Actually I meant that generally people don't care what happens in Africa. We'd have 24 hour rolling coverage if this had happened to a group of white girls.
We still seem to get every possible update on Madeline McCann's disappearance. In seven year's time this African girls will be long forgotten, whatever the outcome.
Aminata Ahmed Dicko, 14, from Timbuktu, Mali
'The men who have taken the Nigerian schoolgirls are the same types as we had here't
Going to school is important to me because I want to be chief prosecutor of the international criminal court, like Fatou Bensouda. We need more justice in Africa.
My school was closed for nearly two years when the jihadists occupied Timbuktu. They used the school as a firing range and chopped up the desks for firewood.
The men who have taken the Nigerian schoolgirls are the same types as we had here. You cannot called them Muslims. They are just criminals. We had thought they were nice people but what we saw went far beyond the limits of Islam. They raped and beat girls. There were unwanted pregnancies. If they saw a girl who was not properly dressed they would take her away to the prison. I never went to their prison but I heard there was a mattress in the prison with a blanket and a mosquito net, and when they had finished with the girl they would send her home. People thought she had been imprisoned but actually she had been raped.
My father, who is a Marabout [traditional Muslim preacher, considered heretical by fundamentalists], made me and my four sisters stay at home. We did household chores and read the Qur'an. If we went out it was for quick errands, never after dark. We had to wear those big veils that they imposed on us. Our father told us to pray day and night for the liberation of Timbuktu. Our prayers were answered when the French came.
School is important but even in peacetime we do not have the equipment and means – like electricity or computers – to study to high standards. During the occupation, one of my teachers organised secret lessons at his house. He was very brave because he taught girls and boys together. But he had to stop after the jihadists came to his house one day.
We went back to school in November last year but my school has only six teachers and more than 1,000 pupils. A few weeks before we went back to school there was a suicide car bombing on the army barracks just 100 metres from Bahadou. Flying debris punched a hole in the roof. It was them again.
We are still frightened. Even now there are regular rumours that a jihadist pick-up has been seen or whatever. When that happens we are all sent home.
It is easier to be a boy than a girl. Many girls get married really young. If they want to continue to go to school they have to defy their husbands. That is a sin so you would not do it. Marriage is a gift from God but if you are a girl you must resist it for as long as possible.
Why do you think this is so Mac?
Are you suggesting we are all white supremacist racists? From my own point of view, everything that comes from Africa is so utterly horrific, it's actually overwhelming. One mind boggling atrocity quickly superceded by another and probably dozens we never hear about in between. How can we maintain the outrage of so many so very appalling incidents?
I think it's more what we relate to. A white child from an upper middle class family being abducted while on holiday hits home more than black girls being kidnapped in a country that many would struggle to point to on a map. You'd struggle to find an Azaria Chamberlain, Daniel Morcombe type crime that received as much coverage where the victim wasn't white.
I agree with you that most of what comes out of Africa is pretty horrific.
Are you suggesting we are all white supremacist racists? From my own point of view, everything that comes from Africa is so utterly horrific, it's actually overwhelming. One mind boggling atrocity quickly superceded by another and probably dozens we never hear about in between. How can we maintain the outrage of so many so very appalling incidents?
Actually I meant that generally people don't care what happens in Africa. We'd have 24 hour rolling coverage if this had happened to a group of white girls.
We still seem to get every possible update on Madeline McCann's disappearance. In seven year's time this African girls will be long forgotten, whatever the outcome.
McLovin, my comment wasn't directed toward you. I agree with what you say.Why do you think this is so Mac?
Are you suggesting we are all white supremacist racists? From my own point of view, everything that comes from Africa is so utterly horrific, it's actually overwhelming. One mind boggling atrocity quickly superceded by another and probably dozens we never hear about in between. How can we maintain the outrage of so many so very appalling incidents?
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I think Wayne has summed it up well. The amount of horrific behaviour in the world does become overwhelming. Most of us will feel overwhelmed and see little point in joining in an "isn't it awful" chorus on the internet.
Seeing you are apparently the spokesperson for "most of us" I apologise for starting the thread. I will bow out now...suitably chastened.:bowdown:
Hardly worth responding to such childish pique.Seeing you are apparently the spokesperson for "most of us" I apologise for starting the thread. I will bow out now...suitably chastened.:bowdown:
Aceh woman, gang-raped by vigilantes for alleged adultery, now to be flogged
Sharia police in the Indonesian province of Aceh will publicly flog a young woman for adultery after she was turned in by eight vigilantes who had already gang-raped her as punishment.
The woman, a 25-year-old widow, and her alleged partner, a married 40-year old man, were caught inside her home last Thursday by a group of eight who were intent on enforcing the sharia prohibition on sex outside marriage, local media reports say.
The eight, who included a 13-year-old boy, tied up and beat the man and repeatedly raped the woman before dousing both in raw sewage.
They then marched the couple to the office of the local sharia police.
Ibrahim Latif, the head of the sharia police, or Wilayatul Hisbah in the town of Langsa, in Aceh’s far south-east, was quoted in The Jakarta Globe saying: “We want the couple caned because they violated the religious bylaw on sexual relations”.
Under the sharia law, which is peculiar to Aceh, each of the couple faces nine strokes of the cane in a public place.
The woman’s ordeal at the hands of her accusers would not be taken into account in delivering the sentence, Mr Ibrahim said.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/aceh-woman-gangraped-by-vigilantes-for-alleged-adultery-now-to-be-flogged-20140507-zr5x3.html#ixzz31Ckgw1dr
Boko Haram and the Kidnapped Schoolgirls
The Nigerian terror group reflects the general Islamist hatred of women's rights. When will the West wake up?
By AYAAN HIRSI ALI
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles...0001424052702303701304579549603782621352.html
(my bolds)It is also time for Western liberals to wake up. If they choose to regard Boko Haram as an aberration, they do so at their peril. The kidnapping of these schoolgirls is not an isolated tragedy; their fate reflects a new wave of jihadism that extends far beyond Nigeria and poses a mortal threat to the rights of women and girls. If my pointing this out offends some people more than the odious acts of Boko Haram, then so be it.
There are many issues discussed on this forum that we can do little about. The main thing is to raise people's awareness while trying to stay within the boundaries of political correctness.my feelings are similar to those expressed by others in that there is very little we can do about the situation, so is there any point in discussing it at length ?
Saturday 10 May 2014 8:05AM
Nigeria Image: London protest against the kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian school girls (May 9th 2014) (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
Fresh allegations from Amnesty International report that Nigerian authorities were warned about the likely attack on the school resulting in over 200 girls being abducted. Some teachers who were also warned allegedly kept some of the girls at home away from harm. There are also reports that the kidnapped girls have been separated into four groups increasing the difficulty in finding all the girls.
http://www.steynonline.com/6326/bringbackourballsIt is hard not to have total contempt for a political culture that thinks the picture at right is a useful contribution to rescuing 276 schoolgirls kidnapped by jihadist savages in Nigeria. Yet some pajama boy at the White House evidently felt getting the First Lady to pose with this week's Hashtag of Western Impotence would reflect well upon the Administration. The horrible thing is they may be right: Michelle showed she cared - on social media! - and that's all that matters, isn't it?
Just as the last floppo hashtag, #WeStandWithUkraine, didn't actually involve standing with Ukraine, so #BringBackOurGirls doesn't require bringing back our girls. There are only a half-dozen special forces around the planet capable of doing that without getting most or all of the hostages killed: the British, the French, the Americans, Israelis, Germans, Aussies, maybe a couple of others. So, unless something of that nature is being lined up, those schoolgirls are headed into slavery, and the wretched pleading passivity of Mrs Obama's hashtag is just a form of moral preening.
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