Jihad comes first. Allah wants the area Islamized. Starving people must not be allowed to stand in the way of that.
“Boko Haram traps starving people in Nigeria, UN warns,” AFP, May 18, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Two million people are teetering on the brink of famine in northeastern Nigeria but efforts to reach some are being thwarted by Boko Haram jihadists, the UN’s food agency said Thursday.
More than 20 million people across Nigeria, South Sudan, Somalia and Yemen, are in areas hit by drought and are experiencing famine or are at high risk of famine in “the biggest crisis we have seen in the past 50 years”, said Denise Brown, emergency coordinator for the UN’s World Food Programme.
“While they are all in difficulty, northeastern Nigeria is one that has got under our skin at WFP,” she added.
Around 1.8 million people in the area are classified “as being on the edge of the (famine) cliff”, she said, and WFP is managing to provide support of some sort to 1.2 million of them — though it desperately needs more funds.
“But there are several hundred thousand people who are up in three areas in Nigeria on the borders with Niger and Chad that we just can’t get to because of the active conflict,” she said, putting the figure at around 600,000 people.
Boko Haram launched an uprising in northeastern Nigeria in 2009 and began eyeing border areas in neighbouring Chad, Niger and Cameroon. The conflict in the area of Lake Chad has left 20,000 people dead since then….
Dawn says
They are pure evil !
James says
Even the Nazis allowed the Red Cross access to prison camps. “The [worst] of men” can’t manage even that.
mortimer says
It’s genocide. There should be a multi-national force invited by the government of Nigeria. The Boko Haram can then be removed immediately.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, the government of Nigeria has allowed Shari’ah to be imposed in the North. The current president of Nigeria is Muslim.
The idea that they are actually opposed to Boko Haram in any substantive way is questionable at best.
bob says
Where is the UN’s army , I guess the army commanders are too busy dining out and feeling moral superior to the rest of the world and trying to figure out ways to skim $ out of their budgets
LB says
When has the UN army ever done anything other than watch people getting slaughtered from inside its bases? It is as useless as the UN itself.
Jeanette says
The rumor has been around for some time that the UN army is busy “training” in the U.S.
Rickytee says
Jeanette, you are right on ! The UN is, and always has been a paper tiger. Their “soldiers” simply stand on the sidelines of any conflict – from what I’m given to understand, they never fire a shot unless actually fired upon first. The UN is a useless as tits on a bull.
Troybeam says
There is only one way to handle these people like Boko Haram sadly many people are against using extreme measures for fear of collateral damage however you have to look at the larger picture to accomplish the goal of getting food and supplies in where these groups keep those supplies only for themselves, wake up people the more you gripe about violence being used the more violence these groups will use against the masses.
The there’s arming the masses or these masses finding was to fight back, if independence is strong the sacrifice is worth it these people do not think its worth fighting for.
Mira Chaikin says
ISIS, Assad and Boko Haram have all been doing this repeatedly.
gravenimage says
This is mainstream Islam.
Johan says
Gee they started this offensive in 2009 this is Obamas legacy!
billybob says
The UN shouldn’t get involved. Famine is Nature’s way of dealing with overpopulation. We learned over time better forest management tactics and not to try to put out every forest fire. Forest fires are Nature’s way of clearing out deadwood and allowing forests to regenerate. Similarly we must learn when not to interfere in famines in places Africa when populations levels reach an unsustainable level. Rescue these people now, and we will be back in twenty years with twice as many people to save. Instead, teach them how to fish and farm. Give them skills to sustain themselves. Then leave them alone to deal with their problems themselves.
gravenimage says
billybob wrote:
The UN shouldn’t get involved. Famine is Nature’s way of dealing with overpopulation…Similarly we must learn when not to interfere in famines in places Africa when populations levels reach an unsustainable level…teach them how to fish and farm. Give them skills to sustain themselves.
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billybob, your idea that the famine in Nigeria is about people not knowing how to farm and fish is entirely mistaken.
Nigeria has been *exporting* food until recently–and not just items like coffee and cocoa, but also staples like fish, yams, and plantains.
This famine is entirely man-made–more specifically, it is a result of the Jihad there waged by “Islamist” groups like Boko Haram.
Marty says
This is real islam: totalitarian misery with the accompaniment of relentless genocide. islam surpasses communism and nazism without breaking a sweat.
Jeanette says
Islam has even surpassed the mass murder of Chinese by Mao Tse Tung. He killed a mere 70-80 million Chinese.
Mohammed & Co are responsible for killing 270 million and enslaving another 185 million.
This is not surprising; what is surprising is how many westerners are still whining that Islam is the religion of peace.
gravenimage says
Nigeria: Muslim group blocks UN efforts to aid two million people on brink of famine
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This is sickening, but should surprise no one.
There is no reason that there should be food crisis there to begin with–they are not suffering from drought or any other natural disaster. This is all about the violent incursions of Boko Haram and other “Islamist” groups.
Sarah says
Exactly. They are the wealthiest African nation apparently. They are not a failed state like Somalia. They are not teetering on the brink of civil war like South Africa. Nigeria has every opportunity to be stable and prosperous – if it just reaches out its hands to take it.
Of course, banning Islam and all its elements from every aspect of Nigerian law, culture and society would be a necessary part of that reaching out and we all know they’d rather watch their kids starve to death in front of them, then tear off their coverings and abandon Allah.
gravenimage says
Exactly, Sarah–but Islam destroys everything it touches.
Sarah says
I read an article just the other day linked from TROP on the News24 site about the Nigerian problem.
It also detailed how they have an extraordinary number of orphans, kids whose families were slaughtered by Islamic militants and have been abandoned. No one is caring for them, feeding them, clothing them, housing them or even educating them.
Nigerians themselves are admitting that this huge number of orphans are ticking time bombs. That if left abandoned as they currently are – are going to eventually rip Nigeria apart when they get old enough to feel the rage in them and do something about it.
Meanwhile, according to Gatestone, there’s an estimated further 8-10 million more migrants on the march heading for Europe. One of the nation’s that are ‘donating’ to this horde is Nigeria. How soon will it be when these little monster’s decide to make the trip to Europe? They are a generation of murderous evil, according to the Nigerians themselves.
We are so screwed.
Westman says
1.8 Million at risk of starvation because of approx 15,000 Boko Haram soldiers? 14 million ME refugees homeless due to 30-60,000 ISIS and associated terrorists? What is wrong with this picture?
Who, besides the embedded citizens, who know the language and culture, can better identify and quickly remove the evil among them? Yet, it never happens. If a group, using terror and intimidation against the general public in the name of religion, were to arise in the US, they would soon be in jail or dead with, or without, the government’s involvement.
It seems inescapable that Islam conditions the mind from considering any nation to be of value adequate to preserve with one’s own life – the Ummah being the real social center and fighting with infidels being the main road to Jannah. And, of course, Jannah is free of all infidels and Jews – a “final solution”.
Kay says
This is sad beyond words . . . and a cause to stand in solidarity with, unlike so many pretend victimhoods.
Rickytee says
Islam and Sharia Law are the begnning of the destruction of the western world as we know it – it’s nearly too late for non-Muslims in the non-Muslim countries to stop it . Our children, grand children and great grandchildren are the ones who will e suffering. Political correctness is not helping us either – and folks, get prepared to fight for our freedom and way of life, before it’s too late…we haven’t much time left.
Those who ignore this and decry those of us who know the dangers of Islam as being Islamophobic will realize the terrible situation that their apathy and ignorance will have left all of us in.