“Leah Sharibu is the only one of the Dapchi girls that Boko Haram refused to hand over after negotiations with the Nigerian government, apparently because she refused to renounce her faith and convert to Islam.”
Imagine if a Christian group had kidnapped a Muslim girl and refused to release her because she refused to convert to Christianity — not that that would ever happen. There would be an ongoing international outcry. But you’re likely to hear about this only here.
“Schoolgirls seized by Boko Haram tell of Christian friend’s escape bid,” by Ruth Maclean and Isaac Abrak, Guardian, March 30, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The only Christian among the 110 schoolgirls abducted last month by Boko Haram ran away from her kidnappers but was caught and brought back three days later, according to fellow captives speaking in their first face-to-face interview since they were returned to their families last week.
Leah Sharibu is the only one of the Dapchi girls that Boko Haram refused to hand over after negotiations with the Nigerian government, apparently because she refused to renounce her faith and convert to Islam. She is still held by the group.
Kidnapped by a militant group that has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions across north-east Nigeria and the surrounding region, the girls’ extraordinary bravery shines through their testimony.
Speaking to the Guardian from their homes in Yobe state, the girls who had to leave their friend behind described how Leah and two others escaped together.
“She didn’t tell us she was leaving,” said Aisha Ibiwa. “We thought she was just going round the corner, but she sneaked out along with Maryam and Amira [two classmates].”
After walking for three days, the three hungry and exhausted girls approached a family of the nomadic Fulani people, asking for their help getting home to Dapchi. But instead they were taken straight back to their kidnappers, according to Hajara Adamu, another of Leah’s friends.
“The Fulani man said to them: ‘So you are the missing girls that we’ve heard about on the radio.’ He gave them a jerrycan filled with cow’s milk and brought them back,” Hajara said.
“Leah and her group weren’t flogged. They [Boko Haram] said it was because they had suffered a lot while trying to escape.”
Hajara had worse luck: when she tried to run away, she was whipped. She was frogmarched back to the camp with a gun at her back, after making the mistake of asking some local women for directions.
“They started laughing at us and even insulting us, saying that we wanted to go back to the land of unbelievers,” Hajara said.
They were given 10 strokes each. One girl was beaten with a branch from a thorn tree, before the kidnappers changed to a leather whip. But Hajara and some of her friends had hidden blankets under their hijabs to reduce the impact.
“It wasn’t painful, but we had to pretend it was, but not cry, because they said whoever cried would get twice as many strokes,” she said.
The girls described a terrible journey to get to the Lake Chad region in the days after they were originally abducted, during which they watched some of their friends die, trampled and suffocated to death in the packed truck.
“They were saying: ‘Pull us up or we’ll die,’ but I couldn’t help them,” said Fatima Abdullahi. “They just threw us all into the vehicle, that’s why we were piled up like that. I was lucky that someone pulled me up.”
The girls shouted that some of them were dying, but by the time their kidnappers paid attention, five were dead. They kept driving through the night.
“In the early morning, they dug a hole and put their bodies in it. They didn’t give them an Islamic burial, and they didn’t pray,” Hajara said.
Hiding during the day and moving by night, they drove through scrub, walked up to their necks through water and hiked for hours through forest, before being rowed on wooden canoes to board the biggest boat the girls had ever seen.
Arriving at an area shaded by trees, the girls were told they were in Tabdichadi, which means “water of Lake Chad”. They were in the Lake Chad region, near the border with Cameroon and Chad; herdsmen and travelling traders told local leaders that the girls were in a village called Tumbu Gini.
For the next few weeks they stayed there, watching aircraft circle overhead.
Seemingly back on their own turf, Boko Haram left only two guards to watch over their captives, but a tall, dark-skinned, youngish man with a long beard whom the girls only knew as “the Khalifa” came every week to see them. He would preach to them, the girls said, and reassure them that they would not stay in captivity for long.
“We don’t have any issue with you – our issue is with the government,” Hajara remembered him saying. “They’ve taken our men. Don’t worry, you’ll all go home soon.”
“He’d take off his balaclava and say: ‘You shouldn’t go back to Nigeria. It’s a country of sinners and unbelievers. When you go back, convince your parents to come back here to the Islamic caliphate with you.’”
This man is thought to have been Abu Musab al-Barnawi, who in 2016 was announced as Boko Haram’s new leader by Islamic State, which had apparently had enough of the bloodthirsty tactics of his predecessor Abubakar Shekau against Muslims in the region.
The fact that Leah walked for three days and was still sent back, along with the reference to a caliphate, suggests that Barnawi’s faction holds territory in the Lake Chad region. But the Nigerian government has repeatedly denied this. President Muhammadu Buhari himself remarked this month that Boko Haram “no longer have the capacity to hold a territory and challenge the sovereignty of the state”….
maghan says
The incredible stupidity and lack of intellectual interest in the history and structure of Islam, and the actual life of Muhammad on the part of African Muslims is amazing. Their shameful lack of human empathy is also amazing. Of course, Human Rights Watch would say nothing.
balafama says
the nigerian president is a muslim from same ethnicity as the boko haramites, so there was no negotiation .the president just put the boko haram leader on the phone and said ”wallai,stop being silly and making me look bad, just return the girls ” and inshallah the girls were returned (except leah).
gravenimage says
The returned girls had all been forcibly converted to Islam.
mortimer says
Most Muslims are unaware that FORCIBLE CONVERSION is NORMATIVE Islam, rather than an aberration, since FORCIBLE conversion was practiced by Mohammed himself, and his supposedly ‘perfect’ example thus has the force of LAW in Islam.
Islamic reasoning: If Mohammed committed CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY it must be right, since Mohammed was supposedly divinely guided.
Non-Muslims view the fact that Mohammed committed CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY as prima facie evidence that Mohammed was a false prophet and an opportunistic warlord and that Islam is an extortionist death cult.
maghan says
Buhari is a Fulani while the Boko Haram draws its violent criminals from the unemployed and illiterate among the Kanuri, Hausa, Fulani and other stupidly brainwashed idiots from Northern Nigeria, Chad, etc.
Lydia Church says
I have been praying for Leah, that she remains strong!
Michael Copeland says
She is one remarkably brave girl.
gravenimage says
A *very* brave girl.
John Stefan Obeda says
What a God-pleasing thing to do: to pray for Leah. Yes, God bless her and keep Leah faithful, but let us also pray for all of our Christian brothers and sisters in the faith who are being persecuted and even killed. Let us notify our pastors to do the same with their congregations. “God, please stop these persecutions of Your children and give Your people the love and courage to tell the saving Gospel to Muslim infidels.”
gravenimage says
Agreed, John.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
But according to the story it was not only the Christian girl that was turned back to Boko haram rascals, she was turned back together with other muslim girls and beatened together. Then what does Mr Spencer want tell by refering to the Christian girl ? In fact the whole saga of not releasing the Christian girl by Boko haram is to show that boko haram is fighting christians only as vicious Christian Association have been telling the world , which is not the case as 98% of the victims are Muslims.
gravenimage says
Boko Haram later released the girls who had converted to Islam–thehy did not release Leah Sharibu, who refused to renounce her faith.
Of course, Ibrahim itace muhammed knows this.
Notice that while he calls Boko Haram “rascals”–as though they were naughty schoolboys–he actually has *no* criticism of them kidnapping, raping, and forcibly converting school girls. But then, why would he? He has said before that Muslims can rape Infidels and use them as sex slaves.
maghan says
Why bother with the ravings of a madman bewitched by the to the marrow of his bones by the cruel stupidity of fake religion and its sub-human monster founder.
gravenimage says
Hi, maghan.
I am not replying directly to Ibrahim itace muhammed–or any Muslim troll–for that very reason.
I just parse their bullsh*t for any interested Infidels here.
mortimer says
Ibrahim, YOU LOSE…
Abubakar Shekau says, “THIS WAR IS AGAINST CHRISTIANS. I MEAN CHRISTIANS GENERALLY”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLAKoJYTLfA
Yokel says
@ Ibrahim itace muhammed:
Here we all know that Muslims manage to slaughter more Muslims than the Kuffar does. This is no reason for you to brag how that makes Muslims compassionate to the Kuffar! It just demonstrates how Islam is a filthy evil Religion Of Death. By following this evil, by defending this evil, you are making a ROD for your own back that will condemn you to hell at the end of your days on this earth.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
mithraist christianity is rubbish and evil .you worship the Satan you Call holy spirit Who is the father of all evils. That is why you look like wild animals. Have you jumped with winged gown during Easter to go to heaven like Christian barbarians ï saw doing in Lagos Nigeria where one of them jumped into deep sea water and drowned ? Filthy christianity is funny fit for beasts only, not for rational human beings.
Ralph says
Jesus / Yeshua and the Holy Spirit in the first chapter in the first book of the first part of the bible(the old testament)
Genesis 1:2 – And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Spirit of God = Holy Spirit.
Genesis 1:3 – And God said, Let there be light: and there was light
And God “said” – he spoke = the WORD of God.
John 1:14 – And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,
The word was made flesh – Jesus is the word of God
Genesis 1:36 – And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness
Let “us” make man in “our” image, after “our” likeness. – it is not let “me” make man in “my” image in “my” likeness.
So there is a God “head” JEHOVAH , a God “word” JESUS / Yeshua and a God “Spirit “ HOLY SPIRIT
So to compare , a person has a spirit and voice and these are part of the same person itself.
THREE “parts”, ONE “entity”
Karen says
“suggests that Barnawi’s faction holds territory in the Lake Chad region. But the Nigerian government has repeatedly denied this. President Muhammadu Buhari himself remarked this month that Boko Haram “no longer have the capacity to hold a territory and challenge the sovereignty of the state”….”
Oh, that does induce a hearty good laugh. Yes, President Buhari, a Muslim, has no idea where Boko Haram might be hiding out, in fact, they really aren’t a thing any more. LOL. I have a bridge in Brooklyn you might be interested in. Reminds me of all the protestations about how Pakistan didn’t know that Osama bin Laden was right under their noses, along with the good folks at al Jazeera, who got regular communications from him.
Jenny H says
Osama bin Laden was a neighbour to the Academy where Pakistan trained it’s future military leaders. (Off topic but, I’m so glad President Trump cut funding to Pakistan.)
These girls situation reminds of part of the experience of Jews in Europe in World War II, who, if they tried to escape the nazis, would be sometimes betrayed by the locals, who were also anti-semites.
Karen says
Yes, excellent analogy. Sadly, these people have acted just like Nazi collaborators.
gravenimage says
Nigeria: Muslim family returned escaped Christian girl to jihadi captors
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Utterly horrifying–but this does not surprise. The average Muslim supports Jihadists–including these kidnappers and rapists of schoolgirls. *Ugh*.
Chantal says
Absolutely correct: “the average muslim supports jihadists”. When will the liberals put that in their heads, the stupid head of theirs.
Yokel says
And this is what we can expect to happen throughout Western countries when the mosques send out the signal that now is the time to slaughter the kuffar. They will ALL be against us for the jihadi will slaughter them just as easily as the Kuffar.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
Baucent says
More evidence the Fulani cattle herders are working closely with Boko Haram. Oh, and President Buhari is also a Fulani.
gravenimage says
They are all pious Muslims.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Satan (holy spirit) worshiper Gravenimage, you mean boko haram rascals deviating from sharia are pious ? No Wonder, you consider churchmen having anus and vaginal sex with Kids under their care as pious mithraist christians
I AM THE INFIDEL YOUR IMAM WARNED YOU ABOUT says
Ibrahim itace muhammed
Why don’t you crawl up muhammad’s black hairy arse and die in there. But then again, we laugh at your uneducated and stupid banter. You do amuse us all here.
mary says
You seem to be confused. The Roman Catholic Church is not a Christ following group. They follow the pope instead. In fact, his title “vicar of Christ” means substitute for Christ. They preach many doctrines of man instead of following Biblical doctrines.
Catholic clergy do abuse children, this is well known… they also hide behind the name of Christ, and believe me, they will regret this for all eternity. You have no business feeling superior though, as your cult is well known for all manner of dangerous perversions, such as bachi bazi… and also the taking of multiple sex slaves. (Great way to pass around sexually transmitted diseases, by the way.) As well as marrying underage girls…. whose bodies are simply not ready for sex, let alone for childbirth, followed by properly caring for an infant.
Which brings me to another point… intermarriage between close relatives greatly increases the risks of genetic defects, and even infant deaths. Do some research on that sometime. Be sure to look at the pictures, as well as the statistics.
gravenimage says
The grotesque Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
Satan (holy spirit) worshiper Gravenimage, you mean boko haram rascals deviating from sharia are pious ?
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Note that Ibrahim itace muhammed has *never* said in what way Boko Haram is deviating from Shari’ah. In fact, he has lauded everything they do–kidnapping and raping Infidels and using them as sex slaves, and slaughtering non-Muslims.
He does not actually disagree with anything Boko Haram does–he just considers them members of a rival Jihad group.
More:
No Wonder, you consider churchmen having anus and vaginal sex with Kids under their care as pious mithraist christians
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Where to start? *Everything* in this sentence is a lie. I have never condoned *anyone* raping children, as he well knows. What utter calumny.
Then, he has claimed that there are passages in the Bible telling Christian churchmen to abuse children in this manner, which is utterly false.
This is nothing but projection. Ibrahim itace muhammed has himself said that Muslims have the right to “marry” and deflower little children, no matter how young.
Finally, I have debunked his claims that Christianity is “Mithraist” many times, as have others. He continues to make these ludicrous claims, though.
That he has to lie constantly just shows that this foul Muslim has no rational arguments to make.
Kim Bruce says
Islam is much worse than Nazism…what a story.
mortimer says
Boko Haram Dropout Mustapha Omar says BOKO HARAM is a CULT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAhDniaExjU
mortimer says
Ibrahaim, Boko Haram is a cult that uses magic to TAKE OVER THE SOULS of its followers and make them KILLER ZOMBIES.
Ibrahim, are you a killer zombie?
WPM says
Ibrahaim is a demented hipster on his moms computer in the basement getting a raise out of us here on Jihad watch .He poses as a semiliterate Africa Moslem spouting the same nonsense every day.
1-evil Devil Trump
2-bad smelling Christians
3-focus with on male foreskins ,or the smells of female genitalia
4-evil Jewish plots everywhere
5-everything is connected to sex some how??
6-Every Islamic terrorist acts or groups connected by a non Islamic groups controlling them somehow ?—- pick one
A-Evil Jewish plots
B-Evil Devil Trump
C-Evil America {CIA,Government,ect}
D-Evil Christians
E-Evil Hindus
7-Never explains why a non Islamic groups would want acts of terror perform against them by Islamic groups or how or why could be- “Jewish magic” or “Christian Holy Spirit Magic” or “some unknown Hindu god” they use to pull off the trick !
8- Has a very strange fear of the “Holy Spirit” he seems to feel it will jump from under his bed or out of his closet and capture his soul
9- Every responds he writes has to mention “mithraist Christians’ in it .
I can picture a sad white kid, college drop out of 23 to 30 years old squeezing his black heads on his back as he types up his daily blogs on moms computer in the basement before going off to his shift at local gas station or fast food joint in rust belt America.
maghan says
Then the sex-obsessed pervert then pulls down a porn site then masturbates. What a pathetic low IQ idiot.
The largest percentage of porn site hits are from Arab and Muslim countries. They even love watching animal porn sites too. They are all degenerate–given the genetics of their spawning.
gravenimage says
WPM, pious Jihadists *do* exist. They are not just made up by Infidels.
Asally says
@mary:
There are abusers in every religious group and every race as well. Of course there has been abuse in the Catholic church, but I know FOR A FACT that it has occurred in every other Christian denomination and non-denomination as well, perhaps yours. The difference is that the Christian religion does not encourage or condone it. Islam does precisely that. If you happen to call yourself a “Christian”, please don’t conflate clerics who misbehave with a religious doctrine that sanctions misbehavior. Your kind of “Christian”, if such you be, is part of the problem. We have a very serious common enemy, whether we are Catholic, Lutheran, LDS, Jewish or whatever. It simply won’t do for us to fight among ourselves as to which is the “holiest” of us all. Clearly YOU aren’t. Get your priorities straight. This story is about a Christian girl who is still in captivity because she did not accept Islam. Sounds like a better Christian than you.
gravenimage says
Agreed.
ninetyninepct says
Remember peoplekind, this is the very same Nigeria that is supported by Quebec and the Canadian Liberals. Quebec intentionally buys a lot of it’s crude oil from Nigeria and we expect that most of that money goes to these Muslim killers.
Congratulations to Quebec for supporting the religion of peace.
maghan says
No, most of that money is simply stolen–shamelessly by coteries of lazy, fat–all hiding their huge guts under rolls of copious clothing–and amorally corrupt politicians. Nigerian politicians in Abuja, Nigeria are the world’s highest paid politicians. They drag down at least $70,000/month. That’s where part of the “black gold” there.
The greedy and corrupt politicians then dump their ill-gotten gains in foreign banks in places like Dubai and other recondite Gulf monetary nooks. Some prefer “closer to home” and hide their stolen cash in hidden wood-sheds, etc. End result: huge mansions, hotels, the most expensive cars, stables of well-maintained concubines, etc. While in the Islamic belt of Nigeria, beggars and invalids swarm, and rich politicians driving by in their arrogant convoys show little mercy.