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Obama Administration threatened Nigeria with sanctions in 2013 for fighting Boko Haram

May 15, 2014 10:30 pm By Robert Spencer

ObamaBoko Haram claimed that their rights had been violated by the Nigerian government, after the pattern of Islamic supremacists everywhere, who always claim that they are the wronged and aggrieved party. The Obama Administration, as clueless and Islam-sympathetic as ever, bought it.

“Obama Administration Threatened Nigeria with Sanctions in 2013 for Fighting Boko Haram,” by Fred Dardick, Canada Free Press, May 14, 2014 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

Hillary Clinton wasn’t the only Obama administration official who went to bat for Boko Haram over the past few years.

Soon after John Kerry took over as Secretary of State, the U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Terence P. McCulley, accused the Nigerian government of butchery during a confrontation with Boko Haram terrorists in Baga, a Nigerian town on the shores of Lake Chad, and in May 2013 threatened to withdraw U.S. military aid from the West African nation.

Boko Haram militants attacked a Nigerian military outpost in April 2013 outside Baga, killing one soldier. Following the three-day battle human rights activists, including the George Soros-funded and liberal aligned Human Rights Watch, which is not exactly known for its impartiality when it comes to reporting on Islamic issues, claimed the Nigerian military wantonly slaughtered 183 civilians and burned down over 2,000 homes and businesses.

The Nigerian government denied the claims saying the death toll and destruction had been vastly overstated by its enemies, and in fact 30 Boko Haram terrorists, 6 civilians and one soldier, had died in the fighting. Reports from the Baga clinic, which treated 193 people following the battle, but only 10 with serious injuries, seemed to back up the Nigerian government claim that no large-scale massacre had occurred.

The U.S. Nigerian Ambassador, blindly believing any Islamist sob story that crossed his path, responded in a May 2013 meeting with human rights activists by defending Boko Haram:

Mr. Terrence announced to the activists that the US congress had previously passed a law that bars the United States from rendering military assistance to any government that violates basic rights of citizens. He said the Obama led US government has therefore ceased to assist Nigeria militarily in obedience to the law.

The threat of military sanctions, and whether or not they were actually implemented, is an open question as there has been zero coverage of this issue in the mainstream media, may have had a chilling effect on Nigerian military operations against Boko Haram. Since Ambassador McCulley’s proclamation the Nigerian civilian death toll by Boko Haram Islamic militants has skyrocketed over the past year.

No wonder the Nigerian government was initially reluctant to accept U.S. assistance with finding the more than 200 Christian girls kidnapped by Boko Haram last month. Emboldening Nigeria’s Islamic terrorist enemies and having been already accused by the Obama administration of crimes against humanity for fighting militants who were responsible for hundreds of civilian deaths since 2010, they likely felt that Obama’s belated support was more a product of diplomatic CYA than actually caring about the fate of kidnapped Nigerian children.

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  1. richard Sherman says

    May 15, 2014 at 10:41 pm

    Obama worships Muslim terrorists( a redundancy?) Starting with the sociopath MUHAMMAD….He and Michelle love Muslims who kill Christians and Jews…that is why they both love BOKO HARAM…as this article makes clear..and why they love the mass murderer of Jews named MUHAMMAD.

    • Shane says

      May 16, 2014 at 10:15 am

      Obama is a dhimmi and an Islamophile. Although he knows that Islam is a religion of war, he denies that our terrorist enemies are devout Muslims who are following in the footsteps of the Warlord Muhammad. We cannot defeat the enemy when are leaders refuse to acknowledge who they really are – Islamic jihadists, or militant Muslims.

      This is a war of civilizations that has been going on since the Warlord Muhammad was running around chopping off heads of infidels and raping captive women.

  2. karpenter says

    May 15, 2014 at 10:44 pm

    My Gov’t Is A Combination Of:
    THIEVES
    LIARS
    TRAITORS TO AMERICA
    AND HUMANITY

    • Jay Boo says

      May 16, 2014 at 1:11 am

      Add Al Jazeera sponsored NPR and BBC
      They are simultaneously trying to sabotage efforts against Boko Haram while trying to get out in front of the message so the don’t get caught painting themselves into a corner.

      1. The poured criticism on the Nigerian Government when the school girls were kidnapped.
      2. They described Boko Haram only as a grass roots insurgency.
      3 They talked of sanctions but then switched it up to say they were actually referring to sanctions on Boko Haram
      Sanctions on Boko Haram ??? Are they for real?
      4 The applauded the back door move to get Amnesty International to lower themselves by criticizing the Nigerian government.

  3. William says

    May 15, 2014 at 10:46 pm

    I was waiting to see how our deceivers – namely the establishment news media, government,etc – were going to wiggle their way out of facing the reality of Boko Haram and finally nailing the cause of the problem of the kidnapping of the girls. Well, now I see where they are going with the issue. The establishment is blaming the Nigerian government for the problem and for being an obstacle to the girls’ liberation. It is amazing how clever these people are.

    • WVinMN says

      May 16, 2014 at 1:08 am

      Clever? Nah, they just have to be a bit smarter than their target audience. The masses are largely comprised of ignorant slobs, and these are becoming increasingly ignorant each and every passing year. I mean, the US re-elected Obama! Enough said.

    • voegelinian says

      May 16, 2014 at 1:32 pm

      It’s not a matter of being clever — it’s a matter of applying their normative intelligence to defending a meme at all cost. In addition to normative intelligence, they also have the massive and complete support of the mainstream cultural infrastructure.

      The meme they are defending at all cost is that:

      Whenever Muslims seem to do anything bad, it cannot possibly impugn Muslims and their Islam. Therefore other explanations must be sought and promoted in the public sphere, in order to make Virtual Reality match the Meme.

  4. Rojm says

    May 15, 2014 at 10:48 pm

    The US and Amnesty Int. were both complaining about Nigeria government’s attempt to stamp out the Boko Harem. This was just only two months ago that is March 2014. I could not understand why, the Boko Harem killed thousands of civilians in the past few years. Why would any government or agency tell a government that they should be careful and gently deal with killers like this?This would go on like this if the girls abduction was not finally broadcast throughout the world. Similar things like this happen often in Egypt, and Bangladesh. In Egypt Christian girls are abducted and the abductors say the girl was converted to Islam. In Bangladesh, Hindu girls are often abducted and the abductors say the girl was converted to Islam. In both cases, the girls supposedly can not be returned because they were supposedly married to a muslim man.

    • Jaladhi says

      May 16, 2014 at 9:25 am

      Add to your list kidnapping, conversion and marriage of Hindu, Sikh and Christain girls in Pakistan on a daily basis and yet this never covered in our media and of course our Muslim loving government never says a word. In the case of Boko haram, our government and most western government were backed into a corner and had no choice but to denounce them. They are such hypocrites!!

  5. Bezelel says

    May 15, 2014 at 11:20 pm

    Serbs could tell us the whole playbook.

  6. CdnCrusader says

    May 16, 2014 at 12:21 am

    Good to see the civilians of Nigeria fighting back. Boko Haram attacked 3 villages today and the villagers fought back killing 200 ok them!
    http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/15/world/africa/nigeria-girls-abducted/

    • Bezelel says

      May 16, 2014 at 3:03 pm

      Let’s hope BHO doesn’t send troops to protect BH.

  7. Jay Boo says

    May 16, 2014 at 1:29 am

    When the MSM get indignant and say “Why hasn’t the Nigerian government freed the school girls yet” what they really mean is that this is looking bad for Hillary, President Obama and the complicit MSM.

  8. Salah says

    May 16, 2014 at 1:35 am

    Obama Administration threatened Nigeria with sanctions in 2013 for fighting Boko Haram

    They also threatened Egypt for refusing the Muslim Brotherhood rule. But unlike the Nigerian people, the Egyptian people gave the Obama administration the middle finger!

    The Biggest Demonstration in History (33 million)
    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-end-of-muslim-brotherhood.html

    • Kepha says

      May 16, 2014 at 9:10 pm

      As an American who fancies himself a patriot and is proud of his former service as a diplomat, I raise my hat to the people of Egypt, Salah. You can explain to the less sophisticated of them that it is a mark of respect.

      • Salah says

        May 18, 2014 at 12:39 am

        I thank you Kepha on behalf of my fellow citizens.
        My only hope is to see a similar determined, peaceful and powerful uprising in every country ruled by traitors.

  9. RonaldB says

    May 16, 2014 at 4:51 am

    This article illustrates a recurring and an extremely serious problem.

    Muslims should not be attacked when peaceful, but it is perfectly reasonable for a government or community to take sufficient steps, once an uprising or concerted attack takes place, to guarantee the security of the country. This includes uprooting and expelling the attackers, and the community actively supporting the attackers.

    The US, NATO, and the UN have consistently and actively opposed any actions designed to eliminate actively hostile Muslim armies or communities. Perhaps the most egregious and harmful example was the bombing of the Serb army by the Clinton administration.

    For some reason, the advancement of Islam through active jihad is protected by Western governments, particularly the multi-country governments. For example, the European Union opposes the actions of European countries to protect their borders.

    I have no idea why this is so.

    We now have the advantage of a strong hostility between Saudi Arabia and the Muslim Brotherhood, both of them active in subverting western governments into supporting the advancement of Islam, or at least opposing active steps to fight jihad.

    I honestly wish I knew why our government officials, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, have taken these very destructive stances. I don’t hold to the idea that they are secret Muslims. That seems extremely unlikely to me. I think our extremely tight legal control over the political process, regarding proportional representation, limits on domestic campaign contributions and the like, has eliminated the principled politicians, and left only the ones interested in power and money.

    It’s a fantasy to expect a politician who has focused on money and power his (or her) whole career to suddenly begin acting on any principle at all. So, our “leaders” are simply acting consistently with their actions during their careers.

    • v says

      May 16, 2014 at 7:14 am

      RonaldB “I have no idea why this is so.”

      I am so tired of people trying to be so politically correct as to hold multiculturalism as their god, religion!!

    • voegelinian says

      May 16, 2014 at 1:42 pm

      “Muslims should not be attacked when peaceful…”

      Muslims are perpetually at war. Their mode of being at war is deceptively different from the conventional definition the West is familiar with, since it includes innumerable minions who pretend to be not waging a war.

      These pretenders in our era are on one level more dangerous than the front-line mujahideen, in that they facilitate, through their deception — and through our naive gullibility (we have millions in the West who think like Ronald B, for example) — a massive and unprecedented immigration-cum-invasion of Muslims behind enemy lines into the West.

    • Kepha says

      May 16, 2014 at 9:12 pm

      I concur, RonaldB

  10. duh_swami says

    May 16, 2014 at 5:16 am

    Accusing Mahoundians of anything, even if they are guilty, is ‘slander’ because it makes Islam itself look bad. This is called Sitr…
    So obviously Rasool Obama and company are playing the sitr game.
    ‘The future must not belong to those who SLANDER the Prophet of Islam’…Remember that? Telling the truth about Islam, Mahound etc, is ‘slander’…

  11. Edward Cline says

    May 16, 2014 at 6:44 am

    “The Obama Administration, as clueless and Islam-sympathetic as ever, bought it.”
    I think Mr. Spencer is cutting Obama too much slack. Obama isn’t “clueless.” He knows exactly what he’s doing. If you examine the pattern of his actions in foreign and domestic policies he’s implemented, you must come to the conclusion that he’s a nihilist. And, of course, he’d be “Islam-sympathetic,” as well, because Islam is nihilistic I simply was not surprised to read that Obama sided with Boko Haram against the Nigerian government. Why should that astound anyone when Obama sided the Muslim Brotherhood?

    • mortimer says

      May 16, 2014 at 8:29 am

      Obama is ‘clueless’ in my humble opinion because he is pandering to the Muslim Brotherhood to gain their support. I doubt he is conspiring to Islamize the world. His foreign policy has been entirely misguided because he picked the wrong allies. You cannot work with the MB and fight Al Qaeda at the same time, because they are the same entity as Morsi demonstrated. Obama has wasted vast financial resources on a clueless mission to win friends among the Egyptian fascist party, the MB.

      Obama’s policy has made the Boko Haram insurgency much worse. The Boko Haram needs to be taken out by a determined counter-insurgency campaign managed by military experts who specialize in making insurgents disappear.

  12. Jay Boo says

    May 16, 2014 at 9:07 am

    The future must not belong to those who run interference when Muslims unwittingly heap yet another pile of mockery onto the vile prophet of Islam.

  13. Beth says

    May 16, 2014 at 4:56 pm

    “The Obama Administration, as clueless and Islam-sympathetic as ever, bought it.

    I don’t believe for a second that obama is clueless. He’s a liar – just like any good muslim is.

    He supported the brotherhood in Egypt. What more does anyone need after all that has been reported about obama and his love for Islam?

  14. smart guy says

    May 17, 2014 at 3:51 am

    The Britsh ruling class has a secret society that one must belong to inorder to be part of that ruling class. This is the real reason for Britian becoming a world power. Christianity is the religion of the British working class it is not the religion of the ruling class. A 32nd level Freemason is known as a Shriner.
    A Shriner wears a tall red Turkish hat with the cresent moon and the morning star on it, a 32nd Freemason takes a oath to serve Allah. The highest level of Scottish Freemasonary is the 33rd level. All Freemasons wear an apron with the famous hex on it, the symbol of witchcraft. At the 33rd level Freemasons worship the devil. As you can see the 32nd level whereby a Freemason takes an oath to serve Allah is a stepping stone to achieve the final level of worshipping the Devil or Lucifer. Bill Clinton is 33rd level Freemason, so is Prince Phillip.
    Freemasonary has ties to organised crime such as the Mafia. Albert Pike an American Freemason wrote a letter to the Sicilian Mafia that was intercepted by British police. Most congressmen and senators are Freemasons.
    All Christians who voted for a Freemason have a lot of explaining to do !!!
    Freemasons are Pagans who built the pyramids the Tower of Babel etc.
    The 2 sacred pillars of Freeasonary come from Eygpt one is Rah an Egyptian god the other is Horus the Egyptian Sun god. A Freemason Temple has no windows so that they can be in complete darkness because they worship the god of darkness. Most masons are on the bottom of the pyramid and have no clue as to the real secret of that society. Bush was a “Skull and Bonesman”
    just another Satanist group from Yale. They came over on the Mayflower the Christians had no idea what they worshipped, so they called them “Strangers”
    The “Strangers” were Wiccans, Pagans who practiced witchcraft.

    • gravenimage says

      May 17, 2014 at 11:38 pm

      Oh, good grief. Here’s the misnamed “smart guy” ranting about Freemasons and the Shriners again. The idea that the Freemason “worship Allah” is just absurd. This tool has spent too much time trolling obscure ‘conspiracy theory” sites, clearly…

  15. gravenimage says

    May 17, 2014 at 11:45 pm

    Obama Administration threatened Nigeria with sanctions in 2013 for fighting Boko Haram
    ………………………………….

    Would Michelle Obama even be waging her “hashtag” campaign if Nigeria had faced down Boko Haram more strongly last year?

    Maybe so—but the false indignation of this administration is even more clearly hypocritical in light of this disgusting threat to a nation’s defending herself against Jihad. *Ugh*.

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