeria on Monday and is similar to previous videos purportedly from Boko Haram. It is the first time the group has claimed responsibility for the kidnappings, which have gripped Nigeria, ignited a rare antigovernment protest movement and embarrassed the government of President Goodluck Jonathan, who has so far been unable to rescue any of the teenage girls. They were abducted from their school in a remote corner of northeastern Nigeria on April 14. By some counts 276 remain missing.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/06/world/africa/nigeria-kidnapped-girls.html?hpw&rref=world&_r=0
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)can only be seen as acquiescence.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)it's self preservation not acquiescence.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)gtar100
(4,192 posts)Another jerk who gets chills reading the Koran dreaming he's some kind of warrior for Islam. He's not. He's just another indoctrinated idiot without a lick of common sense. I hope he reaps on his own soul what he has sown - pain, terror, grief, and endless tears.
DesertDiamond
(1,616 posts)The Wizard
(12,545 posts)the predator drone was invented.
longship
(40,416 posts)This is nothing but bald, unabashed religious extremism which treats females as inherently evil. Surely you aren't going to try and pin this on drones.
Android3.14
(5,402 posts)I read it as meaning he thinks the US should bomb the kidnappers.
eShirl
(18,494 posts)but the first priority should be finding and getting the hostages to safety
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)...with a large bounty on his head.
- If we can spend $20 billion to air condition tents in Iraq and Afghanistan, we should be able to spare some petty cash for this special person.
K&R
eShirl
(18,494 posts)WhoWoodaKnew
(847 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)mopinko
(70,127 posts)this scares her to death. she still has peeps back home.
we were talking it over, and decided that religious extremest are all pervs. the world over.