Call It By Its Name
More than 300 girls have been kidnapped from a Christian school in Nigeria by Boko Haram, an al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamist terrorist group. 50 girls have managed to escape, but 276 are still in the hands of the terrorists. The monsters who took these children, these precious, innocent daughters of God, are threatening to sell them into sexual slavery unless their demands are met. They are already forcing them to convert to Islam at the point of a gun.
And while the government of Nigeria does little or nothing to protect its own citizens, our president has heroically started a Twitter campaign to shame these beasts into releasing their captives.
Bravo, Mr. President. How very brave of you.
We’ll invade Libya to remove one brutal dictator in order to install another group of Islamofacists. We’ll arm al-Qaeda in Syria in order to remove Assad and install a regime which forces women and girls into sex-jihad and films one of its leaders literally eating the heart of a Syrian soldier. In Egypt, we cheer and finance a regime that at best tolerates, if not encourages, the rape and forced Islamic “marriages” of Christian girls who were abducted off the street. Your tax dollars at work!
But when a pack of inhuman jackals kidnaps innocent children and plans to force them into sexual slavery in the name of Allah, we care enough to start a Twitter campaign?
I don’t care what possible justification the Boko Haram animals give for what they have done. There can be no justification for abduction and rape. We can debate forever whether Islam justifies such behavior, but the monsters, at least, claim that it does.
How can we possibly understand these fiends?
Well, we can thank our lucky stars for Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, a British author, journalist, and scholar. Dr. Ahmed explains in his op-ed in The Guardian (a London-based newspaper and news website) that the reason why these poor girls have been kidnapped and will be forced into sexual slavery is—wait for it—it’s not the esteemed Dr. Ahmed’s Muslim faith—no, no—it’s not socialist/Marxist/Islamist dehumanization of women—it’s…
GLOBAL WARMING!
Yep! That’s right! You guessed it! Big Oil! The USA! Your SUV! You! Me! We’re the ones who caused this!
Thank you, Dr. Ahmed, for setting us all straight!
Sadly, I’m not making this up. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/may/09/behind-rise-nigeria-boko-haram-climate-disaster-peak-oil-depletion Do us all a favor and DON’T click on this link. We don’t need to give this cretin any credence.
Or do click on it. Maybe the esteemed scholar is right. Climate change does justify rape. You be the judge.
In MY judgment, what Boko Haram has done is evil. To me, the reasons don’t matter.
When are we going to call evil by its name?
And no, before I get a call from the IRS, I’m not saying that the name is “Islam”. That’s NOT the point. I don’t care if the justification given is a fanatical devotion to some warped version of Christianity or a worship of the Earth.
Evil is EVIL, regardless of the ideology used to justify it.
Even Bill Maher—a man with whom I agree on almost nothing—gets that. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/10/bill-maher-liberals-too-soft-islam-elephant-room/ Even he understands that we have to stop making excuses for the monsters. We have to stop defending them.
We have to call evil by its name.
And all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing.
But, hey, a Twitter campaign is more than nothing, right?
Maybe we should all decide right now to reduce our carbon footprint. That’ll save those girls. You bet ya.
