Saturday, May 3, 2014

REPLAY OF SABINE ABDUCTION IN NIGERIA

SAY NO TO "HELP" FROM OBAMA TO RESCUE GIRLS

The Boko Haram of Nigeria seem to have taken their clue from the early settlers of Rome.
According to Virgil and the formation myth of Rome, the first generation of Roman settlers, single male immigrants from Troy, acquired wives from the local Latium Sabine tribe in 750 BC by simply abducting them during the festival of Neptune Equester.

Nigeria, a state in south west African, which is Islamic in the north and Christian in the south,  has been torn by religious strife since 2009. That date marks the emergence of a quasi religious-political group known as " Boko Haram" which has been responsible for over 1500 deaths, bombing, and abductions since its formation in 2009. The name "Boko Haram" ( apparently derived from the French, "boucoup", and the Arabic ( ? )"harram"  meaning "sinful" thus: " very much sinful") and is  often interpreted in the west as: "sinful western culture" or "sinful western education", tells much about what they are about.

On April 14, in the State of Borno in Nigeria, the schools in the district had all been closed due to the danger from attacks by the BH Islamic extremists.  One school in the district remained opened where young women, aged 15 to 18 years of age, were assigned to take their exams. It was at this school that more than 300 young women were abducted by the Boko Harram.  Subsequently, some fifty young women escaped and revealed that the abducted girls were forced into marriage contracts with either the Boko Harram or other Islamic  men. Some claim the Boko Haram sold the women for a $12 dollar marriage contract. Others assert that the women were taken into neighboring Niger, and Chad and dispersed widely over the countryside. Their parents are  understandably aroused and concerned. They have demonstrated for the return of their children.

This is a sad and strange story. But President Obama's recently reported promise  to "help" the Nigerians find and return the girls seems another  ill advised move into an area of sectarian conflict in a Moslem world where we have little experience and could only make things worse.  He would be better advised to send humanitarian supplies and keep our troops and military help at home.