Posted on 05/12/2014 10:14:17 AM PDT by therightliveswithus
For years, the terrorist organization Boko Haram has been murdering people throughout Nigeria. Last year in July they killed 42 children in an attack on a school. Two months later, they murdered another 40 people at a college. Hundreds have been massacred by these disgusting excuses for human beings for years.
Today, and for the past few weeks, the Twitter "hashtag" #bringbackourgirls has been sweeping the site. Just a simple Twitter search of it will turn up thousands of tweets saying the same thing.
Possibly the most famous of these tweets was First Lady Michelle Obama tweeting out a picture of herself frowning, holding a card that reads, "#BringBackOurGirls:"
But what exactly do people think such things will accomplish? Are they aware that simply writing on Twitter will not physically remove girls from the grasp of Boko Haram and deliver them safely home?
Boko Haram will not be checking how many "re-tweets" Michelle Obama will get and, if she eclipses a certain number, they will release their captives. Boko Haram does not care that several thousand Twitter users in San Francisco wrote "#bringbackourgirls." None of these people will physically do anything to force this terrorist organization to actually do anything at all. In fact, it's more than likely that Boko Haram hasn't even heard of this campaign.
Years ago, "KONY2012" took Twitter by storm. And what has happened because of all of those tweets?
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I wasn’t going to take it serious....but then I saw she had a hashtag (#)(rolling eyes)
If you’re liberal saying you care is enough
Slack-tavism for the millennial generation.
Bunch of morons thinking that hashtags, “likes” and “reblogs” are a foreign policy. Nations with strong leaders are ready to roll over the west and we have THIS to counter with?!
Social media has become the weight to break the west completely. May God have mercy on us for becoming such narcissists.
Our turn to laugh.
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Michelle said she and Barack felt like they could be their daughters.
Granted, AFAIK, there are no massive kidnappings of Asian girls right now, and Beslan was before the Obamas came to prominence.
This kinship thing, though, it has a pattern.
lol
Opinions vary. She wears girl clothes.. but...
As for Boko Haram. Here is what I had written on the 21st of April on why it makes sense for the West to crush such groups now - while they are still relatively small and/or locally-focused before they merge with other 'sons-of-Al-Qaeda' and focus on the West. Here is that post:
There will be a time when the world will miss Al Qaeda prime - the original group started by UBL and currently headed by Zawahiri. Now, by 'miss' I do not mean with fondness, but rather out of the fact they were not as smart, not as tenacious and not as evolved as the current groups coming up. Apart from the main Al Qaeda, there are four Qaeda based groups mucking about. There is Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Al Shabaab (AQ in East Africa), Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS). These groups have seen what the West did to the original group, and they have evolved. Their sources of funding are no longer solely Pakistani and Saudi, their communications take into account the NSA and The Activity, and their methods have advanced. Take for instance ISIS. Led by Abu Balr Al Baghdadi it has established a mini caliphate that covers part of Iraq and Syria, freed HUNDREDS of prisoners out of Abu Ghraib in an operation the SAS would be proud of, and has both Hezbollah and Al Qaeda main worried (and fighting them ...but losing).
What does this have to do with Boko Haram? Well, I predict a union of this group with one of the Qaeda groups ...in my estimation AQIM. You may also see Al Shabaab and AQAP join. Finally all will join with ISIS.
Result? Rather than the original Qaeda's control of part of Afghanistan, you may now see a true hydra controlling parts of West, North and East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq and Syria.
All is needed is for Abu Sayyaf, which mucks about in the Philippines and Indonesia, to join in and you have what I was calling global agglomerated terrorism last week.
The West has so far largely ignored these groups. After all, Boko Haram and AQIM attack places in West Africa most Americans can't pronounce, on FR I saw FReepers making light of the mall attack in Kenya by Al Shabaab (I guess to some FReepers the dead were not humans), and even ISIS is ignored because it is making life difficult for the likes of Assad and Hezbollah in Syria, and hey, Al Baghdadi told Zawahiri to shove it, thus he cannot be all bad ....right?
Wrong!
What you have here is a 16 foot King Cobra eating a 5 foot Russels Viper, and people cheering for the King Cobra not realizing the cobra is not their friend and is not doing that for their benefit. It is removing competition, following which it will focus on you.
Today it was Nigerians dying. The day before Kenyans. Maybe tomorrow it will be tourists in Indonesia. But mark my words that the targets of these animals extends beyond Nigerians and Kenyans. Their main target is the West, and they need to be stopped.
Kill the King Cobra first, or better yet, kill the cobra and the russels viper at the same time. People like Al Baghdadi make Zawahiri look like a stupid piker, and when these groups join they will focus on the West. Baghdadi is keen on re establishing the Abbasid Caliphate, and by taking over towns like Raqqa he has done something even UBL was unable to do.
Boko Haram is not just a Nigerian problem. Al Shabaab is not just an East African problem. ISIS is not just the bane of Assad's existence. All of these groups are like seeds sprouting, with the focus of their eventual fruit being to attack the West.
There's a saying by my people that the best time to kill a crocodile is when it is in its egg. It gets much harder to do so when it is an 18 foot leviathan.
Maybe the West prefers hunting adult crocs rather than squashing eggs. At least the behavior towards some of these groups by the West seems to indicate that.
It's about "feel good".
,,,,, I didn’t know her children were missing ,,, perhaps the 0bama’s should keep better care and track of their own children and back off on ours . duh!!!!
This quote right here is all I need to know about how the Obama's feel about muslims and their actions. No matter how heinous.
So this picture is BS.
I guess that the body count was too high to ignore. Where do I get my T-shirt!
I’m sick and tired of how females have emasculated American politics to the point where we attempt to fight terrorists and rescue hostages through Twitter posts and hashtags. This is how low America has fallen. ROCK BOTTOM, and led by a metrosexual/homosexual pansy raised by a man-hating feminist mother and transgender, cross dressing nanny!
Raising awareness is really just another way of saying “grandstanding” or “moral preening,” but it does allow liberals to feel good about themselves without actually doing anything.
So you ask what will #saveourgirls accomplish? It will allow liberals to feel good about themselves without requiring them to accomplish anything or examine their idiotic notions about how the world works.
And for liberals, feeling good about yourself is accomplishing something very important.
It accomplished more than anything else. People are talking about it...had Twitter not done this, we would not be talking about it at all. I find it brilliant...I do understand that the average FREEPER age is around 70 so I understand why it is perplexing for it to be discussed by such a simple thing like a Twitter with a hashtag....which most FREEPERS probably think is drug related (hash...hahaha).
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I’d think we’d better save the world, or we’ve had it.
What girls are they talking about. Were some American students abducted somewhere?
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