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Nigeria: 115 schoolgirls still missing after being kidnapped by Islamic jihadists

Apr 18, 2014 10:39 pm By Robert Spencer

Worldview-Nigerian-violence-2010-09-14Kidnapping infidels and releasing them for ransom or killing them, as well as enslaving them if that option is deemed most advantageous for the Muslims, 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.

“115 Nigeria schoolgirls still missing after kidnap,” AFP, April 17:

Maiduguri (Nigeria) (AFP) – A Nigerian school principal on Thursday denied military reports that most of the girls kidnapped by Islamist gunmen were now safe, as parents continued a desperate search for more than 100 children still held captive.

A defence ministry spokesman, Chris Olukolade, claimed on Wednesday that all but eight of the 129 girls kidnapped from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok area of Borno state earlier in the week were now safe, citing the school’s principal.

But the same principal refuted the claim on Thursday.

“The report from the military is not true,” Asabe Kwambura told AFP in Lagos.

She said the information provided by Borno’s governor Kashim Shettima on Wednesday that only 14 girls had escaped their captors was “correct”.

Later Thursday, Borno’s education commissioner also confirmed that only a handful escaped, although he said the number of those who have fled to safety now stood at 20.

“We have recovered about 20 girls now and they are with us. After they escaped, the girls went to village heads who live close to where they found themselves and the local leaders brought them to us,” said Mallam Inuwa Kubo.

The mass kidnap on Monday sparked global outrage and came just hours after the deadliest attack to hit capital Abuja, where a bomb blast also blamed on Boko Haram killed at least 75 people.

Boko Haram’s extremist uprising, aimed at creating a strict Islamic state in northern Nigeria, has killed thousands since 2009.

Parents of the missing girls swarmed the home of Chibok’s tribal chief early on Thursday, demanding answers after the military claimed the girls were free, residents said….

Borno’s governor Shettima voiced particular outrage at the violence targeting teenage girls.

“In Islam, women and children are spared during war,” said a visibly shaken Shettima.

Not necessarily. As is so often the case, hadiths are available that justify the opposing view. “It is reported on the authority of Sa’b b. Jaththama that the Prophet of Allah (may peace be upon him), when asked about the women and children of the polytheists being killed during the night raid, said: They are from them.” (Muslim 4321) I.e., the children of the polytheists are from the polytheists, and so killing them is permissible.

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Apr 18, 2014 at 10:59 pm

    Once again,
    Islam is not a religion.
    Muslims have no religion.
    NONE

    What filth that crawls out of this cesspool of Islam during Friday prayers.
    It perches in the minaret stalking truth like Muhammad’s blasphemy buzzard.

  2. Rob says

    Apr 19, 2014 at 12:08 am

    Who else noticed that the Al Jazeera coverage (an interview) was filmed against the backdrop of a large mosque.
    For most broadcasters that would have been beyond bad taste, but for AJ, just another piece of the Muslim supremacist agenda.
    There should be a whole site devoted to Islamic infiltration via Al Jazeera.

    • Salah says

      Apr 19, 2014 at 12:32 am

      Check out this hilarious coverage by the same al Jazeera, it’s sickening.
      http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2014/04/al-jazeera-busted-strong-bias-of-al.html

    • Jay Boo says

      Apr 19, 2014 at 3:02 pm

      Al Jazeera sponsored and tax payer funded NPR did a report on a recent massacre of Christians by Boko Haram with a brief interview of a Muslim saying “may Allah help us” as if to imply that Muslims are the victims of attacks by Boko Haram.
      They have no shame at all.

  3. David says

    Apr 19, 2014 at 3:42 am

    Why would the government claim they have been returned when they haven’t been? That’s despicable. Is the Nigerian government aiding Boko Haram?

    • FatherJon says

      Apr 19, 2014 at 6:45 am

      That’s what I thought when I heard the ‘mistake’ that had been made by the military on the news tonight. How do you make such a mistake? And why?
      Frankly I don’t trust anything coming out of Nigeria these days, news reports, requests for money…………….etc

  4. mortimer says

    Apr 19, 2014 at 8:22 am

    ALL Muslim males I have met are aware of sex slavery and most of them would like to practice it. It is a gift from Allah. However, sex slavery is illegal in most countries. Even in Islamic countries, it is illegal, but Sharia law is higher than the constitution, so devout Muslims may practice sex slavery by ignoring national laws. This is what they are doing in Nigeria.

  5. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Apr 19, 2014 at 11:10 am

    What we don’t see are relentless journalists covering the goings on in Nigeria, the Philippines, Syria, Iraq, Indonesia, Afghanistan and several other places. And by *cover* I mean not only identifying factual events, but tracing them to their source. Now, we know ABC or the NY Times, to take two examples, would never send a reporter into Nigeria to ferret out the facts of what happened with the girls, that would probably mean the reporter’s kidnapping, torture and then either ransoming or murder, or outright murder upon first sight.

    An alternative to risking the reporter to death would be to have him point out to his American audience from the safety of home that pedophilia and sex slavery have a clear basis in the Holy Ko-Ran and Hah-Deaths, and that these scriptures could just be connected to the missing girls.

    But even that is not done. Islam is self-reinforcing, and it’s Moslem activists who do the enforcing.

  6. Jay Boo says

    Apr 19, 2014 at 4:15 pm

    Pig Prophet Muhammad’s disgrace has no shame.

  7. Truth seeker says

    Apr 20, 2014 at 8:36 am

    By their deeds shall you know them?

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