“Nearly 500 men and boys have been rescued from a building in the northern city of Kaduna, where the detainees were allegedly sexually abused and tortured.”
Slavery, chaining, beatings and starvation were also reported; the children who suffered were as young as 5. It all happened at an Islamic Center, a fact that BBC readers of the article below have to read far into the story to find out. Yet this alarming fact should have been in the headline and the lead paragraph, as it would have been had it been Christians or Jews committing these atrocities in a synagogue or Church.
France 24, in contrast to the BBC, used this headline: “Nigeria frees more than 300 ‘abused’ students from Islamic School.”
The New York Post reported:
Officers raided the building…. following a tip and found the victims, who were kept in “the most debasing and inhuman conditions in the name of teaching them the Koran and reforming them…The building’s owner told authorities that students had been brought by their families to learn the Quran or because they had problems such as drug addiction….The victims were abused. Some of them said they were sodomized by their teachers.
“Islamic schools in Nigeria have for years been dogged by allegations of abuse and accusations.” Earlier this year, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, said that the Nigerian government planned to “eventually ban the schools, but would not do so immediately.” What he is waiting for?
“Nigerian ‘torture house’: Hundreds freed in Kaduna police raid,” BBC News, September 27, 2019:
Nearly 500 men and boys have been rescued from a building in the northern city of Kaduna, where the detainees were allegedly sexually abused and tortured, Nigerian police said.
Children as young as five were among those in chains at what was thought to be an Islamic school, officers said.
Kaduna police chief Ali Janga told the BBC the building was raided after a tip-off about suspicious activity.
He described it as a “house of torture” and a place of human slavery.
Eight suspects, most of them teachers, were arrested. The police chief said the detainees – some with injuries and starved of food – were overjoyed to be freed.
The detainees said they had been tortured, sexually abused, starved and prevented from leaving – in some cases for several years.
“I have spent three months here with chains on my legs,” Bell Hamza reportedly told Nigerian media.
“This is supposed to be an Islamic centre, but trying to run away from here attracts severe punishment; they tie people and hang them to the ceiling for that.”
Some of the children told police that their relatives had taken them there, believing the building to be a Koranic school.
Two of the children freed by police said their parents had sent them from Burkina Faso. Police believe the rest are mostly from northern Nigeria.
Islamic schools are popular in the region but there have long been allegations of abuse in some schools, and of pupils forced to beg for money on the streets……
Michael Copeland says
Note the BBC’s artful deflection “what was thought to be an Islamic school”.
It proclaimed itself to be an Islamic school. The pupils were sent there to learn Islamic matters.
Keys says
Excellent exposure of the BBC’s subtle deceit !
gravenimage says
Yes–this *was* an Islamic school.
Rufolino says
I was astonished that the BBC chose to feature this story AT ALL !
Olufemi Ogunyipe says
Both the Stalinist gulag and the German 2 World War concentration camps claimed their blueprint from the Mohammedan house of torture. The main difference is that while Stalin and Hitler focused on their perceived enemies, Islam, in addition to non-believers cows its own adherents into submission by crude force.
Jap says
Actually, the Nazis and Russians learned about concentration camps from the British who used them in the Boer war of 1900.
The use of torture etc is purely an Islamic trait used since the inception of Islam.
Humans are very adept at inflicting pain and suffering upon their fellow man.
Some groups take this as something to be proud of as part of their “religion”.
Phil Copson says
“….Actually, the Nazis and Russians learned about concentration camps from the British who used them in the Boer war of 1900….”
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You idiot – try to find out what the word “concentration” means before equating it with Nazi and Communist extermination camps. To “concentrate” means to “gather in one place” – not to torture, sodomize, and exterminate: Harlem famously has a high concentration of black Americans – do you think that means that the US Govt intends exterminating them ?
gravenimage says
Spot on. Phil.
Naram-Sin says
Isn’t Islam wonderful?
Ray Jarman says
Yes it is wonderful. After all it is the religion of peace. Simply living in Nigeria (especially in one of the northern states like Kaduna or Borno) is terrible enough but to be treated in such a horrible condition is horrible and I hope that the perpetrators receive the most harsh of treatment.
somehistory says
““This is supposed to be an Islamic centre” And lo and behold, it is!
Kids are abused by their “teachers” in these “schools” and “centres” all over the world. This one has just been one of the worst to be found out and reported.
Joe says
Several years ago, I was reading about a similar place that was also in Africa. A father’s two oldest sons were killed at the school. Then the father sent his third and last son to the same school. The fate of the third son wasn’t known.
somehistory says
Not much of a “father” was he? There is no love in islam. Nothing to recommend it to anyone, no virtue, no value. Only rape, torture, death and destruction, and this is made evident over and over.
gravenimage says
Here’s something even worse, Joe and Somehistory–some of the parents *knew and approved* of these tortures:
“Mothers of freed kids back Kaduna slave school’s harsh methods, torture”
https://punchng.com/mothers-of-freed-kids-back-kaduna-slave-schools-harsh-methods-torture/
It also sounds as if–unsurprisingly–some of the victims have died.
Ray Jarman says
At least the BBC has reported the tragedy whereas I have seen nothing in print or on the news here in the US. As Christine states, the BBC was less forth coming than the French outlet but better something than the void in America. I am afraid that the press here is afraid of arousing the ire of CAIR or the two Muslim witches (sorry witches, I did not intend to slander you) in Congress or being called racist or Islamophobic.
gravenimage says
Ray, this story has been covered in the US by Fox News, CNN, the New York Times, NBC, CBS, and the New York Post.
Crusades Were Right says
“Islamic school”
If only the REAL lesson here could be learnt by the gate-keepers of the West!
Crusades Were Right says
“BBC”
B olsheviks
B roadcasting
C odswallop
Angemon says
Nothing happens that allah doesn’t will it – terrifying how easy it is, for some, to justify atrocities…
Hugo says
It is typical of the BBC to put all the convenient facts in the title and the first paragraph. Then they repeat. The objective is to make the reader think they’ve got all the info. Politically incorrect information is sneaked in towards the end, after most reader go on to the next article.
gravenimage says
Actually, this is common to all purely news stories–it is called the “inverted pyramid”, where you get the main facts up front and then just details later.
gravenimage says
Nigeria: Hundreds of children and adults freed from “house of torture” Islamic school
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I wonder how many other Muslim houses of horror like this there are?
More:
The victims were abused. Some of them said they were sodomized by their teachers.
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Even here, there are people who mistakenly believe that this is un-Islamic because of the Muslim condemnation of homosexuality. But what Islam hates is consensual same sex relationships–homosexual rape if intended to harm and humiliate is, hideously, mainstream Islam.