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Boko Haram forced 83 children to be jihad suicide bombers in 2017

Aug 27, 2017 7:26 am By Robert Spencer

A hadith has Muhammad saying: “By Him in Whose Hands my life is! Were it not for some men amongst the believers who dislike to be left behind me and whom I cannot provide with means of conveyance, I would certainly never remain behind any Sariya’ (army-unit) setting out in Allah’s Cause. By Him in Whose Hands my life is! I would love to be martyred in Allah’s Cause and then get resurrected and then get martyred, and then get resurrected again and then get martyred and then get resurrected again and then get martyred.” (Bukhari 4.52.54)

But that was just talk. He was never “martyred” at all, and throughout Islamic history, many Muslim leaders have not themselves ventured into the jihad against Infidels, but have corralled weak, vulnerable people into doing it for them. And so now this.

“Boko Haram has used 83 children as suicide bombers in 2017 – UNICEF,” RT, August 22, 2017:

Boko Haram has dramatically increased the use of children in suicide bomb attacks on civilians in Nigeria, UNICEF reported Tuesday.

There has been a four-fold increase in the use of weaponized children as part of the Islamist insurgency which has ravaged the country’s northeast for eight years, UNICEF said in a statement.

So far this year, 83 children have been used as “human bombs,” the majority of whom were girls.

Such attacks are used to sow fear among the population, especially of children who have been released, rescued or escaped from Boko Haram or similar Islamist terrorist groups….

In total, 55 attacks used girls, often younger than 15 years old, 27 used boys and one even used a baby strapped to a young girl to carry out a suicide bomb attack.

A total of 19 children were used in such attacks last year, reports AP….

“There were two girls taught by Boko Haram to be suicide bombers … The girls confirmed that they were taught that their life was not worth living, that if they die detonating the bomb and killing a lot of people, then their lives will be profitable,” Nigerian aid worker Rebecca Dali said, as cited by Reuters.

So far, 1.7 million people have been displaced by the Islamist insurgency in the northeast of the country, 85 percent of whom come from Borno state, the main focus of such attacks.

The insurrection is now in its eighth year, having claimed the lives of more than 20,000 and forced more than 2 million people to flee their homes, reports Reuters.

At least 170 people have been killed since June 1 of this year.

Mercado added that while Boko Haram has not claimed responsibility for all such attacks, no other group is yet known to employ such tactics….

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  1. John A. Marre says

    Aug 27, 2017 at 8:47 am

    Islam forces people to act in a way that completely contradicts their human nature.

    Humans protect children. Those who injure them are considered the lowest of the low. Islam makes its followers kill children. Islam is unnatural, and must be outlawed.

    • eduardo odraude says

      Aug 27, 2017 at 11:45 am

      It’s really astonishing when not just some depraved individual, but an ideology guiding huge numbers of people abandons any moral limits. Evil appears in such naked and obscene form, and yet many of those doing it imagine they are doing good. That is perhaps the only way that evil can appear in its purest form — it must be masked as good, else it would be stopped in short order. Such a feat — to mask the greatest evil as the greatest good and keep it going for 1400 years — requires a more than human genius. If the demonic power that invented Islam can laugh, it is probably laughing its head off at the Muslims duped into these monstrous crimes. Yet to say that they are ‘duped’ is only part of the truth, perhaps the greater part. The other part is that they have some responsibility for inclining to perhaps the greatest scam on human kind.

      • afrostreetwise says

        Aug 27, 2017 at 2:29 pm

        Hear Hear.

      • Johan P says

        Aug 28, 2017 at 5:37 am

        What completely astonishes me is the number of people in positions of authority or important social functions, who were raised in a free culture, who keep stating islam is good.
        Either they never have really read any of the islamic texts or have a completely twisted sense of morality.
        In islam there is NOTHING AT ALL that would be considered as good, moral or just in any society with any kind of civilization.

  2. Vic says

    Aug 27, 2017 at 11:43 am

    This story has made me reflect on a lot of things today. Don’t mean to be a downer, just reflecting on our world and all the wickedness we humans perpetrate and/or are complicit in tolerating.

    Not too long ago Christine Douglas-Williams wrote a piece about Muslim parents “donating” their children to Boko Haram to be used a suicide bombers. We ask, how can parents do that to their children… Simple. They believe what is written in the Quran regarding their jihad cause and are doing it to guarantee their children will be in paradise with Allah. It’s what islam asks for them to do according to their imams and leaders. A good sacrifice on the altar of Allah. They learn to love death more than life.

    In the West, we are a little more sophisticated, and more hypocritical as we make laws that permit us to kill unborn babies by the millions. In the name of free speech, we persecute and feel free to harm in every possible way those who disagree with us. How are we different? We also, don’t love life as much as we love death.

    Beyond that, both ideologies are evil, wicked, and satanically engendered. We have been deceived from the beginning of time to think of ways to self-destruct… Remember the story of Cain and Abel? Brother against brother. We call it by different names…racism, religious wars, antisemitism, nazism, communism, liberalism.. At the end of the day, they are all the same… with the same end result…annihilate each other. Genocide! We refuse to see that we are all part of one human race, created In the image of God and that we have been in a war for our souls from the beginning… These “lofty” ideologies serve nothing except to distract us from the Truth of God, to love one another, to be peacemakers, to be merciful, to stand together in the fight against evil. This is an active position, not a passive one.

    Ephesians 6:12 New King James Version (NKJV)
    12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

    How do we destroy these evil, dark ideologies? Shine the light of the Truth on them. How do we ourselves show in our everyday lives, by our words and deeds, that we love God, our Father, more than anything else because of the finished work of Jesus Christ? We walk the talk.
    How do we stand against the forces of wickedness and darkness everyday, while praying that our brothers and sisters be unchained from deceiving ideologies and hate? We keep our motives pure and pray without ceasing.

    I don’t know many of these answers. All I know to do is to try to love God and be willing to be more conformed to His image, seek to love my neighbor in practical ways and stand on the side of Truth as revealed by the Scriptures.

    Just food for thought on a Sunday morning.
    Thank you, Mr. Spencer, for walking the talk.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Aug 28, 2017 at 7:11 am

      All that aside: would you vote for a politician who stated that he intended to put a complete stop to all muslim entry into your country (America, I assume)?

      Or wouldn’t you? If not, why not?

      *I* would vote for any halfway decent politician who proposed to END Muslim entry into Australia. Would that be unspiritual of me? Unchristian?

      I am very, very well aware of Australia’s many sins and failures. Nevertheless: an Islamised Australia would be orders of magnitude *worse*. Islam is the only ideology that, in places where it has gained ascendancy, has *completely* extinguished any Christian presence (all of the North African littoral; the once-Christian – until 17th century – Kingdom of Nubia; nearly ALL the Christians in what is now Turkey).

      I would also vote for expulsion of Muslims from majority-non-Islamic countries. Yes, I would, I , a Christian. Send them to the dar al Islam and quarantine them. These days, radio and TV allow us to preach the gospel *without* having to have them swarming in our midst in ever-increasing – and ever-more-murderous – numbers.

      I don’t see that that is an ‘unchristian’ response to the mortal threat they pose.. not least, to the souls of those that they dawa-ise. But also… because they follow a cult that *is* The Religion of Blood and War, and is also a *religion* that sacralises rape, mass murder, and slavery, on the grand scale. Yes, we in the west are sinful and our countries are far from perfect; but … are we not allowed to engage in rational self-defence until and unless we are perfectly good? You might as well argue that we should not have cops and send detectives out after serial killers to arrest them, and prevent them from killing more people than they have already done, because, you know, the cops are sinners too, just like the murderers.

  3. Karen says

    Aug 27, 2017 at 3:53 pm

    They murder …. children. As John A Marre mentions above, they have overcome perhaps the strongest prohibition in the human experience.

    For the rest of their putrid lives, may their sleep be disturbed with dreams of the justice that is to come to them. God is not mocked.

  4. WorkingClassPost says

    Aug 27, 2017 at 7:51 pm

    Doesn’t even one politician pause to reflect on the facts, it’s the same the world over, with Boko haram here, Isis there, Al Qaeda somewhere else, etc etc.

    All are depraved and all share one aim and one ‘prophet’, all read the same koran and they all grovel to the same cruel invention.

    This has everything to do with islam.

  5. Matthieu Baudin says

    Aug 27, 2017 at 10:03 pm

    “… So far this year, 83 children have been used as “human bombs,” the majority of whom were girls…”

    Mind numbing depravity; and this is the grotesque behaviour to be expected soon in Mindanao as the Caliphate digs in to consolidate itself.

  6. Creole Gumbo says

    Aug 28, 2017 at 7:55 am

    Yes.
    But islam is a “religion” and we all need to respect that.
    At lest that is what we are being told by American, Canadian and European “leaders” to our death.

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