Nigeria unveils 'Africa's biggest Jesus statue'

Nigeria unveils 'Africa's biggest Jesus statue' https://t.co/08PweLja23 pic.twitter.com/22cMWd6EQZ

— Agence France-Presse (@AFP) January 2, 2016

Obama to Nigerian Christians: Change Laws on Abortion, Homosexuality If You Want Protection from Boko Haram

◼ A Catholic Bishop from Nigeria has leveled an explosive charge against President Barack Obama over his failure to adequately help Nigeria in the African nation’s fight againt the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram that might explain why Obama has let Boko Haram slaughter Nigerian Christians and rape and enslave Christian girls. - Jim Hoft/Gateway Pundit

Bishop Emmanuel Badejo spoke ◼ in Rome to Aleteia, saying of the Obama administration:

“The United States actually said it would help Nigeria with Boko Haram only if we modify our laws concerning homosexuality, family planning, and birth control.”

A Wall Street Journal article about an interview with Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan published last week described “various issues” supposedly keeping the Obama administration from providing more support to Nigeria in its fight against Boko Haram, but did not mention the morals issues claimed by Bishop Badejo....

In August 2014, then U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman(R-TX) made a similar charge to Bishop Badejo’s, saying the Obama administration was withholding aid to Nigeria in the fight against Boko Haram in part over Nigeria’s “social policy.”

The charge was denied by a State Department offical at ◼ a recent House hearing.

...A Reuters article on Western criticism of the law noted that Nigeria not being dependent on Western financial aid gave those governments little leverage to pressure Nigeria. If Bishop Badejo is correct, President Obama has decided the leverage he has is to punish Nigeria by letting Boko Haram slaughter Christians and rape and enslave Christian girls.

"nobody seems to be talking about Boko Haram these days — and that includes the White House"

◼ Obama goes quiet on Boko Haram - Brian Hughes/Washington Examiner

It started with a groundswell of support and an appeal to “Bring Back Our Girls.” Ten months later, with most of those Nigerian schoolgirls no closer to being home, the White House rarely invokes the mounting atrocities committed by Boko Haram.

As President Obama devotes more time to confronting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria — he requested formal war powers on Wednesday — and as his administration increasingly focuses on the bloodshed in Ukraine, the rising body count in Nigeria has become just a passing reference.

The real #BlackLivesMatter

In terms of sheer barbarism, Boko Haram puts ISIS to shame. http://t.co/Hmas8Mo3lG pic.twitter.com/fccKMIQN8f

— novaculus (@novaculus) January 12, 2015

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2000 killed in Nigeria by Islamists.. Please RT to share the story! #BokoHaram #RedNationRising #AllLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/IA1BOa3YxA

— Jonas Christensen (@JonasChr88) January 11, 2015

◼ Nigeria´s Horror in Paris´s Shadow - Matt Schiavenza/Atlantic

Why a 10-year-old suicide bomber isn't front-page news

◼ Running the background of unity rally like a porno
film, this fresh horror. - Join the Discussion at Lucianne

From the comments: kahunavol: The real #blacklivesmatter.

UN condemns Boko Haram's 'depraved act' as child suicide bombers attack northern Nigeria market: http://t.co/I3YDjZ4Asq

— Greta Van Susteren (@greta) January 12, 2015

#BokoHaram is more proof that "Black Lives Don't Matter"! The world mourns #franceattack, but silent on #Nigeria. #BlackLivesMatter #prolife

— Ξ BLACK REPUBLICAN Ξ (@blackrepublican) January 12, 2015

2016 and Paris: It’s the Jihad, Stupid!

◼ Forget the economy, forget education, forget even Obamacare. - Roger L. Simon/PJM

...if you don’t think what happened in Paris can happen here, you’re out of your bloomin’ mind. It already has, as everybody knows, and the chances are about 99.9999% it will again. (We could be hit by an asteroid instead, saving us from the jihadis.)

Meanwhile, under the watch of the man who masquerades under the moniker of president of the United States, someone who can barely muster a dopey three-minute speech filled with banalities about the killings in France, radical Islam has metastasized across the world in a manner only dreamed of on 9/11. A map on Gretawire shows terror networks cutting a wide swathe across the planet, from South America through North Africa on to the Indian subcontinent and then into South-East Asia. In a sense the map should already include Western Europe, the way things are going.

And most likely things are going to get worse. Al Qaeda (operating with impunity in Syria, Yemen and elsewhere) and ISIS (with a state of its own the size of Indiana) are in a pissing contest for terrorist maniacs of the year while Boko Haram is doing its best to exterminate everyone in Nigeria, and apparently succeeding – all in the name of Allah. And our president never uses the word “Islamic” or acknowledges that we are at war — even though, quite obviously, the Islamists are at war with us and with Western civilization. And they seem just to be getting started.... KEEP READING

Boko Haram Torches Nigerian Town of Baga; 2,000 Missing: Senator

◼ More than 2,000 people are unaccounted for after radical Islamist sect Boko Haram torched more than 10 towns and villages in Nigeria, a local lawmaker told NBC News.

Ahmed Zanna, a senator for Borno state where the attack happened, said the militants razed the town of Baga as well as "10-to-20" other communities in the country's rural northeast over the past five days. "These towns are just gone, burned down," he told NBC News via telephone. "The whole area is covered in bodies."

...Nigeria will hold general elections on February 14, a ballot many expect Boko Haram will attempt to disrupt. The group, whose name roughly translates to "Western education is sinful," has slaughtered and kidnapped thousands and wants to establish a state in northern Nigeria based on strict Islamic law.

Baga, Nigeria is now virtually non-existent. It has been burnt down by the Islamic terrorists known as Boko Haram. http://t.co/JQzclkKMpe

— Lag O'Morph (@lagomorph13) January 9, 2015

http://t.co/bfo7RcYAa0 Nigeria: 2,000 missing and bodies littering streets as Muslims raid town

— Robert Spencer (@jihadwatchRS) January 9, 2015

NIGERIAN EXTREMIST SAYS KIDNAPPED GIRLS MARRIED

◼ With a malevolent laugh, the leader of Nigeria's Islamic extremists tells the world that more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls have all been converted to Islam and married off, dashing hopes for their freedom. - AP

"If you knew the state your daughters are in today, it might lead some of you ... to die from grief," Abubakar Shekau sneers, addressing the parents of the girls and young women kidnapped from a remote boarding school more than six months ago.

In a new video released late Friday night, the Boko Haram leader also denies there is a cease-fire with the Nigerian government and threatens to kill an unidentified German hostage.

"Don't you know we are still holding your German hostage (who is) always crying," he taunts. "If we want, we will hack him or slaughter him or shoot him."

◼ ISIS gives tips on how to be a good jihadi wife - New York Post

In one YouTube video, the group outlines in Arabic how women can use “feminine manual labor” to make their militants happy.

It appears Boko Haram has discovered a new use for the kidnapped schoolgirls

◼ Boko Haram Animals Use 10-yr-old Girl as Latest Suicide Bomber - Patriot Update

There has been a series of female suicide bombings in the city of Kano this August and it was the fourth bombing carried out by a female in the past week. The latest came when a female suicide bomber blew herself up at a college in Kano, Nigeria, killing 6 people. According to reports the bomber was a female teenager.

Government spokesman Mike Omeria said, “Security forces arrested 3 Boko Haram suspects in Katsina state, two of them were female. One was a 10-year old girl who had an explosive belt strapped to her by the others.” The thing is at that age she was totally unaware of what they had put on her (a belt of explosives) or that they had been detonating these explosive belts by remote control after the girls were close enough to their target.

A military source has revealed to Daily Mail, that some of the explosives used recently on the female suicide bombers sent by Boko Haram have been traced back to a Chinese mining factory which was seized just weeks ago by the sect. Circumstantial evidence strongly suggests that none of the teenage girls were informed about the suicide mission. When girls were supposedly sent on errands the sect members stayed hidden but close enough to use remote controls to detonate the Improvised Explosive Devise (IED’s)....

'NIGERIA SECURITY TRACKER' MAPS OUT BOKO HARAM VIOLENCE SINCE 2011

◼ Experts at the Council on Foreign Relations, led by former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria John Campbell, have been using media reports to track the number of political or religious deaths in Nigeria since 2011. Their research exposes the alarming speed at which Boko Haram established its reign of terror and how it continues to spread. - Frances Martel/Breitbart

The Nigeria Security Tracker follows deaths that can be attributable to a terror group or tensions between ethnic, political, or religious groups. While the tracker does follow all varieties of this sort of violence, its findings suggest that Boko Haram is far and away the most dangerous group conducting these deadly activities. The group, which has existed in its current state under leader Abubakar Shekau since 2009, is to blame for a great number of these deaths.

When announcing the tracker in 2012, the Council on Foreign Relations noted that Boko Haram was also responsible indirectly for a number of deaths thanks to inefficient attempts by the Nigerian government to fight them. "Government soldiers have been indiscriminate in their fight against Boko Haram, often killing innocent civilians," noted Campbell. "Police across the country are notorious for extrajudicial murder. Violent clashes between ethnic or occupational groups at times appear indicative of a deeper conflict between Christians and Muslims."

At the time, the U.S. Department of State under Hillary Clinton refused to add Boko Haram to a list of terror organizations, despite the number of attacks already attributable to the radical Islamist group....

The tracker has found that Boko Haram is responsible for ◼ more than 4,000 deaths in 2014.... Boko Haram opposes the education of girls and has kidnapped girls to use as cooks and sex slaves. It has killed hundreds of children.

The group seeks to replace Nigeria's government with a ultra-strict Islamic state.
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◼ PALIN: OBAMA ADMIN'S 'LAZY' & 'NAIVE' HASHTAG ACTIVISM 'EMBARRASSING' - Tony Lee/Breitbart

...Palin blasted the Obama administration's "embarrassing" reliance on junior high-like tweets and tickles in place of a foreign policy rooted in peace through strength."

"Diplomacy via Twitter is the lazy, ineffectual, naïve, and insulting way for America’s leaders to deal with major national and international issues," she said. "If you’re going to get involved anyway, Mr. President, learn to understand this and believe it, then announce it: Victory is only brought to you 'courtesy of the red, white and blue.' It’s certainly not won by your mere 'unfriending' the bad guys on Facebook. Leading from behind is not the American way."

Palin noted that under Obama, "Hillary Clinton’s State Department repeatedly refused to recognize Boko Haram as terrorists despite their conventional, predictable Islamic terrorist rants, training, and mission."

She added that the kidnapped Nigerian girls are now in a "life and death" situation in the hands of terrorists and asked, "And what is the Obama administration’s weapon of choice in this battle for these young girls’ lives? Hashtagging tweets on social media!"

Palin then said, "like the patriot writes in this photo, winning takes Warriors":

If you intend to rescue these innocent girls whose only “crime” was seeking an education despite the threats of insane Islamic terrorists who drag women back to the Stone Age (see, Liberals, THAT is the real “war on women” so quit making it up that conservatives wage it), then you need to send a message to the world that our United States military is the strongest force to protect the good guys, and the most deadly against the bad guys. Pretty simple, the world needs to know America is still on the side of the good guys.

BEYOND THE HASHTAG: BOKO HARAM AND THE FAILURE OF OBAMA'S COUNTER-TERRORISM STRATEGY

No mention of Islam in Michelle Obama’s radio address about the Armed African Girl-Rapers of Unknown Motive

◼ Boko Haram and the Jihad in Africa - The Other McCain
◼ 'In these girls, Barack and I see our own daughters': Michelle Obama demands justice for Boko Haram kidnap girls in White House's weekly radio address - Daily Mail [UK]
◼ All Tweet, No Action - William Kristol/Weekly Standard
◼ Stop making excuses for Islamist extremist monsters - New York Post

◼ Paraded by a blood-crazed fanatic, the terrified schoolgirl captives: Boko Haram release chilling videos of missing Nigerian girls as they reveal they have all been forced to convert to Islam - Daily Mail [UK]

◼ Some of the schoolgirls captured by extremist group Boko Haram on April 14 have been paraded on video
◼ More than 200 girls were abducted by the Islamist militants from a village in the north-east of Nigeria
◼ Boko Harum leader has said that he will release the captured girls in return for militant prisoners being freed
◼ The Nigerian government has reportedly rejected this offer and has two army divisions hunting for the seized girls
◼ Governor of state where they were seized - Borno - claims to know where they are
◼ Kashim Shettima said he'd received reports of sightings of the girls and had passed this information to the military
◼ Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, calls for negotiations with the terrorist group, which he says is 'merciless'

◼ VIDEO: Nigerian captors convert hostage girls to Islam - CNN

The girls sit quietly on the ground, dressed in traditional Islamic garb, barely moving, clearly scared.
"Praise be to Allah, the lord of the world," they chant.
The video, released by French news agency Agence France-Presse, purports to show about 100 of the 276 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram fighters nearly a month ago. It's the first time they've been seen since their abduction April 14.

In separate shots included in the 27-minute video, a man says he will release the girls only after imprisoned members of Boko Haram are freed, according to AFP.

The man identifies himself as Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau. Nigerian officials disputed that claim on Monday, arguing that Shekau is dead. Other experts say the notorious terror group leader is still alive.

◼ Boko Haram offers swap

◼ George Will, Brit Hume Blast #BringBackOurGirls: ‘Exercise in Self-Esteem’ - Mediaite

On Fox News Sunday this morning, Fox News contributors George Will and Brit Hume mocked the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, a piece of Twitter activism intended to increase pressure on the Nigerian government and international community to more actively seek the return of over 200 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls, arguing the campaign was intended solely to soothe the consciouses of those tweeting.

◼ Boko Haram’s Bin Laden Connection - Eli Lake/Daily Beast

Some intelligence analysts believe that Osama bin Laden provided everything from seed money to strategic direction to the now-infamous Nigerian terror group.

◼ Nigeria abducted girls: More heartbreak and tears, but little progress - CNN
◼ U.S. needs tougher foreign policy than ‘hashtags and selfies’ - Washington Times
◼ Thousands of women and girls flee Boko Haram zealots in Nigeria - Sunday Express [UK]
◼ Don't forget that Boko Haram targets boys as well as girls - BBC News [UK]
◼ Beyond the hashtag - New York Post/Editorial

It’s now been four weeks since nearly 300 schoolgirls in the Nigerian village of Chibok were kidnapped from their school by the radical jihadist group Boko Haram.

Precious time was lost almost from the start. The Nigerian military was slow to respond to warnings from Boko Haram that it was planning an attack because girls were trying to get an education. Even after the April 14 kidnapping, it took more than two weeks for the world at large to wake to the horror of this incident.

◼ BOKO HARAM AND THE FAILURE OF OBAMA'S COUNTER-TERRORISM STRATEGY - Breitbart´s Big Peace

During Hillary Clinton’s tenure, the State Department failed to designate Boko Haram a terrorist organization, in spite of the fact that Boko Haram had become second only to the Taliban as the deadliest terrorist organization. Clinton will rightly have to bear blame for that, but the lack of a designation also reflects the much deeper problem of the Obama administration’s overall approach to Islamic extremism. It is an approach that has led to bad policies, not only with regard to Boko Haram, but also to Iran, the Syrian rebels, Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Benghazi.

The heart of the problem is that President Barack Obama and many of his top counter-terrorism advisers see Islamic extremism from the leftist perspective of social movement theory....

◼ Hillary Clinton failed Nigerian girls - Boston Herald
◼ State Department compared Nigeria's Boko Haram crisis to religious minorities in United States - Joel Gehrke/Washington Examiner @joelmentum

@MarkSteynOnline I thought you would like this Mark: pic.twitter.com/GX9zg80uvK

— Papa Giorgio (@papagiorgio200) May 10, 2014

◼ #BringBackOurBalls - MARK STEYN (image: Pamela Gellar)

@Ranger_Up's got a point y'know... #BringBackOurGirls #HashtagsDontDoShit pic.twitter.com/k3PHeuyhhA

— Nate Anderson (@N_J_Anderson) May 9, 2014

◼ ‘Reality slap’ photo puts first lady’s hashtag activism in brutal perspective [pic] - Twitchy

#hashtagswillnotbringyourgirlsback #highlytrainedoperatorswill #rangerup