Thread: Obama Administration: Boko Haram Has ‘Legitimate Concerns’

Obama Administration: Boko Haram Has ‘Legitimate Concerns’

Pamela Geller 2 hours ago





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For reasons that only Barack Obama can answer, the State Department took far too long to designate the savage Muslim group, Boko Haram, a terrorist organization. When State Department officials finally did designate it a foreign terrorist organization, they did so while never mentioning that the people being terrorized were Christians, who are being targeted for their beliefs. The media doesn't mention it, but the kidnapped schoolgirls who have finally brought this evil group to international attention are Christians.

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But the State Department implied that the group had other motivations. "These designations are an important and appropriate step," the State Department said, "but only one tool in what must be a comprehensive approach by the Nigerian government to counter these groups through a combination of law enforcement, political, and development efforts, as well as military engagement, to help root out violent extremism while also addressing the legitimate concerns of the people of northern Nigeria."

Boko Haram originated in northern Nigeria, where there is strong support for the imposition of Islamic law – which is also Boko Haram's goal.
The idea that a devout Muslim group that slaughters in the cause of Islam practically every day and whose very name means "Western education is sinful" has "legitimate concerns" exposes the dangerous motives of the pro-jihadist Obama administration.

Boko Haram sets schools ablaze. Boko Haram targets teachers and doctors, but above all, Christians. They murdered over 2,596 people in the first three months of 2014. What possible legitimate concerns could these savages have? Imposing Islam is not a legitimate concern.
"Legitimate concerns" – was the Obama administration referring to CIA director John Brennan's notorious statement that "jihad is a legitimate tenet of Islam?"

The mainstream media's sudden interest in the abducted girls and Boko Haram is amazing. Back in 2012, my organization, the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), ran a citywide bus campaign in New York, highlighting the savagery of jihadists against Nigerian Christians. One hundred bus ads called attention to the victims. The ad read, "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support the Nigerian Christians. Defeat jihad."

These ads were attacked by media and cultural elites as "anti-Muslim" "hate" ads, condemned by the same two-faced quislings in the mainstream media who are now writing furious editorials demanding that these abducted girls be saved.

This devout Muslim group, whose official name is The Congregation of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad, has been waging bloody jihad in Nigeria for years, while the U.S. government, the United Nations and the mainstream media yawned. Here are just a few of the stories that should have touched off an international media firestorm, but didn't:

• Last Monday, they stormed the town of Gamboru Ngala, torching houses and murdering at least 300 people. They set houses on fire and shot those who tried to escape.
• In mid-April, according to Reuters, they "killed at least 60 people in an attack on a village in northeast Nigeria, while a separate attack killed eight people at a teacher training college."
• In late March, the Nigerian jihadists "killed 19 people and abducted 15 others in different villages of Agatu local government area in Benue state."
• On March 5, they "attacked a cluster of villages in Plateau state, killing 16 Christians and destroying numerous homes."
• The day before that, on March 4, they "burned 11 people to death inside their homes in northeastern Nigeria, where frequent attacks have claimed at least 130 lives in the past four days alone."
• And on the day before that, March 3, they "killed at least 29 people in an attack on a town in north-eastern Nigeria's Borno state."
• Several days before that, on February 27, they "killed at least 37 people in three separate attacks in northeast Nigeria, including at a theological college" – a Christian college, of course.
• Two days before that, they "burned children alive," entering a college in northeast Nigeria before dawn, setting it afire, and murdering 43 students. A teacher said that they "shot and slit the throats of children who tried to escape through the windows," while others used machetes to hack students to death.
• Five days before that, they "attacked the northeastern town of Bama on Wednesday, opening fire on a school, shooting or burning to death 47 people and trashing the palace of a traditional ruler."
• In late January, they "used explosives to attack a village in north-east Nigeria, killing 52 people and razing more than 300 homes."

That isn't even a full list of their attacks just this year. And why are they committing all this bloodshed and savagery? Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has said, "The reason why I will kill you is you are infidels, you follow Democracy… Whoever follows Democracy is an infidel." In a video, members of this group said, "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… We are calling on all Muslims to come out and fight Jihad."

Few people cared. I wrote on February 25, "When are good and decent people going to be free to speak about Muslim supremacist savagery? Instead, reporting on these stories of unimaginable horror is considered 'islamophobia.' That's where we are in the modern age of the savage."

Maybe the attention that the kidnapped girls has brought to this group will finally result in concrete action to stop this bloodlust. How many more people must they slaughter? It is not a good sign that the denial and willful ignorance are continuing: Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday blamed Boko Haram on poverty, saying that "much of this challenge comes out of this poverty where young people are grabbed at an early stage, proffered a little bit of money." In reality, poverty doesn't cause terrorism. Studies show that jihadis are generally wealthier and better educated than their peers.
Let's have some uniformity in outrage against all jihad groups, not just against one monstrous incident but the ideology behind the global jihad. Only then can we begin to defeat this scourge.

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If you've joined the hashtag ‪#‎BringBackOurGirls‬, look, I understand the desire to want to be part of a story and to want to show you care. But for the first lady of the United States and her husband to lead the Twitter hashtag effort here is pathetic. Is this how powerless we really are?



Heat for Saying the President of the United States Should Have More Power Than a Twitter Hashtag

RUSH: Is this the extent of our abilities? Is this the extent of our willingness to...

Rush Limbaugh

Your Host Takes Heat for Saying the President of the United States Should Have More Power Than a Twitter Hashtag

May 09, 2014



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Now, look, as much as I've talked about it, I know that you're eager to hear how things went yesterday at the ear clinic with the new cochlear implant on the right side activated. I'm going to tell you everything, but there's something I gotta deal with first here.
Yesterday I flashed a picture up on the Dittocam of Mrs. Obama looking sad and grim at the same time in the diplomatic reception room at the White House holding up a sign with the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls about this terror group, Procol Harem, uh, Boko Haram. You're responsible for that, Snerdley. You told me that that's what it reminded you of. Boko Haram, the Nigerian Al-Qaeda group, kidnapped over 200 girls, and I held that picture up, and I said, "Is this it? Is this how powerless we have become? Is this the extent of our ability to deal with something like this?"

I was aghast. I mean, it's embarrassing that a Twitter hashtag is all we've got. And, in fact, I was further embarrassed that a Twitter hashtag is assumed to be enough because all we have to do is show that we're concerned. All we have to do is exhibit our proper intentions, and that covers it. We don't have to actually do anything. It's perfect liberalism. You don't solve anything. You don't do anything. You just show that you care and you have good intentions.
Well, I was raked over the coals for this, as I knew I would be. There were some news stories out there about my insensitivity about this. To me, it is another example of the decline in this country. And then the president of the United States on a campaign fundraising swing basically admitted that he is powerless. He admitted that he has no ability to do anything about this. He said he wakes up thinking of the Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by these Islamist extremists and facing a life as sex slaves. By the way, you want to know the real War on Women, this is it, an Al-Qaeda group kidnapping a bunch of young girls to sell them into slavery. That is your War on Women.
So Obama said that he wakes up thinking of the Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by Islamist extremists and facing a life as sex slaves and wishes he could reach out and save the kids. Oh, what a great guy. Oh, man.
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Anyway, back to this Boko Haram thing. I took little grief for pointing out that the extent of US involvement here is a Twitter hashtag. I'm the one that was called insensitive. And the president of the United States admits that he is impotent, he has no ability. All he can do is hope. He sent some hostage negotiators. Oh, and, by the way, John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, is sending some diplomats over there to deal with it. So the State Department's hit the ground in Nigeria.

Here's what Obama said yesterday. It was at a press conference. He wakes up thinking of the Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by these Islamist extremists and wishes he could reach out and save those kids. The most powerful man in the world: I wish I could reach out. And people applaud, what a guy. Everybody wishes those kids could be saved. Nothing unique about that emotion. "I have this remarkable title right now, the president of the United States," Obama said, "And yet every day when I wake up, and I think about young girls in Nigeria or children caught up in the conflict in Syria -- when there are times in which I want to reach out and save those kids."
Now, for the longest time the Regime, both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, refused to categorize this Al-Qaeda group as a terror group. And people are asking why, what is the problem? Andy McCarthy weighed in on this and I think this is the absolute best explanation for this. Clinton, Obama, the left all believe in appeasing these people. They all believe in appeasing our enemies, particularly the most violent of them. They believe that if we just show them we're nonviolent, if we just show them we intend them no harm, if we show them that we understand in ways that they may not think we do, that they will be nicer to us, that they will stop being such bad people, and that at the same time they are promoting peace and stability. And look at Egypt, see how well that's working.
And then again there's this. If you're Obama and you claim to have wiped out Al-Qaeda as they did, running up to the 2012 election... Remember, "GM's alive and bin Laden's dead!" I mean, they claimed they wiped out Al-Qaeda. They wiped out Al-Qaeda; there wasn't any terrorism. This is why a video was responsible for the four dead Americans in Benghazi.
So the plan is to pretend that terrorists and Islamists are unconnected. You downsize in importance and in reality the terror threat. You appease Islamists with the left's version of reaching out in a peaceful way to show that we intend no harm. That's how you are convinced not to put Boko Haram on the terror list, and then you could pretend that the jihadists are not really that important.
"So, yeah, we're just gonna treat 'em like a criminal gang. We're not gonna treat 'em like terrorists. Besides, we don't want to offend Muslims either. There isn't gonna be a war on Islam on our watch." It's embarrassing, folks. It's just literally embarrassing. If you've joined the hashtag, look, I understand the desire to want to be part of a story and to want to show you care.
But in terms of doing anything, that's the problem. The president of the United States's wife is out there grimly frowning, holding up the hashtag sign in the White House. What, is Boko Haram supposed to be so frightened by this that they release these girls that, again, they have kidnapped to sell into slavery? Are they supposed to be so frightened they let them go?
Or are they gonna hear the president say, "Gosh, you know, I wake up every morning, and I just wish there was something I could do"? I just think it's a terrible, terrible illustration/indication of what's happening to our country, managing a nation in decline. By the way, aside from all that, why isn't there any outrage over what's happened here? I mean, here you have a terrorist group kidnapping these African girls.
These would be minorities if they were lived in the United States. Where's the outrage here? Boko Haram just targets Christians. So you treat 'em like a police matter. I don't know. I just... It's embarrassing to me. That's the only point I wanted to make. Angelina Jolie weighed in on this, too, yesterday. This is last night in London.

JOLIE: These men felt that they can get away with this and they can abuse women in such a way -- sell them, rape them, take them as property -- because so many people have gotten away with this in the past.
RUSH: Well, partially, yeah, but they know that all they're up against is a Twitter hashtag. (interruption) Well... (interruption) Are you kidding me? Are you serious? (interruption) Snerdley is telling me in my IFB, "We can't criticize Boko Haram because they're black." Are you kidding me? (interruption) "They're African and they're black and so we can't criticize them for that."
Wow. You know, that's real "slave blood" we're talking about here, Snerdley. I'm gonna tell you something. If that's the case, then the next thing you're gonna tell me is, "We can't criticize the leader because he looks like somebody who lives in Chicago. He looks like one of the gang leaders in Chicago." I mean, do you really think that's true, that you can't criticize people 'cause they're black?
(interruption) Oh, man. (interruption) They're... (interruption) "They're black Islamists and so black Islamists have a special place reserved where they get no outrage and no criticism." Well, look, we're really worrying about nothing, folks. John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, is on the case. This is yesterday Washington.
KERRY: Our interagency team is hitting the ground in Nigeria now, and they are gonna be working in concert with President Goodluck Jonathan's government to do everything that we possibly can to return these girls to their families and their communities. We are also gonna do everything possible to counter the menace from Boko Haram.
RUSH: No, you're not.
KERRY: The entire world --
RUSH: No, you're not.

KERRY: -- should not only be condemning this outrage --
RUSH: It is.
KERRY: -- but should be doing everything possible to help Nigeria in the days ahead.
RUSH: It is. There's a Twitter hashtag out there. Everybody is condemning it, with the power of a Twitter hashtag. So let's see, "Our interagency team is hitting the ground in Nigeria," so a bunch of diplomats are getting off the plane. They're gonna work "in concert with President Goodluck Jonathan's government to do everything we possibly can to return these girls."
Remember, Boko Haram is the group John Kerry criticized earlier this week by pointing out that they don't have a health care plan. This is the group. They don't build schools for the girls that they kidnap and sell into slavery, and they don't have a health care plan for the girls they kidnap and sell into slavery. (interruption)
What, they don't even...? (interruption) No. They don't have recycling. They do not recycle. They are not environmentalists, either. That's why we should really not like these terrorists. They don't have a health care plan for the kidnapped girls, and they don't build schools for anybody. He said it. It's a joke. This whole Regime is nothing but a joke. Sadly, the joke is being played on us each and every day.
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RUSH: Folks, look, I'm not teasing you by delaying the explanation of getting my new implant activated yesterday. You know, I just don't like making everything about me.
This Boko Haram thing, I mean, I took a little heat for this in the media, the minor places. You might not have seen any about it, but it's gonna happen.
I'm gonna do the implant explanation right after this break coming up.
It's one thing for people can't do anything here to have a Twitter hashtag and join the fray. It's like placing flowers along the funeral route for Princess Di. I mean, everybody wants to be part of the story. It's like global warming. Everybody wants to think they're doing something. But the people that can't do anything about this getting behind the Twitter hashtag, fine and dandy.

But for the first lady of the United States and her husband to lead the Twitter hashtag effort here is pathetic, and it's an illustration that begs the question: Is this how powerless we really are? Is this the extent of our abilities? Is this the extent of our willingness to project power around the world?
This is a terrorist group that Mrs. Clinton and Barack Obama would not so designate for obvious reasons. You could say, "Well, why doesn't the Nigerian government go after them?" I don't know, but I'll tell you one thing. This Boko Haram had better -- with John Kerry pointing out that they don't offer health care for the girls that they kidnap -- open an Obamacare exchange pretty damn quick.
Can you believe that they would actually apply to do that? "We want to open an Obamacare exchange here for our kidnapped girls so that we can get the secretary of state to stop criticizing us. We want to show that we have compassion and that we care about people."
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[Watch] Mooch Outraged by Boko Haram, But Not Enough To Call Them Islamic Terrorists

Posted on 11 May, 2014 by Rick Wells


Filling in for her husband on Mother’s Day, Mooch delivers the weekly address, or in this case, the weakly address on behalf of the usurper. She speaks to the abduction of school girls in Nigeria as the work of terrorists. She doesn’t identify them as “Islamic” terrorists, though they are. She doesn’t call the group, Boko Haram, by name either. She doesn’t say anything about how they butcher innocent people in their effort to create an independent “Islamic” state under Sharia Law in northern Nigeria. She’s content just to call them terrorist. Maybe they are the reconstituted Irish Republican Army.
Reading from a script to her front, upper left, the first female attempts to show how concerned she is by putting a personal touch on the kidnapping, as the mother of two young daughters. She conveys how both she and her husband are “outraged and heartbroken.” They aren’t outraged enough to call them for what they are, though.
Mooch also fails to mention the fact that this could have possibly been prevented if the State Department, under Obama’s Democrat Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, hadn’t fought so hard to keep the perpetrators from being labeled a terrorist organization.
In her best Sally Struthers voice and cadence, Mooch describes how she and her husband see their daughters in these girls. One wonders where she got the photos that she and Hussein are reflectively thinking of the victims. Maybe the same place she got the first hand information about the girl’s drive and determination; From a White House script writer.



She goes on to remind us of the story of Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by a Taliban gunman on her school bus. Mooch might not know that the big brave Taliban “men” who choose to prey upon children are also Islamic, making that shooting an act of Islamic terrorism.
She then somehow attempts to contort the abduction into an inspirational message for both boys and girls around the world, including in America. That’s good advice. At the rate her husband and his regime are importing terrorists, permitting those with moderate Islamic terrorist connections to come in if they promise to be nice and not attack us, as well as his insistence on an open southern border, it is inevitable that something similar is in America’s future as well.

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The Boko Haram Girls May Already Have Been Mutilated

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by Phyllis Chesler 12 May 2014, 6:08 AM PDT 28 post a comment
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A new video from Nigeria's Boko Haram militant network purports to show dozens of abducted schoolgirls, wearing hijabs and praying in Arabic. (May 12)





The entire world is focused on the captured Nigerian girls, many scenarios have been envisioned--and yet there is at least one issue no one has raised: That it is entirely possible that these poor girls have also been genitally mutilated. If so, that means that their rapes will be doubly torturous and traumatizing.

And make no mistake: They will be raped by their captors on their "wedding" night and/or over and over again by strangers if they are trafficked into a brothel.

Nigeria is both an African and an increasingly Muslim country. Read the exquisite and excruciating Memoirs about being genitally mutilated by Soraya Mire (The Girl with Three Legs) and Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Infidel), both of whom write about their horrific experiences in Somalia.
Experts have warred over whether female genital mutilation (FGM) is primarily pre-Islamic and tribally African or whether there is a basis for it in Islam. Both points of view have merit.
To the extent to which Boko Haram are following the rules of Islamic Jihad (and they are, they surely are), they will not think of rape as "rape." This is what women are for, to be used, to be profitable, to produce children and be domestic slaves. A Boko Haram warrior will have no conception of how this intimately violent act affects his victim--whom he does not think of as a "victim." These are Western and infidel concepts and Boko Haram--they are forbidden.
Boko Haram are, no doubt, using rape, not as a spoil of war, and not as a weapon of war, but as a form of gender cleansing, also possibly as a form of religious or ethnic cleansing when the victims are not Muslims.
This kind of Jihad-rape was widely practiced in Sudan. Black African girls and women, sent out to forage for firewood and water, were publicly, repeatedly, gang-raped by ethnic Arab Muslims; some children were as young as five or six years old.
Rape shames its victims, it breaks them, they offer no resistance and become resigned to a life of suffering. Many rape victims become clinically depressed and suicidal.
Imagine the pain of being forcibly penetrated when you have been sewn shut and thick scar tissue exists where there was once a clitoris, labia, and a vagina.
According to UNICEF, the U.S. State Department, and a variety of medical reports, either there are 30 million genitally mutilated women in Nigeria; or 41% of the female population has been mutilated. One report guesstimated that between 10-90% of women in the state of Borno, where Boko Haram are based, have been genitally mutilated.
In 2007, Thomas von der Osten-Sacken and Thomas Uwer wrote in the Middle East Quarterly, "there are indications that FGM might be a phenomenon of epidemic proportions in the Arab Middle East" and being done, not for African tribal reasons, but for Islamic reasons. The authors note that, surprisingly, FGM has been widely practiced in "Iraqi Kurdistan and in other parts of the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf." They believe that Arab Muslim societies are not free or stable enough to allow serious research on this subject. The women who perform this atrocity believe they are doing what the Qu'ran or the Hadith command.
In 2013, Shereen El Feki, in Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World, documented the epidemic nature of FGM in Egypt where more than 90% of the women have been mutilated. Increasingly, doctors and nurses perform the procedure. El Feki writes: "Those who support FGM believe they have God on their side...that the practice is obligatory for Muslims....the Prophet Muhammad is said to have advised a female practitioner in Medina to "not cut too severely as that is better for a woman and more desirable for a husband."
Whether FGM is truly a "Muslim" obligation or whether it isn't, what matters is that so many Muslims believe it is and therefore act accordingly.
I hope that U.S. Navy Seals are on the ground and about to find these poor girls. I fear their fate was sealed long ago when radical Islam arose in the world again and the West, for many reasons, did nothing to stop it.

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