“Abuja police commissioner Joseph Mbu said the rallies were ‘now posing a serious security threat.'” Really? To whom? To a corrupt and compromised government that has shown again and again that it is powerless to stop Boko Haram, the Congregation of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad? If the Nigerian government is so worried about “security threats,” what is it doing to stop the real one coming from the jihadis? To call these rallies a “security threat” is to equate them with Boko Haram, which is as monstrous as the tendency of Muslims in the West to condemn “extremism on both sides,” i.e., jihad terrorists and counter-jihadists as well.
“Nigeria kidnapped girls: Support rallies banned in Abuja,” BBC, June 2, 2014:
Nigerian police have banned public protests in the capital Abuja for the release of more than 200 schoolgirls seized by Islamist militants in April.
Abuja police commissioner Joseph Mbu said the rallies were “now posing a serious security threat”.
Nigeria has seen almost daily rallies calling for the government to take firmer action to rescue the girls.
Boko Haram militants snatched the girls from the remote Chibok village near the Cameroon border on 14 April.
In a statement, Mr Mbu said that public protests had “degenerated” and were now a security threat.
He was also quoted by the state-run Agency of Nigeria as saying that “dangerous elements” could join the demonstrations.
Nigeria’s government has been facing growing pressure both at home and abroad to do more to tackle the group and bring about the girls’ release….
jihad3tracker says
Am I the first person to conclude that if a nation’s highest official calls himself Goodluck Jonathan then we should hang back from according his government “Mature Competent Adult” honors ????
Robert4 says
Unclear as to why reader “jihad3tracker” wants to base international diplomacy on the name chosen by the parents of a country’s president decades ago…
King Dave says
Nigeria is simply taking a page out of the US liberal government play book, which criminalizes all criticism of Islam. Their peers attention span is about the same length as it takes to make a cardboard sign and a contrived face.
With these guys on their side, the girls are doomed
Jay Boo says
Sorry, I don’t agree with this article.
These public protests put all the blame on the government not on Islam.
What options does the government have?
Should they trade terrorists like Obama did?
Remember that when they attempted to get rid of captured terrorists in the first place there was an outcry about human rights and the rule of law. Hillary refused to call Boko Haram a terrorist organization while employed in Obama’s Muslim Brotherhood administration.
Meanwhile the so called Muslim moderates in Nigeria appear to whole-heartedly support the ‘Bring Back Our Girls’ protests (against the government) with ulterior motives no doubt.
NPR/BBC once again quoted a spokesperson with the last name Ibrahim about the Nigerian government just an hour ago.
dumbledoresarmy says
Suggestion.
If they ban the rallies in *Nigeria*, there’s still NOTHING to stop rallies being held outside the Nigerian embassies and high commissions in *other* countries.
The Nigerian Christian emigre community could ask their fellow Christians – and all decent persons of other non-Islamic faiths, and of no faith – to join them in a big rally – march, sit-in, prayer vigil, speeches, placards – outside the Nigerian Embassy in Washington, DC, USA. And they could do the same in London, UK. And in Canberra, Australia. And in Canada, and everywhere else in the non-Muslim world that Nigeria has diplomatic representation.
Further idea. They could get in touch with groups like the Australian Coptic Movement Association (Australia), and (in the UK) the British Pakistani Christian Association, and other similar bodies, and organise for *joint* rallies demanding that *all* women and girls who have been kidnapped and “disappeared” and raped and force “converted” by Mohammedans in the past ten-twenty years, should be searched for, and that the kidnappers should be hunted down and punished.
Everybody gets together: big rally outside the Nigerian Embassy in Washington; *then* everybody marches to the *Pakistani Embassy* and makes one hell of a row about all the Hindu, Christian and Sikh girls (many of them minors) who have been snatched by Mohammedans (even, in one case I recall, seized at gunpoint and dragged off from the family home! – she was 13, and a Christian); and *then* they all march to the Egyptian Embassy and issue a “Cease and Desist! Return the Girls! Hunt Down and Punish the Kidnappers/ Rapists” notice to the new Egyptian Government, whilst displaying the long, long, long list of names of Coptic girls (again, many of them minors) and women who have been “disappeared” by Muslims in just the past ten years.
Do that in Washington; and do it in London, UK, and in Canberra, Australia, and in the capital cities of all other non-Muslim Commonwealth countries.
Do it; and then, a month later, do it again. And again, and again, and again. Don’t let the media forget about it. Don’t let our politicians forget.
Jay Boo says
The problem is Islamic terrorism and the people who aid it.
The Nigerian government is to be the fall guy for years of neglect and collusion by the UN, Obama and Hillary
also we can’t depend on the MSM like BBC
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27514744
dumbledoresarmy says
When this story first broke, here at jihadwatch poster “Cogito Ergo Sum” posted a link to a spine-chillingly beautiful modern take on the Lament of Dementer/ Ceres after the rape of her daughter Persephone/ Proserpina by the king of the dead.
I’ll re-post that link, because it invokes one of the great archetypes, the rage and grief of the Mother whose daughter has been raped and dragged down into the dark: “I will turn the earth into stone/ where I walk crying alone…”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CfwGwhcycI
As you watch it, imagine the singer as one of those black Nigerian Christian mommas.
Imagine her as a Copt.
Imagine her as a Hindu or Christian or Sikh South Asian woman whose daughter has been seized and ‘vanished’ by Muslim death-cultists and rapists in Pakistan or Bangladesh.
Imagine her as a Greek or Bulgarian or Georgian Christian woman from past centuries, whose daughter was seized by Mohammedans and dragged off to the harems.
And that isn’t all the cases I could name…just those that come immediately to mind.
mortimer says
This is a crackdown on free speech in Nigeria. They want to prevent criticism of the government, that’s all.
Jay Boo says
The government is a convenient target
Islam is the problem
Mirren10 says
And I personally think the Nigerian government, police force, and Army, is riddled with mohammedan Fifth Columnists.
I’ll bet there is a **lot** of pressure, and smiling suggestions (with hints of threats), being made to Mbu, and other non-mohammedans, **including** Jonathan, in the Nigerian government, Army, and police force.
Also, Jay Boo, you make a good point, which should be remembered;
”Remember that when they attempted to get rid of captured terrorists in the first place there was an outcry about human rights and the rule of law. Hillary refused to call Boko Haram a terrorist organization while employed in Obama’s Muslim Brotherhood administration.”
There should be a purge of *all mohammedans* in Goodluck Jonathan’s government, Army, and police force.
But also, unfortunately, Nigeria is rotten with graft, corruption, greed, and tribal allegiances.
Rezali Mehil says
Mirren…
What the government is saying is that the locals must consider that the girls are gone….for good …. good luck to them , good luck to the parents and good luck to those who try to protest because it will not be allowed …because all this is enforced by Mr. Goodluck.
This has nothing to do with “Mos” in Government positions… imagine if you will…that the troops go in for rescue…all guns blazing and manage to rescue only a handful of the girls whilst the rest went away during the rescue. At any rate the likely hood is that they will have been split into several groups…so they would need several simultaneous raids (are the Nigerians up to that?)
What would the parents think then….would they not prefer their daughters to be married, then later with child albeit with a jilbab…is that not more preferable? Would you not want your daughter to be alive if she had been taken…these are serious questions to consider Mirren?
Think about all this Mirren, however if you still feel strongly about this….take the next plane out to Abouja…and join your christian sisters on the road for protest. I suggest you take YOUR daughter/cousin/granddaughter next door neighbour’s girl etc. with you….after all you WANT to show real solidarity with those sisters….don’t you …. I will part with two words….
Good Luck… and two more….
More Later,
Rezali
CogitoErgoSum says
Rezali, speak to us of such things when you have gone through the experience of having a daughter kidnapped, raped or murdered. Will you welcome these words of yours if we should quote them back to you? And if your daughter should be the only child you had in this life, may those words comfort and sustain you to the end of your miserable existence. May you live a very, very long time and experience all that life has to teach you before you are consumed and discarded by a world of your own making.
gravenimage says
The vicious Rezali Mehil wrote:
Mirren…
What the government is saying is that the locals must consider that the girls are gone….for good …. good luck to them , good luck to the parents and good luck to those who try to protest because it will not be allowed …because all this is enforced by Mr. Goodluck.
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The appalling Rezali Mehil is counseling Infidels to condone the abduction and rape of their children as a Muslim right—and is lauding the capitulation of the Nigerian government.
And why not? As a pious Muslimah, she believes that her savage coreligionists have every right to kidnap, rape, and enslave Infidel children. *Ugh*.
More:
This has nothing to do with “Mos” in Government positions…
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What a *bald-faced lie*. Here is proof of the complicity of Muslim in the Nigerian government with the barbaric Boko Haram:
“Nigeria: 10 generals guilty of arming Islamic jihadists of Boko Haram”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/06/nigeria-10-generals-guilty-of-arming-islamic-jihadists-of-boko-haram
More:
…imagine if you will…that the troops go in for rescue…all guns blazing and manage to rescue only a handful of the girls whilst the rest went away during the rescue…
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“Went away during the rescue”—what is that supposed to mean? Is the vile Rezali Mehil trying to posit the ludicrous idea that these victims want to stay with their rapists? She’s done this sport of thing before.
But since even under this scenario *some* of the girls would be rescued, this is probably this nasty Muslimah’s coy way of saying that Boko Haram would likely massacre the schoolgirls in the event of a rescue attempt.
More:
What would the parents think then….would they not prefer their daughters to be married, then later with child albeit with a jilbab…is that not more preferable? Would you not want your daughter to be alive if she had been taken…these are serious questions to consider Mirren?
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So here she *is* admitting that these pious Muslims would kill these girls—that they would add murder to kidnapping, rape, and sex slavery. Sickening—but completely Islamic.
We see what sort of foul creed Rezali Mehim embraces.
More:
Think about all this Mirren, however if you still feel strongly about this….take the next plane out to Abouja…and join your christian sisters on the road for protest. I suggest you take YOUR daughter/cousin/granddaughter next door neighbour’s girl etc. with you….after all you WANT to show real solidarity with those sisters….don’t you …. I will part with two words….
Good Luck…
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The implication that one doesn’t really care about these girls being brutalized by these savage Mohammedans unless one exposes one’s *own* daughters to ravening Muslim rapists is grotesque beyond words.
*This* is Islam exposed.
Mirren10 says
Shove off, rezali, and go and cosset your beard. Stupid mohammedan.
Champ says
I agree, Mirren …yeah rezali’s comments are like nails on a chalkboard–they are irritating, at best.
Great comment to Jay Boo!
Rezali Mehil says
Mirren, you dog you,
Is this anyway to talk to your favorite Muslima?
More Later…
Rezali
gravenimage says
Nigerian police ban public protests calling for the release of the abducted schoolgirls
“Abuja police commissioner Joseph Mbu said the rallies were ‘now posing a serious security threat.’”
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Really? More of a threat than the abduction of *almost 300 schoolgirls*? Despicable.