Posted on 05/08/2014 9:28:16 AM PDT by jimbo123
Since the Nigerian Islamic radical group Boko Haram kidnapped over 100 schoolgirls in mid-April, the media and the American government have been up in arms over this outrage. With over 200 girls in captivity, Boko Haram warned that they may sell the children into slavery.
Beginning the night of the kidnappings on April 16 and continuing ever since, the press has devoted relentless focus to the crisis in Nigeria. Nearly a block an hour on the three major cable news networks has been devoted raising awareness about the group, their medieval views, their aims, and the atrocities they have committed in the past.
The pressure exerted by the media moved the American government to action. President Barack Obama expressed revulsion over the kidnappings in interviews with local and network news personalities. House Speaker John Boehner joined Obama and said that, as a parent, he cannot imagine the horror of having your daughters kidnapped.
Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) pledged on Wednesday to join all the female members of the U.S. Senate to urge the United Nations and the international community to name Boko Haram as a known terrorist groups.
Secretary of State John Kerry has helped use the pressure in the Western media to force a recalcitrant Nigerian government to accept American assistance in recovering the kidnapped children.
Three weeks after their kidnappings began, Washington committed to dispatching American legal, intelligence, and military advisors to West Africa to aid in the search for the missing girls.
This focus on Boko Haram from both the media and the government is an unqualified good. The press arguably increased the pressure on global governments to do something about this backwards group of terrorists. But Boko Haram is not a new phenomenon. It was not long ago that some including this author were asking why
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they will be going back to sleep now that it seems Hillary is somewhat to blame...
Why did Sec. of State Hillary Clinton stop Congress from declaring this murderous group a terrorist organization? Inquiring minds want to know. Knowing the shameless Clintons, they probably wanted to shake down the BH for campaign funds for her presidential run.
Good Question —
THE WOMAN WHO WOULD BE PRESIDENT
Hillary Clinton decried the infamous kidnapping of 300 Nigerian schoolgirls, but she never mentioned that her State Department (which she ruled w/ an iron hand)---- refused to place the savage "Boko Haram" terrorist group on the State Dept list of foreign terrorist organizations...... way back in 2011, after the group bombed UN headquarters in Abuja.
Hillary's refusal came despite the urging of the Justice Department, the FBI, the CIA, and over a dozen Senators and Congressmen.
“The one thing she could have done, the one tool she had at her disposal, she didn’t use. And nobody can say she wasn’t urged to do it. It’s gross hypocrisy,” said a former senior U.S. official who was involved in the debate.
“The FBI, the CIA, and the Justice Department really wanted Boko Haram designated, they wanted the authorities that would provide to go after them, and they voiced that repeatedly to elected officials.” (Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
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Web site--- Details on US aid to Nigeria---the agencies involved. Totals some $600,000,000.
A) the press didn't make a big deal of it, being dominated by left-wing racists.
B)Hillary didn't bother because they were black kids and she's a left-wing racist.
C)"Left-Wing Racist", n. (def.) A person on the left who plays the race card when politically advantageous but otherwise doesn't care.
Because they are little girls
I reject the premise. The media in this country were shamed into covering the girls’ kidnapping because the rest of the world’s media WERE covering it.
But the world media did ignore the boys’ burning so the US media did too. I mean, how would that help president Urkle or HilLiarY?
Muslim North, Chrisitan/Animist South. Incinerate the North re-locate the south.
US rebuilds in exchange for the offshore onshore oil.
Or not, just an idea.
Because the press is too terrified to report anything that is negative about Islam.
Nothing here to be seen. Hilary was very confused. She thought they were talking about the 1960’s band Procol Harum and wanted to hear them play
How about we round up all the known members of Boko Haram.... take them to Gitmo and waterboard them until we find out where the rest of Al Queda is?
Because they don’t matter in this admination
Actually only news network that been following this story was Al Jazeera America from day on April 15 yeah that where I hear it from
Then BBC CNN international pick up the story
US MSN media are asleep
yes, lets make this another “war against boys” and that crap....
Greg Gutfeld called it yesterday. The fact that the victims are little girls gives the liberals political cover from being called Islamaphobes. They dare not call Boko Haram, or any other Islamic group “Islamic Terrorists”, but it is okay to see Boko Haram as part of the “War on Women”!
It is time to recognize the enemy.
Because black on black terrorism and Muslim on Christian terrorism is accepted as normal for the LCM.
but this is not about boys vs girls...because no matter what, the killers and rapists are men, not women...
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