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Nigeria: Teen girls kill 12 in market suicide jihad attack

Jan 19, 2018 7:08 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

These bombers could have been Muslim girls, or non-Muslim girls previously abducted by Boko Haram.

The video is an embarrassment for the Nigerian government, which has failed to rescue the girls as the four-year anniversary of their capture approached….Boko Haram carried out 135 suicide bombings using children in 2017, according to UNICEF.

Just over six months ago, news broke of 700 repentant Boko Haram fighters, and an end to terrorism in Nigeria was proclaimed.

As predicted, the declaration turned out to be nothing more than political bravado. Boko Haram is driven by religious zeal; its official name being “Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad,”, meaning “People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet’s Teachings and Jihad.”

In 2014, “several Pakistani writers…questioned liberal ‘apologists'” for “failing to understand the links between Islamic sharia and incidents such as the abduction of more than 200 teenage girls from a school” by Boko Haram. They also stated that “there is a mini Boko Haram in every neighborhood in Muslim societies,” and that “while Muslim Countries burn themselves with rage” over offensive cartoons, “there is a complete lack of outrage for heinous acts like these.”

To call them out is “Islamophobic.”

“Reports: Teen Girls Kill Twelve in Nigerian Market Suicide Attack”, Frances Martel, Breitbart, January 18, 2018:

Nigerian news agencies reported Wednesday of multiple child suicide bombings targeting a market in the northeastern regional capital Maiduguri, killing at least 12 and confirming fears that the Boko Haram jihadist group continues to have the ability to use child captives for terrorist activity.

The newspaper Vanguard, which reported the casualty count as ten initially and “dozens” injured—cited a civilian militia leader’s witness account in reporting that two 13-year-old girls were responsible for the bombing.

“Two under-aged girls, aged about 13, struck at the market at about 4:10 pm (1510 GMT)—a peak hour,” Civilian Joint Task Force chief Ibrahim Liman told Vanguard. “The first bomber set off her explosives in a sparsely populated part of the market. Moments later, the second bomber set off her explosives in the crowded part of the market.”

Liman noted that 52 people were recorded injured at press time and the death toll could go up at any time.

Another eyewitness told the newspaper the attack was “really bad. … I saw one car parked across the road that was splattered with blood and flesh.”

The Premium Times, another Nigerian newspaper, identifies the attackers as “four female suicide bombers,” without providing an estimated age. The Times report cites the National Emergency Management Agency for the statistic and reports the death toll at 12. That agency stated that it had documented ten deaths, but local officials put the number at 12.

Borno state police added further confusion, identifying a “male suicide bomber” on the scene. Nigeria’s Pulse publication, citing eyewitnesses, say the culprits were two male suicide bombers……

Boko Haram, whose name roughly translates to “Western education is forbidden,” specialize in mass abductions of girls and young women, later used as maids, cooks, child soldiers, suicide bombers, and sex slaves for their jihadi “husbands.”

Boko Haram’s most successful mass abduction occurred in the Borno village of Chibok in April 2014. The terrorists targeted a girl’s school in the village and abducted nearly 300 girls and women successfully, forcing them into their slavery. Most of these girls, many of which have become mothers in captivity since their kidnapping, remain in Boko Haram custody. Many are brainwashed and forced into submission to the terrorist group and, thus, present a security threat to officials once rescued—in one famous rescue in October 2016, nearly 100 Chibok girls refused to go with police.

Boko Haram inspired hope in the loved ones of the captive girls this week by releasing a 22-minute video showing 14 of the girls and some of the children they have had since 2014. Half of the video shows the girls, who urge their parents to “bow to Boko Haram” and promise, “by the grace of Allah, we will not return to you.” The girls also claim that they “lack nothing” and live a fulfilling life in captivity.

The other half of the video is a “13-minute-long sermon” by a man claiming to be Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau.

The video is an embarrassment for the Nigerian government, which has failed to rescue the girls as the four-year anniversary of their capture approached. The recent bombings—this week’s and a New Year’s bombing in Adamawa state—counter the Nigerian government’s persistent narrative that Boko Haram was defeated in 2015. President Muhammadu Buhari told the BBC that year that “technically, we have won the war.” Three years later, in an end of 2017 message, Buhari repeated, “We have since beaten Boko Haram.”

Boko Haram carried out 135 suicide bombings using children in 2017, according to UNICEF.

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  1. Walter Sieruk says

    Jan 19, 2018 at 10:25 am

    The phenomena of females who are jihad suicide /homicide bombers is tragic, sad, yet t interesting in a negative sort of way. The reasons for the delusional and murderous behavior by brainwashed, girls and women is the mind programming inflected on them by the Muslims clerics, as the imams, who keep telling them lines and lies. Such as “We will honor you” and “You will go to paradise” and “We are doing this for Allah.” That’s some strange kind of “We.” For the reader might ,very well ,notice the those same Muslim clerics who so thoroughly mind indoctrinate them into actually wanting to become human bombs are never, ever, the ones who strap bombs vest on themselves and then go out and blow themselves up in a suicide bombing. Those Islamic clerics just mind condition and then manipulate them to become, literally, dangerous to self and others by engaging in murderous bombs attacks. Ten the same Muslim clerics sit home safe all the while the deadly bombing are going on. Therefore those Islamic clerics who use those girls and women as stooges for the jihad are both despicable and cowardly.
    In addition, Islam gives female be they girls or women, little to no value or worth because Islam because is, in essence, a religion of extreme misogyny. Nevertheless, the Muslim clerics and the jihadist leaders of different jihad organizations will not hesitate to use girls and women for the advancement of their jihad agenda for Islam. How Ironic. How unconscionable! How callous! They are so very wicked. The Bible informs its reader that “The counsels of the wicked are deceitful.” Proverbs 12:5. [N.K.J.V.]

    • Sons of Liberty says

      Jan 19, 2018 at 4:24 pm

      And this is the country the left wing liberals were throwing out as a great country in Africa after President Trump made his s***hole countries remark during an immigration meeting. I heard leftists on TV talking about Nigeria and all the college graduates and this proves Trump must be a racist . Now we have Muslim ( TEEN GIRLS ) suicide bombers blowing up people in a market ! Not to mention Boko Haram running wild in that country and holding on to the Christian girls they kidnapped and turning them into sex slaves for Boko Haram jihadists. I think this is what President Trump was saying when he said why are DEMOCRATS and a few RINO Republicans always wanting to bring in people from these countries when they CLEARLY HAVE ALL KINDS OF PROBLEMS . SO, Democrats say we MUST bring these PROBLEMS TO OUR COUNTRY. That is what Obama and his State Department have been doing for 8 years.

  2. Billy Chickens says

    Jan 19, 2018 at 10:43 am

    God I hate Islam.

    • CRUSADER says

      Jan 19, 2018 at 1:33 pm

      Billy Chickens, GravenImage mirrors your sentiment.

      “God I hate Islam.”

      This sentiment seems to be catching on!!!

      Bravo!!!! 😉

    • Carl says

      Jan 19, 2018 at 8:51 pm

      God, I hate Democrats – there are some good ones, but Schumer and Pelosi act just like the Muslim clerics to keep all the Democrats in line. Step out of line and off with you head.

  3. MFritz says

    Jan 19, 2018 at 1:26 pm

    Their childhood ends the moment they fall into the hands of these cowardly murderers and their murderous ideology.

  4. CRUSADER says

    Jan 19, 2018 at 1:32 pm

    Females are being used as terrorists.

    Wake up world!

    Here is an example of an earlier femme fatale:

    Dalal Mughrabi led the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history, known as the Coastal Road massacre, in 1978, when she and other Fatah terrorists hijacked a bus on Israel’s Coastal Highway, killing 37 civilians, 12 of them children, and wounding over 70.

    YIKES !
    Talk about a woman scorned!
    Medea has nothing on that witch with an itch.

    • Sons of Liberty says

      Jan 19, 2018 at 4:41 pm

      Exactly , CRUSADER ! What is the difference between what she did and what …SS troops did lining people up in front of a ditch and machine gunning them ? People HAD BETTER wake up to what is going on today and REMEMBER this offensive jihad has been going on for almost 1,400 years ….and from the looks of it …it ain’t stopping . Why ? Because the world WON’T STOP IT ! BAN ISLAM , and go after the jihadists the same way we went after SS troops !

      • CRUSADER says

        Jan 19, 2018 at 4:57 pm

        “Be Strong, Be of Good Courage. God Bless America, Long Live the Republic! ”

        ~ Sootch00.

  5. b.a. freeman says

    Jan 19, 2018 at 2:05 pm

    sadly, nigeria is a country with a large population of muslims (in the north, i believe), so when fair elections are held, they can often win high office. thus, it should not be surprising when the same people falsely claim that they have “beaten” boko haram. they have no intention of *fighting* boko haram, and they are counting on the media looking elsewhere in short order, so that they can continue their war on infidels.

  6. CRUSADER says

    Jan 19, 2018 at 4:59 pm

    IslamISM = ideology

    RacISM = ideology

    NazISM = ideology

    ==============

    Ideologies can be gone after, legitimately

    (Sebastian Gorka)

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Jan 19, 2018 at 10:17 pm

      Shame he left.

      Why was that, exactly?

      • CRUSADER says

        Jan 20, 2018 at 3:49 am

        Well, Gorka (as with General Flynn) has had quite a few enemies within the deep state.
        Additionally, he wasn’t as used for advice, probably because he said his piece already to Trump, and Chief of Staff General McMaster has become quite the barrier to the Oval Office, particularly for stalwarts like Gorka who don’t share McMaster’s openminded view of Islam.

        Gorka will keep plugging away at FoxNews, as Sean Hannity has been doing diligently.

        Drip by Drip by Drip….the points get across….

        Just don’t ever give in and never give up!!

        • LeftisruiningCanada says

          Jan 20, 2018 at 12:17 pm

          interesting, thanks for that Crusader.

          When i’ve heard Gorka speak, he comes across as a very sharp guy would you’d glad to have on your side.

        • LeftisruiningCanada says

          Jan 20, 2018 at 12:18 pm

          Wow, typing malfunction.

          “he comes across as a very sharp guy you’d be glad to have on your side.”

  7. LeftisruiningCanada says

    Jan 19, 2018 at 10:16 pm

    Where’s Ibrahim?

    Aren’t we the ‘haram’ that ‘boko’ is so against?

    • CRUSADER says

      Jan 20, 2018 at 3:50 am

      Careful not to summon Shaytan.

      We don’t want to have to mitigate Mr Irritates if we don’t have to.

      Much better to keep our minds to what matters most, and not detract from it.

      • LeftisruiningCanada says

        Jan 20, 2018 at 12:19 pm

        Fair enough.

        Just wondered what our main (only?) Nigerian might have to say on the subject…
        But then again, we can’t trust a thing that guys says, so you’re right.

  8. Infidel says

    Jan 20, 2018 at 1:11 am

    Once again .. NO MENTION OF THIS GHASTLY INCIDENT in the MSM all over the world

  9. CRUSADER says

    Jan 20, 2018 at 3:46 am

    Isn’t the MSM now considered (by Rush Limbaugh for sure)
    the “drive-by lame-stream mad-idea” ???? DBLSMI.

  10. Baucent says

    Jan 20, 2018 at 8:09 am

    Nigeria is another “basketcase” state in Africa. Realistically, partition of the country into two new countries, north for Muslims and South for Christians and tribal people, is the best solution. And that is entirely because Muslims (or some of them), will not co-habit with non muslims in a peaceable way.

  11. Prabh108 says

    Jan 20, 2018 at 3:35 pm

    Mutilating genitalia makes persons EXTREMELY VICIOUS AND CRUEL.

    Reproducing with relatives is ABSOLUTELY REPULSIVE. (note I did not use word “procreate” – as procreation is an Arya science whereas deviant demographic warfare is demoniacal) Sterilize mujahideen – truly this is mob of Truth destroying monstrous madmen.

    Aum shanti Aum.

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