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May 07, 2014

Boko Haram Kidnaps Another Large Group of Schoolgirls For Sale as Slaves
— Ace

The government is being accused of inaction, which it denies. 200 girls were kidnapped earlier; the group proudly declares it plans to sell them into sexual slavery. (That quote later, and it's a corker.)

They've now kidnapped another eight girls.

The US has offered investigatory aid, which Nigeria has accepted.

But even as the help was offered to Jonathan, new details were emerging about the abduction of at least eight girls between the ages of 12 and 15, who were snatched Sunday night from the village of Warabe.
The village is located in the rural northeast, near the border of Cameroon, an area considered a stronghold for Boko Haram, a group that U.S. officials say has received training from al Qaeda affiliates.
Villagers in Warabe told CNN that gunmen moved from door-to-door late Sunday, snatching the girls and beating anybody who tried to stop them.
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The United States has branded Boko Haram a terror organization and has put a $7 million bounty on the group's elusive leader, Abubakar Shekau.

"Boko Haram" is translated as "Western education is sin." The actual etymology, I read, goes like this: The Western alphabet, taught to many Africans, is called "Boko," which is believed to be derived from "book." Thus, "Boko" (Western alphabet) "Haram" (sinful, forbidden).

I think that's a contested etymology though.

I prefer to translate it as "Learning is Sin," which more accurately sums up this cult Medieval sociopathic savagery.

A man claiming to be Shekau [the Boko Haram leader, upon whose head is laid a $7 million bounty -- ace] appeared in a video announcing he would sell his victims. The video was first obtained Monday by Agence-France Presse.
"I abducted your girls. I will sell them in the market, by Allah," he said, according to a CNN translation from the local Hausa language. "There is a market for selling humans. Allah says I should sell. He commands me to sell. I will sell women. I sell women."
In the nearly hourlong, rambling video, Shekau repeatedly called for an end to Western education.
"Girls, you should go and get married," he said.

More: Eight girls were abducted, but witnesses say 125 people were murdered in the attack.

Translated from French:

Boko Haram Attack: At Least 125 Killed
The attack led Monday by the Islamists of Boko Haram in a town in the northwest of Nigeria near the Cameroon border has left at least 125 victims.
The attackers, wearing camouflage fatigues, had opened fire on the town market before setting fire to houses and vehicles. Some of the victims had had their throats slit.

I know they switch from "deaths" to "victims/casualties" and I'm not sure if that represents a walk-back or not. The original headline claimed close to 300 dead, a claim they seem to have walked back from.

"Uncatchable:" Frumious Bandersnatch mentions and translates this article from the Frankfurt Allgemaine Zeitung (FAZ). The writer seems intensely skeptical of the government's claim that it just can't find Boko Haram.

Boko Haram appears uncatchable. That is already astonishing because the native region of influence of the terrorists, the states of Borno and Yobe, are expansive, but not expansive enough that they should be able to move around with 223 hostages and armored vehicles without being noticed by more than 20,000 soldiers.

See pages 2 and 3 for a very interesting (and alarming) recap of Boko Haram's history, and speculation as to whether the terrorist group is being used/supported by various factions in the Muslim-held north.

Posted by: Ace at 08:44 AM | Comments (482)
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1 first?

Posted by: mallfly at May 07, 2014 08:45 AM (bJm7W)

This is one instance where I would favor a military strike. Go in there with special forces and kill all the kidnappers. Cover them in the blood of swine and leave their corpses on pikes to rot in the jungle heat.

Pour encourager les autres.

Posted by: Sam In VA at May 07, 2014 08:46 AM (Q52VH)

3 So what you're saying is that right-wing religious conservatives hate women and want them to be barefoot and pregnant? These guys are almost as bad as Mitt Romney!

Posted by: Media ProgTards at May 07, 2014 08:46 AM (ZPrif)

4 Does Boko Haram also want to ban tampons?

Posted by: LIV at May 07, 2014 08:47 AM (RYQAM)

5 Fucking savages.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at May 07, 2014 08:48 AM (4ULxU)

6 Boko Haram is against contraceptives, aren't they?

Posted by: EC at May 07, 2014 08:48 AM (GQ8sn)

7
Disgusting animals, hopefully a drone hits a certain vehicle soon.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 07, 2014 08:48 AM (hJauc)

8 Ace- Sorry to be off topic here but I just read your "Person of Interest" post from yesterday which called to mind another post from last week you did on AI (I think). You should check out Singularity (the book by Ray Kurzweil, 2005) on the topic of technology and AI and its implications. For a quick review of the concept of Singularity take a read of the wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity There is also a Singularity hub website that follows this field and concept. I think you might appreciate it.

Posted by: scofflawx at May 07, 2014 08:48 AM (y9ZJX)

9 It's hard to comment on pure evil. Yup, there it is. Pure evil.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at May 07, 2014 08:49 AM (JtwS4)

10 >Posted by: Sam In VA at May 07, 2014 12:46 PM (Q52VH)<

I'm with you. I gotta believe this is a mission everyone could get get behind.

Posted by: Muad'dib at May 07, 2014 08:49 AM (sjdRT)

11 This is a real war on women, folks. And as a father of five girls, the sooner these beasts are castrated with dull rusty knives, the better.

Posted by: Virginia Socon at May 07, 2014 08:49 AM (+/C3g)

12 nothing else to say, since a google search turned up "No results found for sharpton +boko haram." and if Rev Al has nothing to say then who am I to comment? by the way, got a "Sign Hillary's Mother's Day card' email today. How touching. I expect to shortly receive a "Send a smoke signal to Elizabeth Warren for Mother's Day" message

Posted by: mallfly at May 07, 2014 08:49 AM (bJm7W)

13 On a serious note, it's interesting that these savages seem mainly to operate in the most remote northern areas of Nigeria. Nigeria is half Muslim, so they aren't even able to operate openly among their co-religionists. Nigeria does seem destined to split up. Half-muslim, half-Christian does not make for a peaceful country. Ask Lebanon. But unlike Lebanon, the Nigerian Christians aren't surrounded by muzzies. Plenty of reinforcements on both side. Muzzies have the north, Christians have the south.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 07, 2014 08:49 AM (ZPrif)

14 They may be scumbag slavers, but they might have a point regarding the whole "letting women drive and vote" thing.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at May 07, 2014 08:50 AM (SY2Kh)

15 "Learning Is Sin" also translates as "Kommon Kore."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 07, 2014 08:50 AM (CMkNk)

16 So there has been no "If I had a daughter" ad lib from Barry? Nah, bro.

Posted by: DM at May 07, 2014 08:50 AM (rRol4)

17 The first mass kidnapping took place 23 days ago. What changed in the last three weeks such Teh Won decided to do something? Schools filled with children and churches filled with Christians have been murdered for heaven knows how long by these animals but only now does the US lift a finger?

Oh, wait. I know......look! there! a squirrel!

Posted by: eureka! at May 07, 2014 08:50 AM (GPlyy)

18 Now, is it just girls they're selling?

Posted by: Dairy Heed at May 07, 2014 08:50 AM (CGjum)

19 The DUmmie Underground can't seem to discover what religion these Boko Haram fellas might belong to. At least that's what I gather from their coverage. Must be Mormons.

Posted by: Citizen X at May 07, 2014 08:50 AM (7ObY1)

20 some shit about all cultures being equally valid

Posted by: fluffy at May 07, 2014 08:51 AM (Ua6T/)

21 Procol Harum = "Whiter Shade of Pale" Boko Haram = "Blacker Shade of I KEEEEEL YOU!!!!!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 07, 2014 08:51 AM (CMkNk)

President Goodluck Jonathan has been under fire over accusations the government initially ignored and then later downplayed the abduction of the girls, who have become the focal point of a social media campaign demanding their safe return.

Many of my friends are Facebooking about this, so we have that going for us.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at May 07, 2014 08:51 AM (JtwS4)

23 17 You forgot to change your nic to "Vox Day", but other than that, it was a respectable parody. 7/10

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at May 07, 2014 08:51 AM (4ULxU)

24 The people doing the snatching, they have sisters and daughters of their own. They can't do this for long without being haunted by the looks on the girls' faces.

Posted by: m at May 07, 2014 08:52 AM (2AqeI)

25 Allah says I should sell. Damn those racist, Presbyterian Tea-partiers for causing this.

Posted by: The cocaine infused spirit of Rachael Maddow at May 07, 2014 08:52 AM (MbqmP)

26 HELLO MY FRIEND!!!!

Posted by: Boko Haram at May 07, 2014 08:52 AM (GQ8sn)

27 Religion of peace strikes again!

Posted by: njcon at May 07, 2014 08:52 AM (lHBiK)

28 can't be Mormons, they're racists and don't let Blacks in.

Posted by: mallfly at May 07, 2014 08:52 AM (bJm7W)

29 Goodluck Jonathan was my favorite Eighties sitcom. Oh, those humorous comic misunderstandings!

Posted by: Citizen X at May 07, 2014 08:52 AM (7ObY1)

30 Go fuck yourself with a rusty mace, Hollowpoint.

Posted by: HR at May 07, 2014 08:52 AM (/kI1Q)

31 I'm amazed Nigeria has lasted this long. They have this informal BS where a the Christians and Muzzies take turns having the Presidency. And Goodluck Jonathon is clearly an idiot. Why does he dress like he's the mayor of Detroit?

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 07, 2014 08:53 AM (ZPrif)

32 What's the hashtag I should use serious you guys?

Posted by: LIV at May 07, 2014 08:53 AM (RYQAM)

33 A three month hunting expedition could end this.

Posted by: toby928© at May 07, 2014 08:53 AM (QupBk)

34 Maybe the State Department could create a scolding hashtag ...

Posted by: Adriane... at May 07, 2014 08:53 AM (yBC4q)

35 Sam in VA, Muad'dib, I don't know if I agree. While I would love for these monsters to be captured, justice done, and the girls freed, missions like these often have a way of spiraling into larger and larger engagements. A true mission creep. And let's face it, sex slavery is going on all over Asia, and at higher levels than in Nigeria. The manner of these kidnappings, though, is what has caught our attention (rightly, too).

Posted by: Virginia Socon at May 07, 2014 08:54 AM (+/C3g)

36 Is it wrong to pray for some smiting?

Posted by: Mama AJ at May 07, 2014 08:54 AM (SUKHu)

37 The Nigerian government should declare them outlaws, and announce that any citizen who kills a member will not be prosecuted.

Posted by: rickl at May 07, 2014 08:55 AM (zoehZ)

38 "I prefer to translate it as "Learning is Sin," which more accurately sums up this cult Medieval sociopathic savagery." In English, Boko Haram also translates to "Democratic Party."

Posted by: The Party of Science ! at May 07, 2014 08:55 AM (uN4Ye)

39 Is this Boko Haram guy a friend of Ben Ghazi?

Posted by: The LIVs at May 07, 2014 08:55 AM (7ObY1)

40 "There is a market for selling humans." Really? There is? Forget about the specifics of Boko Haram. The real revelation here is that in the Islamic world, in 2014, there is a "market" for selling slave girls. Like, it's a standard thing. Sure one could argue that Western pedophiles might have some diabolical underground sex-slave market, but personally I think that's a conspiracy theory, and second, it's so far underground and so illegal it's beyond the pale of society. But in Islam? 21st century Islam? Slave markets!

Posted by: zombie at May 07, 2014 08:55 AM (mizYg)

41 There's a special section of Hell waiting on these savages.

Posted by: shredded chi at May 07, 2014 08:55 AM (MNe+h)

42 27 The people doing the snatching, they have sisters and daughters of their own. They can't do this for long without being haunted by the looks on the girls' faces. Posted by: m at May 07, 2014 12:52 PM (2AqeI) Tell that to the guys who dumped Zyklon B into the gas chambers and then went home to their wives and kids just outside the wire. Tell that to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed who sawed Daniel Pearl's head off with a rusty hacksaw, or that piece of shit who sliced off the head of that 6 year old French girl as she went to school.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 07, 2014 08:55 AM (CMkNk)

43 re 27: Rudolf Hoess, the Auschwitz commandant, had his family living at the camp.

Posted by: mallfly at May 07, 2014 08:55 AM (bJm7W)

44 Many of my friends are Facebooking about this, so we have that going for us.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at May 07, 2014 12:51 PM (JtwS4)

You'll know it is serious when the State Dept. starts dropping hashtags on their heads.

Posted by: tbodie at May 07, 2014 08:56 AM (Z2OIC)

45 They didn't happen to kidnap any young boys did they? Just asking. Oh yeah, I've got $12 laying around here somewhere. The Koch brothers made me a pederast.

Posted by: Hairy Reid at May 07, 2014 08:56 AM (GgPam)

46 Ace, you left out the most important part of the CNN piece. The problem is already being solved as we speak:

But it is the abductions of girls that has spawned the biggest outrage, with a #BringBackOurGirls campaign that initially began on Twitter and then quickly spread with demonstrators taking to the streets over the weekend in major cities around the world to demand action.

With the Tweets aligned against them, how can the slavers hope to prevail?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 07, 2014 08:56 AM (IN7k+)

47 So, are the girls the kidnapped Christian or muzzie? Cause the village was in the north, which is mostly muslim. Is Obama finally responding to this atrocity because Boko Haram is attacking other muslims for not being muzzie enough?

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 07, 2014 08:56 AM (ZPrif)

48 It's Bo-KOCH Haram.

Posted by: Harry Reid at May 07, 2014 08:57 AM (zV/ZT)

49 >Posted by: Virginia Socon at May 07, 2014 12:54 PM (+/C3g)<

My understanding is that this particular group is widely despised in the Muslim community in Nigeria. I think that would mitigate the possibility of the mission creep you mention. But I would totally agree that no plan survives contact with the enemy.

Posted by: Muad'dib at May 07, 2014 08:57 AM (sjdRT)

50 Gee, when they were just slaughtering Christians it didn't seem to bother anyone too muchÂ—no hashtags! We can only hope our hashtag diplomacy works this time.

Posted by: Hadoop at May 07, 2014 08:57 AM (Ph479)

51 >>The people doing the snatching, they have sisters and daughters of their own. They can't do this for long without being haunted by the looks on the girls' faces.
Posted by: m at May 07, 2014 12:52 PM (2AqeI)<<

You mean the female family members they hunt down and murder and call it "honor killing"?

Posted by: Sphynx at May 07, 2014 08:57 AM (OZmbA)

Gosh, do you suppose the Lefties are waking up to the notion that radical Islam actually IS a global threat to human decency?

Wow, in a decade or two they may come to realize that waging war on these retrograde terrorists is a worthy endeavor, not something that should generate knee-jerk protest marches.

Posted by: stuiec at May 07, 2014 08:57 AM (eetvJ)

53 Anyone that'd help would be beaten, huh? If only there were some sort of device that could be used to even up the odds. But, it'd have be small, like maybe fit in a hand.

Posted by: Chupacabras at May 07, 2014 08:57 AM (CGjum)

54 The people doing the snatching, they have sisters and daughters of their own. They can't do this for long without being haunted by the looks on the girls' faces. Your joking, right? The Eastern Med has been doing this for millenaria.

Posted by: toby928© at May 07, 2014 08:57 AM (QupBk)

55 Clearly what's needed is to flood the zone over there with Twitter messages, some cutting edge late night talk show jokes (possibly riffing off of Mad Men), that egg-painting chick, an Instagram selfie from Meggie Mac, and start handing out "This is what a feminist looks like" T-shirts to the young guys over there.

Posted by: B at May 07, 2014 08:58 AM (twiRb)

56 yes but do not forget that the Hollywood bozos are boycotting the west Beverly hotel because of GHEY MARRIAGE!!!

Posted by: fromabroad at May 07, 2014 08:58 AM (rnV3B)

57 I read somewhere else they are willing to give the girls back for some amount of ransom money. Call me cynical but the way goodluck Johnson and his soldiers have handled this it seems like they are a wee bit sympathetic to the bad guys. Johnson lied and said all but a few girls were rescued at first. Also the military was notified but they did not arrive to help defend the school. Only something like 15 soldiers were there against 200 men. The soldiers ran out of bullets.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at May 07, 2014 08:58 AM (+0txR)

58 A nation of Zeta Males and Idiocracy stand-ins, waiting for hashtags to save the world. We are so fucked. Well and truly.

Posted by: Citizen X at May 07, 2014 08:58 AM (7ObY1)

Sure one could argue that Western pedophiles might have some diabolical underground sex-slave market, but personally I think that's a conspiracy theory, and second, it's so far underground and so illegal it's beyond the pale of society.

I think it's pretty well documented that a lot of young vulnerable East European hotties end up working in the Western sex trade against their will.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at May 07, 2014 08:58 AM (JtwS4)

60 In addition to kidnapping and enslaving these girls, they've also attacked schools and mass murdered boys on multiple occasions. It seems that sex slavery is just a side business to being all-around savages.

Posted by: Virginia Socon at May 07, 2014 08:58 AM (+/C3g)

61 53 It's Bo-KOCH Haram. Posted by: Harry Reid Rimshot!

Posted by: zombie at May 07, 2014 08:58 AM (mizYg)

62 39 I agree. I don't see how this is the US's problem.

Posted by: Titanium at May 07, 2014 08:58 AM (MyTHP)

63 Did they run out of goats?

Posted by: ALH at May 07, 2014 08:58 AM (yAPdC)

64 What's the market value on these young ladies? ...asking for a friend.

Posted by: Bob Menendez (D) at May 07, 2014 08:59 AM (zV/ZT)

65 If only there were some sort of device that could be used to even up the odds. But, it'd have be small, like maybe fit in a hand.

Posted by: Chupacabras at May 07, 2014 12:57 PM (CGjum)

With a shoulder thingy.

That goes up.

Posted by: EC at May 07, 2014 08:59 AM (GQ8sn)

66 27 The people doing the snatching, they have sisters and daughters of their own. They can't do this for long without being haunted by the looks on the girls' faces.

Posted by: m at May 07, 2014 12:52 PM (2AqeI)

No worries: if they find the looks on the girls' faces defiant or unhappy, they will just cut off the girls' noses or gouge out their eyes.

Posted by: stuiec at May 07, 2014 08:59 AM (eetvJ)

67 If hashtags don't do the trick, surely some giant papier-mache heads will.

Posted by: Citizen X at May 07, 2014 08:59 AM (7ObY1)

68 The people doing the snatching, they have sisters and daughters of their own. ---- It's nice to think this way, but it hardly matters. They have sold their own daughters and sisters, too, and/or raped them themselves. It's hard to get your brain around how these extremists see women and girls. They are literally not human in their view.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at May 07, 2014 08:59 AM (4ULxU)

And.....

Posted by: Adriane... at May 07, 2014 12:53 PM (yBC4q)

And.........

Posted by: LIV at May 07, 2014 12:53 PM (RYQAM)

And probably others - beat me to in.

Posted by: tbodie at May 07, 2014 08:59 AM (Z2OIC)

70 "Gosh, do you suppose the Lefties are waking up to the notion that radical Islam actually IS a global threat to human decency?" no, they only care about gheys not being able to marry in islam. The moment a branch of islam allows ghey marriage, then it will be fine and dandy and the muslims will be able to go on mutilating females

Posted by: fromabroad at May 07, 2014 09:00 AM (rnV3B)

71 it, not in.

Posted by: tbodie at May 07, 2014 09:00 AM (Z2OIC)

72 According to what I read the girls are a mix of Christian and Muslim.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at May 07, 2014 09:00 AM (+0txR)

73 Seems like the Koran is the only Boko involved here.

Posted by: t-bird at May 07, 2014 09:00 AM (FcR7P)

74 69 What's the market value on these young ladies?

...asking for a friend.

Posted by: Bob Menendez (D) at May 07, 2014 12:59 PM (zV/ZT)

Some reports put it well under US$10. Cheap.

Posted by: stuiec at May 07, 2014 09:00 AM (eetvJ)

75 Ok, most of the original group of girls kidnapped were Christian. It was a Christian boarding school for girls. It did accept non-Christian girls, though. But 90% were Christian.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 07, 2014 09:00 AM (ZPrif)

76 We should hand out FP-45 liberator pistols to as many villagers as we can. Not a good weapon for offensive terror. But it would strike terror into the boko guys each time they went through a door on these kidnapping raids.

http://liberatorpistol.com/

Posted by: Buzzsaw at May 07, 2014 09:00 AM (81UWZ)

77 27 The people doing the snatching, they have sisters and daughters of their own. They can't do this for long without being haunted by the looks on the girls' faces. Were the 9/11 murderers all childless orphans?

Posted by: Citizen X at May 07, 2014 09:00 AM (7ObY1)

78 But what about us?

Posted by: Binders full of women at May 07, 2014 09:00 AM (NF2Bf)

79 Anon Y. Mouse, yep. But this is so outrageous I understand people's desire to just "Do Something," even if it's trivial and symbolic.

Posted by: ace at May 07, 2014 09:01 AM (/FnUH)

80 "Medieval" doesn't fit, since the medieval period was actually quite civilized: this is barbaric.

Posted by: Bubba at May 07, 2014 09:01 AM (yM/0C)

81 Western education is sin if it advocates racism, cisnormative gender prejudices, Islamophobia, environmental or social injustice, or unregulated capitalism. Our culture must not contaminate more natural ones. I cannot handle this today. I think I am going out in the garden with a couple bottles of locally grown fair trade sustainable agriculture organic red wine and try to forget you horrible people exist to inconvenience our beloved President.

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, VT at May 07, 2014 09:01 AM (IHK0Z)

82 Damn organizations creatin' havoc up in this bitch. -TFG

Posted by: RWC at May 07, 2014 09:01 AM (fWAjv)

83 75 "Gosh, do you suppose the Lefties are waking up to the notion that radical Islam actually IS a global threat to human decency?" No. The Lefty blog coverage is missing one tiny little detail about Boko Haram. I bet you can guess what it is.

Posted by: Citizen X at May 07, 2014 09:01 AM (7ObY1)

75 fromabroad

I fear you're right.

Posted by: stuiec at May 07, 2014 09:01 AM (eetvJ)

85 A Nigerian evangelist said that most of the 200 plus schoolgirls kidnapped by terrorist group Boko Haram are Christians, which he says is further evidence of the militant Islamists' specific targeting of followers of Christ. "Chibok local government is 90% Christian. Majority of the girls abducted are Christian! Why did Boko Haram visit Chibok local government? Why didn't they visit so many other local government girls secondary schools in Borno State?" asked Evangelist Matthew Owojaiye of the Old Time Revival Hour Church in Kaduna, who compiled a list of 180 kidnapped girls who have been identified, International Christian Concern shared. Of those, Owojaiye identified that 163 are Christian girls, and 15 are Muslims. On Monday, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau admitted that his group is responsible for the kidnapping of over 200 girls from Chibok, Borno State last month, and said that he plans to have them sold on the market.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 07, 2014 09:01 AM (ZPrif)

86 >>> It's nice to think this way, but it hardly matters. They have sold their own daughters and sisters, too, and/or raped them themselves. It's hard to get your brain around how these extremists see women and girls. They are literally not human in their view. ... yeah, that's it, they really don't view them as human. They are chattel that walk on two legs and have sex organs. That's all.

Posted by: ace at May 07, 2014 09:02 AM (/FnUH)

87 It the US's problem because these monsters aren't going to stop with raiding villages. They see their ultimate purpose in life to stop women everywhere from becoming anything other than faceless sex slaves.

Posted by: Lauren at May 07, 2014 09:02 AM (ejehg)

88 See, this is where a drone strike is warranted.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at May 07, 2014 09:02 AM (0Jb7F)

89 The world will not even begin to be marginally safe until Islam is wiped off the face of the earth. And then we can work on the other side of that coin, the secular totalitarians.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 07, 2014 09:02 AM (CMkNk)

90 Not to make light of the girls' horrifying predicament -- but I'd be a lot better off if I could stop thinking that this group recorded "Whiter Shade of Pale."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 07, 2014 09:03 AM (QVyxQ)

91 And the House of Saud? all the Islamic Potentates in the current Mideast? Iran? Iraq? Just what in the hell are THEY doing to stop this??? /crickets Until Islam cleans up its own act... we should not do business with them... Russia.... China... and the US... all have Islamic problems.... think about it.... The enemy of my enemy is not my friend... but could be an momentary ally.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 07, 2014 09:03 AM (84gbM)

92 What the African Christian community needs is their own proactive Vlad the Impaler.

Posted by: Sphynx at May 07, 2014 09:03 AM (OZmbA)

93 I think it's pretty well documented that a lot of young vulnerable East European hotties end up working in the Western sex trade against their will. Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch Well of course it's well-known that Eastern European girls end up trapped in prostitution in London and Paris and so forth. But that's not the same thing as there being "slave markets," and also most of the unhappy prostitutes are over 18 and got tricked into taking "jobs" in the west. Not downplaying the awful pimp/transnational prostitution scene, but it's not at the same level of blatant savagery as kidnapping children for sex slavery.

Posted by: zombie at May 07, 2014 09:03 AM (mizYg)

94 I'm proud to announce that the State Department has taken swift action and developed a #Hashtag to deal with this matter. Going forward, please attach #BringBackOurGirls to your tweets, and let's teach Boko Haram an important lesson about the #PowerOfHashtags. #Thankyou for your #support.

Posted by: Jen Psaki at May 07, 2014 09:03 AM (2jQGY)

95 They are chattel that walk on two legs and have sex organs. Soon to be mutilated sex organs.

Posted by: garrett at May 07, 2014 09:03 AM (zV/ZT)

96 95 Not to make light of the girls' horrifying predicament -- but I'd be a lot better off if I could stop thinking that this group recorded "Whiter Shade of Pale." Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 07, 2014 01:03 PM (QVyxQ) See me at #24Â…

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 07, 2014 09:04 AM (CMkNk)

97 27 The people doing the snatching, they have sisters and daughters of their own. They can't do this for long without being haunted by the looks on the girls' faces. Posted by: m at May 07, 2014 12:52 PM (2AqeI) Ummm, honor killings for being raped come to mind.

Posted by: RWC at May 07, 2014 09:04 AM (fWAjv)

98 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at May 07, 2014 09:04 AM (PYAXX)

99 no, they only care about gheys not being able to marry in islam. They don't care about that at all. They care only about The Enemy: us and all that we stand for.

Posted by: t-bird at May 07, 2014 09:04 AM (FcR7P)

100 No. The Lefty blog coverage is missing one tiny little detail about Boko Haram.

I bet you can guess what it is.

Posted by: Citizen X at May 07, 2014 01:01 PM (7ObY1)

One of my (real-life) friends objected to my Facebook post pointing out that Boko Haram is an Islamicist terror movement. "Why aren't we simply treating this as the crime it is, instead of using it to promote an anti-Islam agenda?"

I like the guy, but on this he is Lefty-blind.

Posted by: stuiec at May 07, 2014 09:04 AM (eetvJ)

101 It's worse than that,ace They view women not only as chattel, but also as evil and corrupting. They don't just dehumanize us. They hate and fear us.

Posted by: Lauren at May 07, 2014 09:04 AM (ejehg)

102 Dude, that was like, last week! Move on.

Posted by: Hadoop at May 07, 2014 09:04 AM (Ph479)

103 Can we airdrop Jay Leno and the Beverly Hilton protestors into Lagos?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 07, 2014 09:04 AM (CMkNk)

104 OT but did anyone see this. It's a crowdsourcing website trying to make a movie about the local story in Philadelphia of the baby murderer Kermit Gosnell...

http://tinyurl.com/n8xyvgd

Posted by: TImon at May 07, 2014 09:05 AM (kAniV)

105 Part of me wants to start a charity which specializes in arming/teaching Nigerian/Congo/etc. communities to defend themselves from warlords and Islamic monsters. Forget "mosquito nets." MOAR RPGs for the good guys.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at May 07, 2014 09:05 AM (PYAXX)

106 We should hand out FP-45 liberator pistols to as many villagers as we can. Not a good weapon for offensive terror. But it would strike terror into the boko guys each time they went through a door on these kidnapping raids. I doubt that terrorists with AK-47s are going to be terrified by a single-shot pistol with an effective range best measured in inches.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at May 07, 2014 09:05 AM (SY2Kh)

107 The savages attacked the school cause it was a Christian school. They probably had no idea that a small minority of the girls were muslim. It's common in Nigeria for Christian girls to wear head scarves, too.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 07, 2014 09:05 AM (ZPrif)

108 >>>It's worse than that,ace They view women not only as chattel, but also as evil and corrupting. They don't just dehumanize us. They hate and fear us. right. They hate women so much that, despite being toxically anti-homosexual, they actually have sex with boys because boysex isn't "wicked."

Posted by: ace at May 07, 2014 09:05 AM (/FnUH)

109 I believe Boko Haram roughly translates as "burn us with fire until not one of us is left".

Posted by: Marcus T at May 07, 2014 09:06 AM (GGCsk)

110

Just read a piece in the FAZ (krautish).

Boko Haram massacred an entire village last week, Gamburu Ngala on the Cameroon border. An armored column appeared and set upon the village, killing at least 300 and setting it ablaze.

The Nigerian army has no idea where the column came from or where it went.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at May 07, 2014 09:06 AM (JtwS4)

111 208 girls at $12.45 each, when is their IPO?

Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at May 07, 2014 09:06 AM (L02KD)

112 So this group became a threat after Gaddafi was destroyed and all those weapons were distributed to the Al Qaeda mercenaries?

Posted by: Nothing to see here, move along at May 07, 2014 09:06 AM (L0my5)

113 @112 Sure scared the hell out of the Nazi's in the Warsaw Ghetto.

Posted by: Chupacabras at May 07, 2014 09:06 AM (XiVKO)

114 A punitive expedition, you say? Hmmm, just imagine what I could've done to Pancho Villa with cluster munitions, satellites and drones...

Posted by: Gen'l Pershing's ghost at May 07, 2014 09:06 AM (+JC0X)

115 At this point, what does it matter?

Posted by: Penfold at May 07, 2014 09:06 AM (Fbt5B)

116 "Why aren't we simply treating this as the crime it is, instead of using it to promote an anti-Islam agenda?"

Did he not read the guy's quote about Allah telling him to "always be closing" and trying to win the Cadillac for this reaching this month's sales numbers?

Posted by: EC at May 07, 2014 09:07 AM (GQ8sn)

117 Head scarves were also once a sign of Christian piety for women. In many places they still are.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 07, 2014 09:07 AM (GGCsk)

118

The real revelation here is that in the Islamic world, in 2014, there is a "market" for selling slave girls. Like, it's a standard thing.

Yes, it is common. Last time I was in Malaysia, one could buy a human for about $4500

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at May 07, 2014 09:07 AM (0Jb7F)

119 But this is so outrageous I understand people's desire to just "Do Something," even if it's trivial and symbolic. Posted by: ace at May 07, 2014 01:01 PM (/FnUH) ------------------------------ How about something actually useful, like shipping arms to the Christian villages, along with some Green Beret A-teams? It's what they're designed for, raising and training indigenous forces. We ship off thousands of rifles and millions of rounds to Syrian muzztards; can we possibly help some Christians defend themselves, for once?

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at May 07, 2014 09:08 AM (CJjw5)

120 See I don't believe the Nigerian army. Sorry, but I think they know exactly where these guys are. The parents tried a rescue mission, got close but were turned back by sympathetic villagers that told them they would be slaughtered if they went further.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at May 07, 2014 09:08 AM (+0txR)

121 "If hashtags don't do the trick, surely some giant papier-mache heads will." Candlelight vigils and drum circles - works every time.

Posted by: The Party of Science ! at May 07, 2014 09:08 AM (uN4Ye)

122 I don't understand why events like this are not used to call out Muslim support organizations, such as Council On American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Why do they not see these kinds of acts as damaging to their image? CAIR and their ilk are all about quashing any inference that Islam is as the root of these mysoginistic acts, but they never seem interested in attacking the acts and their purveyors. The only conclusion is that they support the acts, which is what those making the connection to Islam are concerned about. Someone needs to call them out on this! Where is the clamor in the mosques to do this? Where does the government of any Muslim country stand on this and what are they willing to do about it? I think we know the answer, but they can no longer attack our conclusions without attacking the acts that damage their image.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at May 07, 2014 09:08 AM (qZr+9)

123 This is just run of the mill workplace violence. Nothing to see here. But these CHRISTIANS in the U.S. -- ugh, we've GOT to do something about THEM!

Posted by: Current MSNBC Personality / Future Concentration Camp Commandant at May 07, 2014 09:08 AM (yhJhK)

124 Department of State @StateDept Â· 22h .@JohnKerry: We remain deeply concerned about the welfare of these girls. #BringBackOurGirls #Nigeria http://snpy.tv/1hveE8L ------ BOOM!{/b}

Posted by: RWC at May 07, 2014 09:08 AM (fWAjv)

125 The attack led Monday by the Islamists of Boko Haram

MFM: No that can't be right. They must be Tea Party members and right wing Christians. At least that's how we'll report it

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 07, 2014 09:08 AM (1Jaio)

126 Local story!

Posted by: Hadoop at May 07, 2014 09:08 AM (Ph479)

127 We should hand out FP-45 liberator pistols to as many villagers as we can. - Good an excuse as any to post this and we can use a good laugh anyway. http://tinyurl.com/m9q2t55

Posted by: WalrusRex at May 07, 2014 09:08 AM (XUKZU)

128

Posted by: RWC at May 07, 2014 09:08 AM (fWAjv)

129 How do they have their own armored column? That would imply support from a govt. Either a neighbor -- Niger, Chad, Cameroon -- or a rogue muslim faction of the Nigerian Army.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 07, 2014 09:08 AM (ZPrif)

130 I doubt that terrorists with AK-47s are going to be terrified by a single-shot pistol with an effective range best measured in inches.>>

They will be a lot more uncomfortable going through that door than they are now.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at May 07, 2014 09:09 AM (81UWZ)

131 *ahem* "Nigerian Muslim clerics living in the border towns of Cameroon and Nigeria are recruiting Boko Haram members in their mosques, the government of Cameroon has alleged. " Yeah, they're not raging atheists.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 07, 2014 09:09 AM (8zTpe)

132 #24 Procol Harum is EXACTLY what comes to my mind when I see the words "Boko Haram"

Posted by: the Butcher at May 07, 2014 09:09 AM (++HCY)

133 They don't care about that at all. They care only about The Enemy: us and all that we stand for.

Posted by: t-bird at May 07, 2014 01:04 PM (FcR7P)

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the True Believers in World Revolution have looked to radical Islam to take down Western society and plow the ground for a Marxist-Leninist comeback. They assumed that the Islamicists would be so weakened in their conquest of the West that they would fall easy prey to the Revolutionaries.

Sadly for the True Believers, the weak-minded Lefties they rely on for political support may not have the strength of stomach required to watch the Islamicists do what they do to win.

Posted by: stuiec at May 07, 2014 09:09 AM (eetvJ)

134 "Sure one could argue that Western pedophiles might have some diabolical underground sex-slave market, but personally I think that's a conspiracy theory, and second, it's so far underground and so illegal it's beyond the pale of society." A little movie called "Taken."

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 07, 2014 09:09 AM (gOoFi)

135 " they actually have sex with boys because boysex isn't "wicked." And then we wonder why all the adult men have extreme sexual hang ups. It's all too depressing for words. Islam is a cancer on the Earth.

Posted by: Lauren at May 07, 2014 09:09 AM (ejehg)

136 I haven't seen any gloating over the Tillis win in NC yet today.

Posted by: NCKate at May 07, 2014 09:10 AM (dAu4Y)

137 (My apologies for the malfunction of my line breaks.)

Posted by: stuiec at May 07, 2014 09:10 AM (eetvJ)

138 Human trafficking is still a major problem throughout the third world, particularly in Asia, so yes, sadly, there is a market.

Posted by: brak at May 07, 2014 09:10 AM (M2qTM)

139

Sure you can say that the idea of there being a western sex slave market being a conspiracy theory. But western sex slaves are certainly possible, and occur: Cleveland.

Posted by: buzzion at May 07, 2014 09:10 AM (LI48c)

140 These guys sure do like making videos. From one released on March 14, 2014: "The sect sang that their demand for Sharia cannot be compromised. They restated that their targets remained churches, Christians and the Nigerian state. Part of the song stated, Â“We are working for Allah and must bring Shariah to existence; we are committed to protecting Muslims from being annihilated by infidels. We are going to kill them. We will enter Churches and slaughter Christians and barracks. We are calling on all Muslims to come out and fight Jihad. If you joke, these infidels will annihilate Muslims. You see how they are killing our women and children.Â” Religion of Peace.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 07, 2014 09:11 AM (8zTpe)

141 This is the enemy and threat we face. According to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton it is receding thanks to their peachy work.

But you guys keep up that war on hashtags.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 07, 2014 09:11 AM (GGCsk)

142 One of my (real-life) friends objected to my Facebook post pointing out that Boko Haram is an Islamicist terror movement. "Why aren't we simply treating this as the crime it is, instead of using it to promote an anti-Islam agenda?"I like the guy, but on this he is Lefty-blind.

Posted by: stuiec at May 07, 2014 01:04 PM (eetvJ)

Typical lefty. What Boko is doing is peachy but saying what they are is the crime

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 07, 2014 09:11 AM (1Jaio)

143 I assume the Nigerian Army is reluctant to act for fear of sparking a civil war. What % of the Nigerian Army are muslim? How will they react to being ordered by the Christian president to attack fellow muslims? The Boko Haram thing has been going on a long time. And the Nigerian govt hasn't done much. Because it is weak and divided along religious grounds.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 07, 2014 09:11 AM (ZPrif)

144 119 @112 Sure scared the hell out of the Nazi's in the Warsaw Ghetto. Posted by: Chupacabras at May 07, 2014 01:06 PM (XiVKO) I'm sure the Jews would have preferred an airdrop of hand grenades, STEN's, food and supplies. The handguns they got were barely functional and whatever else they got they took off of the dead Krauts. The Polish underground essentially refused to help them.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 07, 2014 09:11 AM (CMkNk)

145
"the abductions of girls has spawned the biggest outrage, with a #BringBackOurGirls campaign on Twitter"

A twitter campaign? A twitter campaign!

Posted by: Harry S "Nuke 'Em" Truman

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 07, 2014 09:11 AM (kdS6q)

146 Posted by: WalrusRex at May 07, 2014 01:08 PM (XUKZU) 6 guns off the street. Bloodshed averted!

Posted by: RWC at May 07, 2014 09:11 AM (fWAjv)

147 You know, I honestly didn't know there were kidnapper/sex-slave traders out there who were so ideological about their business model. I figured the sex-slave trade was operated by a more pragmatic sort of person. The world is indeed a very strange place.

Posted by: Phinn at May 07, 2014 09:11 AM (/SxiR)

148 I haven't seen any gloating over the Tillis win in NC yet today.

Posted by: NCKate at May 07, 2014 01:10 PM (dAu4Y)

Did you see Nip Sip's posting after the polls closed?

Posted by: EC at May 07, 2014 09:11 AM (GQ8sn)

149 " #BringBackOurGirls #Nigeria " So this really pisses me off. "BringBackOurGirls" Pretty please? Fuck that. GO RESCUE THE GIRLS.

Posted by: Lauren at May 07, 2014 09:11 AM (ejehg)

150 What we're going to do in response to these egregious kidnappings will be unbelievably small.

Posted by: John Kerry at May 07, 2014 09:12 AM (yhJhK)

151 >>>And then we wonder why all the adult men have extreme sexual hang ups. right. if you look at any psychopath he has some weird sexual backstory. His sexual urges have been redirected into a weird sex-murder fury. I can only see this death-cult as an incubator for psychopathy.

Posted by: ace at May 07, 2014 09:12 AM (/FnUH)

152 friends objected to my Facebook post pointing out that Boko Haram is an Islamicist terror movement. "Why aren't we simply treating this as the crime it is, instead of using it to promote an anti-Islam agenda?" You should mention 'Root Causes'. Pagan Death Cults tend to be criminal.

Posted by: toby928© at May 07, 2014 09:12 AM (QupBk)

153 Seriously? We're going to hashtag the terrorists now? Stop the world; I wanna get off.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at May 07, 2014 09:12 AM (PYAXX)

154 ".@JohnKerry: We remain deeply concerned about the welfare of these girls. #BringBackOurGirls #Nigeria http://snpy.tv/1hveE8L ------ BOOM!{/b}" Well that tears it.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 07, 2014 09:12 AM (gOoFi)

155 "There is a market for selling humans. Allah says I should sell. He commands me to sell. I will sell women. I sell women." So it's RIGHT-WING CHRISTIANS that are behind it!

Posted by: MSM at May 07, 2014 09:12 AM (MMC8r)

156 Point of information: Boko Haram is just the nickname. The movements full official name is The Congregation of the People of Tradition for Proselytism and Jihad.

Posted by: stuiec at May 07, 2014 09:12 AM (eetvJ)

157 May God strike down with furious vengeance all those who are involved in this.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at May 07, 2014 09:13 AM (mf5HN)

158 "I figured the sex-slave trade was operated by a more pragmatic sort of person. " There's a big issue in London with troubled girls being kidnapped by ROPers and sold in to sex slavery. One girl was killed, chopped up, and served to white patrons in a Kabob shop.

Posted by: Lauren at May 07, 2014 09:13 AM (ejehg)

159 stuiec - you need to mention a couple of the actual quotes from Boko Haram to your facebook friend. It's not*you* who is making it about Islam.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 07, 2014 09:13 AM (8zTpe)

160 and in b4 Pagan Death Cult opening for Black Sabath in '72.

Posted by: toby928© at May 07, 2014 09:13 AM (QupBk)

161

How do they have their own armored column?

That would imply support from a govt. Either a neighbor -- Niger, Chad, Cameroon -- or a rogue muslim faction of the Nigerian Army.

FAZ says the armor was "captured armor". (erbeutet = booty, sort of). Presumably from the Nigerian army, but who knows with how much compliance.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at May 07, 2014 09:13 AM (JtwS4)

162
That would imply support from a govt. Either a neighbor -- Niger, Chad, Cameroon -- or a rogue muslim faction of the Nigerian Army.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe

Or arms/armor taken from Libya after the fall of Kaddafi.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i][/b] at May 07, 2014 09:13 AM (JmGFJ)

163 #BringBackOurGirls #Nigeria#orwewillfuckingburnyourentirefamilytree,neighborsandpetstodeath

FIFY.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 07, 2014 09:14 AM (GGCsk)

164 EC, I ducked out of that thread early last night. Figured it would come back twice as strong today. Thought maybe ace had banned him again.

Posted by: NCKate at May 07, 2014 09:14 AM (dAu4Y)

165 The sex trade market exists here in the US as well we had a case in Washington state where two teenage girls thought they were chatting with a teenage boy, arranged to meet him, he turns out to be an adult male sex trafficker that drugged them and sold them. We have also had police raids on both Asian "spas" and Russian houses that have discovered groups of young women and some girls being held against their will.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at May 07, 2014 09:14 AM (+0txR)

166 Underage sex slaves? Sign us up!

Posted by: Roman Polanski & Bryan Singer at May 07, 2014 09:14 AM (yhJhK)

167

Oh, yeah. UNICEF is all over this.

http://wefb.it/TYwPy9

Posted by: stuiec at May 07, 2014 09:14 AM (eetvJ)

168 You know who's really responsible for these abductions, right?

That's right. The Koch brothers.

Posted by: Hairy Reed at May 07, 2014 09:15 AM (9GG/0)

169 I'd rather have a gold-plated toilet bowl, but it just isn't feasible.

Dropping thousands of Kel-Tec level weapons, however, is quite a bit more realistic.

Posted by: Chupacabras at May 07, 2014 09:15 AM (XiVKO)

170 Posted by: Lauren at May 07, 2014 01:13 PM (ejehg) I think I'm going to be sick. Seriously, I say we all US v Barbary Pirates on them- kill them where we find them, and when we can't find them, go looking.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at May 07, 2014 09:15 AM (PYAXX)

171 - Pieces of discarded cardboard - check - Refreshed supply of Sharpies - check - Order of extra large #hastags - check Let the robust U.S. twitter campaign begin!

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at May 07, 2014 09:15 AM (BZAd3)

172 "165 May God strike down with furious vengeance all those who are involved in this." Amen.

Posted by: Lauren at May 07, 2014 09:15 AM (ejehg)

173 Pay no attention to the Visigoth raids. It's just random violence.

Posted by: dead Roman citizen at May 07, 2014 09:15 AM (twiRb)

174 Waiting for the uprising of moderate muslims upset about Boko Haram disgracing Islam in 5...4...3...2...

Posted by: --- at May 07, 2014 09:16 AM (MMC8r)

175 Don't forget us! We don't want to kidnap anyone, we just want to help convince Muslims "that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands ... so that ... God's religion [Islam] is made victorious over all other religions."

Posted by: unindicted co-conspirators, Holy Land Foundation at May 07, 2014 09:16 AM (W6wuT)

176 27 The people doing the snatching, they have sisters and daughters of their own. They can't do this for long without being haunted by the looks on the girls' faces. Sure they can. Which part of Allah commands it should I explain to you? also their notion of "two women are the equal of one man's testamony"? Women == chattel. It means "personal property". When a girl is born, she is the property of her father, or closest living male relative. When she gets married off, she becomes the property of her husband. If she becomes a widow, she goes back to being the property of the closest living male relative of her husband, possibly her oldest son. Islam is not hard to understand if you think on it the way they do. What makes it hard for most westerners is that they can't bring themselves to that way thinking.

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie ® at May 07, 2014 09:16 AM (VvOZ5)

177
Reminds me of the history when Barack's ancestors sold Mooche's ancestors to Slavers from Europe.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 07, 2014 09:16 AM (hJauc)

178 Nigeria is gonna be the India of Africa. The population is huge and growing insanely fast. 175M in 2013 Gonna triple by 2050 For comparison, US is gonna add 25% by 2050. The world is gonna be a lot more African in the future. Cause they still have babies. Future belongs to those that show up.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 07, 2014 09:16 AM (ZPrif)

179 Heck, for good bang-for-your-buck (pun intended), why not air-drop a bunch of Hi-Point Carbines? Sure, they're ugly as hell, but they're cheap and they work.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at May 07, 2014 09:16 AM (PYAXX)

180 #BringBackOurGirlsRightNowOrIWillDeliverASternlyWordedLecture

Posted by: John F'n Kerry at May 07, 2014 09:17 AM (9GG/0)

181 Somewhere in a quiet corner of Heaven, Jesus is looking at his timepiece.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 07, 2014 09:17 AM (GGCsk)

182

Seriously? We're going to hashtag the terrorists now?
Posted by: AllenG

#RememberTheMaine

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 07, 2014 09:17 AM (kdS6q)

183 I don't believe you used the word "medieval" to describe this. At least during the middle ages, the Church had influence over pretty much everything, meaning that selling girls was probably NOT on the menu. These fools are stone age, pure and simple.

Posted by: tcn at May 07, 2014 09:17 AM (g+qqc)

184 And remember, this is exactly what Mo the Pedo told good Muslims to do: Kill the men, capture the women and children and sell them into slavery. BH isn't doing anything new or different in Islam.

Posted by: joncelli at May 07, 2014 09:18 AM (RD7QR)

185 185 What makes it hard for most westerners is that they can't bring themselves to that way thinking. Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie Â® at May 07, 2014 01:16 PM (VvOZ5) Yep.

Posted by: m at May 07, 2014 09:18 AM (2AqeI)

186 We'll send a strongly-worded tweet.

Posted by: DangerGirl at May 07, 2014 09:18 AM (x1L8S)

187 "On Monday, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau admitted that his group is responsible for the kidnapping of over 200 girls from Chibok, Borno State last month, and said that he plans to have them sold on the market ." This is the part that the " Republicans are waging war on women" crowd seems to constantly ignore. There actually exists a viable market, where one can kidnap women,and girls,and sell them into slavery. Now, in this century. Not two hundred years ago, but today. And it's OK. Because conservatives are evil,and shit.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 07, 2014 09:18 AM (Na2P1)

188 #RememberTheAlamo #RememberGoliad

Posted by: General Sam Houston at May 07, 2014 09:18 AM (PYAXX)

189 #BringBackOurGirlsOrIWillSendBidenOverThereToTellGrandpaStories

Posted by: @JohnKerry at May 07, 2014 09:18 AM (9GG/0)

190 As usual, the problems in Africa stem from the fact that Africa is full of Africans. I denounce myself. How else can a continent with so many natural resources and beauty be such a continual shithole?

Posted by: tcn at May 07, 2014 09:19 AM (g+qqc)

191 The Congregation of the People of Tradition for Proselytism and Jihad. - That doesn't sound too bad. Of course, I translate "jihad" as "self-reflection".

Posted by: WalrusRex at May 07, 2014 09:19 AM (XUKZU)

192 I have this fantasy of a burka clad woman hiding an Ak-47 under her robes and then just going on a rampage against every (muslim) man she comes across.

Posted by: Lauren at May 07, 2014 09:19 AM (ejehg)

193 #DownWithKingGeorge

Posted by: General George Washington at May 07, 2014 09:20 AM (PYAXX)

194
MFM: Oh dear, this could result in a backlash against peaceful Muslims!!!! Let's run with that story for weeks

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 07, 2014 09:20 AM (1Jaio)

195 I have this fantasy of a burka clad woman hiding an Ak-47 under her robes and then just going on a rampage against every (muslim) man she comes across.

Did you ever watch Zero Dark Thirty?

Posted by: EC at May 07, 2014 09:20 AM (GQ8sn)

196 The one underlying point in common behind all of this, even globally? Islam The one underlying point in common behind all of this where it is forbidden to go, even globally? Rhetorical.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at May 07, 2014 09:20 AM (BZAd3)

197 #BringBackOurGirlsRightNowOrElseWeWon'tSendYouAnyUnderwear

Posted by: @JohnKerry at May 07, 2014 09:20 AM (9GG/0)

198 *heart eyes*

Look at those Tweets!

#HeCaresSoMuch!

Posted by: typical delusional statist moonbat at May 07, 2014 09:20 AM (BmmBm)

199 Woody Allen to convert to Islam in 5Â…4Â…3...2Â…

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 07, 2014 09:20 AM (CMkNk)

200 I've read some horrific stories of war/privation in Africa, and it's just beyond comprehension. Child soldiers, tortured, mutilated, starved until they're nothing but beasts. Used up until they're dead. The adults don't like taking casualties, and will retreat once their child-fodder is exhausted. It's just hard to believe that's happening every day for years over there, but it has been.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 07, 2014 09:20 AM (ZshNr)

201 #SlaveryIsBad

Posted by: General William Sherman at May 07, 2014 09:20 AM (PYAXX)

202
Oh noes, escalation!:

Bethany Joy Lenz ‏@BethanyJoyLenzm
#BringBackOurGirls #take30seconds please sign this petition https://www.change.org

"This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it."

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 07, 2014 09:20 AM (kdS6q)

203 The people doing the snatching, they have sisters and daughters of their own. They can't do this for long without being haunted by the looks on the girls' faces.

Posted by: m at May 07, 2014 12:52 PM (2AqeI)

Ummm...the human capacity to commit evil and sleep sound of night is astounding, especially when the act is done with a clean conscience because it is not evil but actually believed to be morally correct.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Wash and Wax Your Wroth at the Outrage Outlet! at May 07, 2014 09:20 AM (hLRSq)

204 It's not just in London, There have been rape gangs all over the UK where groups of "Asian" men groom and rape underage girls. In Manchester - over 100 victims. late 2009/early 2010 In Oxford - 7 victims. May 2013 In Peterborough. January 2014

Posted by: Lizzy at May 07, 2014 09:21 AM (8zTpe)

205 If I had a father who hadn't killed himself driving drunk after pulling a hump-and-dump - trying to fuck the daddy issues out of a homely libtard girl named Stanley, he would look like Abubakar Shekau.

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at May 07, 2014 09:21 AM (CJjw5)

206

Nuther nugget from the FAZ piece:

"Boko Haram appears uncatchable. That is already astonishing because the native region of influence of the terrorists, the states of Borno and Yobe, are expansive, but not expansive enough that they should be able to move around with 223 hostages and armored vehicles without being noticed by more than 20,000 soldiers."

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at May 07, 2014 09:21 AM (JtwS4)

207 Oh my God George Bush is now kidnapping poor Nigerian girls and selling them into slavery where will it end...

Posted by: Sam from Providence, Unemployed Poet, Philosopher, and Future Most Loved Person Alive If Only the Wo at May 07, 2014 09:21 AM (yhJhK)

208 can't be Mormons, they're racists and don't let Blacks in. Posted by: mallfly You're spreading blood libel, bigot.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at May 07, 2014 09:21 AM (8ifMA)

209 It is probably unfair to disparage an entire religion based on the actions of a majority of its members.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at May 07, 2014 09:21 AM (0Jb7F)

210 178 Posted by: Lauren at May 07, 2014 01:13 PM (ejehg)

I think I'm going to be sick.

Seriously, I say we all US v Barbary Pirates on them- kill them where we find them, and when we can't find them, go looking.
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Now if we only had a real leader, a president or something like that . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 07, 2014 09:21 AM (QVyxQ)

211 "Did you ever watch Zero Dark Thirty?" No. Does this happen? If so, I must watch it asap.

Posted by: Lauren at May 07, 2014 09:22 AM (ejehg)

212 "Oh noes, escalation!: Bethany Joy Lenz Ã¾@BethanyJoyLenzm #BringBackOurGirls #take30seconds please sign this petition https://www.change.org" Mutha' fucka' gone done it now!

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 07, 2014 09:22 AM (gOoFi)

213 161 Seriously? We're going to hashtag the terrorists now? Stop the world; I wanna get off. Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at May 07, 2014 01:12 PM (PYAXX) Sending out a tweet is fast becoming seen as 'doing something.'

Posted by: RWC at May 07, 2014 09:22 AM (fWAjv)

214 This was a spontaneous kidnapping in response to a video.

Posted by: Susan Rice at May 07, 2014 09:22 AM (BmmBm)

215 125, I agree. You know, only 100 years ago the Western world was confident enough in their Christian Heritage, that this wouldn't be allowed to stand. It's like it's okay for us to defend or protect Muslims, but not Christians. Why? How come after we made quick work of Saddam'a army, did not the word go out that, "Oh yeah, and by the way, no body better fuck with the Iraqi Christians."

Posted by: Used Car Dealer at May 07, 2014 09:22 AM (rxYgg)

216 Sex slavery in Nigeria? Sex slavery is now common throughout the world. Name a country, and I'll bet it has a thriving sex slave-trade going on. Even here in the US.

Posted by: Soona at May 07, 2014 09:23 AM (+dFar)

217 "These fools are stone age" Hey, don't look at us, Homo.

Posted by: Neanderthals at May 07, 2014 09:23 AM (gXRIG)

218 Posted by: Lincolntf at May 07, 2014 01:20 PM (ZshNr) In a way, I think it's a huge indictment of the Westerners who go over there. We often provide security for ourselves while we're doing things like building schools or hospitals, but then we leave and don't provide the villagers any way to protect themselves. We make them big, fat, RICH targets, and then say "Go, be warm and well-fed."

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at May 07, 2014 09:23 AM (PYAXX)

219
Seriously, I say we all US v Barbary Pirates on them- kill them where we find them, and when we can't find them, go looking.

Even Ron Paul was for handing out Letters of Marque again.

Posted by: EC at May 07, 2014 09:23 AM (GQ8sn)

220 How else can a continent with so many natural resources and beauty be such a continual shithole? --- Pretty sure it's Donald Sterling's fault. Also, there was colonialism. And then decolonialism. That's why everywhere that Europeans colonized is just as poor and backwards as Africa. Except for Asia and Latin America and the Middle East and basically every part of the world except Africa. Also slavery. Which never happened anywhere else in human history except Africa. Total coincidence that slavery and Slavs have the same root word.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 07, 2014 09:23 AM (ZPrif)

221 >>213 It's not just in London, There have been rape gangs all over the UK where groups of "Asian" men groom and rape underage girls.
In Manchester - over 100 victims. late 2009/early 2010
In Oxford - 7 victims. May 2013
In Peterborough. January 2014

Posted by: Lizzy at May 07, 2014 01:21 PM (8zTpe)

Manchester and Birmingham are two heavily Muslim populated cities. And yeah, these types of things have been in the British press. What I don't understand is England's continued kid glove treatment and the people's utter Political Correctness as regards what really are jihadists.

Posted by: Sphynx at May 07, 2014 09:23 AM (OZmbA)

222 I'd cared but I'm too busy dealing with your microagressions of opening doors for me. Gotta have priorities.

Posted by: Typical "feminist" at May 07, 2014 09:24 AM (9bPUR)

223 There's a big issue in London with troubled girls being kidnapped by ROPers and sold in to sex slavery. One girl was killed, chopped up, and served to white patrons in a Kabob shop. Posted by: Lauren at May 07, 2014 01:13 PM (ejehg) Yup. There are fairly regular stories in the Daily Mail about houses in Asian neighborhoods (remember Asian to Brits is Indian, Pakistani and that area) where young British girls are being kept and drugged and used as sex toys. It's horrifying.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at May 07, 2014 09:24 AM (mf5HN)

224 >>They can't do this for long without being haunted by the looks on the girls' faces. Just bing Boko Haram. These guys like to murder Christian school children in their sleep. They have no humanity left to be haunted by any of their victims' faces.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 07, 2014 09:24 AM (8zTpe)

225 "Senate Passes Bipartisan Resolution Condemning Abduction of Nigerian School Girls" Libs must be slipping. They could have easily slipped in a minimum wage hike and blamed the R's for being for the abduction of school girls when they don't vote for it.

Posted by: RWC at May 07, 2014 09:24 AM (fWAjv)

226 Minneapolis and Dearborn, anyone? Lock up your daughters!!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 07, 2014 09:25 AM (CMkNk)

227 "only 100 years ago the Western world was confident enough in their Christian Heritage, that this wouldn't be allowed to stand" Hey, I did my best!

Posted by: Charles James Napier at May 07, 2014 09:25 AM (gXRIG)

228 Minneapolis and Dearborn, anyone? Lock ~~up your daughters~~ and load!!!! FIFY

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at May 07, 2014 09:26 AM (PYAXX)

229 I have a friend in Malaysia who talks about colonialism. He pointed out that Malaysia was a colony for many, many years. They now have the largest skyscraper in the world, a thriving market, and their own Formula 1 race. It isn't about colonialism.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at May 07, 2014 09:26 AM (0Jb7F)

230 Obama should issue a sternly worded statement on this, and we should allow him to be clear. That should do it

Posted by: McCool at May 07, 2014 09:26 AM (nCSwS)

231 #54-40orFight

Posted by: Phinn at May 07, 2014 09:26 AM (/SxiR)

232 "231 I'd cared but I'm too busy dealing with your microagressions of opening doors for me. Gotta have priorities." Oh, man. Don't get me started.

Posted by: Lauren at May 07, 2014 09:26 AM (ejehg)

233 Point of information: Boko Haram is just the nickname. The movements full official name is The Congregation of the People of Tradition for Proselytism and Jihad.

So The COT POT For PAJ?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 07, 2014 09:26 AM (hJauc)

234 Islam has bloody borders. Always has. Always will. Muhammad was a butcher who spread the faith by the sword. Muslims are trained to try to be like the ideal man, Muhammad. Boko Haram is not doing anything Muhammad didn't do.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 07, 2014 09:26 AM (ZPrif)

235

Total coincidence that slavery and Slavs have the same root word.

Sure about that?

Slav (n.) late 14c., Sclave, from Medieval Latin Sclavus (c.800), from Byzantine Greek Sklabos (c.580), from Old Church Slavonic Sloveninu "a Slav," probably related to slovo "word, speech," which suggests the name originally identified a member of a speech community (compare Old Church Slavonic Nemici "Germans," related to nemu "dumb;" and Old English Ã¾eode, which meant both "race" and "language").

(trembling about the possible repercussions of this cut n paste)

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at May 07, 2014 09:27 AM (JtwS4)

236
Sending out a tweet is fast becoming seen as 'doing something.'
Posted by: RWC

Speaking of which:

Speaker John Boehner ‏@SpeakerBoehner

As a father of 2 girls, the kidnapping of Nigerian women is more than upsetting. Every parentÂ’s worst nightmare. #BringBackOurGirls

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 07, 2014 09:27 AM (kdS6q)

237 187 The world is gonna be a lot more African in the future. Cause they still have babies. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 07, 2014 01:16 PM (ZPrif) We got this.

Posted by: Agenda 21 Eco-Nazis at May 07, 2014 09:27 AM (zoehZ)

238 In English, Boko Haram also translates to "Democratic Party." Posted by: The Party of Science ! at May 07, 2014 12:55 PM (uN4Ye) Resistance is futile. Bipartisan, is what we say it is. Science is the narrative of convenience for the powerful. We'll pass it, then tell you what it says, serf and it's only murder, when Republicans are involved. Stop running, Captain. I will be merciful.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at May 07, 2014 09:27 AM (nnnKr)

239 How else can a continent with so many natural resources and beauty be such a continual shithole?Posted by: tcn at May 07, 2014 01:19 PM (g+qqc)
Colonization and white oppression of course.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 07, 2014 09:28 AM (27KaM)

240 Boko Haram is not doing anything Muhammad didn't do. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 07, 2014 01:26 PM (ZPrif) This.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at May 07, 2014 09:28 AM (BZAd3)

241 Total coincidence that slavery and Slavs have the same root word. -- Sure about that? -- Dude. Sarcasm.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 07, 2014 09:28 AM (ZPrif)

242 "234 "Senate Passes Bipartisan Resolution Condemning Abduction of Nigerian School Girls" Oh, well that's great. I'm sure the terrorists are just shaking in their boots now that they've got a resolution to go along with the #hashtagwar.

Posted by: Lauren at May 07, 2014 09:28 AM (ejehg)

243 No. Does this happen? If so, I must watch it asap.

I remember a scene where the SEALs capture a bad guy by pretending to be burkha-clad women.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYFhFYoDAo4

0:44 seconds in.

Posted by: EC at May 07, 2014 09:28 AM (GQ8sn)

244

""the abductions of girls has spawned the biggest outrage, with a #BringBackOurGirls campaign on Twitter""

And you mock my Twitter-Foo.

Posted by: Jen Psaki @ Foggy Bottom at May 07, 2014 09:28 AM (H84UO)

245 Islam is basically the excuse for every excess of testosterone poisoning one can think of. In particular, it boils down to "can I fuck this?" and "can I kill this?" and "can I objectify everyone who has no penis?" By denying women any say, power or respect, they have denied their ability to be human in any recognizable way. They are walking, talking, raping, destroying bundles of hate and murder, wrapped up in hubris and diseased muscle. But, you know, religion of peace, and all that.

Posted by: tcn at May 07, 2014 09:28 AM (g+qqc)

246 Jihadis held rutgers hostage

Posted by: thunderb at May 07, 2014 09:29 AM (cPWQ6)

247 Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 07, 2014 01:27 PM (kdS6q) O_o o_O O_O o_o *_* AtC- fair warning, if I see any more "strongly worded tweets" from our "leadership" you may want to move to your desk.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at May 07, 2014 09:29 AM (PYAXX)

248 But, you know, war on women, and all that

Posted by: FIFY at May 07, 2014 09:29 AM (gXRIG)

249 Name a country, and I'll bet it has a thriving sex slave-trade going on. Even here in the US. Maybe. I imagine that would depend a great deal on your definition of "sex slave-trade" and "thriving". There is certainly a thriving prostitution trade in the US. Many prostitutes are hooked on drugs by their pimps, which is how they are controlled. In a sense that makes one a sex-slave.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at May 07, 2014 09:29 AM (8ifMA)

250 We should hand out FP-45 liberator pistols to as many villagers as we can. Not a good weapon for offensive terror. But it would strike terror into the boko guys each time they went through a door on these kidnapping raids.

http://liberatorpistol.com/

Posted by: Buzzsaw at May 07, 2014 01:00 PM (81UWZ)

Why give the Christians a piece of shit gun like that? Give every adult Christian an AK-47 and a thousand rounds of ammunition. And then start paying a bounty for every Boko Haram scalp taken.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 07, 2014 09:29 AM (TKUw7)

251 A senate resolution. Wow, what courage, what men of action!

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at May 07, 2014 09:29 AM (0Jb7F)

252

Dude. Sarcasm.

Roger

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at May 07, 2014 09:29 AM (JtwS4)

253

In February the UN sharply critisized the Catholic Church/Vatican for their response to the child sexual abuses that occurred.

Where is the condemnation of the UN and their fellow travelers on these horrific abuses of girls and women throughout the muslim world?

Crickets.

Posted by: Cheri at May 07, 2014 09:29 AM (G+Wff)

254 We won't confront them here

Posted by: thunderb at May 07, 2014 09:29 AM (cPWQ6)

255 Colonization and white oppression of course. Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 07, 2014 01:28 PM (27KaM) I hope that's sarcasm. No other continent has been free of all that white oppression and full of those lovely overseas dollars than that shithole, and they piss it away.

Posted by: tcn at May 07, 2014 09:30 AM (g+qqc)

256 The admin. sent more than 100 special forces troops on a wasted effort to track down a that has-been warlord Kony. They would be better used tracking down and killing these islamist kidnappers.

Posted by: Brian at May 07, 2014 09:30 AM (Hd5n8)

257 Reminds me of the history when Barack's ancestors sold Mooche's ancestors to Slavers from Europe. Posted by: Guy Mohawk That's gonna sting.

Posted by: zombie at May 07, 2014 09:30 AM (mizYg)

258 Bbbbut Sandra Fluke!!!!

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at May 07, 2014 09:31 AM (0LHZx)

259 But, but -- Islam is the religion of peace! Plus, Nigerians are black and everybody knows it is only whitey who puts people into slavery. Boko Haram must be tea partiers.

Posted by: Dancing Queen at May 07, 2014 09:31 AM (AMsS5)

260 ""the abductions of girls has spawned the biggest outrage, with a #BringBackOurGirls campaign on Twitter""

Barry: It worked so effectively in Ukraine. Look at how Vlad backed down immediately

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 07, 2014 09:31 AM (1Jaio)

261 Read "The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn't Working"

Posted by: anon a mouse at May 07, 2014 09:32 AM (gXRIG)

262 >>The Obama Bird Genocide Is Out of Control<<

>>First, insects are drawn to the reflective light of the solar mirrors. That draws small, insect-eating birds, which in turn draw larger predatory birds. The rays of the mirrorsÂ’ reflected light produces temperatures from 800 degrees to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Any animal caught in the intense glare of the mirrorÂ’s rays may catch fire and plummet toward the ground, or spontaneously combust altogether.<<

http://tinyurl.com/obdj6ts

Posted by: Marcus T at May 07, 2014 09:32 AM (GGCsk)

263 I look forward to Jeb Bush telling us Islam is a religion of peace.

Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at May 07, 2014 09:32 AM (rXcBX)

264 BTW, what is an "Islamist?" Isn't that just "somebody who is a muslim? Or do we distinguish between the pantywaists and the hard cores, now.

Posted by: tcn at May 07, 2014 09:32 AM (g+qqc)

265 The rays of the mirrorsÂ’ reflected light produces temperatures from 800 degrees to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Any animal caught in the intense glare of the mirrorÂ’s rays may catch fire and plummet toward the ground, or spontaneously combust altogether Who else read that and thought, "That's horrible. I'd love to see it?"

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at May 07, 2014 09:32 AM (PYAXX)

266 And, of course, America itself was colonized and became the richest, most powerful nation on earth. But somehow when Europe briefly colonized Africa it rendered Africa forever poor and backwards.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 07, 2014 09:33 AM (ZPrif)

267 It is probably unfair to disparage an entire religion based on the actions of a majority of its members. Never.gets.old.

Posted by: toby928© at May 07, 2014 09:33 AM (QupBk)

268 Who else read that and thought, "That's horrible. I'd love to see it?"

I skipped straight to the "I'd love to see it"

Posted by: chemjeff at May 07, 2014 09:34 AM (9GG/0)

269 Why give the Christians a piece of shit gun like that?>>

The reason I included that the FP-45 is not a good offensive terror weapon is in mass giveaways. You don't spend time checking out who your giving them to. To flood the zone with more offensive terror weapons might just backfire.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at May 07, 2014 09:34 AM (81UWZ)

270 274 BTW, what is an "Islamist?" Isn't that just "somebody who is a muslim? Or do we distinguish between the pantywaists and the hard cores, now.

Posted by: tcn at May 07, 2014 01:32 PM (g+qqc)

Islamicist -- actively pursuing Jihad in the war sense.

See Christianist per usage by our friend the womb investigator, Andrew Sullivan

Posted by: Sphynx at May 07, 2014 09:34 AM (OZmbA)

271 273 I look forward to Jeb Bush telling us Islam is a religion of peace. Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at May 07, 2014 01:32 PM (rXcBX) The kidnappings are acts of love!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 07, 2014 09:35 AM (CMkNk)

272 BTW, what is an "Islamist?" Isn't that just "somebody who is a muslim? Or do we distinguish between the pantywaists and the hard cores, now. My understanding is it's a Muslim Fundamentalist.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at May 07, 2014 09:35 AM (8ifMA)

273 I would be more interested in confronting jihad is here who have infiltrated universities

Posted by: thunderb at May 07, 2014 09:35 AM (cPWQ6)

274 "They now have the largest skyscraper in the world, a thriving market, and their own Formula 1 race" Don't forget the world's cleverest airliner to boot.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 07, 2014 09:35 AM (gOoFi)

275 Dude! I'm on it!

Posted by: Tommy Vietor in teh Situation Room at May 07, 2014 09:35 AM (dN3Mf)

276
Elizabeth Flores ‏@ElizabethNBC6

Celebrities are taking part in Real Men Don't Buy Girls campaign. #BringBackOurGirls pic.twitter.com/1SF9caTcN7

Oh dear, Sean Penn is holding up a sign! Will this cycle of madness never end!

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 07, 2014 09:35 AM (kdS6q)

277 Boko Haram massacred an entire village last week, Gamburu Ngala on the Cameroon border. An armored column appeared and set upon the village, killing at least 300 and setting it ablaze.

The Nigerian army has no idea where the column came from or where it went.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at May 07, 2014 01:06 PM (JtwS4)

"Armored column", as in tanks? Or an "armed band"?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 07, 2014 09:35 AM (TKUw7)

278 275 The rays of the mirrorsÂ’ reflected light produces temperatures from 800 degrees to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Any animal caught in the intense glare of the mirrorÂ’s rays may catch fire and plummet toward the ground, or spontaneously combust altogether Who else read that and thought, "That's horrible. I'd love to see it?" Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at May 07, 2014 01:32 PM (PYAXX) Wonder what the animal kingdom body count is of green energy vs nuke and coal

Posted by: Bruce Lee's Fist at May 07, 2014 09:35 AM (M+evy)

279 Get the hashtags in the bullpen warmed up and ready to fly. And get me the President on the horn.

Posted by: John Forbes Kerry at May 07, 2014 09:35 AM (CJjw5)

280 271 Read "The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn't Working" Posted by: anon a mouse at May 07, 2014 01:32 PM (gXRIG) The Trouble with Detroit: Why Liberalism Isn't Working.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 07, 2014 09:35 AM (CMkNk)

281 233 Just bing Boko Haram. These guys like to murder Christian school children in their sleep. They have no humanity left to be haunted by any of their victims' faces. Posted by: Lizzy at May 07, 2014 01:24 PM (8zTpe) Yes, o.k., I just did that. Thanks.

Posted by: m at May 07, 2014 09:35 AM (2AqeI)

282 "Armored column", as in tanks? Or an "armed band"?

Probably a bunch of Hiluxes with armed men on them.

Posted by: EC at May 07, 2014 09:36 AM (GQ8sn)

283 In February the UN sharply critisized the Catholic Church/Vatican for their response to the child sexual abuses that occurred. That's homophobia!

Posted by: AmishDude at May 07, 2014 09:36 AM (1UzRc)

284 Real men don't buy girls? Hello hollywood

Posted by: thunderb at May 07, 2014 09:36 AM (cPWQ6)

285 A lot depends on who was doing the colonizing. The British could be brutal when they had to, but they usually left a political and legal system on which a fairly-well functioning state could be built. The French and Spanish, not so much....

Posted by: Used Car Dealer at May 07, 2014 09:37 AM (rxYgg)

286 282 BTW, what is an "Islamist?" Isn't that just "somebody who is a muslim? Or do we distinguish between the pantywaists and the hard cores, now. My understanding is it's a Muslim Fundamentalist. Posted by: bonhomme at May 07, 2014 01:35 PM (8ifMA) There is no such thing as a "moderate" or "fundamentalist" Muslim. The whole fucking cult is hardcore fundamentalist. Either you are a follower/practitioner or you are an infidel.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 07, 2014 09:37 AM (CMkNk)

287 Why give the Christians a piece of shit gun like that? Give every adult Christian an AK-47 and a thousand rounds of ammunition. And then start paying a bounty for every Boko Haram scalp taken. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 07, 2014 01:29 PM (TKUw7) Easily concealable. One shot, throw away if necessary. Perfect for a crowded area hit and maintain anonymity and increase escape and evasion probability. Powerful.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at May 07, 2014 09:37 AM (nnnKr)

288 >>Who else read that and thought, "That's horrible. I'd love to see it?"<<

Chain reaction;
insect
Small Bird
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Posted by: Marcus T at May 07, 2014 09:37 AM (GGCsk)

289 But somehow when Europe briefly colonized Africa it rendered Africa forever poor and backwards.

As D'Souza talks about in 2016 while colonized Africa was a much more peaceful and future looking place.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 07, 2014 09:37 AM (hJauc)

290 Their culture is beautiful and valid!

You are all h8ers!!!

Posted by: Typical Liberal at May 07, 2014 09:37 AM (25HWz)

291 Saw "armed band" open for Procol Harum in '67... Too soon?

Posted by: anon a mouse at May 07, 2014 09:37 AM (gXRIG)

292 The Dutch were fairly decent colonizers too. The Belgians? Forget it....

Posted by: Used Car Dealer at May 07, 2014 09:38 AM (rxYgg)

293 My understanding is it's a Muslim Fundamentalist. Posted by: bonhomme at May 07, 2014 01:35 PM (8ifMA) As opposed to? I thought all Muslims were fundamentalists. As in, don't diss the prophet, etc. After all, I guess I'm a Christianist, because I'm a fundmentalist Roman Catholic, in that I believe in what the Church teaches. Labels like this are horseshit and let the pantywaists off the hook for ignoring the damage done by their fellow travelers.

Posted by: tcn at May 07, 2014 09:38 AM (g+qqc)

294 "The British could be brutal" We called it "civilized"

Posted by: Charles James Napier at May 07, 2014 09:38 AM (gXRIG)

295 You want to make some great money? Be a black American petroleum engineer or chem engineer. All the big oil companies will pay you tons to work in places like Nigeria. The African countries with oil seem incapable of educating their own people to do the work, so the oil companies have to constantly send over Westerners. Problem is most of them are euros and have bad genes for the local diseases and get horribly sick quite often -- and the meds to prevent the local diseases have vicious side-effects. Buddy of mine had one co-worker get a horrible case of malaria, and another went psychotic from the malaria vaccine. Awesome fun being in a Nigerian mental hospital. But if you are west african descent, you have, most likely, some natural immunity that your ancestors evolved. If you can do the work and are honest you can make boatloads of money as a black America (west African descent) managing the oil fields of West Africa.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 07, 2014 09:39 AM (ZPrif)

296 When Roman Polanski tweets his "real men don't buy girls" photo, we'll know they're really serious.

Posted by: DangerGirl at May 07, 2014 09:39 AM (euACX)

297 "Celebrities are taking part in Real Men Don't Buy Girls campaign." FFS, these monsters have slaughtered 1000+ Christians, maimed others (gouging out their eyes), and force young Christian girls into converting to Islam and marrying. They even announced after a slaughter last fall that they would have *eaten* their victims, but Allah forbids cannibalism. They do not give a crap if Ashton Kuncher (or whoever supports this pathetic campaign) think it's unmanly to kidnap girls.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 07, 2014 09:39 AM (8zTpe)

298 And the Greenies want millions of those things blasting 1,000 degree avian death rays into our atmosphere, to prevent warming.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 07, 2014 09:39 AM (ZshNr)

299 Posted by: m at May 07, 2014 12:52 PM (2AqeI) Considering that Allah commands it. I doubt they will be haunted by it.

Posted by: Better Feared than Loved at May 07, 2014 09:40 AM (crkWb)

300 Nigerians are highly educated Joe. That just isn't true

Posted by: thunderb at May 07, 2014 09:40 AM (cPWQ6)

301 I don't think most of Africa has grown out of its historic tribal ways. You see fighting between tribes within a nation to this day. While you may have a country the various tribes still think of themselves independently and try to wrest control of the country for their own benefit. Other tribes retaliate, etc., etc.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 07, 2014 09:40 AM (gOoFi)

302

Don't worry politicians, we are importing somali crazies like boko into MN and OH.

The religion of peace strikes again.

Posted by: prescient11 at May 07, 2014 09:40 AM (tVTLU)

303 "millions of those things blasting 1,000 degree avian death rays into our atmosphere"

Posted by: Sounds good to me! at May 07, 2014 09:40 AM (gXRIG)

304 245
Total coincidence that slavery and Slavs have the same root word.
Sure about that?

Slav (n.)late 14c., Sclave, from Medieval Latin Sclavus (c.800), from Byzantine Greek Sklabos (c.580), from Old Church Slavonic Sloveninu "a Slav," probably related to slovo "word, speech," which suggests the name originally identified a member of a speech community (compare Old Church Slavonic Nemici "Germans," related to nemu "dumb;" and Old English Ã¾eode, which meant both "race" and "language").
(trembling about the possible repercussions of this cut n paste)

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at May 07, 2014 01:27 PM (JtwS4)

++++

From the Online Etymology Dictionary:

slave (n.)
late 13c., "person who is the chattel or property of another," from Old French esclave (13c.), from Medieval Latin Sclavus "slave" (source also of Italian schiavo, French esclave, Spanish esclavo), originally "Slav" (see Slav); so used in this secondary sense because of the many Slavs sold into slavery by conquering peoples.

http://tinyurl.com/8s3u3hs

Also, to ease your cut n paste worries, just paste into Notepad first, then copy and paste it here.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 07, 2014 09:40 AM (IN7k+)

305 Posted by: bonhomme at May 07, 2014 01:29 PM (8ifMA) ------------------ No. Not prostitution. I know the fucking difference. There are girls and boys in THIS country being abducted on a daily basis and thrown into sexual slavery. I believe it was OH or IL where a sex slave ring was discovered. And some people think that this one was only one of numerous operations.

Posted by: Soona at May 07, 2014 09:40 AM (+dFar)

306 Labels like this are horseshit and let the pantywaists off the hook for ignoring the damage done by their fellow travelers. Posted by: tcn at May 07, 2014 01:38 PM (g+qqc) And a thing about Islam is that whether or not a muslim is islamist now at this present time, that door is ALWAYS left open for them in any strain of Islam.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at May 07, 2014 09:40 AM (BZAd3)

307 "The sect sang that their demand for Sharia cannot be compromised. They restated that their targets remained churches, Christians and the Nigerian state. Part of the song stated, Â“We are working for Allah and must bring Shariah to existence; we are committed to protecting Muslims from being annihilated by infidels. We are going to kill them. We will enter Churches and slaughter Christians and barracks. We are calling on all Muslims to come out and fight Jihad. If you joke, these infidels will annihilate Muslims. You see how they are killing our women and children.Â” The RoP's Top 40 sucks ass.

Posted by: Citizen X at May 07, 2014 09:40 AM (7ObY1)

308 Armored column is probably some pickup trucks with guns bolted down in the flat bed -- ie "technicals".

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 07, 2014 09:41 AM (ZPrif)

309
Amy PoehlerÂ’s Smart Girls initiative is an online community aimed at inspiring confidence in young women and encouraging them to embrace who they are. Also led by Meredith Walker and Amy Miles, Smart Girls takes on all sorts of social media outreach and is also hosting a summer camp this June.

On Tuesday, Smart Girls partnered with Girl Rising, a feature film and global campaign for girlsÂ’ education, to host a Â“Call to ActionÂ” Google Hangout in response to the kidnapping of the school girls in Nigeria. The guest panel includesd Smart GirlsÂ’ Walker, two representatives from Girl Rising, correspondents from The Daily Beast and the BBC, and the senior project manager from A World at School, Gretel Truong.

Gift baskets for participants provided by Neiman Marcus. Valet parking in a secured lot available....

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 07, 2014 09:41 AM (kdS6q)

310 AtC- fair warning, if I see any more "strongly worded tweets" from our "leadership" you may want to move to your desk. Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at May 07, 2014 01:29 PM (PYAXX) *shoves profanity through the USB port for you* I stocked up the under desk bunker the other day so fire at will.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at May 07, 2014 09:41 AM (mf5HN)

311 My favorite "liberalism" "Don't use brown women against brown men!" See guys, we can't stand up for these women because it's really just showing our #racism.

Posted by: Lauren at May 07, 2014 09:41 AM (ejehg)

312 Of course they are being supported by Muslims in the North. What are they doing that doesn't meet the good Muslim seal of approval. Killing? Selling people into slavery? Mutilation? The Palestinians do all these things and John Kerry would fellate them if asked.

Posted by: ejo at May 07, 2014 09:41 AM (GXvSO)

313

OT: since I was trolling krautish media...

"Austrian Poll

Nearly One in Three Want a Strong FÃ¼hrer

5/7/2014

In Austria the acceptance of democracy is declining. 29% say "we should have a strong FÃ¼hrer who doesn't have to answer to Parliament and the voters".

Also, 36% say National Socialism brought Austria "good as well as bad" and 3% say "mostly good".

http://bit.ly/1mCFjIp

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at May 07, 2014 09:42 AM (JtwS4)

314 Bono is now organizing the "Bring Our Girls Back Aid" telethon.

Posted by: DangerGirl at May 07, 2014 09:42 AM (euACX)

315 Nigerians are highly educated Joe. That just isn't true --- huh? not sure if sarcasm Nigeria has a gdp per capita of $1,500 In their defense, that is 3x the GDP per capita of Uganda.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 07, 2014 09:42 AM (ZPrif)

316 " since I was trolling krautish media..."Austrian PollNearly One in Three Want a Strong FÃ¼hrer5/7/2014 " Damn.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 07, 2014 09:43 AM (gOoFi)

317 The Palestinians do all these things and John Kerry would fellate them if ~~asked~~ allowed. FIFY

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at May 07, 2014 09:43 AM (PYAXX)

318 "Amy PoehlerÂ’s Smart Girls initiative "

Posted by: W...T...F...? at May 07, 2014 09:43 AM (gXRIG)

319 There is no such thing as a "moderate" or "fundamentalist" Muslim. The whole fucking cult is hardcore fundamentalist. Either you are a follower/practitioner or you are an infidel. In theory I agree, there is no allowance in their doctrine for variation or moderation. In practice there are a whole bunch of Muslims out there who are not prepared to go out and murder Christians at the drop of a hat.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at May 07, 2014 09:43 AM (8ifMA)

320 On Tuesday, Smart Girls partnered with Girl Rising, a feature film and global campaign for girlsÂ’ education, to host a Â“Call to ActionÂ” Google Hangout in response to the kidnapping of the school girls in Nigeria.

What exactly are they going to do besides raise awareness?

p.s. I've come to absolutely loathe that term "raise awareness" especially on well known topics that bombard us 24x7.

Posted by: EC at May 07, 2014 09:43 AM (GQ8sn)

321 Boko Haram massacred an entire village last week,
Gamburu Ngala on the Cameroon border. An armored column appeared and set
upon the village, killing at least 300 and setting it ablaze.

The Nigerian army has no idea where the column came from or where it went.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at May 07, 2014 01:06 PM (JtwS4)
======
Vehicles require a logistics tail. And that requires money. And who is paying for the clitorectomies?

Posted by: mrp at May 07, 2014 09:43 AM (JBggj)

322 but Allah forbids cannibalism. Whoda thought?

Posted by: AmishDude at May 07, 2014 09:44 AM (1UzRc)

323 The Palestinians do all these things and John Kerry would fellate them if asked. Ah, the classic Onion piece: Why do all these Democrats keep sucking my cock?

Posted by: toby928© at May 07, 2014 09:44 AM (QupBk)

324 326 " since I was trolling krautish media..."Austrian PollNearly One in Three Want a Strong FÃ¼hrer5/7/2014 " Damn. Oh, Austrian. I was sure that said American. Then I realized the number here would be higher.

Posted by: Citizen X at May 07, 2014 09:44 AM (7ObY1)

325 If we're retiring the A10 fleet, I know where they can spend their retirement, doing some light clean up work.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at May 07, 2014 09:44 AM (0Jb7F)

326 Armored column is probably some pickup trucks with guns bolted down in the flat bed -- ie "targets". FIFY

Posted by: Average A10 Driver at May 07, 2014 09:44 AM (gXRIG)

327 >>On Tuesday, Smart Girls partnered with Girl Rising, a feature film and global campaign for girlsÂ’ education, to host a Â“Call to ActionÂ” Google Hangout in response to the kidnapping of the school girls in Nigeria..... Ooooh, Boko Haram be shaking in their boots.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 07, 2014 09:45 AM (8zTpe)

328 Hillary to make a strongly worded speech in Spokane.

Posted by: DangerGirl at May 07, 2014 09:45 AM (euACX)

329 Posted by: AmishDude at May 07, 2014 01:44 PM (1UzRc) Well, he had to forbid *something.* Otherwise people might not believe in his "religion." And who is paying for the clitorectomies? Posted by: mrp at May 07, 2014 01:43 PM (JBggj) I'm guessing they're done DIY.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at May 07, 2014 09:45 AM (PYAXX)

330 "Learning is Sin" ... isn't this the same as "acting White" ?

Posted by: Dude at May 07, 2014 09:45 AM (65Z2p)

331 I remember reports in the late 80s/earl 90s about whole towns being slaughtered in Algeria. No one would say, however, who was doing this shit. Well, you know who. One guy, Mohammed the Dwarf, sawed off 200 heads in one night. Last I heard he was hiding in Beirut. These fucking islamists. The Algerian military government came down hard on them, it took years, but they finally got a handle on it. I think the fucking muzzies even wiped out an entire monastery of monks.

Posted by: Pug Bauer at May 07, 2014 09:45 AM (3U9Bd)

332 In practice there are a whole bunch of Muslims out there who are not prepared to go out and murder Christians at the drop of a hat. Posted by: bonhomme at May 07, 2014 01:43 PM (8ifMA) So why the fuck aren't they speaking out about the ones who ARE? Oh, yeah, jihad, it isn't just for breakfast anymore.

Posted by: tcn at May 07, 2014 09:45 AM (g+qqc)

333 In practice there are a whole bunch of Muslims out there who are not prepared to go out and murder Christians at the drop of a hat. These are known as bad Muslims.

Posted by: toby928© at May 07, 2014 09:45 AM (QupBk)

334 On a serious note, it's interesting that these savages seem mainly to operate in the most remote northern areas of Nigeria. Nigeria is half Muslim, so they aren't even able to operate openly among their co-religionists. Nigeria does seem destined to split up. Half-muslim, half-Christian does not make for a peaceful country. Ask Lebanon. But unlike Lebanon, the Nigerian Christians aren't surrounded by muzzies. Plenty of reinforcements on both side. Muzzies have the north, Christians have the south. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 07, 2014 12:49 PM (ZPrif) Very good, Flatbush Joe. You are quite correct. Did you know Nigeria was actually 2 countries until the north and south were amalgamated by Lord Lugard in 1914? That may not have been the best idea, come to think of it, as the Muslims have generally been savages. (Caveat - not all of them, of course. I went to school with quite a few Muslim girls.) We often joked about Mallams (Northern Muslim men who sell stuff on the side of the road) drawing their daggers if provoked. The northerners aren't loud like the rest of us, but they are more dangerous when it comes to their religion. I posted a few days ago that the thought-to-be mythical moderate Muslims actually exist in the South of Nigeria. They're mostly Yoruba and often intermarry with Christians. In fact, I know of at least a couple of cases where a Yoruba couple where the father is Muslim and the mother is Christian and the kids are allowed to pick the religion they prefer. I heard that of course, Northern Muslims don't consider Yoruba Muslims to be true Muslims, and so the Yoruba Muslims would be killed with the rest of the infidels whenever the Imam decided to incite a riot.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at May 07, 2014 09:46 AM (r+7wo)

335 You can't put a bounty on a man's head!

Posted by: Joe McGrath, GM, Charlestown Chiefs at May 07, 2014 09:46 AM (HxSXm)

336 On Tuesday, Smart Girls partnered with Girl Rising, a feature film and
global campaign for girlsÂ’ education, to host a Â“Call to ActionÂ” Google
Hangout in response to the kidnapping of the school girls in Nigeria.

What exactly are they going to do besides raise awareness?

Empower. There's usually a lot of empowering that goes on. First you raise the awareness, then you empower. Which results in nothing but allowing the liberal to pat themselves on the back

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 07, 2014 09:46 AM (1Jaio)

337 There are some educated Nigerians, of course. Buddy of mine went to law school with the son of the defense minister or some high-up bureaucrat -- got some sweet Affirmative Action in America for being the wealthy son of a corrupt politician. Cause America owed his family for ... not really sure. His family undoubtedly sold slaves to the Portuguese, Spanish, and English slave-traders. But, hey, all black people for all time deserve Affirmative Action from all white people for all time cause blood libel.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 07, 2014 09:46 AM (ZPrif)

338 Ummmm This isn't our problem, it's europes since that's where they are headed Also, where in the hell is INTERPOL The sex slave trade is their job

Posted by: Navycopjoe at May 07, 2014 09:46 AM (Zc+kn)

339 Sean "domestic violence" Penn! Sean's bridge too far is selling'em. Beatin'em is fine, selling'em is where he draws the line!

Posted by: Hadoop at May 07, 2014 09:46 AM (Ph479)

340
'Gosh, do you suppose the Lefties are waking up to the notion that radical Islam actually IS a global threat to human decency?'

No. They're not. 9/11 didn't wake them up; this won't either. Instead, they'll find something else to blame: Western civilization, or Bush, or the Koch brothers, or what have you.
T. S. Eliot once wrote that "Mankind cannot stand very much reality." Leftiekind can stand even less.

Posted by: Brown Line at May 07, 2014 09:46 AM (VrNoa)

341 This President has made it clear that he will track down the makers of the video responsible for the actions of these kidnappers.

Posted by: Jay Carney [/i] [/b] at May 07, 2014 09:46 AM (BmmBm)

342 345 You can't put a bounty on a man's head! Posted by: Joe McGrath, GM, Charlestown Chiefs at May 07, 2014 01:46 PM I just did.

Posted by: Reg Dunlap at May 07, 2014 09:46 AM (HxSXm)

343

Boko Haram is just a group of active homeowners from my neighborhood.

Posted by: Barky O'Marxist at May 07, 2014 09:46 AM (GgPam)

344 p.s. I've come to absolutely loathe that term "raise awareness" especially on well known topics that bombard us 24x7. Word. It's like the multi-millionaire NFL platyers who wear pink to "raise awareness" of breast cancer. "Cause I'm pretty sure just about everyone knows what breast cancer is. Know what will help cure cancer, NFL idiots? Money. Lots and lots and lots of money. Which is what NFL players have plenty of. Lots of money. But it's easier to "raise awareness" by wearing pink, and save all that dough for hookers and coke.

Posted by: Citizen X at May 07, 2014 09:47 AM (7ObY1)

345

Hate to repost myself, but I want to unfuckup the formatting:

OT: since I was trolling krautish media...

"Austrian Poll

Nearly One in Three Want a Strong FÃ¼hrer

5/7/2014

In Austria the acceptance of democracy is declining. 29% say "we should have a strong FÃ¼hrer who doesn't have to answer to Parliament and the voters"

. Also, 36% say National Socialism brought Austria "good as well as bad" and 3% say "mostly good".

http://bit.ly/1mCFjIp

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at May 07, 2014 09:47 AM (JtwS4)

346 Nigereans are educated. They work in their oil industry

Posted by: thunderb at May 07, 2014 09:47 AM (cPWQ6)

347 #BringOurGirlsBack has to be one of the dumbest fucking hashtags. Who is goibg to bring them back? The Islamic terrorists? I hate Twitter.

Posted by: DangerGirl at May 07, 2014 09:47 AM (euACX)

348 Fox says the bastards are hiding in Sambisa Forest. Time to turn it all to glass.

Posted by: tcn at May 07, 2014 09:47 AM (g+qqc)

349

The Algerian military government came down hard on them, it took years, but they finally got a handle on it. I think the fucking muzzies even wiped out an entire monastery of monks.

---

Yes, they did. There was a movie about it not too long ago.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at May 07, 2014 09:47 AM (0Jb7F)

350 What, exactly, does that line of c*ap mean, anyway? Anyone?

Posted by: raise awareness at May 07, 2014 09:47 AM (gXRIG)

351 I don't think most of Africa has grown out of its historic tribal ways. You see fighting between tribes within a nation to this day. While you may have a country the various tribes still think of themselves independently and try to wrest control of the country for their own benefit. Other tribes retaliate, etc., etc. It's already here. Human nature is not a pleasant thing.

Posted by: AmishDude at May 07, 2014 09:48 AM (1UzRc)

352 No paper mache vaginas marching on DC ! My shocked face o_o

Posted by: Agenda 21 Refugee at May 07, 2014 09:48 AM (thLL8)

353 Wonder if Poehler's Smart Girls initiative thingy invited Ayaan Hirsi Ali or Brigitte Gabriel?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 07, 2014 09:48 AM (8zTpe)

354 Maybe we can parlay this disaster into a general anti-slavery campaign. I'm sure LIV's have heard of human trafficking in a generic sense, when presented with being anti-modern-slavery in Africa, they'll probably be inclined to get aboard. Once aboard they might learn the root causes. That would be a good thing.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 07, 2014 09:49 AM (ZshNr)

355 2 >Posted by: Sam In VA at May 07, 2014 12:46 PM (Q52VH)<

I'm with you. I gotta believe this is a mission everyone could get get behind.

I could too, but the Kerry State Dept. and Chuck Hegel are in charge. All that really means is that bossy will be banned in Nigeria.

Posted by: Wendy at May 07, 2014 09:49 AM (KydDZ)

356 Who else read that and thought, "That's horrible. I'd love to see it?"

Waving hand. But, could we substitute trebuchets and libs for birds?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2014 09:49 AM (d0Dmj)

357 Thank you for the insight, Chique. Praying that all of your family is safe.

Posted by: Lauren at May 07, 2014 09:49 AM (ejehg)

358

If those villagers had shotguns and simply shot the assailants through the door, this would have never happened.

#JoeBiden2016

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 07, 2014 09:50 AM (S+el1)

359 "You should check out Singularity (the book by Ray Kurzweil, 2005) on the topic of technology and AI and its implications. For a quick review of the concept of Singularity take a read of the wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity There is also a Singularity hub website that follows this field and concept. I think you might appreciate it. Posted by: scofflawx"

Hey, I made the same comment earlier (end of same thread)... :-)

Posted by: Simon White-Thatch Potentloins at May 07, 2014 09:51 AM (NnjE8)

360 Who will be providing their birth control?

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at May 07, 2014 09:51 AM (/AHDz)

361
Sean "domestic violence" Penn! Sean's bridge too far is selling'em. Beatin'em is fine, selling'em is where he draws the line!
Posted by: Hadoop

How old was ScarJo when Penn was banging her?

Looks like the teen sex thing probably isn't an issue with him either.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 07, 2014 09:51 AM (kdS6q)

362 Know what will help cure cancer, NFL idiots? Money. Lots and lots and lots of money. That's the fallacy of inevitable scientific progress. They have a lot of money. They are currently failing curing cancer, spectacularly. Hell, they can't even cure psoriasis.

Posted by: AmishDude at May 07, 2014 09:51 AM (1UzRc)

363 I've got a couple of ideas on how to resolve this issue...

Posted by: John Moses Browning at May 07, 2014 09:51 AM (gXRIG)

364 The Boko Haram thing has been going on a long time. And the Nigerian govt hasn't done much. Because it is weak and divided along religious grounds. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 07, 2014 01:11 PM (ZPrif) Incorrect. Boko Haram-level extremism is quite recent. Correct that the Nigerian govt haven't done much. And a whole bunch of people in the army are northern Muslims. In fact, almost all our military dictators were Northern Muslims. Funny though that this crap didn't happen under them. There has always been Islamic violence in the North, but it really escalated when we started having civilian rule again. And we've only had "Christian" civilian presidents in this latest non-military stretch. (Nominally Christian, at least.)

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at May 07, 2014 09:51 AM (r+7wo)

365 It's actually slightly encouraging to me that Boko Haram seems forced to operate in the most remote parts of Nigeria. I am confused why a Christian school is operating so far to the North. That implies to me that the Christian influence is spreading -- ie starting schools. Of course, if the muslims refuse to build schools for girls or let them attend boys schools, then that leaves it to the Christians. Christianity is doing a good job converting black Africans, but the Muslims in the North are winning the breeding game. I'm kinda stunned Nigeria is as peaceful as it is. A country of 175M people almost evenly split btw Christians and Muslims.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 07, 2014 09:52 AM (ZPrif)

366 Who else read that and thought, "That's horrible. I'd love to see it?"

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at May 07, 2014 01:32 PM (PYAXX)

*raises hand, looks around sheepishly*

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Wash and Wax Your Wroth at the Outrage Outlet! at May 07, 2014 09:52 AM (hLRSq)

367 "Vehicles require a logistics tail. And that requires money. And who is paying for the clitorectomies?" Maybe in the West where we have to fill out five forms to get permission to use our own bathrooms. In other places, they just do things.

Posted by: whoever at May 07, 2014 09:53 AM (pjMym)

368 "Hell, they can't even cure psoriasis." You joke, but psoriasis is a fucking bitch. They basically shut down your immune system to try to stop it from taking over all of your joints, and half the time that doesn't work either.

Posted by: Lauren at May 07, 2014 09:53 AM (ejehg)

369 361 I don't think most of Africa has grown out of its historic tribal ways. You see fighting between tribes within a nation to this day. While you may have a country the various tribes still think of themselves independently and try to wrest control of the country for their own benefit. Other tribes retaliate, etc., etc. It's already here. Human nature is not a pleasant thing. Posted by: AmishDude at May 07, 2014 01:48 PM (1UzRc) No, that is all the white Europeans fault. Before white Christian Europeans were invented, every race and tribe got along fabulously. It was a true Garden of Eden. At least that's what the militant atheists on Twitter told me.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly the poster MrCaniac at May 07, 2014 09:53 AM (HxSXm)

370 It is not possible for Boko Haram to sell young girls into slavery. The only slavery that exists in the world is in the United States. That's why all those illegal immigrants want to come here, so they too can own slaves.

Posted by: Minority Report at May 07, 2014 09:53 AM (RKml3)

371 Well, here's a bird exploding thanks to a Randy Johnson fastball: http://cdn3.sbnation.com/imported_assets/1011193/348oawl_jpg_medium.gif

Posted by: AmishDude at May 07, 2014 09:54 AM (1UzRc)

372 Nigereans are educated. They work in their oil industry Posted by: thunderb at May 07, 2014 01:47 PM (cPWQ6) Correct. There are quite a few expats, but also a lot of Nigerians working in oil, e.g., one of my best childhood friends and an ex. I also have a former classmate whose dad is/was the CEO or some highly placed manager of one of the oil companies and is thus loaded. Nigerians are probably the most educated Africans. This is also reflected in the Nigerian populations abroad.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at May 07, 2014 09:54 AM (r+7wo)

373 Isn't the word "Nigeria" itself racist? Shouldn't it be called "N-word-geria?"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 07, 2014 09:54 AM (CMkNk)

374 These abducted girls must be relieved to know that American feminists are battling to replace "man" with "person" in modern english usage.

Posted by: Roadrunner at May 07, 2014 09:54 AM (nNC2s)

375 358 Fox says the bastards are hiding in Sambisa Forest. Time to turn it all to glass. Posted by: tcn at May 07, 2014 01:47 PM (g+qqc) What was it Bruce Wayne asked Alfred? Did you ever catch the bandit? Yes...We burned down the forest

Posted by: Bruce Lee's Fist at May 07, 2014 09:54 AM (M+evy)

376 one wonders where the terrorists get all their weaponry, i imagine most comes from other govt.s so we should disarm all govts. and only allow citizens and those that are hired to defend the country.

Posted by: willow at May 07, 2014 09:55 AM (nqBYe)

377 Ace's point about Muslims tending to not view women as really human might explain their propensity for sex with animals. I mean what is the difference, really if that is your point of view?

Posted by: obnoxious A-Hole at May 07, 2014 09:55 AM (PD6iL)

378 358 Fox says the bastards are hiding in Sambisa Forest. Time to turn it all to glass. Posted by: tcn at May 07, 2014 01:47 PM (g+qqc) Naphthalene Palmitate. It's not just for breakfast anymore.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 07, 2014 09:55 AM (CMkNk)

379 His family undoubtedly sold slaves to the Portuguese, Spanish, and English slave-traders. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 07, 2014 01:46 PM (ZPrif) You don't know this. He may be from somewhere that's far away from the coast. But I agree that him receiving AA is ridiculous.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at May 07, 2014 09:55 AM (r+7wo)

380 378 "Hell, they can't even cure psoriasis." You joke, but psoriasis is a fucking bitch. They basically shut down your immune system to try to stop it from taking over all of your joints, and half the time that doesn't work either. I know. I've got it. I blame the NIH.

Posted by: AmishDude at May 07, 2014 09:55 AM (1UzRc)

381 >>"Vehicles require a logistics tail. And that requires money. And who is paying for the clitorectomies?" Well, if it's true that they're recruiting members through mosques, it may be that money is being funneled through mosques outside of Nigeria, say, from an oil rich ME country or two. Just guessing.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 07, 2014 09:56 AM (8zTpe)

382 Because this one never gets old.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7NRCkxivwo

Just substitute "Boko Haram" for "Joseph Kony."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 07, 2014 09:56 AM (knoK7)

383 Fox says the bastards are hiding in Sambisa Forest. Time to turn it all to glass. Posted by: tcn at May 07, 2014 01:47 PM (g+qqc) probably with the children as cover

Posted by: willow at May 07, 2014 09:56 AM (nqBYe)

384 Nigereans are educated. They work in their oil industry -- Yeah, some, but not nearly enough, especially not for the technical and management positions. Which is why the oil services companies have to keep sending Westerners over. I don't think you know much about the industry. And, no, Nigerians as a whole are not well-educated. Which is a big reason why they are so poor. Some are. And many of the educated Nigerians leave Nigeria Nigeria does not produce enough technically competent people to supply workers for their oil industry. That's just a fact.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 07, 2014 09:57 AM (ZPrif)

385 "Shouldn't it be called "N-word-geria?" You think Nigeria's got the biggest hot potato here?

Posted by: The nation of Niger at May 07, 2014 09:57 AM (gOoFi)

386 Were the Bokononists to visit a hotbed of femynism like, say, Oberlin College, would their booty haul be as large? Just askin' for some friends...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/s] [/u] at May 07, 2014 09:57 AM (kiyD3)

387 Turn loose the AIDS monkeys in the forest.

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at May 07, 2014 09:58 AM (VJlwr)

388 I am confused why a Christian school is operating so far to the North. That implies to me that the Christian influence is spreading -- ie starting schools. Of course, if the muslims refuse to build schools for girls or let them attend boys schools, then that leaves it to the Christians. It's how missionaries operate. It's hard to be a missionary in an area that's already majority Christian.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at May 07, 2014 09:58 AM (PYAXX)

389 "Shouldn't it be called "N-word-geria?" And while we're at it, shouldn't Chad have a more masculine, non-preppy name? Like Spike. Or Butch.

Posted by: Citizen X at May 07, 2014 09:58 AM (7ObY1)

390 I'm kinda stunned Nigeria is as peaceful as it is. A country of 175M people almost evenly split btw Christians and Muslims. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 07, 2014 01:52 PM (ZPrif) Not to mention hundreds of ethnic groups (literally). I often marvel and thank God that we haven't pulled a Rwanda. After the civil war ended in the early 70s, it's been generally peaceful, not counting the Islamic violence in the north and armed robbery and stuff in certain areas.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at May 07, 2014 09:58 AM (r+7wo)

391 My condolences, AmishDude My husband has it too, and it is awful.

Posted by: Lauren at May 07, 2014 09:58 AM (ejehg)

392 so let's say we go in to try a rescue. They really have no significant army do they? so i cannot imagine it becoming a growing issue. am i wrong?

Posted by: willow at May 07, 2014 09:59 AM (nqBYe)

393 One of my wife's friends and former colleague is an artist/Art Professor from Nigeria, a Muslim. Lives in Tennessee now, haven't seen her in a few years. She is bright, and liked talking to me about US politics, but she wouldn't deign to speak to me about Nigeria. She was a very difficult woman in general and my wife was shocked that I got along with her, but even with some rapport she was convinced that I would never "get" Africa, and that all Americans had this vision of Tarzan and monkeys. She knew I'd been previously engaged to be married to a Namibian woman, but that still didn't get me any play.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 07, 2014 09:59 AM (ZshNr)

394 175 million is quite significant, but wouldn't the majority want the children saved?

Posted by: willow at May 07, 2014 10:00 AM (nqBYe)

395 Think globally, act locally!

Posted by: Overheard at a Boko Haram meeting at May 07, 2014 10:00 AM (JVEmw)

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Posted by: Citizen X at May 07, 2014 10:00 AM (7ObY1)

397 In theory I agree, there is no allowance in their doctrine for variation or moderation. In practice there are a whole bunch of Muslims out there who are not prepared to go out and murder Christians at the drop of a hat.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 07, 2014 01:43 PM (8ifMA)

Problem is, in islam, there is no theological basis for not going out and murdering or enslaving infidels. So you can have "moderate" muslims who get along OK with the rest of us, but they have no doctrinal support for so doing. If the fundamentalist gang gains ascendancy, the "moderates" are obliged to go along with them, if they want to have their heads remain attached. Remember that apostasy is a capital crime in islam.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 07, 2014 10:00 AM (TKUw7)

398 Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at May 07, 2014 01:58 PM (r+7wo) Okay, I know what you meant. But "it's been generally peaceful, not counting the violence" is pretty funny.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at May 07, 2014 10:00 AM (PYAXX)

399 399 "Shouldn't it be called "N-word-geria?" And while we're at it, shouldn't Chad have a more masculine, non-preppy name? Like Spike. Or Butch. Posted by: Citizen X at May 07, 2014 01:58 PM (7ObY1) Rumour has it that Chad is well-hung, so it has that going for it...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/s] [/u] at May 07, 2014 10:01 AM (kiyD3)

400 Naphthalene Palmitate. It's not just for breakfast anymore. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 07, 2014 01:55 PM (CMkNk) |wipes tears from eyes|

Posted by: Lt. Colonel Kilgore at May 07, 2014 10:01 AM (HxSXm)

401 Is his name really Bandersnatch?

Posted by: ceraphym at May 07, 2014 10:01 AM (Exzo1)

402 It's ghastly and sickening and has nothing to do with our nation. Let the UN sort it out.

Posted by: kathysaysso at May 07, 2014 10:01 AM (jPT60)

403 Lauren said #92 " ... They see their ultimate purpose in life to stop women everywhere from becoming anything other than faceless sex slaves." - - - - - Yes. In Islam, women are walking vaginas who are required to wear some sort of covering in order to render them anonymous and interchangeable. Uck-Fay Ohammed-May

Posted by: A_Nonny_Mouse at May 07, 2014 10:02 AM (OVh/Z)

404 Rumour has it that Chad is well-hung, so it has that going for it... True. And at least Chad has a real name, unlike the Central African Republic which only rates a geographic signifier.

Posted by: Citizen X at May 07, 2014 10:02 AM (7ObY1)

405 kathy heck the UN might buy them for their own fun!

Posted by: willow at May 07, 2014 10:02 AM (nqBYe)

406 But "it's been generally peaceful, not counting the violence" is pretty funny. Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at May 07, 2014 02:00 PM (PYAXX) Yeah, I noticed that when I typed it but was too lazy to expound.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at May 07, 2014 10:02 AM (r+7wo)

407

It's ghastly and sickening and has nothing to do with our nation. Let the UN sort it out.

The UN has to be jealous - all those girls that they planned to rape being taken out of the villages......

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at May 07, 2014 10:03 AM (0Jb7F)

408
"It's not just in London, There have been rape gangs all over the UK where groups of "Asian" men groom and rape underage girls."

These animals would think twice if they knew their intended victims could be packing heat and might fight back.

And yet: concealed carry is EEEEEEVIL!

Posted by: Brown Line at May 07, 2014 10:03 AM (VrNoa)

409 I would assume that they would kill the girls immediately rather than allow them to be rescued. Unless the savages just cut and run for it. Gonna have to snatch a few of them for interrogation... hard to do if there are collaborators in the police and military. Still, CAG has a large presence in Africa & they are always happy to oblige...

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at May 07, 2014 10:03 AM (VJlwr)

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Posted by: AmishDude at May 07, 2014 10:04 AM (1UzRc)

411 If we're going to fund the UN anyway, let's at least do a fucking worthwhile mission. Instead of propping up shitbag Islamist states, let's rescue a few people from one. We're paying either way.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 07, 2014 10:04 AM (ZshNr)

412 >>>They assumed that the Islamicists would be so weakened in their conquest of the West that they would fall easy prey to the Revolutionaries.<<<
.

That's what the Iranian communists thought as well. Didn't work out too well.

Posted by: Javems at May 07, 2014 10:04 AM (nTgAI)

413 Posted by: kathysaysso at May 07, 2014 02:01 PM (jPT60) Actually, that's why I like my charity idea. Call it The Poor Knights of the Temple of Solomon Charities, and while others focus on schools and hospitals, they can focus on killing bandits and raiders of various sorts and teaching the local populace to protect themselves.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at May 07, 2014 10:05 AM (PYAXX)

414 chique, well i'm sure it was to point out a country that is somewhat stable with crime much as any country. but the muslim thing getting away with things such as this with the obeisance of the govt is pretty bad. so still a weak govt although not as bad as many the last decades. lol i'm trying to help with expounding!

Posted by: willow at May 07, 2014 10:05 AM (nqBYe)

415 If I had a daughter held captive by these vermin, I would agree with air strikes. Better to take the chance that she dies as collateral damage than to live as a sex slave.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at May 07, 2014 10:05 AM (0Jb7F)

416 414 Rumour has it that Chad is well-hung, so it has that going for it... True. And at least Chad has a real name, unlike the Central African Republic which only rates a geographic signifier. Posted by: Citizen X at May 07, 2014 02:02 PM (7ObY1) Is Upper Volta still a going concern, or did it morph into something like The People's Republic of Disease and Despair, But Mostly Despair?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/s] [/u] at May 07, 2014 10:05 AM (kiyD3)

417 srsly if the UN were trustworthy sure. i just haven't found them to be.

Posted by: willow at May 07, 2014 10:06 AM (nqBYe)

418

I guess a lot of Americans are surprised that Twelve Years A Slave is the daily reality for many Africans in the present day.

And that the kind and gentle followers of Islam are the slavers.

Posted by: stuiec at May 07, 2014 10:06 AM (eetvJ)

419 Speaking of Islam and violence, over the past couple of days, I watched some presentations given by Nabeel Qureshi (now with Ravi Zacharias International Ministries) on Islam on the Biola University YouTube channel. Nabeel was a very devout Muslim of Pakistani descent and converted to Christianity in 2005 or so. He really loves and respects his parents and his upbringing, so I thought he would be a little biased (i.e., not too hard on Muslims) when it came to the issue of violence in Islam. But he was like, yeah, being violent is consistent with Islamic teaching and history, even if there are Muslims that eschew it.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at May 07, 2014 10:06 AM (r+7wo)

420

Is Upper Volta still a going concern

Upper Volta is now Burkina Faso

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422 Posted by: stuiec at May 07, 2014 02:06 PM (eetvJ) To be surprised by it, they'd have to find out about it first.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at May 07, 2014 10:07 AM (PYAXX)

423 I'll still take "lots of money" over "pink clothing" any day in the cure cancer sweepstakes. Fair enough, but the same grant system funds Mann and they pretty much obtain funds in the same manner.

Posted by: AmishDude at May 07, 2014 10:07 AM (1UzRc)

424

>>>They assumed that the Islamicists would be so weakened in their conquest
of the West that they would fall easy prey to the Revolutionaries.<<<
.

That's what the Iranian communists thought as well. Didn't work out too well.

Posted by: Javems at May 07, 2014 02:04 PM (nTgAI)

For people that claim to understand the cycles of history better'n anybody, they sure don't understand the cycles of history, do they?

Posted by: stuiec at May 07, 2014 10:08 AM (eetvJ)

425 Posted by: AmishDude at May 07, 2014 02:07 PM (1UzRc) Yeah, I think the original point was that, instead of wearing stupid pink tennis shoes, NFL players could donate actual money to actual scientific research.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at May 07, 2014 10:08 AM (PYAXX)

426 sometimes i forget how lucky i was to be born here, of course my grandparents paid heavily to get here. still, it could have been different for us

Posted by: willow at May 07, 2014 10:09 AM (nqBYe)

427

To be surprised by it, they'd have to find out about it first.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at May 07, 2014 02:07 PM (PYAXX)

This seems to be the episode that's informed them of reality. Funny how 10,000 dead Nigerians over the past decade flew right under their radar.

Posted by: stuiec at May 07, 2014 10:09 AM (eetvJ)

428 lol i'm trying to help with expounding! Posted by: willow at May 07, 2014 02:05 PM (nqBYe) Good job.

And Upper Volta is now Burkina Fasso (sp?). I'm fine with African countries (and people) having African names. One of my slight pet peeves is that almost every Kenyan I've met has an "English" name. Same goes for Ghanaians. And I think all Rwandans must have French names. At least we Nigerians tend to like our native names. Not that you guys care.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at May 07, 2014 10:11 AM (r+7wo)

429 We already have troops hunting the "Lords Resistance Army" in that general area. Just change their mission.

Posted by: Javems at May 07, 2014 10:11 AM (nTgAI)

430

Only problem with all this is the geography. They keep saying Northwest Nigeria, but Cameroon is on the eastern border. What gives?

Posted by: roborob 2000 at May 07, 2014 10:12 AM (sYEpI)

431 this is still happening in 2014. amazing really.

Posted by: willow at May 07, 2014 10:13 AM (nqBYe)

432 Yeah, I think the original point was that, instead of wearing stupid pink tennis shoes, NFL players could donate actual money to actual scientific research. The players don't care. These are guys who live incredibly short lifespans because of injuries and concussions and somehow they are, as a group, supposed to have special concern for a disease that effects the half of the population that lives longer? Cancer is awful and breast cancer is worth paying attention to because it's one of the most treatable (pancreatic cancer? start drawing up that will now) but this is just a PR thing by the NFL front office that the NFLPA acquiesced to. It's really the last disease NFL players should care about. It's just about making huge tough men wear pink.

Posted by: AmishDude at May 07, 2014 10:13 AM (1UzRc)

433 As President, I set up wrecking balls outside of the U.N. the day of my inauguration. I give those worthless fiends 48 hours to clear out their shit and proclaim: "I gave them the extra 24 hours because I know what a 'Compassionate Conservative' is supposed to look like. I have a feeling the French may have a place for you." ...ahhhh. An idiot and his dreams.

Posted by: Slapweasel at May 07, 2014 10:14 AM (lq3Ak)

434

Well, five million have died in DR Congo over the 20-odd years that the UN has had its peacekeeping force there.

Blue-helmeted UN troops are only useful when they are led by US forces. And then only if the US Commander-in-Chief has the intestinal fortitude and strategic vision to back up his troops in the field (see Down, Blackhawk).

Posted by: stuiec at May 07, 2014 10:14 AM (eetvJ)

435 At least we Nigerians tend to like our native names. Not that you guys care. It makes it hard to remember the name for Westerners, though. The same is true vice versa.

Posted by: AmishDude at May 07, 2014 10:14 AM (1UzRc)

436 Only problem with all this is the geography. They keep saying Northwest Nigeria, but Cameroon is on the eastern border. What gives? Posted by: roborob 2000 at May 07, 2014 02:12 PM (sYEpI) Illiterate reporters? Borno is the northernmost state in the northeastern part of the country. (When we say "the East", we usually mean southeast.)

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at May 07, 2014 10:14 AM (r+7wo)

437 The US has purposely killed over 50 million babies since the SCOTUS decision of Roe vs Wade. Nigeria ain't got nothin' on us.

Posted by: Soona at May 07, 2014 10:15 AM (+dFar)

438

As President, I set up wrecking balls outside of the U.N. the day of my inauguration. I give those worthless fiends 48 hours to clear out their shit and proclaim:

"I gave them the extra 24 hours because I know what a 'Compassionate Conservative' is supposed to look like. I have a feeling the French may have a place for you."

...ahhhh. An idiot and his dreams.

Posted by: Slapweasel at May 07, 2014 02:14 PM (lq3Ak)

I give two days for you and your gallant crew.

Posted by: Klingon Christopher Lloyd at May 07, 2014 10:16 AM (eetvJ)

439 New Thread Up!

Posted by: Slapweasel at May 07, 2014 10:16 AM (lq3Ak)

440 It makes it hard to remember the name for Westerners, though. The same is true vice versa. Posted by: AmishDude at May 07, 2014 02:14 PM (1UzRc) Not really. We're used to most of your names, which tend to be shorter than ours. Although some Polish last names look as difficult as Nigerian ones.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at May 07, 2014 10:16 AM (r+7wo)

441

Illiterate reporters? Borno is the northernmost state in the northeastern part of the country. (When we say "the East", we usually mean southeast.)

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at May 07, 2014 02:14 PM (r+7wo)

I suspect the reporters can't even be bothered to check Google Maps.

Posted by: stuiec at May 07, 2014 10:18 AM (eetvJ)

442 Don't those guys know they're tarnishing Islam's reputation?

Posted by: ToursLepantoVienna at May 07, 2014 10:20 AM (F9l4e)

443 And while we're at it, shouldn't Chad have a more masculine, non-preppy name? Like Spike. Or Butch. --- Or Rock.

Posted by: whoever at May 07, 2014 10:22 AM (pjMym)

444 "In the nearly hourlong, rambling video, Shekau repeatedly called for an end to Western education."

Why did I suddenly have a flashback to Harry Reid on the Senate floor?

Posted by: GWB at May 07, 2014 10:22 AM (9eTPJ)

445 Naphthalene Palmitate. It's not just for breakfast anymore.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 07, 2014 01:55 PM (CMkNk)

Put some sunshine on your plate!

(Well done J.J.)

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Wash and Wax Your Wroth at the Outrage Outlet! at May 07, 2014 10:22 AM (hLRSq)

446 Hey, anybody check how Libya's doing lately? I assume it's an awesome example of progressive democracy for the whole Middle East and arab world to emulate. Sure would suck if my hasty overthrow of Q-Daffy and hastier withdrawal left the country in chaos, with no central govt able to exert authority and hundreds of armed militias and terrorists Islamic groups roaming the land like Mad Max. That would be a real indictment of my foreign policy. Don't see anything on the news, so I'll assume things are going great. Now watch this drive!

Posted by: Preznit Obama at May 07, 2014 10:49 AM (ZPrif)

447 Hells Bells As if Boko Haram won't continue conducting mass kidnappings when no one's stopping them. Easy pickings, fresh meat. What the hell is wrong with the people who see this happening, and fail to observe details and report leads to the authorities? It's as if their government and privileged society condones the Boko Haram. "Profits are good. Not to mention the fringe benefits." How did Scrooge put it? "They had better do it, and decrease the surplus population." God damn it!

Posted by: panzernashorn at May 07, 2014 11:09 AM (gmrH5)

448 Muslims are trained to try to be like the ideal man, Muhammad. Indeed. I put it this way: The problem with Christianity is that too few Christians attempt to be like Christ. The problem with Islam is that too many Muslims attempt to be like Mohammed.

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie ® at May 07, 2014 11:38 AM (VvOZ5)

449

Name one Church leader who has spoken out, demonstrated or done anything to try and pressure the UN or their congregations to get involved in helping Christians under islam-

Now, if only JEWS were kidnapping raping and selling Christian girlsinto slavery, I am certain there would be lotsof action by these hypocrites.

Meanwhile these activist Christians are busy condemning Israel and Jews and fighting to boycott and divest.

Posted by: charleston at May 07, 2014 11:57 AM (tQjoz)

450 Boko Haram has earned statehood status.

Posted by: The United Nations at May 07, 2014 11:59 AM (Lh8u2)

451 The problem is not Boko Haram. They are just practicing Islam as it's outlined in the Koran.

The problem is Islam.

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452 Someone above mentioned having a fantasy of a burka-clad woman pull out an AK-47 and just shooting every Islamic savage she saw. I've had the same fantasy-except it takes place in Mecca at the hight of pilgrimage season and there's a lot more trampling.

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