Friday, August 28, 2015

USA Africa Dialogue Series - Change has come! How far has the president come in bring back OUR CHIBOK GIRLS?

He cannot do or be expected to do the impossible, so , facing reality is the question : Can the Chibok Girls be (physically) brought back ?  Is it possible? When? Nobody knows.

OK, so Nigeria is going to start manufacturing its own weapons (and will continue to import the more sophisticated stuff, and then there's the matter of maintenance. In no time at all new weapons soon become obsolete. Weapons of mass destruction? Never! About that all enemies agree.

Boko Haram has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State's Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi who wants to make Baghdad the capital of his Islamic Empire.

Question : Can one be a good citizen of Nigeria and simultaneously pledge allegiance to some Arab guy , cutting people's throats over there in Iraq and Syria, a terrorist who wants to get his tentacles on Baghdad? Had we better leave that to the political analysts to sort out?

Another type of loyalty is  the best kind of loyalty : Loyalty to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of the nation of Israel and - of course to the people of Israel, sometimes conflated with loyalty to whoever is doing the bombing…

It's Dreyfus all over again: one arrives at this conclusion after digesting this news item:

The 10 most anti-Semitic countries (As you may have noticed, Iran does not make it to the top ten…)

If we live long enough, in time we will witness compilations of e.g.

"The ten most racist countries in the world"

and

"The Special League of Blood suckers!"

It was a dismal report about the Chibok Girls in this morning's Stockholm Metro newspaper:

Expert: Hope for abducted girls fades :

"It has now been 500 days since the 276 Nigerian schoolgirls were abducted by the terrorist group Boko Haram.  Relatives hope to get them back, but according to a Nigerian security expert  there is no hope out there.

It was in the city Chibok in the state of Borno that the Islamist Boko Haram raided a school and forcibly took 276 girls  with them, in April last year.

57 of them managed to escape.  The rest of them appeared a month later in a video clip, dressed in Muslim clothing, reciting the Quran.  Since then, nobody has heard from them, but according to the Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau they have all converted to Islam and been married off.

The girls' relatives have pinned their hopes on the newly appointed President Muhammadu Buhari and his pledge to crush Boko Haram.

 - He has given us his word that he will do everything he can to save the girls, says Aisha Yesufu, spokesperson for the campaign "Give us our girls back."

 But according to the Nigerian security analyst and Boko Haram expert Fulan Nasrullah there is "no hope" for the girls.  Those who have not been killed in the escape attempt or air attacks against the camps where they have been held, have met many brutal fates.

 - Most of them have had children by now and married to their captors.  Many have been sold in the global sex trade, and are likely prostitutes in Sudan, Dubai, Cairo and other places far away, says Fulan Nasrullah.

 Nigeria AFP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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