Two thousand Nigerian naira equals $12.45 US dollars. This articles is a bit unclear, as it says that the jihadis bid on the girls, but also states that this amount was a “dowry” that was paid to the captors of the girls. Possibly the twelve bucks and change was an average price.
In any case, kidnapping infidels and either killing them, enslaving them, ransoming them or exchanging them for Muslim prisoners, or releasing them outright is fully sanctioned in Islamic law: “As for the captives, the amir [ruler] has the choice of taking the most beneficial action of four possibilities: the first to put them to death by cutting their necks; the second, to enslave them and apply the laws of slavery regarding their sale and manumission; the third, to ransom them in exchange for goods or prisoners; and fourth, to show favor to them and pardon them. Allah, may he be exalted, says, ‘When you encounter those [infidels] who deny [the Truth=Islam] then strike [their] necks’ (Qur’an sura 47, verse 4)” — Abu’l-Hasan al-Mawardi, al-Ahkam as-Sultaniyyah (The Laws of Islamic Governance), trans. by Dr. Asadullah Yate, (London), Ta-Ha Publishers Ltd., 1996, p. 192.
“Nigeria: ‘Abducted Girls Moved Abroad,'” by Turaki A. Hassan, Ibrahim Kabiru Sule and Ronald Mutum, Daily Trust via AllAfrica.com, April 29, 2014 (thanks to A.M.H.):
Most of the 234 Borno schoolgirls in Boko Haram captivity have been ferried abroad to Chad and Cameroon after they were married off to sect members on N2,000 bride price each, an elder told Daily Trust yesterday.
The female students were taken from their hostels at the Government Girls Secondary School Chibok on the night of April 14.
About 40 had escaped in the days after the incident, but parents and school authorities said at least 234 of them were yet to be found.
Dr. Pogu Chibok, who is the leader of the Chibok Elders Forum, told Daily Trust yesterday that latest information available to them indicates that most of the girls have been taken to the neighboring Cameroon and Chad by their captors.
He said before they were ferried in canoes across the Lake Chad, a wedding ceremony was conducted at a town on the border with Cameroon where they were married off to Boko Haram militants.
He said N2,000 was paid as bride price on each of the girls to the specific Boko Haram members who took them from their school and who had assumed “ownership” of the students.
“They ferried them in canoes to Cameroon and Chad republic after they were wedded off to Boko Haram members who bidded (sic) and paid N2,000 each as dowries on their heads,” Bitrus said.
“The dowry was paid to their captors, the very people who abducted them from their school. One of them who married one of the girls took her to a border town close to Cameroon where villagers saw her.”
Following their abduction, the schoolgirls were thought to be first taken to the Boko Haram camps in the notorious Sambisa Forest. Reports later said villagers had seen the girls being conveyed in trucks to other locations.
Bitrus said yesterday: “So many sources have informed us that the girls have been taken to Cameroon. Many villagers said they saw the girls being transported in trucks and then in canoes.
“On Sunday they were taken to Dikwa area where they (Boko Haram) have a camp there. From there they took them to Marte, then Monguno before they were finally ferried in canoes. It was yesterday we got this latest report of them being married off to the insurgents by their captors.”
He said sources in Cameroon told them that most of the girls were now being held at “an area where the Boko Haram operates in Cameroon.”…
Bradamante says
Oh my God. This is heartbreaking. Even worse, if they’re being sent all over the place, it will be all the harder for anyone to locate them.
mariam rove says
you are correct. They will never be found. Where are all the pro Islam leftists feminists here? M
john spielman says
Dear Rezali and Ibn muslim: Any comments? what, afriad to respond?
defcon 5 says
@John Spielman
Why would they respond? There’s nothing morally wrong w/what happened to these women, at least in an islamic sense of the world “moral”.
I don’t expect any worldwide mass protests by “moderate” scuzzlums over the selling of these schoolgirls into islamic slavery either, much less any concrete action to do anything about it.
s.c. says
Allah [piss be upon him] does not allow leftists pro-feminists, women are just one step above a dog in the pecking order of the mo-slums.
Basil says
I’m kind of on the Left. I say send the armed forces in the area where they’re concentrated and root them out. Send them to hell.
mortimer says
Very devious. Obviously, enslavement. Normative Islam, rather than an aberration.
The world must respond to this gross injustice. Only Islam practices slavery.
Ernie Banks says
Such a sad story – our hearts go out to their families.
Jay Boo says
Obama
Kerry
Hello?
No one can locate them either when it comes to speaking out on this.
Jay Boo says
Don’t worry, NPR did an insightful report on this.
They interviewed people who criticized the government of Nigeria for not doing enough.
If the Nigerian government captures any Boko Haram members we can expect that NPR will do a follow-up to say the Nigerian government is doing TOO much and interview imams to support the notion.
Michael Copeland says
And a woman thought what Paul Weston said about Islam (Churchill’s words) was “disgusting” and called the police.
mortimer says
“The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his ABSOLUTE PROPERTY, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the FINAL EXTINCTION OF SLAVERY until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.” – Winston Churchill
Jay Boo says
Robert Spencer claims that
“In any case, kidnapping infidels and either killing them, enslaving them, ransoming them or exchanging them for Muslim prisoners, or releasing them outright is fully sanctioned in Islamic law”
Surely he must be mistaken ,
Wouldn’t such filthy despicable behavior if condoned by Islamic law be roundly condemned by a ‘compassionate’ supporter of human rights such as the liberal media?
How could once idealistic journalism students now in the MSM ever look themselves in the mirror without the feeling of abject horror at the sight of the shallow hypocritical willfully ignorant monsters they have become?
gravenimage says
Abducted Nigerian schoolgirls auctioned off to Boko Haram jihadis for $12.45 each
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*My God*. These poor girls. And now these sex slaves are being smuggled over multiple borders; rescuing them will be next to impossible, even if the Nigerian authorities had the will to try in the first place.
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Two thousand Nigerian naira equals $12.45 US dollars. This articles is a bit unclear, as it says that the jihadis bid on the girls, but also states that this amount was a “dowry” that was paid to the captors of the girls…
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Next time some traditional-values Westerner starts nattering about how Islam ‘respects the sanctity of marriage’, keep *this* in mind.
(Yes—the left is the biggest enabler of Islam, hands down—but there are also some ignorant tools on the right who are every bit as foolish).
The fact is that marriage in Islam is *nothing* like that of Christianity and the West. The bride can be a child, a sex slave, a kidnap victim; she can have been tricked, lied to, and forced at the point of a gun under threat of death.
This is just a license to rape, no more and no less.
God, I hate Islam.
john spielman says
Islam: where life is cheap and love doesn’t exist
Reality Check says
What a cynicism – buying what’s not yours in the first place!
Imagine the utter horrors that each of these girls will be going through every day – being approached, touched and even worse by some Muslim animal that thinks she is his because he paid money for her.
Angelina Jolie? Hello? Anyone there? What happened to her? Or does she just read the mainstream media and only what the UNCHR approves?
devonoagon says
Don’t expect John Kerry to say anything about this, he’s too busy calling Israel an apartheid state to comment about Nigerian schoolgirls. Oh, and President Obama is too busy worrying about the remarks of a basketball team owner.
s.c. says
well barry the illegal did ask ask one of the emans to pray for him.
EYESOPEN says
I pray to Almighty God to give these poor girls strength, and for help to come in some form to get them back to their families. Can you imagine the horror of being captured by these human devils, and then transported to God knows where, knowing that they will probably never see loved ones again; and also knowing the life of hell on earth that awaits them in the hands of these vermin? (Not to mention what may have already happened to them.)
I cannot imagine what these poor girls have had to go through; but the face of the one poor girl in the maroon hijab says it all. May God help them, because I know the worse-than-useless OBummer administration will do or say nothing, our clerical “leaders” will look the other way, and most people in the U.S. or the rest of the West will not know that anything at all happened, thanks to the enemedia. I cannot express in words just how much I loathe pislam. (And the soul-dead human devils who ape their demonically possessed “prophet” – damnation be upon him.)
Terry says
Amen. The LORD GOD Most High send them back home.
eib says
Amen.
You will show me the path of life, and in your right hand are pleasures forever more. Ps. 16
The table of their enemies is set, may the cups of these brave girls run over with fortitude and courage from the Lord God.
Be not ashamed.
The Lord knows your face. Seek Him.
Walter Sieruk says
It’s not so much the question “Was Muhammad a prophet?” It’s better stated “Was Muhammad a prophet sent by God or was Muhammad a false prophet sent by Satan to lead many people astray?” After all Jesus did warn “Beware of false prophet which comes to you in sheep’s clothing but are inwardly ravening wolves.” Matthew 7:15. The Bible further warns that “many false prophets are gone forth into the world.” First John 4:1. To give the acid test if a prophet, teacher, or religion is teaching truth of falsehoods is if the prophet, teacher or religion has teaching and doctrines that are in according to God’s Word, the Bible. That if a person or religion has teachings and doctrines that are in contradiction to God’s Word then that prophet, teacher or religion is false. As Isaiah 8:20. explains “To the law of the testimony : If they speak not according to the word , it is because there is no light in them.” [KJV] Islam denies that Jesus is the Son of God. This is in contrast to the Bible which teaches that Jesus is indeed the Son of God, John 3:16, 17, and 36. First John 2:22, 23. Likewise. Islam denies that Jesus is God the Son. In contrast to Islam the Bible teaches that Jesus is God the God. As seen in Hebrews 1:6-8 with emphasis on verse 8. Furthermore, Islam denies that Jesus is God. This is in strong contradiction to the Bible which teaches that Jesus is God. As shown, for example, in John 1:1-3. Romans 9:5. Colossians 1:15-17. First John 5:20. Second Peter 1; 1. Titus 2:13. Moreover, by comparing the Old Testament with the New Testament will further show that Jesus is God, As in by comparing Isaiah 45:22,23. With Philippians 2:5-11. Will show Jesus is God. Also by comparing Psalm 89:8,9. With Matthew 8:23-27 will further confirm Jesus to be God. Even by comparing the New Testament book together will confirm Jesus to be God. As in John 5:22 with Romans 14:12 will show Jesus to be God. The list can go on but this should be enough. The imams and mullahs will try to “explain” this all away by claiming that Christians had corrupted the Bible through time. This claim greatly underestimates the power of God to preserve His Word in time and keep it intact and away from the corruption of men. In conclusion, Muhammad was a false prophet and Islam is a false religion, Proverbs 14:12. John 14:6.
EYESOPEN says
I re-checked the picture. Apparently it shows the mothers of the missing girls, not the girls themselves; but it is no less heart-rending for that. (Initially, I thought that it might have been a “smuggled” photo.)
PJG says
I had thought the girls were Christians. The picture above has confused me. Would Muslim girls be stolen like this?
Angemon says
The thing about islam is that even if they were muslimas of the same sect as BH, there’s a wide array of excuses that BH members can appeal to to justify them being valid targets.
gravenimage says
PJG wrote:
I had thought the girls were Christians. The picture above has confused me.
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From what I’ve heard, PJG, Christian women in northern Nigeria have begun wearing Hijabs for protection from Muslim kidnappers and rapists. Clearly, this does not offer absolute safety.
But yes—these are Christian girls, and their mothers are Christians.
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Would Muslim girls be stolen like this?
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Actually, they might—if the girls were “other-sect” Muslims: i.e., Shi’ite or Alawite girls abducted by Sunnis.
In that case, it would be because the girls would be considered to be “heretics” or “apostates”, and hence they can be abused in just the same manner as Infidels.
But yes—the victims here are Christian Infidels.
defcon 5 says
These poor girls, my heart goes out to them. I hope they can find some way to escape their muslime slave masters and find freedom. I’ll pray for them, the same way I pray for everyone being murdered and persecuted by islam0nazis, all over the world, in the here and now.
Veracious_one says
Meanwhile, in unrelated news, several countries send fighter jets to be nearer to the Ukraine…
Sugarboots says
Girls as objects. A man’s job is to protect and provide. A radical Muslim male is not a man at all. Rather, a selfish, irrational, cruel boy in a grown-up body.
citycat says
Another reason to ditch religious differences and unifie foe fume against such animalistic filth
ron n. says
You guys are all confused, demorats told us it was muslims that needed defending immediately after 9-11, ’cause they were no different than any other religion.
Besides, even slavery is justified by the Koran and sharia law, and demorats insist we have to have sharia law. Muslims already talk about what beautiful slaves they well have when they take over America.
Its what happens whan a Judeo or Christian nation turns its back on God and objects not to the wickedness of Muslims taking over and replacing God in a nation. God WILL let you suffer as much as you want to be a fool. ITS GONNA GET UGLY !
Paul says
What a bunch of sick mentally ill pedophiles. I hate Islam and every Muslim.
Those women will be subjected to a horrifying life of brutal rape and slavery and their slavers will feel nothing. Worst of all they’ll be forced to give birth to the next generation of Muslim scum. Parasites infecting these women to breed more parasites.
One of the best feelings in the world is spending time with a woman who chooses to be with you because she likes you. Those little special moments when you embrace her and she feels safe and happy in your arms and chooses to give you her trust, love and devotion. These Muslim scum will never know that. They perpetrate such vile evil.
imnokuffar says
For a long time now, I have had a profound hatred of Islam and all it stands for.
I have read many books, articles, seen the news, watched videos and followed their exploits. The more I see, the more despise this despicable and inhuman fascist quasi religion.
This latest outrage was mentioned briefly by the MSM then dropped like a hot potato. And still the Europeans and the British let these scum in to soil our lands and invade them.
Still, the left wingers and Hope not Hate, the liberals, socialists and conservatives do nothing to stop this invasion.
Whole areas of our towns and cities are now no go zones, particularly in France, Sweden, Denmark etc.
Nothing, Nothing is being done. The Police have no power to stop them, the politicians are afraid of them, the general public is apathetic or just ignores the problems and the MSM is afraid of being called “Islamophobic”.
Within 5, 10 or 15 years major problems are going to occur as lots of people are waking up to this civilisational menace. There is only one way to stop it and that is through violence – it is the only thing these creatures understand.
citycat says
Where there’s a will, surely there must be a way.
What will it take for that will to come to the fore.
Yes, it could get very ugly indeed.
duh_swami says
Islam a study in how to ruin lives and create misery. Brought to you by the letter G, for Gabriel…Not one of those girls is going to have a decent life, and probably not a long one.
Angemon says
Or the letter D, for Djibril.
And Demented, which was what muhammad thought to be when he first got his “revelations”.
And Degenerate (muhammad before islam was considered a good, calm man, after islam he became a bloodthirst warlord).
And D***monger (according to a hadith, “He, the Prophet, put Hussein’s legs apart and kissed his penis”).
And Dog-hating (From Bukhari Vol. 4, #540 Narrated ‘Abdullah bin ‘Umar: Allah’s Apostle ordered that the dogs should be killed).
And Dragqueen (al-Bukhari, Hadith Number 2442 “Do not injure me regarding ‘A’isha. The revelation does not come to me when I am in the GARMENT of any woman except ‘A’isha.”).
And Dough-Boy (“When Ubaydullah saw him, he said: This Muhammad of yours is a dwarf and fat.” Abu Dawud 40:4731; “Jurairi reported: I said to Abu Tufail: Did you see Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him)? He said: Yes, he had a white handsome face.” Sahih Muslim 30:5777)
And Delirious (“Narrated Aisha: Magic was worked on Allah’s Apostle so that he used to think that he had sexual relations with his wives while he actually had not.” Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 7, Book 71, Number 660).
Angemon says
Trayvon Martin was killed in self defense, Obama rushed to take a side.”If i had a son it would look like him”, “it could have been me 35 years ago”, etc. Why isn’t he making a similar comment on this case? No “if my daughters lived in Nigeria it could have been them being taken and auctioned off”?
Oh, wait, it wouldn’t result in racial strife and internal division and it would actually bring this case up to the mainstream media, resulting in an closer examination of what is behind the BH ideology. Hmmm…
Mr Squat says
How romantic!
eib says
Quote:
Most of the 234 Borno schoolgirls in Boko Haram captivity have been ferried abroad to Chad and Cameroon after they were married off to sect members on N2,000 bride price each, an elder told Daily Trust yesterday.
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Slavery, slavery and slavery.
Islam is profane.
Mohammed is a false prophet.
Slave societies are those in which the slave relationship is the model for every relationship in the community.
All are corrupt.
So . . . where is the antislavery sentiment?
Or is slavery wrong only when whites enslave others???
citycat says
Where there’s a will, surely there must be a way.
What will it take for that will to come to the fore.
Yes, it could get very ugly indeed.
Delicious Freethinker says
@john, you have to be careful of your comments. As far as we are concerned in Nigeria, BH sect do not represent islam. Their tactics of islamic jihad defy the rules of engagement applicable for war in islam. We believe the sect like alqaeda is one of the makings of the enemies of islam to discredit islam and uproot its existence. And this will be possible only if islam is false, otherwise the religion will continue to wax stronger however hard you try to hate and discredit it and its adherence.
dumbledoresarmy says
Nonsense and lies. STOP your bizarre attempt to blame everything on outsiders. Because for one thing, I BET you don’t even believe it yourself. You’re just lying to us, to try to protect Islam.
Boko Haram is Islam.
Al Qaeda is Islam.
And all the other allah gangs all over the world are Islam, too; crystallising out of the Ummah, and practising Islam exactly as it has been practised for 1400 years, in obedience to what is right there in the Quran, Sira and Hadith, and in imitation of Mohammed the slave-taker, rapist, treaty-breaker, caravan-robber and warlord.
Zack says
Unfortunate, but predictable. Fundamentalism is dying. There is no place for it in the world of tomorrow. Islam panics like a man with a plastic bag over his head, kicking out but locked in a battle it can’t win against the Enlightenment.
No amount of barbarism will stop the inevitable march that feminism initially began. The patriarchy will crumble, the nine thousand year old system of oppression will fail, and things like this will become sad foot notes in history. The seed is planted. Can’t turn back the clock now. Already Muslim girls are questioning their tenets of faith all over the internet. Already they question the hijab, already they fall in love with Christian, Jewish, and other non-Muslim men and already the West has given them examples of the fruits of a post gender world. Allah will fall before the Enlightenment just as every god before him did.
As a gay man, I couldn’t be happier to be moving towards this brighter future and thank the brave women fighting, questioning, and secretly rebelling to make it happen. I will do my part in secret using my position as a man to make this new, better world become a reality.