This is the leadership that America has in these dark days. And the days are going to get darker, because this is the quality of the leadership we have.
“Kerry Slams Boko Haram Jihadists For Not Offering…A Health Care Plan,” by Leah Barkoukis, Town Hall, May 5, 2014 (thanks to Patrick):
Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram, has claimed responsibility for the more than 200 schoolgirls that were abducted two weeks ago and vowed to “sell them in the market.”
After pressure from the international community for the Nigerian government to act, the country’s president has reached out to the U.S., among other countries, for help finding and ensuring the release of the girls.
Secretary of State John Kerry said on a trip to Africa that the U.S. will do all it can to help, and also took the opportunity to slam the jihadists for…not offering a health care plan?
“The kidnapping of hundreds of children by Boko Haram is an unconscionable crime, and we will do everything possible to support the Nigerian government to return these young women to their homes and to hold the perpetrators to justice,” Kerry said in a speech in Ethiopia.
“I will tell you, my friends, I have seen this scourge of terror across the planet, and so have you,” he continued. “They don’t offer anything except violence. They don’t offer a health care plan, they don’t offer schools. They don’t tell you how to build a nation, they don’t talk about how they will provide jobs. They just tell people, ‘You have to behave the way we tell you to,’ and they will punish you if you don’t.
“Our responsibility and the world’s responsibility is to stand up against that kind if [sic] nihilism,” Kerry said….
Niftikhar Arsalift says
He now convert. He now take name:
Yusuf ul-Idi Otman
Guy Macher says
Brilliant! Lurch wouldn’t get it.
james says
These trash do have a healthcare plan!!!It is called Obamacare L.L.C. specializing in death panels.If you like your witch doctor you can keep him.
Angemon says
““I will tell you, my friends, I have seen this scourge of terror across the planet, and so have you,” he continued. “They don’t offer anything except violence. They don’t offer a health care plan”
Excuse me? “Health plan”? Kerry, you damn islamophobe! Why would they need a “health plan” when they have 72 virgins and eternal erections waiting for them in paradise? Sheesh!
Diane Harvey says
Notice that Kerry doesn’t name the “they,” just repeats “they” over and over.
Pssssst, the “they” are Muslims, followers of Islam and Mohammed, just emulating their so-called prophet.
bill says
He was speaking about terrorism in Ethiopia. Do you think they do not know what he is referring to you sill as*
duh_swami says
No health care plan? Now they are liable for a penalty. Don’t send troops, don’t send the FBI, send in the IRS. Let Lois Lerner lead the charge. We must fight them until they get insured or pay the tax.
Kepha says
Better yet send a judge who is a card-carrying member of the Social Democrat party of either Belgium or Spain into Boko Haram territory armed with the appropriate writs. I’m sure the BH leaders will fall to their knees, beg forgiveness from the international community, and return the abducted girls safe and sound to their families.
Better yet, maybe Kerry himself could lead a Heart-of-Darkness-esque expedition into the BH areas to negotiate personally with these people. Maybe then they would not only release the schoolgirls, but also start paying into Obamacare in case a Boko Haram member gets injured in a conflict with either the Nigerian authorities or an outraged Christian or animist parent.
devonoagon says
hmmm….the jihadi to do list:
kidnap girls
destroy churches
convert Christians
kill Jews
offer blue cross & blue shield to my fellow jihadis
oh…and maybe….die in the name of Allah..
That should about cover it.
Champ ✿ says
Kerry slams Boko Haram jihadists for not offering…a health care plan
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WHAT?!! A health care plan? Seriously? …kerry is a Klown! Wow the world has gone mad …
And he looks like a marionette with numb-nuts nobama at the controls.
wildjew says
I think the trends are clear, ultimately “the days are going to get darker” here in the U.S. Let us hope we get a little relief in the up-coming mid-term elections and in 2016. Regardless, I advise every vigilant American to keep his or her passport up to date just in case. Mine has expired. I plan to go to the courthouse this summer in order to bring it up to date.
Wellington says
Where do you intend to go, wildjew? Once America is no longer an acceptable country to be in, I submit that the entire world is no longer an acceptable planet to reside on. You may buy a little time in this country or that one, but it would only be buying time. Posterity would definitely be in a shit bucket.
As America goes, so goes the world (Western liberals hate statements like this but I don’t give a damn). That’s why those, like Obama, who don’t understand the greatness of America, and seek a general retreat of America from the world, are, in bitter irony mode, harmful to all the world, especially the West.
wildjew says
Wellington, I agree with your statement, as America goes, so goes (much of) the world. But not all of the world. I plan on making Aliyah. Keep in mind, Israel welcomes friends like you and other readers of this page. I am not a religious Jew but I have long believed America is the modern-day Babylon that the ancient prophet wrote of. If that is the case, one day there will be a great slaughter in this country. My recommendation? Be vigilant.
Wellington says
I agree with you, wildjew, that America, at least to a fair extent if not more so, has lost its moral way. Moral relativism doesn’t work, that’s why religion (though not Islam of course), even if a fiction, is necessary for societies because of the value of absolutes in this dark and mercurial world we live in. No religions are better at providing a proper moral direction than Judaism and Christianity, though I have no grievance against many other religions like Hinduism and Buddhism. They are subtle, tolerant, no threat to liberty and should be respected, contra Islam.
BTW, I would be proud to join you in Israel, a nation for which I have the greatest respect, even though I am not Jewish. It is a beacon of light in a very dark corner of the world. Well, after all, one can be a Zionist, as I am, without being Jewish. I prefer this “expansionist” view of Zionism, as I hope you do. Take care, wildjew.
RonaldB says
wildjew,
I don’t dispute your right to leave, but I think you’re wrong that Israel will be able to stand independently from the United States.
The Obama administration is open in its hostility for Israel, but the Democrats are beholden to the Jewish vote, and leftist as Jewish organizations, such as the Union for Reform Judaism, are, they still oppose a boycott of Israel.
Once the US drops its veto on a boycott of Israel, the United Nations will in short order, make Boycott and Divestiture a General Assembly and Security Council binding resolution. The soft (or not-so-soft) fascists of the European Union will use legal and violent means on anyone who even thinks of opposing the boycott.
Rationally speaking, if you want to be a force for Israel, stay in the US, and pursue the very modest goal of having the United States continue to oppose United Nations action against Israel. It is a critical battle, and very winnable at this point.
wildjew says
Ronald B., I cannot dispute your logical perspective. I am not a religious Jew. I believe in God. My faith informs me we are living in what the ancient prophets called the “last days.” That means at some point every Jew is obligated to return to Israel. I believe what you predict will come about. Israel is becoming more and more a pariah state and will become more and more isolated. America is gradually turning against Israel. That is why as a forty three year registered Republican I was so disappointed when President George W. Bush made the establishment of a Muslim-terror state in Israel a “formal goal of U.S. policy.” Without hope and faith what do we have. My faith informs me God will stand by Israel; not Bush; not Obama; not America. America has and will continue to betray Israel.
Kepha says
Wildjew, as a Christian, I have also come to the unhappy conclusion that our country is becoming a sinkhole of depravity, a virtual Babylon with all the connotations that Mesopotamian City has evoked between Genesis 11 and the Book of Revelation. Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven. (Lamentations 3:49-50).
I understand that orthodox Jews read those verses and more on Tisha’ B’ov to commemorate the destruction of the Holy City. I sometimes wonder if we surviving American Christians shouldn’t prepare for something similar on future Thanksgiving Days or Fourth of July’s–should the Almighty withold his grace.
gravenimage says
Good luck in making Aliyah, Wildjew.
I hope your vision of the fall of the United States is not prescient, though.
Know that there are lots of us who will continue to stand with America, and do all we can to see that she not fall irrevocably from her ideals.
Long live Israel, and long live America!
wildjew says
Kepha, the thing to watch is how this nation treats Israel. After President Bush (I voted for him in 2000) codified the establishment of a Muslim-enemy state in Israel’s heartland, I saw this nation take a huge dive in degeneracy and confusion; the election of Barack Hussein Obama and all that has gone with it. Israel and the land of Israel is a central theme in the prophets with respect to the so-called end of days when Israel was to be re-constituted in the land. Unless the United States is an exception among nations (John Adams did not believe America is an exception in the history of nations) then what the prophet Zechariah wrote will come to pass I think. All nations will go against Jerusalem and Israel. God will judge the nations Isaiah said by fire. Some Bible scholars believe this could be a nuclear conflagration. If Iran joins the nuclear club – begins multiplying nuclear weapons and devices by the hundreds over the years – maybe not in your and my lifetime, things could be precarious on this planet.
wildjew says
Who could have imagined, only seven years out from the Islamic jihad attacks in New York and Washington (that slaughtered nearly 3000 innocent American civilians) voters would go to the polls and elect a Muslim-born president whose middle name is Hussein, having deep sympathies for the world of Islam? If Americans have not become a deeply confused people, what explains it? For those having an historic perspective, I do not think he election of Barack Obama is a good portent for the United States long term health. Can someone argue it is?
umbra says
The American ideals set out by the founding fathers are worth defending. However, the multicultural mediocre America – which dilutes these ideals – that cultural elitists are trying to create (in the process of creating) is worthless.
That point it time which you speak of, when America is not no longer an acceptable place to live in, may or may not come to pass. If the ideals of the founding fathers are preserved and taken to heart in society, then that event will not eventuate. If however, a large proportion of the populous (perhaps close to the majority) no longer follows those ideals, then some form of conflict seems inevitable. When that occurs and the dust finally settles, the victor shall determine the fate of America … and if America is still an acceptable place to live in.
wildjew says
Umbra, the problem with America’s founders (I think John Adams was the most prescient) as wise and virtuous as most of them were, they were not prophets and as Adams wrote, the Constitution was not handed down from heaven by the gods. Had our Founders been prophets, the Constitution might have been worded a little differently, in particular Article 2 Section 1 (citizenship requirement for president that would have precluded a nightmare like Barack Obama), the First Amendment and perhaps a few other items. Nor did they envision the problem Islam would pose to the world in coming centuries or the re-establishment of the nation-state of Israel in the earth and this nation’s response to it.
wildjew says
Were America’s Founders prophets of God, Article VI, paragraph 3 (No Religious Test Clause) might have been worded differently.
wildjew says
Please do not misunderstand me. I am not saying the Constitution is a bad thing. It is a brilliant document. (Are jihadists hacking into this site? It is doing strange things.) What I am trying to say is this. The Constitution was written by mortals. The Torah (the law of Moses) I believe was written by a prophet. Conservatives like to invoke the Constitution as though it is the word of God. It isn’t and you are right, much of the problem has been compounded by leaders of dubious integrity like Woodrow Wilson, another think America’s Founders (or some of them) warned about. A nation is only as good as its people and its leaders. I see a nation rapidly degenerating. I would like to see it turn around. I do not expect it will. Maybe we will get some relief in the upcoming elections. Long term trends do not look goood.
umbra says
@wildjew and SAKOVKT
The US constitution was not supposed to cover everything explicitly. It does however provides, and maintains, the seed that would allow for an open and free society. One of the most important component of the constitution is the provision for the exercise of the freedom of conscience, for example supported through free speech. While the constitution provides the possibility of such a society, it however does not provide a precise prescription on how to achieve that. Hence, the existence of the present farcical administration.
The battles being fought, and to be fought, are of ideas/mind and hearts/soul (has that not always been the case historically?). In this regard, knowledge and wisdom are vital. Knowledge by itself, absent wisdom, can be very fatal – smart people can also be fools. Apart from knowledge and wisdom, one also requires the crucial forum/space/medium to propagate ones ideas/knowledge/wisdom, based on factual evidence and reality. Free speech provides for such forums in the US – although that is continually being assaulted by child-like politically-correct slaves and drones. Such forums are most difficult to come by in parts of the EU today.
The US constitution may protects all US citizens, but would all US citizens defend the US constitution? It is true to say that a nation is only as good as it people (including its leaders). In this regard, the US is heading in the same direction (degenerating) as the EU – mediocracy imbued foolishness that is largely detached from reality. This not just a phenomenon in leftist or in the democratic party’s domains, but quite clearly in mainstream US society. Conservatives and republican circles are not immune to its infection or effects. This poisonous mentality that has been primary (and most effectively) propagated through education (esp. universities/colleges) and has over the decades “trained” the media, political, social, economic, entertainment leaders of the western world. The long term trend indeed do not look good at all.
How does one impart wisdom on fools when wisdom is, intrinsically, gained through experience? One could only try to impart knowledge. This of course requires individuals being receptive to the gift of knowledge. Many “educated” individuals have mind blocks when it comes to knowledge/information/facts that is in conflict with their perception of their world. Quite often this world of theirs bears not resemblance to the real world.
voegelinian says
There’s nothing deficient in the U.S. Constitution with regard to the problem of Islam. Islam presents an ideology and its army at war against the United States. The U.S. Constitution fully prepares America for such a situation, and does nothing to obstruct measures she needs to take to defend itself.
Because America is a democratic Republic and not a tyranny or dictatorship, it was not able to fully safeguard against a cultural development like PC MC, nor is it able to stifle it from the side of law. The genius and virtue of liberty, as protected like a living flame by the Constitution, also unfortunately and necessarily includes the vulnerability of getting burned. Hopefully, this tragicomic episode we are in will prove to be only third degree burns at worst, and not our destruction.
voegelinian says
Correction:
“…and does nothing to obstruct measures she needs to take to defend itself. ”
should be:
“…to defend herself.”
wildjew says
Umbra, you wrote: “One of the most important component of the constitution is the provision for the exercise of the freedom of conscience, for example supported through free speech….”
You are referring to the First Amendment which affords government protection to an inherently violent religion like Islam. That is a huge problem, isn’t it? Lots of folks on this site try to argue Islam is not a religion but an ideology. Scholars on Islam say it is both. Not even Spencer argues Islam is not a religion, albeit a violent one.
wildjew says
voegelinian, I wrote just below, the First Amendment affords government protection to an inherently violent religion like Islam. That is a huge deficiency is it not? Lots of folks on this site try to argue Islam is not a religion but an ideology. Scholars on Islam say it is both. Not even Spencer argues Islam is not a religion, albeit a violent one. If Islam is a religion it is protected by the First Amendment which should be amended.
umbra says
@wildjew
SAKOVKT is right. The 1st amendment is not the problem. In a truly free and open society, any and all ideas can be put forward and objectively and logically analysed. Bad (evil) ideas will then be discarded, if objective and logical analysis are used to gauge ideas. The problem therefore is the people – who may or may not utilise objective and logical argument/reasoning – to determine if ideas are bad/evil. Relativism has clouded the minds of many individuals in the western world to the point where many begin to “think” and “act” with their hearts and not their minds. So, one observes that logic and reasoning begin to fail for them.
Insofar as protection afforded by the 1st, presently in the US, it is not that the government (esp. executive and parts of the legislative) is simply protecting islam, but it is “overly” protective of it – providing very special treatment above and beyond that of other religions, shielding it from critique. Islam flourishes in western countries because the true nature of islam is being kept from western societies. Once society knows and understand this nature, it will be the end of islam – at least one hopes, the incessant violence, hatred, persecution, etc. However, to arrive at this juncture, minds must be unclouded, knowledge must be imparted and the capacity to deliver messages must not be inhibited.
wildjew says
umbra, the First Amendment says, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” You might think this too harsh. I am sorry, post 9/11/2001 Islam should have no Constitutional protections. Congress should make laws abridging the free exercise of Islam since we are at war (I believe) with Islam, in as much as Congress should have made and should make laws forbidding the free exercise of fascism or Nazism.
wildjew says
Congress shall make no law ….. prohibiting the free exercise of a “non-violent” religion. That should have been written in the First Amendment. Inherently violent religions and ideologies should have no Constitutional protections just as religions that sanction human sacrifice to their god or gods should have no Constitutional protections….
Wait. Doesn’t Islam sanction human sacrifice to their god?
umbra says
@wildjew
You do have a point there with the “non-violent” clause. Unfortunately, when the constitution was drafted, the founding fathers presumably “assumed” that religions (they were Christians mostly/entirely?) would naturally be peaceful, since worship is directed towards the Almighty . islam apparently is an exception to this rule, judging by its theology, practices and actions of many of its adherents. Another fallible assumption of the founding fathers was that those elected to government are reasonably rational, logical and objective … as they themselves were.
Now, to destroy an idea/ideology (and islam is an ideology), suppressing it generally does not work. Historically, there have been many examples of failed suppression (in abroad sense) of social (in former communist states), religious (e.g. Christianity in various Asian countries 16th-19th century, Judaism in europe, middle-east, africa throughout history) and scientific (pioneering astronomers and inventors in Christian europe) ideas. Ideas/ideologies are truly (perhaps once and for all) discarded when it is proven beyond doubt to be a failure. For this to occur, its failures must be exposed for all to see. There are many examples of this is in science (more correctly pseudo science, e.g. perpetual motion, flat earth theory, geocentric theory and the list goes on). islam has not been fully exposed for its very real shortcomings and it abysmal failures to the majority in the west, or even within islamic societies. If everyone in the world knows the true nature of islam – its doctrine, theology, compulsion, etc – then the attractiveness of islam may very well diminished exponentially and it would eventually be relegated to the pages of history books.
wildjew says
Umbra, I thought I might return to this discussion before we move on. You wrote: “Now, to destroy an idea/ideology (and islam is an ideology), suppressing it generally does not work. Historically, there have been many examples of failed suppression …. Ideas/ideologies are truly (perhaps once and for all) discarded when it is proven beyond doubt to be a failure. For this to occur, its failures must be exposed for all to see. ”
Proving the ideology of Islam is a failure is necessary but where proofs do not work, not suppression but the sword often does work. “The pen is mightier than the sword” goes the aphorism. More often than not, both are requisite. Throughout the nineteen thirties Churchill warned of and exposed the evils of Nazism in The Strand and elsewhere. While the pen was invaluable, USAF and RAF bombers pulverizing German cities did not hurt either.
JudI says
Well, he can always offer them Obamacare!
Michael says
Excuse me, Gray Wolf, but the “full context” doesn’t change the absurdity of lamenting that this particular Jihadist group that wages violence and death according to their Islamic ideology aren’t offering healthcare plans and schools. Ironically, we should fight the nihilism of Western poltical leaders like Mr. Kerry and destructive doctrines like multiculturalism.
BlueRaven says
Kerry is a clown, except he is not going to make Boko Haram Jihadis laugh, because he can’t figure Islam is about missery. With the kind of speeches he is making, he is wasting lots and lots of tax dollars. I guess he’s been smoking something that he shouldn’t been.
jewdog says
John Kerry is a member of IslamoRealism Haram. In short, this means: “Realistic knowledge of Islam is a sin”.
Members have been known to call people who claim that Islam has intolerant and violent aspects “Islamophobes”. They have been known to shout down speakers at college campuses who speak critically about Jihad and Islam. They sometimes lurk in the media and governmental organizations, where they encourage politically correct “spin” when it comes to Islam.
Some of them have even gone to places infested by terrorists, which they naively glorify, but then do not return alive.
IslamoRealism Haram is clearly a very dangerous outfit.
Jay Boo says
Kerry may not be as dumb as we suspect.
The absurd talk about a health care plan may be a diabolical diversion to marginalize Boko Haram’s connection to the real (elephant-in the-room)
ISLAM
Leith Wood says
Definition of Boko Haram in Hausa language! is “Non Muslim Teaching Forbidden”. Definition in Arabic is “The Fellowship of the People of the Tradition for Preaching and Holy War. Thanks to Ayan Hirsi Ali. These terrorists have a real war on women, but the Washington mob will not define the enemy. It might inflame them into action. If you won’t call the enemy what it is, you’ve lost the war already. Wake up America
Burt says
By the way “health care plan” means Western civilization’s sacraments of contraception and abortion.
Nominal Catholic (in name only) Kerry manages to have a problem with Boko Haram because their atrocities against the young are not carried out at the earliest stages of their human lives.
Satan has hold on the West so God will allow them to be assailed by the barbarians who worship devils. It was ever thus as the Books of Kings taught us.
Christendom is following the same path as Israel. The Bible shows the great mercy and love of God too. We must turn back to Him. God will be happy to forgive us and defeat and even convert our enemies. Our really dangerous enemies are those like Kerry who betray their God and live lives that are nothing but lies and wrong headedness.
RCCA says
I agree you are taking Kerry out of context and misinterpreting what is ultimately an idiotic statement. However Kerry is technically wrong in claiming that Boko Haram does not offer a health plan. If you convert to Islam they guarantee they will not kill you. That’s their version of a health plan
duh_swami says
No health insurance used to be an e4lective, now it is a sin.
Essentially John is accusing Boko of being sinners, Not for terrorism, or kidnapping girls, but the biggest sin of all, not providing their victims with affordable health insurance. How evil is that?
nacazo says
It’s more sinister than than. It’s for domestic consumption. The implication is than if you don’t support the “Affordable Health Care Act” you are at the least a supporter of the boko haram or ver y similar in outlook.
gravenimage says
Spot on Nacazo.
PatnCat says
Oh Poor Poor Delusional John Kerry – nothing about islam and the koran here at all – just a flim-flam man without a clue. I think his botox facial treatment has gone into his brain. We know Robert is being sarcastic here, but Kerry made these stupid remarks. I mean the man is perhaps hemmed in by Obama’s “HOLY KORAN!!!!! …and there is no future for those who are critical of the prophet.” And that dear friends, is the problem.
boakai ngombu says
and that problem is K’ranic
Henry says
Kerry strikes again! Hmmm…maybe that should be ‘Kerry strikes out again!’.
Roofgardener (Nic) says
Hmmm… I think Jihadwatch is SLIGHTLY misrepresenting Kerry here. His point – when quoted in full – is that groups like Boko Harem offer nothing positive, nothing that builds communities or nations, and is purely dictatorial, negative and/or nihilistic.
Being from the UK, I don’t know much about John Kerry, but I gather he has a bit of a reputation on putting his foot in his mouth (as we say over here). Didn’t he make the comment about Israel becoming Apartheid ? (another comment that was entirely rational when quoted in full, but explosive when selectively quoted).
wildjew says
Nic, John Kerry’s comment about Israel becoming Apartheid. How was entirely rational when quoted in full? Steve
wildjew says
correction: how was it entirely rational when quoted in full?
roofgardener (Nic) says
Umm… I don’t have the speech to hand, but he warned that a single-state solution (e.g. all palestinians become Israeli citizens) would be incompatible with Israel remaining a Jewish nation, UNLESS the resulting Arab majority had restricted political rights, creating a de-facto Apartheid state. (otherwise the Palestinian Arabs would use their new-found democratic rights – along with their demographic majority – to outvote the Jews, and install an Islamic government… ultimately abolishing Israel.)
His argument is entirely logical. But the bulk of it was edited out, and the newspapers just shouted “Kerry says that Israel is Apartheid..”
wildjew says
roofgardener (Nic), I don’t know how much you’ve studied the history of conquest and expropriation of this wonderful continent by white European colonialists and settlers in the late eighteenth and early to mid nineteenth centuries. Because the United States is leading this international effort to wrest historic Jewish land from Israel and give it to peoples who behave like savages I thought it a good idea to learn a little history. Perhaps you know U.S. policy in the early to mid nineteenth century was aimed at “Indian Removal.” U.S. Congress passed the 1830 Indian Removal act during the administration of Andrew Jackson. The five civilized tribes were forcibly removed west of the Mississippi river. Jimmy Carter, in his anti-Semitic book “Palestine, Peace Not Apartheid” wrote:
“I have to admit, at the time, I equated the ejection of the Palestinians from their previous homes within the State of Israel to the forcing of lower Creek Indians from the Georgia land where our family farm was now located; they had been moved (actually forcibly expelled) west to Oklahoma on the “Trail of Tears” to make from for (my) white ancestors….” (page 28)
In other words Carter’s family farm is situated on lands his great grandparents expropriated from Native Americans. As Americans moved west (see Manifest Destiny), what remained of these once proud peoples were herded into reservations. Just as the Americans patronizingly lecture Israelis that the U.S. knows what is best for them (a Palestinian Muslim enemy state at their throat), so American officials lectured Indians that removal and reservation was and is best for them.
Perhaps you know roofgardener (Nic) American Indians were not granted full citizenship until 1924! First they had to be “civilized.” I cannot imagine Americans enfranchising peoples who were on the war path against their white interlopers. Can you? Why should Israel enfranchise peoples who are dedicated to Israel’s destruction? Can you give me one good reason?
Why shouldn’t Israel follow the American example? Have you noticed whose image (visage) is on your twenty dollar bill? The man responsible for Indian removal is an American hero; an icon. Americans are proud of their history. Why shouldn’t Israel emulate America?
Know Thy Enemy says
I was going to point out to you (and to SAKOVKT) that the correct spelling for the group is ‘Boko Haram*’, but then I realized that they just kidnapped over 300 little girls!
*’Haram’ means ‘forbidden in Islam’.
voegelinian says
The Arabic harem is the same as haram — it’s just a variant spelling through the English transliteration. The women of the Muslim harems were “forbidden” to all except to the husband slash (pun intended) Sultan.
Jay Boo says
The Left is furious.
The delay in the rescue of the kidnapped girls has forced even Benghazi-Hillary to admit that Boko Haram is a terrorist organization.
The Left is furious.
They are in an awkward position of needing to BE SEEN as speaking out against this while simultaneously showing groveling respect to anything Islamic.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
It could be that for the first time in his pompous life John Kerry has come up with a good idea. Put the Bokos on ObamaCare, then let the high premiums, astronomical deductibles and copays, and the narrow networks take their natural course.
The Bokos could die off within a generation or two.
Uncle Vladdi says
This Abubaker character is a godsend! Best thing for us since Anjem Choudery!
He’s acting just like his hero, Muhammad did, and for all the world to see, too!
gravenimage says
Uncle Vladdi, this is only the case if good Infidels are not so mired in willful denial that they fail to get the message.
So far, many of the signs have *not* been good.
I’m glad to see that so much of the Infidel world is outraged over this—but all too many, including the US Secretary of State, are jumping through hoops to avoid making the connection between Boko Haram’s actions and the texts and tenets of orthodox Islam.
voegelinian says
Abubakr Shekau should be a godsend; but unfortunately he tends to elicit and reinforce the TMOE meme (i.e., that the problem is only the “Tiny Minority of Extremists” and not mainstream Islam and its minions of followers around the world) — a meme that continues to lead the entire West on the inexorable rails of a protracted train-wreck.
dumbledoresarmy says
Question.
Among your acquaintance, whoever they are – family members, friends, workmates – has the topic of the kidnapped and to-be-sold-as-slaves Nigerian girls come up in conversation?
If it *has* – have *you* explained that this kidnapping has been done in imitation of the considered-normative-for-all-time example of Mohammed and in complete consonance with what the Quran, Sira and Hadith say can be done by Muslims to non-Muslim females?
Or have you given up before even beginning?
Me, I’ve had plenty of opportunity, on FB where I have a presence under a different name, and in my church and social circle, to explain succinctly that what was done to these girls is Normative Islam, Islam by-the-book; that this is a case of Imitatio Mohammedi. I explain what Mohammed did to Rayhana, Safiyya and Juwariyya. And I mention what the Boko Haram Head Thug said about “marrying off” a girl “at the age of nine”; and then I explain about Aisha. The people I’ve spoken with have *not* rejected what I said; they’ve *listened*.
What’s more, I’ve also mentioned, briefly, the kidnapping and force-“conversion” of *at least* 1000 Coptic Christian girls – many of them under age – that has been carried out by Muslims in Egypt since 2011, and the brazen Muslim kidnappings, rapes and force-‘conversions” of Hindu and Christian girls and women in Pakistan, and explained to people that the government, police and judiciary of those *Muslim* countries do diddly-squat either to prevent these kidnappings, rapes and force-“conversions” from happening, or to punish the perps *after* it’s happened; and that the frantic parents *never* get their daughters back, not unless the girl somehow miraculously manages to escape. Because Muslim kidnapping, rape and force “conversion” of a non-Muslim woman or girl is totally permitted by the sharia of Islam.
I’m asking people to see a pattern; to see that it doesn’t just happen in northern Nigeria, it’s been happening in Egypt and Pakistan; three totally different places, in terms of language, ethnicity, and their pre-Islamic culture…but having in common only this… ISLAM, with its explicit permission and sacralising of slavery, including sex-slavery.
and I think with some people, I’m getting through.
The really hard thing is to try to be laconic and coolly detached when explaining all this, as if reciting the times-table. I’m NOT good at that. But I owe it to my suffering Infidel – fellow-Christian – sisters in Nigeria, to at least *try*.
gravenimage says
Brava, DDA!
This is something we *all* need to do—especially since this particular Muslim atrocity, unlike so many others, actually does have the world’s attention.
It is up to those who stand against Jihad to tell good people why this happened—and how under Islam it will *continue* to happen if more people don’t stand up in opposition to Islam.
jihadnews.us says
Im sure they are covered under the ACA.
miriam rove says
Kerry like his boss is a joke.m
King Dave says
Thanks Jihad Watch and users for helping to get Nigerian bandits boko Haram on the national spot light.
For the US mainstream press, negative news on Islam is haram
gravenimage says
Boko Haram jihadists for not offering…a health care plan
……………………………..
Grimly hilarious. Abducting children, gang rape, forced marriage, sex slavery, blowing up churches, schools, and bus stops—sure, those are bad things!
But Boko Haram failing to offer member Jihadists the equivalent of Obama Care? Now *that* really gets the Secretary of State riled up…
RonaldB says
““Our responsibility and the world’s responsibility is to stand up against that kind if [sic] nihilism,” Kerry said….”
Oops.
We all missed it. The real point of Kerry’s statement is not that he would find Boko Haram tolerable if it offered health care. The point of his statement is that he claims that Boko Haram is motivated by nihilism. Nihilism is
“the belief that traditional morals, ideas, beliefs, etc., have no worth or value”
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nihilism
Accusing Boko Haram of nihilism is the polar opposite of attributing its actions to Islam. Kerry is redirecting the anger and outrage of the media liberals towards a mythical group that randomly wants to destroy everything. The cover-up is that Boko Haram is actually anything but nihilist. It adheres closely to a well-defined set of religious principles and practices.
If the world media attributes nihilism to the Boko Haram, Islam gets a pass. It’s as simple as that.
gravenimage says
Good point, Ronald.
gerard says
“Kerry Slams Boko Haram Jihadists For Not Offering…A Health Care Plan,” by Leah Barkoukis,
Some of the comments seem to suggest that the headline was Robert’s.
gerard says
Kerry is a fool, yet he holds one of the highest offices in the land. God help us!
Cindy says
They ought not let people from the White House speak. These people are crazy and say things that make us here in America look mighty stupid. That is what is wrong with a terror group?? They don’t offer healthcare??? What a dunb ass thing to say John Kerry, do you all ever stop and hear what you say? You sound ridicules!!!!! Please SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!
JohnyAngel Advocacy Group says
Not quite sure what this relic from the Viet war years is saying? The greatness of government control is supergood or the jihadists are superbad? Both…we’re sure, but why not explain more of what they do offer. Talk of anti Israel slogans in the same sentence Mr. Kerry that they love and you help to propagate. Hamas and Fatah are NO DIFFERENT than Boko, GET IT RIGHT KERRY !!!
Peter says
‘You have to behave the way we tell you to,’ and … [we] will punish you if you don’t
Correct me if I’m wrong – isn’t that the motto of Obama and the liberal progressive establishment?
Jan Sobieski says
The savage black moslem terror group should be called the “harem bozos!”
Their victims do not need healthcare plans but merely funeral arrangements
and some system to collect the dismember and charred remains.
The bozos are being used to try to detract from Benghazi — but despite Nancy’s best lies, islamic terrorism is again involved in Nigeria and Benghazi. Maybe
the media should double down on Hillary and Monica, they have always managed to make that into an “acceptable” soap opera!
jewdog says
So give Boko Haram Obamacare – that should slow them down for a while.
andrew sapia says
what a fucking retard, oh is that politically incorrect, oh what a freakin mentally challenged person.
smart guy says
The only part of the Bible that God supposedly wrote were the Ten Commandments. They are meant to be the Constitution for a government that can never be brought to ruin. They were supported by John Calvin the founder of the Presbyterian Church. One of the commandments is meant to be the national law of a nation that does not want to be ruined. “Thou shalt have no other gods against my face.” The Constitution of America with its religious freedom is on the road to ruin. The Constiution of America was written by the Freemasons and the Freemasons built the tower of Babel. The EU parliament
building was built by the Freemasons and is a replica of the tower of Babel.
According to Freemasonary Peleg was the architect of the tower of Babel he is buried in what was known as Prussia. You will find Peleg in the Bible.
The Washington Monument or needle in Washington DC was put there by the masons. It comes from Egypt and is a replica of Cleopara’s needle. It is Pagan.
It is 555ft high and has a foundation 111ft deep, you do the math!!!!
gravenimage says
Yup, that’s the problem—not the horror of Islam, but the US Constitution, the First Amendment, and the Washington Monument.
Do you actually have any problem with Boko Haram? Certainly, you seem a lot more upset over the Free Masons. You night want to rethink your user-name…