"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision
of what is before them, glory and danger alike,
and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it."~Thucydides
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Posted on 05/11/2014 8:29:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A teenage girl who managed to escape kidnapping by Islamist group Boko Haram during a night raid in Nigeria last month has spoken publicly about the ordeal, as international assistance to locate more than 200 girls still held hostage ramps up.
Militants stormed a secondary school in the village of Chibok, near the Cameroon border, on April 14 and abducted the girls, who were taking exams at the time.
In an exclusive interview with CNN, one of the girls, who asked not to be identified, said the kidnappers were loading the girls into seven lorries when she escaped.
"He said go and enter this car - a big lorry," she said.
We ran and ran and we were gone. I feel afraid. The unidentified girl who escaped abduction. "They say OK - enter this lorry, we go. I say I will drop down.
"We run in the bush. We ran and ran and we were gone.
"I feel afraid."
More than 200 girls are still being held hostage, and Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau says the group intends to sell the teenagers.
"I abducted your girls. I will sell them in the market, by Allah," he said in a video released shortly after the attack.
Boko Haram, which means "Western education is sinful", is loosely modelled on the Taliban movement in Afghanistan. The group considers all who do not follow its strict ideology as infidels, whether they are Christian or Muslim.
It demands the adoption of Sharia law in all of Nigeria.
"Allah has instructed me to sell them. They are his property and I will carry out his instructions."
The group's name means "Western education is sinful" and in the video, Shekau makes reference to the fact that the girls were undergoing Western education.
The abduction has sparked worldwide outrage, with several nations offering military and intelligence assistance to locate the girls.
Diplomats, aid workers, defence officials and other experts from Britain and the United States have been working with the Nigerian government since Saturday.
Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan says he is optimistic about finding those still held hostage, citing international support, with Israel the latest country to offer help.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not give details of the proposed assistance but Mr Jonathan confirmed the offer to send a team of counter-terrorism experts was made during a phone conversation.
A viral social media campaign calling for the schoolgirls' return has seen public figures such as US first lady Michelle Obama tweeting with the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls.
On Sunday, French president Francois Hollande called on African leaders to hold a summit in Paris on security in west Africa.
The leaders of at least five African countries - Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Benin - may take part, a source close to the president said.
The West tweets and offers thug-leaders free weekends in Paris. Then wonders why "the violence continues."
“...Radical Islamists are at war with Western Civilization.”
Exactly right.
Probably not, since Mr. Will describes himself as "an amiable, low voltage atheist." (As he continued, in a recent interview: "I deeply respect religions and religious people. The great religions reflect something constant and noble in the human character, defensible and admirable yearnings. I am just not persuaded. That’s all."
I believe you're right.
Rush could run on for an hour with your observation.
Expanding on the comment, radical Muslims are the true followers of Islam. They consider moderate Muslims apostates, as deserving of death or enslavement as any Infidel.
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What Islamic principles did they violate? < /rhetorical question >
Maybe it is those who think it is their right to take God’s place and play god over their fellow human beings that has turned George Will off to a belief in God. Humans have through the ages given their religion a bad reputation. It was the actions of the Scribes and Pharisees that turned Jesus off. These Boko Haram fools are not giving their religion a good reputation. Perhaps they would be better off taking a walk down the Santa Monica Pier and catching the Mother Ship. There are many like me who say they can save the walk, and put on their Nike tennis shoes, black sweat pants and t-shirts with patches that say, “Heaven’s Gate Away Team,” put $5.75 in their pockets and drink the Kool Aid.
No, it’s not a joke, for I suspect that negotiating with parents and paying a bride price is party of Islamic law. This is theft pure and simple.
You may very well be correct about this matter.
In any case, I make a very large distinction between the benign atheism of some and the strident anti-theism of others (who, as Mr. Will sardonically noted on one occasion, detest the "provocative" term, "Christmas tree," to describe the generic holiday tree.)
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