Twelve Dollars and Fifty Cents
My wife and I recently rescued a cat. We call her Tikki. She was a shelter animal. She’s a sweet little thing: a gray tabby, affectionate, and utterly adorable.
I’m sure we could have found someone giving away free kittens or even an adult cat, but my wife wanted to save a life.
It cost us $40 to rescue her.
As I mentioned in May in this blog, during the night of April 14-15 this year, 276 Christian schoolgirls, aged 16-18, were kidnapped by Boko Haram, an Islamist terrorist group. Some of the girls escaped, but at least 200 girls are still in captivity. They have been raped, forcibly “converted” to Islam, and forcibly “married” to their fiendish kidnappers or sold into sexual slavery.
The going price for one of these precious daughters of God?
$12.50.
For that amount of money, I can buy a bottle of bug spray, a can-opener, a Dr. Seuss book, or a ticket to the movies. A cat is valued at more than 3 times the value of a priceless child.
Or if I were a subhuman fiend who believes that women and girls have no value beyond breeding and sexual gratification, I could purchase a girl to rape.
The abductions made the news for a little while. We were outraged. The US military launched a single surveillance drone to search for these precious girls and the vicious animals who took them, raped them, and sold them for the price of a bottle of Raid. 16 US soldiers joined in the search.
Oh, and of course, the president and first lady of the United States launched a Twitter campaign.
That was back in May. After the initial news reports and the oh-so-effective social media blitz, we have been unable to rescue a single child or locate the pack of predators who took them. I wonder if we are even looking anymore. The Twitter campaign certainly isn’t trending right now.
Maybe we just don’t care anymore.
I mean, hey, we have to stop Hobby Lobby and the Mormon Church from waging a war on women, right?
I don’t know how to help the victims of Boko Haram, except to name the monsters. Boko Haram and their ilk are evil. Evil. I don’t care what they claim their motivations are. They claim to serve God. But they are not godly. They are evil.
I don’t know how to help their victims, but I do know how to help victims of other demons like Boko Haram.
Please check out Operation Underground Railroad at https://www.ourrescue.org/ .
These brave men are actively rescuing children from the sexual slavery. Give them $12.50 or more. See what they can do with it. My wife and I support OUR. In August, our small contributions helped rescue 26 girls.
26 precious children rescued from sexual slavery.
May we never forget the victims.
