Boko Haram and the Jihad in Africa

Posted on | May 10, 2014 | 72 Comments

The #BringBackOurGirls Twitter hashtag — online activism about the plight of girls abducted by Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria — has been embraced by numerous celebrities, including Alyssa Milano. This situation has gained worldwide attention and highlights a reality that American media have in recent years deliberately ignored: The persistent menace of violent Islamic jihad in sub-Saharan Africa.

If the news of the Boko Haram abductions was shocking, it was because the American media have been so busy promoting the Obama administration’s narrative that, since the death of Osama bin Laden, the threat of Islamic terrorism has essentially ended. This narrative is politically convenient for Democrats, but as with most such narratives, it’s a gigantic lie. There are still many millions of Muslims in the world who hate us and want us all dead, and many of them are willing to take up arms to accomplish that goal.

Today, First Lady Michelle Obama will highlight the Boko Haram abductions in the weekly White House radio address, and I guarantee you in advance that the words “Muslim” and “Islam” will not be part of her script. American news media are willing accomplices in this dishonest propaganda, habitually referring to Boko Haram as “militants” or “rebels” (not terrorists, you see) and, as to the religious orientation of Boko Haram, they might as well be rogue Episcopalians for what you could gather from most media reports. Meanwhile, in Nigeria . . .

Damning testimonies gathered by Amnesty International reveal that Nigerian security forces failed to act on advance warnings about Boko Haram’s armed raid on the state-run boarding school in Chibok which led to the abduction of more than 240 schoolgirls on April 14-15.
After independently verifying information based on multiple interviews with credible sources, the organization today revealed that the Nigerian security forces had more than four hours of advance warning about the attack but did not do enough to stop it.
“The fact that Nigerian security forces knew about Boko Haram’s impending raid, but failed to take the immediate action needed to stop it, will only amplify the national and international outcry at this horrific crime,” said Netsanet Belay, Amnesty International’s Africa Director, Research and Advocacy. . . .
Amnesty International has confirmed through various sources that Nigeria’s military headquarters in Maiduguri was aware of the impending attack soon after 7:00 p.m. on April 14, close to four hours before Boko Haram began their assault on the town.
But an inability to muster troops — due to poor resources and a reported fear of engaging with the often better-equipped armed groups — meant that reinforcements were not deployed to Chibok that night. The small contingent of security forces based in the town — 17 army personnel as well as local police — attempted to repel the Boko Haram assault but were overpowered and forced to retreat. . . .

Read the rest. When the terrorists — oops, I meant to say militants — are better armed than the army, you’ve got a problem.

But where are the feminists who made #WarOnWomen and #RapeCulture into such trendy phenomena? Why aren’t feminists sounding the alarm about the dangers Islamic jihad poses to girls and women worldwide? Because our so-called “feminists” in America are merely the handmaidens of the Democrat Party, promoting whatever phony “issues” will help elect more Democrats and, as such are part of the same propaganda operation where the Obama administration and its media enablers refuse to call Boko Haram what they really are: Islamic terrorists. And just in case anyone is naive about what doctrines of the Prophet these rapists with AK-47s are imposing on their young captives, Phyllis Chesler is here to enlighten you:

On April 14, 2014, Boko Haram . . . captured three hundred Christian and Muslim Nigerian schoolgirls to become their sex and domestic slaves. The Muslim fundamentalists swooped down upon them as they were learning in a “forbidden” government secular school. . . .
The world media calls this a “kidnapping” in Nigeria. It is not a “kidnapping.” It is the face of Jihad, the way of Jihad. Boko Haram are not holding these girls for ransom, they are not willing to return them for money. They already view the girls as their God-given booty, and as sale-able property. . . .
The Christian girls will be raped, converted to Islam, and then, like the Muslim girls, “married” to one of their captors. Some will be trafficked into the sex trade, which is pandemic throughout Africa and the Muslim Middle East. . . .
Please understand: Boko Haram are the Nigerian Taliban. Like their Pakistani and Afghan counterparts, they oppose education for girls and would rather marry and impregnate them instead — for Allah’s sake.

Schoolgirls are being raped in the name of Allah and Mohammed, and there was ample warning of the danger: I wrote about Boko Haram in December 2012 (“Islamists Target African Christians“) and in January 2014 (“Islam’s Terrorist African Caliphate“).

But the Democrat-dominated media won’t mention Islam and won’t call Boko Haram “terrorists” because, so far as our journalistic establishment is concerned, the real enemy are always Republicans.

UPDATE: Dana in the comments informs us that my prophecy was correct — no mention of Islam in Michelle Obama’s radio address about the Armed African Girl-Rapers of Unknown Motive.

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Category: Islam, Nigeria, Terrorism

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72 Responses to “Boko Haram and the Jihad in Africa”

ariyadesai01
May 10th, 2014 @ 8:25 am

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nanningsteve
May 10th, 2014 @ 8:27 am

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fondatorey
May 10th, 2014 @ 8:42 am

Vox Day (http://www.voxday.blogspot.com/2014/05/doubling-down.html) made the point that the Michelle Obama’s of the world are actually partially responsible for the targeting of these girls, as they have deliberately made educating 3rd world girls into western ‘values’ a tactic against the Procul Harum or whatever types. These girls have been chosen, through no fault of their own, as soldiers on the front lines, so its no surprise that they are becoming casualties.
Cactus Ed
May 10th, 2014 @ 8:47 am

Well, if you are ‘Islamophobic,’ then, given that a phobia is an irrational fear, you have an irrational fear of Islam or of certain Muslims. Is that really what you want to say? Do you really want to announce to the world that you are proud to have a phobia? I should think that fear of radical Islam and of those who promote radical Islam, whether Muslims or non-Muslim leftists, is entirely rational.

But I know what you mean. My suggestion is that you say what you mean.

‘Islamophobic’ is a coinage of liberals/leftists. It is their word. It is foolish for a conservative to use it. If you are a conservative, why are you talking like a liberal? Why are you allowing them to frame the debate in terms they have invented for their own advantage? Is that not foolish? You should insist on standard, ideologically-neutral language.
robertstacymccain
May 10th, 2014 @ 8:52 am

Indeed. The “smart diplomacy” that believes the way to win friends and influence people in barbaric tribal backwaters is to promote “women’s rights” — hey, what are the chances of a violent backlash?

The Gods of the Copybook Headings could not be reached for comment . . . .
LouAnn McCain (Bittner)
May 10th, 2014 @ 8:55 am

As I am reading this….Why is the hashtag ##bringbackourgirls? It shoud be ##Huntdowntheanimalesthatstealchildren! Followed by #Killthem!
Dana
May 10th, 2014 @ 9:10 am

Our esteemed host wrote:

Today, First Lady Michelle Obama will highlight the Boko Haram abductions in the weekly White House radio address, and I guarantee you in advance that the words “Muslim” and “Islam” will not be part of her script.

Well, here is the transcript, though, regrettably enough, without a time stamp on your article, we don’t know that it was published before the transcript was. Nevertheless, our host was right: there was no mention of Muslim or Islam in the address.
Dana
May 10th, 2014 @ 9:17 am

And, of course, the illustration our host used is also missing any references to Islam.

I’m pretty sure that had a group of Christians or, worse, Jooooos, abducted a couple hundred girls to be sold into marriage, the professional media would not hesitate to identify them as Christians or Jews.
robertstacymccain
May 10th, 2014 @ 9:17 am

But this was predictable for the Prophet, eh?

When was the transcript published? I assure you I didn’t see it in advance. All I saw was the headline at Drudge saying that she was going to talk about Boko Haram.
Dana
May 10th, 2014 @ 9:18 am

I certainly believe that, but you could expect to be pilloried by those who aren’t so inclined . . . not that you particularly care about that. 🙂
Dana
May 10th, 2014 @ 9:20 am

According to the site, “The audio of the address and video of the address will be available online at http://www.whitehouse.gov at 6:00 a.m. ET, Saturday, May 10, 2014.”
Cactus Ed
May 10th, 2014 @ 9:27 am

And it is also time for Western liberals to wake up. If they choose to regard Boko Haram as an ‘aberration’, they do so at their peril. The kidnapping of these schoolgirls is not an isolated tragedy; their fate reflects the new wave of jihadism that extends far beyond Nigeria and poses a mortal threat to the rights of women and girls. If my pointing this out offends some liberals more than the odious acts of Boko Haram, then so be it.
robertstacymccain
May 10th, 2014 @ 9:31 am

We must ignore the connection, you see. It’s as if rampaging Lutherans and militant Methodists are an equal danger, so that any rhetoric that links Islam to terrorism is thus invalid as unfair.

This liberal obsession with fairness has been crippling the West since the 1920s, when demoralized Europeans swooned to the siren song of pacifism, thus making it easy for fascists and Nazis to conquer half the globe. The Anglo-French alliance in the 1930s had the power to stop Hitler, but thanks to pacifism, they lacked the will.
Dana
May 10th, 2014 @ 9:53 am

It’s hardly an aberration, given that they’re now at best the second Islamist group to attack girls for going to school; the Taliban was doing that in the 1990s.
FenelonSpoke
May 10th, 2014 @ 9:53 am

Very good article, Stacy. Mark Steyn has a great article on hashtag diplomacy with the title. “BringBackourBalls.”
Mm
May 10th, 2014 @ 9:56 am

You know what else they keep leaving out of these reports? They were Christian school girls. Did I mention that the girls and their families are Christian?
Mm
May 10th, 2014 @ 9:58 am

I like that. Someone should tell the archdiocese of Boston to find theirs, after I took a look at their milquetoast response to the upcoming satanic mass taking place at Harvard.
maniakmedic
May 10th, 2014 @ 10:11 am

I have had arguments with people who should know better (military-types) about how to deal with the Middle East in general and followers of Islam in particular. They still firmly believe that talking to them is the way to go. No matter how much I pointed out that the people are tribal in nature and that their belief in/use of Islam only serves to amplify the problematic aspects of that dynamic, they insisted on sticking their heads in the sand and viewing Muslim motivations through a Western cultural lense. “We can talk to them. They’ll understand if we just talk to them and stop being so aggressive.”

Yeah, right. Because the last several years of us bending over, grabbing our ankles, and inviting the savages to go to town every time anybody says something that might possibly – if you squint real hard and cock your head sideways while doing a handstand and drinking everclear – cast any aspect of Islam in a bad light. I’d say it’s worked out super-duper awesome. But hey, we can all agree that the real problem is those damn Christians, what with their having to gall – the gall! – to disagree with people without killing them or beating the piss out of them. Barbarians!
Cactus Ed
May 10th, 2014 @ 10:13 am

This!
maniakmedic
May 10th, 2014 @ 10:24 am

If they took a stand they might actually have to say things that will upset a small subset of people. God forbid anybody should ever have their delicate, lilac-scented sensibilities challenged by somebody saying they are wrong. That’s positively unChristian. Let’s just ignore the fact that that is complete bullshit and that anybody who has actually read the NT would know that Jesus wasn’t some sandal-wearing pansy that caved whenever some loudmouthed douchebag decided he didn’t like being told he was wrong.

It’s sad when a couple of guys who flip houses or make duck calls have more conviction than people who have supposedly dedicated their lives to their faith.
Cyborg3K
May 10th, 2014 @ 10:53 am

A very important fact and one that I have never heard mentioned even once until just now. Wonder why??? Couldn’t possibly be that they might have to admit that murder, kidnapping, slavery etc are perfectly acceptable, even encouraged by islam as long as it’s done to ‘unbelievers’.
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Ben Franklin
May 10th, 2014 @ 11:17 am

It is important to point out that Mohammed would let his soldiers rape the wives and daughters of the men they vanquished before selling the women into slavery. Those in the west who want to paint the behavior of Boko as being an aberration simply do not know anything about Islam.

No good fruit can come from such a poisonous seed. I hope you will forgive me for saying I am not religious myself, but that does not mean I have to believe that all religions are equal. They are not. Some are compatible with civilization and others aren’t. Where Islam is not derivative it is vile. It is unique only in its depravity.
Raoul Flavours
May 10th, 2014 @ 11:23 am

This is a religious war first and foremost.

Until we understand it as such and we recognize that democracy and secular liberalism are false religions, we will continue to be further bogged down in the mud of confusion.
Raoul Flavours
May 10th, 2014 @ 11:28 am

Not happening.

Today’s liberalism is essentially an easy, psychologically-satisfying, religion that substitutes an ever-shifting mirage of egalitarian issues du jour for the simple, yet uncomfortable, truths of man’s true nature.
Raoul Flavours
May 10th, 2014 @ 11:32 am

Yet another example of the reign of terror of black Muslims:

http://www.kansascity.com/2014/04/21/4973075/suspected-highway-shooter-mohammed.html
LN_Smithee
May 10th, 2014 @ 11:51 am

As I tweeted earlier this week, the Hashtag Warriors are acting like The Peaceful Citizens of Sniddler’s Gulch, as depicted in this The Electric Company cartoon from the ’70s.

The people of Sniddler’s Gulch lived happily ever after. Why? Because…well, I don’t wanna spoil it.

http://t.co/TQq20wp9zT
Anamika
May 10th, 2014 @ 11:57 am

“These free men want only to be ruled by Allah. These free men enslave women. They believe in a god who frees men and hates women, and wrap them in black cloth.” —Anamika
Greg Hlatky
May 10th, 2014 @ 1:25 pm

In 2012, more than 20 prominent U.S. academics in African studies wrote to Clinton, urging her to not to label Boko Haram as a foreign terrorist organization.

http://carllevan.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Boko-Haram-FTO-letter-to-Clinton4.pdf

These prominent U.S. academics are as complicit in this kidnapping as if they had wielded the guns themselves. Let’s make sure their names and the institutions they represent are not forgotten:

A. Carl LeVan
American University

Peter M. Lewis
Johns Hopkins University

Jean Herskovits
SUNY – Purchase

Daniel J. Smith
Brown University

Adrienne LeBas
American University

R. Kiki Edozie
Michigan State University

Brandon Kendhammer
Ohio University

Susan Shepler
American University

John Campbell
Council on Foreign Relations

David Dwyer
Michigan State University

Paul Lubeck
University of California – Santa Cruz

Pearl Robinson
Tufts University

Darren Kew
University of Massachusetts – Boston

Clarence Lusane
American University

Laura Thaut
University of Minnesota – Minneapolis

Nicolas van de Walle
Cornell University

Judith Byfield
Cornell University

Susan M. O’Brien
University of Florida

John Paden
George Mason University

Deborah Brautigam
Johns Hopkins University

Michael Watts
University of California – Berkeley

David Laitin
Stanford University

David Wiley
Michigan State University

Shobana Shankar
Georgetown University

Sandra T. Barnes
University of Pennsylvania
Kirby McCain
May 10th, 2014 @ 2:24 pm

The good news is, Michelle isn’t suggesting Nigeria sit down for peace talks with the Islamic terrorists and offer them their own state. Yet.
Bob Belvedere
May 10th, 2014 @ 2:32 pm

You’ve made fifteen comments and they are kept private – why?

Considering your comment above, is it because you are an actual Racist, perhaps?
Bob Belvedere
May 10th, 2014 @ 2:33 pm

This.

The message ‘Bring Back Our Girls’ smells like a helpless plea.
Bob Belvedere
May 10th, 2014 @ 2:34 pm

Sowing dissension among the races is a tool of the Left, so, it would seem, you are a Leftist, eh?
Bob Belvedere
May 10th, 2014 @ 2:37 pm

You are soooo wrong Stacy!

‘Boko Haram’ is Flemish for ‘We Want The World A Whiter Shade Of Pale’. Need I add that they are a Menace.
Bob Belvedere
May 10th, 2014 @ 2:37 pm

I see what I did there.
Raoul Flavours
May 10th, 2014 @ 2:44 pm

Is pointing out the fact that young black males commit the vast majority domestic terrorist attacks a racist observation?

Mohammed Whitaker’s only the latest example.

Here’s another:
http://www.ketv.com/news/nikko-jenkins-pleads-to-murder-charges/25511252
Raoul Flavours
May 10th, 2014 @ 2:48 pm

It’s simply an observation of fact to point out that most acts of domestic terrorism are committed by young black males.

Media coverage of the violence perpetrated by Boko Haram only serves to reinforce that rather obvious fact and, as such, is the reason why the Obamas are so afraid of this issue.
Jimmie
May 10th, 2014 @ 2:49 pm

It is.

“Bring Back Our Girls” started in Nigeria, cried out, tweeted out, e-mailed out from the helpless and innocent to those who have the power to take useful action. It is still, largely, being sustained as a world-spanning message by those who have no power to bring those girls back to those who do have that power.

Let’s be careful before we mock the thousands upon thousands of people who made the hashtag the global message it is. As I said on Twitter this afternoon, we’re far better off mocking the powerful man whose own wife had to take to social media to push a message he was unwilling or unable to push.
maniakmedic
May 10th, 2014 @ 2:53 pm

Much like the people who were breaking out into paroxyms of outrage for those poor picked-on Muslims that just wanted to build a mosque as close to Ground Zero as they could to show “solidarity and friendship” (or some other such nonsense) with New Yorkers. Anybody who knows even a smidgen of Islamic history knows a couple of things: 1) they remember their history by events, not dates; and 2) they build mosques on top of or very near their conquests.

I don’t know about you guys, but when somebody believes it is a divine directive to lie to people who don’t believe as they do, I tend to think it’s probably a safe bet that they’ll have no problem lying to you so you should take their words with a two ton grain of salt.
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Bob Belvedere
May 10th, 2014 @ 2:59 pm

I was not mocking the phrase, Jimmie, merely pointing out the nature of it. That anyone representing the US Government would use it to send a message shows a weak face to the World.

This Twitter user gets it right:
https://twitter.com/kankokage/status/464905692483420160
Phil_McG
May 10th, 2014 @ 3:02 pm

You might as well try reasoning with a nest of hornets.

The hashtag twitter thing is all very well meaning, but it won’t stop these Muslim rapists. Only violence will stop them.

I would gladly donate if there was a fund set up to help Nigerian Christians buy guns and ammo. Their government obviously isn’t interested in defending them (probably too busy squirreling away all the oil money in Swiss bank accounts). They’re going to have to learn to defend themselves.
maniakmedic
May 10th, 2014 @ 3:02 pm

Before she does that she she needs to make sure the children won’t be returned to schools with anything remotely approaching life-sustaining and edible food. The important thing is that these girls should be saved from the possibility they’ll make bad food choices and become fat. That is clearly far worse than being kidnapped, raped, and sold into sex slavery.
LouAnn McCain (Bittner)
May 10th, 2014 @ 3:06 pm

Jimmy, I am so sorry! I was not mocking….As a mother I would do the same thing! Plea for help! I am angry, very angry! How could this happen? What are we doing to find these girls? Why is this not the only thing on the TV? I do not believe for one split second that these evil men will “return” these children. They are very very clear of their intent! And we and every other civilized country should be hunting this men down! I also believe in prayer. And have not stopped praying! My God is more powerful!
maniakmedic
May 10th, 2014 @ 3:09 pm

Heck, even certain Muslims aren’t Muslim enough to qualify as believers. As far as Arab Muslims are concerned, if you aren’t an Arab, you could speak Arabic perfectly, read the Koran in Arabic (the only true Koran is in Arabic), make the Haj to Mecca every year and you still wouldn’t be a “true” Muslim.
scarymatt
May 10th, 2014 @ 3:13 pm

In a sane world, you’d be right, but when even the OED is defining “literally” as “not literally,” I think trying to keep a strict etymology of “phobia” is only going to end in tears and waste energy on a futile battle better spent elsewhere.

Like offending feminists.
scarymatt
May 10th, 2014 @ 3:17 pm

As is common, the point isn’t to do anything useful, but to be perceived as caring. Hopefully there’s actually something going on behind the scenes now that it’s obvious they’ve been dragging their feet on this problem (not that I think the US should be leading the fight against these savages, but they are a piece of the global mosaic of Islamic terrorism).
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K-Bob
May 10th, 2014 @ 4:13 pm

I didn’t bring up the rape angle in the schoolgirl abductions when we were discussing the PIV-is-rape idiots. I just didn’t have time to do the homework necessary to back it up, but I thought it was appropriate to introduce it then.

So thanks for bringing in Phyllis Chelser’s comments (and your own) on this, Stacy. You just know barack and company are pretending it’s all about kidnapping for ransom, and white America’s islamophobia.

(And of course, Bush and the Koch brothers.)

The reality is that barack’s hatred of Christians and The West, in general, has emboldened these psychopaths, and it’s all about the rape, FGM, and slavery. More than a few of these girls will be dead within the year.