All the learned analysts are insisting that Boko Haram (the Party of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad) knows nothing about Islam and is violating its teachings left and right. But here again, they’re well within Islamic tradition and law: 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.
“Boko Haram releases new video, shows missing Chibok girls,” Vanguard, May 12, 2014 (thanks to Izuchukwu):
LAGOS – Boko Haram released a new video on Monday claiming to show the missing schoolgirls, alleging the teenagers had converted to Islam and would not be released until all militant prisoners were freed.
The group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, speaks on the video obtained by AFP for 17 minutes before showing what he said were the girls, in Muslim dress and praying in an undisclosed rural location.
A total of 276 girls were abducted on April 14 from the northeastern town of Chibok, in Borno state, which has a sizeable Christian community. Some 223 are still missing.
The footage shows about 130 girls in black and grey full-length hijabs sitting on scrubland near trees, reciting the first chapter of the Muslim holy book, the Koran, and holding their palms upwards in prayer.
Three of the girls are interviewed. Two say they were Christian and had converted while one said she was Muslim. Most of the group were seated. The girls appeared calm and one said that they had not been harmed.
There was no indication of when the video was taken, although the quality is better than on previous occasions and at one point an armed man is seen in shot with a hand-held video camera.
Boko Haram has been waging an increasingly deadly insurgency in Nigeria’s mainly Muslim north since 2009, attacking schools teaching a “Western” curriculum, churches and government targets.
Civilians, though, have borne the brunt of recent violence, with more than 1,500 killed this year alone while tens of thousands have been displaced after their homes and businesses were razed.
Nigeria’s government has been criticised for its lack of immediate response to the kidnapping but has been forced to act after Shekau threatened to sell the girls as slaves.
President Goodluck Jonathan has now accepted help from the United States, Britain, France, China and Israel, which have sent specialist teams to help in the search effort.
In the video, Shekau appears in front of a lime green canvas backdrop wearing combat fatigues and carrying an automatic weapon. Shekau does not appear in the same shot as the girls at any point during the 27-minute video.
Speaking in Hausa and Arabic, he restates his claim of responsibility made in a video released last Monday and said the girls had converted to Islam.
“These girls, these girls you occupy yourselves with… we have indeed liberated them. We have indeed liberated them. Do you know we have liberated them? These girls have become Muslims,” he said.
The militant leader said that Boko Haram’s brothers in arms had been held in prison for up to five years and suggested that the girls would be released if the fighters were freed.
“We will never release them (the girls) until after you release our brethren. Here I mean those girls who have not submitted (converted to Islam),” he added.
Boko Haram has used kidnapping of women and young girls in the past and Shekau indicated that more were being held.
Eleven girls were abducted from the Gwoza area of Borno state on May 4.
RodSerling says
“Boko Haram: Girls who haven’t accepted Islam will be traded for jihadi prisoners”
Perhaps BH thinks the “Muslim” girls can’t be returned to the infidels, since Muslim females are not lawful for the infidels. Where would BH get an idea like that?
http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1533&Itemid=116
RodSerling says
Marriage between a Muslim woman and non-Muslim man is forbidden in Islam:
http://islamqa.info/en/118098
http://islamqa.info/en/1825
http://islamqa.info/en/12914
gravenimage says
Very true, Rod. Muslim children also cannot be raised by Christian parents, either.
So they will never free the girls who were forced to convert.
God, I hate islam.
gravenimage says
Boko Haram: Girls who haven’t accepted Islam will be traded for jihadi prisoners
……………………………
Boko Haram wants Nigeria to release *all* the Jihadists for these girls—so they will be free to abduct more girls.
This continues the “tradition” often used by Muslims against Israel—demanding the release of huge numbers of Jihadists in exchange for kidnap victims.
And here’s the story of the girls who have been forced to convert:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/05/nigeria-abducted-girls-forced-to-convert-to-islam
And Boko Haram will *never* release these girls, but will “marry” them off to their rapists.
Unless the hapless Nigerian government or some of the other nations offering help are able to act, there is no hope for these girls at all.
Ken Zevo says
I say the Nigerians should swap the girls for the prisoners, on two conditions: each prisoner must be raped by a gay Christian fundamentalist feminist, and then forced to convert to Christianity and marry his rapist, before he is released. Deal, or no deal? (/sarc flag)
Seriously, without their virginity, those girls are going to have a tough time from the people of their own culture (male and female), if/when they do get back home again. This is a no-win situation in the Third World. These poor girls will spend the rest of their lives as pariahs, wherever they go, unless (by some miracle) they are relocated to somewhere in the West. Even then, they are going to have it rough, learning to assimilate into a foreign language/culture and a value system that is largely alien to them.
This will not end well.
Kepha says
Ken, even humorless, fundamentalist Uncle Kepha caught your sarcasm early on, and chuckled, despite my deep-seated disgust for both homosexuality and feminism (beyond the equal pay for equal work sort of thing).
Dhamma1975 says
Closer to home a woman raped by a gang of “Asian men in their 20s” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-27377681
jack says
what a totally fucked up “religion”. Mo was a pedo-douchebag ( “piece ” be unto him
Salah says
“Do you know we have liberated them? These girls have become Muslims,” he said.
That’s how most Muslims came to be…Muslims!
That’s why most Muslims are in fact…victims of Islam!
I’m not talking about terrorists, thugs, perverts, etc., I’m talking about the vast majority of Muslims who are STILL captives of Muslim terrorists, thugs, perverts, etc.
Muslims *ARE* the ones who need to be liberated from this satanic cult.
Education is necessary, FORCE is more than necessary.
Education will help Muslims understand what Islam is really about.
Force will protect those who will decide to leave Islam.
dumbledoresarmy says
“Liberated”, eh.
Like a thief “liberates” a chicken.
In Islamspeak, the meanings of words are reversed.
“Liberation” = kidnap, repeatedly rape, terrorise, beat, threaten, and ENSLAVE.
“Freedom is slavery”, or “Slavery is ‘freedom'”.
Islamspeak is 1000 times uglier even than Orwell’s newspeak.
dumbledoresarmy says
From the article – “President Goodluck Jonathan has now accepted help from the United States, Britain, France, China and Israel, which have sent specialist teams to help in the search effort.”
Nota bene – “**and Israel**”.
Thank God for that. With *them* included in the team – and if it was up to me, I’d put them right out in the field and *in charge* with the UAVs they’ve invented and know how to use – there is at least *some* hope for those poor girls. Let us pray most fervently that the IDF and Mossad have not forgotten the lessons that were first learnt all those years ago from Orde Wingate and his Special Night Squads.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/wingate.html
I remember saying once, in this forum, that African Christians could do with an Orde Wingate.
Well, Wingate is dead; but his best and most apt pupils live on.
Elise says
Like many of us, who have read the book written by two imprisoned Christian Iranian women, have learned, the power of Christian prayer can change the minds of many. Perhaps it’s time to use some faith and pray for all of the girls who have been abducted that they experience freedom and education. It’s best that the Boko Haram are put down by freedom loving people so that the Boko Haram don’t continue to breed more ignorance in the area. Unless these ignorant people change their ideas or are killed, girls, homosexuals, Christians, those in unmarried sexual relationships, wives, sex slaves and others condemned by Islam will never experience freedom.