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Feb 27, 2021 18:08:17   #
dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA
 
Muhammed Owned Several Slaves, Four of his Slaves Were Black and He Was Involved in Slave Trade
By Steven Ahle
February 27, 2021

Just in case you weren’t aware of the level of hypocrisy here …

Will BLM go after Muslims because the Prophet owned and sold slaves. Unlike most cultures, Muslims had slaves from many different cultures.


Four of Muhammed’s slaves were from Africa.

So if Jefferson and Washington are banned for owning slaves, should Muhammed be allowed to remain?

And if Washington is to be banned, what about the Washington Post or that liberal rag from the capital of Ohio, The Columbus Dispatch.


Shouldn’t they change their name?

This appears to be a slippery slope to me.


Via Cambridge

Six out of ca. twenty slaves and freed slaves of Muhammad were either fully or partially of African descent. Al-Tabari Kitab al-Rusul, 1778, 1780–81; Ibn Saʿd, al-Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir, 1:2:180, 184; Ibn Hisham, Kitab Sirat Rasul Allah, 486, 999. On Muhammad’s foster mother, see Rotter, Die Stellung, 26; and n. 1. Four out of twelve of the slaves of the fighting muhājirūn in Badr were black. Ibn Hisham, Kitab Sirat Rasul Allah, 486–503. This high number of African slaves is also confirmed by Azraqi, Kitab Akhbar Makka, 464, 486; and Muhammad ibn Habib, Muhabbar, ed. I. Lichtenstader (Beirut: n.p., 1943), 306ff.


From The Gateway Pundit

Narrated Jabir bin Abdullah: A man decided that a slave of his would-be manumitted after his death and later on he was in need of money, so the Prophet took the slave and said, “Who will buy this slave from me?” Nu’aim bin ‘Abdullah bought him for such and such price and the Prophet gave him the slave.
— Sahih al-Bukhari, 3:34:351 see also Sahih al-Bukhari, 3:51:598 Sahih al-Bukhari, 8:79:707 Sahih al-Bukhari, 9:85:80 Sahih al-Bukhari, 3:51:588 Sahih al-Bukhari, 3:46:711 Sahih al-Bukhari, 9:89:296

Jabir (Allah be pleased with him) reported: There came a slave and pledged allegiance to Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) on migration; he (the Holy Prophet) did not know that he was a slave. Then there came his master and demanded him back, whereupon Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) said: Sell him to me. And he bought him for two black slaves, and he did not afterward take allegiance from anyone until he had asked him whether he was a slave (or a free man)
— Sahih Muslim, 10:3901

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Feb 27, 2021 18:21:11   #
Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall
 
dtucker300 wrote:
Muhammed Owned Several Slaves, Four of his Slaves Were Black and He Was Involved in Slave Trade
By Steven Ahle
February 27, 2021

Just in case you weren’t aware of the level of hypocrisy here …

Will BLM go after Muslims because the Prophet owned and sold slaves. Unlike most cultures, Muslims had slaves from many different cultures.


Four of Muhammed’s slaves were from Africa.

So if Jefferson and Washington are banned for owning slaves, should Muhammed be allowed to remain?

And if Washington is to be banned, what about the Washington Post or that liberal rag from the capital of Ohio, The Columbus Dispatch.


Shouldn’t they change their name?

This appears to be a slippery slope to me.


Via Cambridge

Six out of ca. twenty slaves and freed slaves of Muhammad were either fully or partially of African descent. Al-Tabari Kitab al-Rusul, 1778, 1780–81; Ibn Saʿd, al-Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir, 1:2:180, 184; Ibn Hisham, Kitab Sirat Rasul Allah, 486, 999. On Muhammad’s foster mother, see Rotter, Die Stellung, 26; and n. 1. Four out of twelve of the slaves of the fighting muhājirūn in Badr were black. Ibn Hisham, Kitab Sirat Rasul Allah, 486–503. This high number of African slaves is also confirmed by Azraqi, Kitab Akhbar Makka, 464, 486; and Muhammad ibn Habib, Muhabbar, ed. I. Lichtenstader (Beirut: n.p., 1943), 306ff.


From The Gateway Pundit

Narrated Jabir bin Abdullah: A man decided that a slave of his would-be manumitted after his death and later on he was in need of money, so the Prophet took the slave and said, “Who will buy this slave from me?” Nu’aim bin ‘Abdullah bought him for such and such price and the Prophet gave him the slave.
— Sahih al-Bukhari, 3:34:351 see also Sahih al-Bukhari, 3:51:598 Sahih al-Bukhari, 8:79:707 Sahih al-Bukhari, 9:85:80 Sahih al-Bukhari, 3:51:588 Sahih al-Bukhari, 3:46:711 Sahih al-Bukhari, 9:89:296

Jabir (Allah be pleased with him) reported: There came a slave and pledged allegiance to Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) on migration; he (the Holy Prophet) did not know that he was a slave. Then there came his master and demanded him back, whereupon Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) said: Sell him to me. And he bought him for two black slaves, and he did not afterward take allegiance from anyone until he had asked him whether he was a slave (or a free man)
— Sahih Muslim, 10:3901
Muhammed Owned Several Slaves, Four of his Slaves ... (show quote)


To be fair, Islamic slavery wasn't racially based....

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Feb 27, 2021 18:26:59   #
Parky60 Loc: People's Republic of Illinois
 
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
To be fair, Islamic slavery wasn't racially based....

I see...so it was OK then.

Why is it you are always so quick to defend Islam yet are just as quick to mock Christianity canuckus?

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Feb 27, 2021 18:41:02   #
dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA
 
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
To be fair, Islamic slavery wasn't racially based....


What's fair about it? This isn't about Islam or Islamic slavery. It's about BLM hypocrisy and leftist cancel culture (because four of Mohammed's slaves were black). I thought that was made quite clear in the article.

BTW, to be fair, what are you doing to protest the Communist Chinese Party's treatment of Uyghurs? They are Islamic. This amounts to nothing more than 21st-century slavery by the government of the country you live in.

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Feb 27, 2021 19:07:34   #
Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall
 
Parky60 wrote:
I see...so it was OK then.

Why is it you are always so quick to defend Islam yet are just as quick to mock Christianity canuckus?


No... I'm stating that the racial tensions stemming from slavery in America should not be conflated with other forms of slavery....

I'm not anti-slavery.... Have no issue with the institution... But I fail to see the reasoning behind having it racially based...

My statement wasn't a defense of Islam.... Merely a clarification....

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Feb 27, 2021 19:09:28   #
Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall
 
dtucker300 wrote:
What's fair about it? This isn't about Islam or Islamic slavery. It's about BLM hypocrisy and leftist cancel culture (because four of Mohammed's slaves were black). I thought that was made quite clear in the article.


I'm pointing out that BLM isn't being hypocritical...


Quote:
BTW, to be fair, what are you doing to protest the Communist Chinese Party's treatment of Uyghurs? They are Islamic. This amounts to nothing more than 21st-century slavery by the government of the country you live in.


I have no issues with the treatment of Muslims in China... Nor do my Muslim friends... And as I told parky, I don't have an issue with slavery...

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Feb 27, 2021 19:13:21   #
Grugore
 
dtucker300 wrote:
Muhammed Owned Several Slaves, Four of his Slaves Were Black and He Was Involved in Slave Trade
By Steven Ahle
February 27, 2021

Just in case you weren’t aware of the level of hypocrisy here …

Will BLM go after Muslims because the Prophet owned and sold slaves. Unlike most cultures, Muslims had slaves from many different cultures.


Four of Muhammed’s slaves were from Africa.

So if Jefferson and Washington are banned for owning slaves, should Muhammed be allowed to remain?

And if Washington is to be banned, what about the Washington Post or that liberal rag from the capital of Ohio, The Columbus Dispatch.


Shouldn’t they change their name?

This appears to be a slippery slope to me.


Via Cambridge

Six out of ca. twenty slaves and freed slaves of Muhammad were either fully or partially of African descent. Al-Tabari Kitab al-Rusul, 1778, 1780–81; Ibn Saʿd, al-Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir, 1:2:180, 184; Ibn Hisham, Kitab Sirat Rasul Allah, 486, 999. On Muhammad’s foster mother, see Rotter, Die Stellung, 26; and n. 1. Four out of twelve of the slaves of the fighting muhājirūn in Badr were black. Ibn Hisham, Kitab Sirat Rasul Allah, 486–503. This high number of African slaves is also confirmed by Azraqi, Kitab Akhbar Makka, 464, 486; and Muhammad ibn Habib, Muhabbar, ed. I. Lichtenstader (Beirut: n.p., 1943), 306ff.


From The Gateway Pundit

Narrated Jabir bin Abdullah: A man decided that a slave of his would-be manumitted after his death and later on he was in need of money, so the Prophet took the slave and said, “Who will buy this slave from me?” Nu’aim bin ‘Abdullah bought him for such and such price and the Prophet gave him the slave.
— Sahih al-Bukhari, 3:34:351 see also Sahih al-Bukhari, 3:51:598 Sahih al-Bukhari, 8:79:707 Sahih al-Bukhari, 9:85:80 Sahih al-Bukhari, 3:51:588 Sahih al-Bukhari, 3:46:711 Sahih al-Bukhari, 9:89:296

Jabir (Allah be pleased with him) reported: There came a slave and pledged allegiance to Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) on migration; he (the Holy Prophet) did not know that he was a slave. Then there came his master and demanded him back, whereupon Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) said: Sell him to me. And he bought him for two black slaves, and he did not afterward take allegiance from anyone until he had asked him whether he was a slave (or a free man)
— Sahih Muslim, 10:3901
Muhammed Owned Several Slaves, Four of his Slaves ... (show quote)

He was also a murderer and a pedophile.

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Feb 27, 2021 19:16:47   #
dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA
 
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
I have no issues with the treatment of Muslims in China... Nor do my Muslim friends... And as I told parky, I don't have an issue with slavery...


Well, I sure as hell do have an issue with slavery! It was western culture and Christianity that fought to end slavery. Unfortunately, it still exists today. Two million Uyghurs are imprisoned and forced into slave labor by the Communist Chinese Government. Why? Why aren't fellow Muslims outraged over this?

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Feb 27, 2021 19:22:49   #
Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall
 
dtucker300 wrote:
Well, I sure as hell do have an issue with slavery! It was western culture and Christianity that fought to end slavery. Unfortunately, it still exists today. Two million Uyghurs are imprisoned and forced into slave labor by the Communist Chinese Government. Why? Why aren't fellow Muslims outraged over this?


Muslims don't get upset over slavery...

I don't recall Christianity fighting to end slavery, but certainly western culture played a part in reducing slavery...

(when did the number hit 2 million???? I should probably check on Abraham and Said)

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Feb 27, 2021 19:31:39   #
Radiance3
 
dtucker300 wrote:
Muhammed Owned Several Slaves, Four of his Slaves Were Black and He Was Involved in Slave Trade
By Steven Ahle
February 27, 2021

Just in case you weren’t aware of the level of hypocrisy here …

Will BLM go after Muslims because the Prophet owned and sold slaves. Unlike most cultures, Muslims had slaves from many different cultures.


Four of Muhammed’s slaves were from Africa.

So if Jefferson and Washington are banned for owning slaves, should Muhammed be allowed to remain?

And if Washington is to be banned, what about the Washington Post or that liberal rag from the capital of Ohio, The Columbus Dispatch.


Shouldn’t they change their name?

This appears to be a slippery slope to me.


Via Cambridge

Six out of ca. twenty slaves and freed slaves of Muhammad were either fully or partially of African descent. Al-Tabari Kitab al-Rusul, 1778, 1780–81; Ibn Saʿd, al-Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir, 1:2:180, 184; Ibn Hisham, Kitab Sirat Rasul Allah, 486, 999. On Muhammad’s foster mother, see Rotter, Die Stellung, 26; and n. 1. Four out of twelve of the slaves of the fighting muhājirūn in Badr were black. Ibn Hisham, Kitab Sirat Rasul Allah, 486–503. This high number of African slaves is also confirmed by Azraqi, Kitab Akhbar Makka, 464, 486; and Muhammad ibn Habib, Muhabbar, ed. I. Lichtenstader (Beirut: n.p., 1943), 306ff.


From The Gateway Pundit

Narrated Jabir bin Abdullah: A man decided that a slave of his would-be manumitted after his death and later on he was in need of money, so the Prophet took the slave and said, “Who will buy this slave from me?” Nu’aim bin ‘Abdullah bought him for such and such price and the Prophet gave him the slave.
— Sahih al-Bukhari, 3:34:351 see also Sahih al-Bukhari, 3:51:598 Sahih al-Bukhari, 8:79:707 Sahih al-Bukhari, 9:85:80 Sahih al-Bukhari, 3:51:588 Sahih al-Bukhari, 3:46:711 Sahih al-Bukhari, 9:89:296

Jabir (Allah be pleased with him) reported: There came a slave and pledged allegiance to Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) on migration; he (the Holy Prophet) did not know that he was a slave. Then there came his master and demanded him back, whereupon Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) said: Sell him to me. And he bought him for two black slaves, and he did not afterward take allegiance from anyone until he had asked him whether he was a slave (or a free man)
— Sahih Muslim, 10:3901
Muhammed Owned Several Slaves, Four of his Slaves ... (show quote)

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Here are the facts.
The black Muslim African slave traders were involved in selling black slaves to the West and to Muslims. Mohammad owned African slaves.

What happened to the slaves sold to the Muslims? You would notice that there are no blacks left with kinky haired Muslims in the ME. The fact was when the slaves got old, they became useless. The Muslims just put them to death. That is why no kinky haired black Muslims are left in the Middle East.

But why do the blacks don't complain about that? They are dead? None of them were left.

Here in the US they were given freedom. These were the luckiest slaves sold in the Western world. Now, they could achieve the highest without limits with more privileges than the others settlers who worked harder more than slaves. They constructed roads, bridges, and highways, with bare hands and crude tools. Italians, Irish, Asians.

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Feb 27, 2021 19:39:05   #
dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA
 
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
Muslims don't get upset over slavery...

I don't recall Christianity fighting to end slavery, but certainly western culture played a part in reducing slavery...

(when did the number hit 2 million???? I should probably check on Abraham and Said)
Muslims don't get upset over slavery... br br I... (show quote)


BLM may not be hypocritical, but they are at least asymmetrical in their actions. In my book that is hypocritical.

It's been two million Uyghurs for a couple of years now (since 2019 at a minimum).

It was Christianity, through the teachings of the Bible and Jesus, that changed people's minds about slavery in western culture which was somewhat synonymous with Christianity once upon a time in the not too distant past until secularism too over in Europe and the US/Canada. From Christianity, it spread to the rest of the world. As a Christian, how could you not know this? I know you are smarter than this. In the United States, we fought a war, brother against brother, neighbor against neighbor with more the 600,000 casualties, more than in all our other wars combined, to end slavery! Slavery goes against every Christian tenet and belief. The leading abolitionists in the pre-civil war United States were Christian groups, churches, organizations, and anti-slavery societies. Every anti-slavery group arose out of Christian belief despite those who tried to use some passages in the Bible to justify it.

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Feb 27, 2021 19:50:43   #
dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA
 
Radiance3 wrote:
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Here are the facts.
The black Muslim African slave traders were involved in selling black slaves to the West and to Muslims. Mohammad owned African slaves.

What happened to the slaves sold to the Muslims? You would notice that there are no blacks left with kinky haired Muslims in the ME. The fact was when the slaves got old, they became useless. The Muslims just put them to death. That is why no kinky haired black Muslims are left in the Middle East.

But why do the blacks don't complain about that? They are dead? None of them were left.

Here in the US they were given freedom. These were the luckiest slaves sold in the Western world. Now, they could achieve the highest without limits with more privileges than the others settlers who worked harder more than slaves. They constructed roads, bridges, and highways, with bare hands and crude tools. Italians, Irish, Asians.
=============== br Here are the facts. br The bla... (show quote)


Another sick story. These girls will either be taken for wives, sold, or sex-trafficked the longer this crime remains unsolves and the girls are not found.

Gunmen storm Nigerian school, KIDNAP over 300 school girls just days after ANOTHER mass abduction
By Pamela Geller - on February 26, 2021

More Than 300 Girls Kidnapped in Latest Nigerian School Abduction
Gunmen kidnapped 317 girls from a boarding school in northwest Nigeria, police said in a statement Friday, the latest in a rising tide of high-school abductions across Africa’s most populous nation, where kidnapping for ransom has become a lucrative industry.

By: Wall Street Journal, February 26, 2021:

Armed militants broke into the Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in Zamfara state at around 1 a.m. Friday and packed schoolgirls onto vehicles or walked them toward the nearby Rugu forest, which spreads over three states and hundreds of miles. By morning, community leaders were still working to tally the number of people missing.

Ahmad Abdullahi, a parent, said that his daughter had escaped, but that five of his nieces, between 14 and 17 years old, were among the missing.

The abduction is the second in a little over a week in Nigeria’s northwest, where a surge in armed militancy has led to a worsening breakdown of security.

Dozens of schoolboys and staff are still missing after being kidnapped from another school, the Kagara Government Science College in Niger state on Feb. 17. In December, 344 boys were taken from a school in nearby Katsina and freed after a week. Three of the abducted boys told The Wall Street Journal that the kidnappers told them a ransom had been paid for their release. Government officials denied paying a ransom and said the kidnappers released the schoolboys because the military had surrounded them.

There was no immediate comment from the federal government and no claim of responsibility. Analysts said the culprits were likely one of the heavily armed bandit groups that have become increasingly powerful across swaths of Nigeria’s northwest and not the jihadist groups based in the northeast.

“Kidnapping for ransom is now the most thriving industry in Nigeria,” said Bulama Bukarti, a terrorism analyst and columnist with the Daily Trust, northern Nigeria’s most popular newspaper.

The latest incidents come six years after the kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls in the town of Chibok in the northeastern state of Borno, an abduction that ignited the global #BringBackOurGirls campaign. The outcry led to the formation of the Safe Schools Initiative, which is backed by former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and raised over $30 million to protect schools.

The number of children out of school in the country has risen to more than 10.5 million, the highest in the world, according to the United Nations. “One in every five of the world’s out-of-school children is in Nigeria,” the agency said in a recent report.

Some Nigerian lawmakers have called for investigations into the Safe Schools Initiative amid allegations of mismanagement, but no investigation has been authorized by the government.

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Feb 27, 2021 20:48:13   #
dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA
 
Radiance3 wrote:
===============
Here are the facts.
The black Muslim African slave traders were involved in selling black slaves to the West and to Muslims. Mohammad owned African slaves.

What happened to the slaves sold to the Muslims? You would notice that there are no blacks left with kinky haired Muslims in the ME. The fact was when the slaves got old, they became useless. The Muslims just put them to death. That is why no kinky haired black Muslims are left in the Middle East.

But why do the blacks don't complain about that? They are dead? None of them were left.

Here in the US they were given freedom. These were the luckiest slaves sold in the Western world. Now, they could achieve the highest without limits with more privileges than the others settlers who worked harder more than slaves. They constructed roads, bridges, and highways, with bare hands and crude tools. Italians, Irish, Asians.
=============== br Here are the facts. br The bla... (show quote)


BLM also favors reparations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hEWdc_GA_Y
Larry Elder SHUTS DOWN Reparations Bill at Congressional Hearing

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Feb 27, 2021 22:41:03   #
Sonny Magoo Loc: Where pot pie is boiled in a kettle
 
dtucker300 wrote:
Muhammed Owned Several Slaves, Four of his Slaves Were Black and He Was Involved in Slave Trade
By Steven Ahle
February 27, 2021

Just in case you weren’t aware of the level of hypocrisy here …

Will BLM go after Muslims because the Prophet owned and sold slaves. Unlike most cultures, Muslims had slaves from many different cultures.


Four of Muhammed’s slaves were from Africa.

So if Jefferson and Washington are banned for owning slaves, should Muhammed be allowed to remain?

And if Washington is to be banned, what about the Washington Post or that liberal rag from the capital of Ohio, The Columbus Dispatch.


Shouldn’t they change their name?

This appears to be a slippery slope to me.


Via Cambridge

Six out of ca. twenty slaves and freed slaves of Muhammad were either fully or partially of African descent. Al-Tabari Kitab al-Rusul, 1778, 1780–81; Ibn Saʿd, al-Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir, 1:2:180, 184; Ibn Hisham, Kitab Sirat Rasul Allah, 486, 999. On Muhammad’s foster mother, see Rotter, Die Stellung, 26; and n. 1. Four out of twelve of the slaves of the fighting muhājirūn in Badr were black. Ibn Hisham, Kitab Sirat Rasul Allah, 486–503. This high number of African slaves is also confirmed by Azraqi, Kitab Akhbar Makka, 464, 486; and Muhammad ibn Habib, Muhabbar, ed. I. Lichtenstader (Beirut: n.p., 1943), 306ff.


From The Gateway Pundit

Narrated Jabir bin Abdullah: A man decided that a slave of his would-be manumitted after his death and later on he was in need of money, so the Prophet took the slave and said, “Who will buy this slave from me?” Nu’aim bin ‘Abdullah bought him for such and such price and the Prophet gave him the slave.
— Sahih al-Bukhari, 3:34:351 see also Sahih al-Bukhari, 3:51:598 Sahih al-Bukhari, 8:79:707 Sahih al-Bukhari, 9:85:80 Sahih al-Bukhari, 3:51:588 Sahih al-Bukhari, 3:46:711 Sahih al-Bukhari, 9:89:296

Jabir (Allah be pleased with him) reported: There came a slave and pledged allegiance to Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) on migration; he (the Holy Prophet) did not know that he was a slave. Then there came his master and demanded him back, whereupon Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) said: Sell him to me. And he bought him for two black slaves, and he did not afterward take allegiance from anyone until he had asked him whether he was a slave (or a free man)
— Sahih Muslim, 10:3901
Muhammed Owned Several Slaves, Four of his Slaves ... (show quote)


Every empire and culture of the past had slaves.
It took Christian White men to end slavery in most places on this planet. At least in the western hemisphere.
They don't teach that in school. They teach junk.

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Feb 27, 2021 23:10:26   #
Radiance3
 
dtucker300 wrote:
Another sick story. These girls will either be taken for wives, sold, or sex-trafficked the longer this crime remains unsolves and the girls are not found.

Gunmen storm Nigerian school, KIDNAP over 300 school girls just days after ANOTHER mass abduction
By Pamela Geller - on February 26, 2021

More Than 300 Girls Kidnapped in Latest Nigerian School Abduction
Gunmen kidnapped 317 girls from a boarding school in northwest Nigeria, police said in a statement Friday, the latest in a rising tide of high-school abductions across Africa’s most populous nation, where kidnapping for ransom has become a lucrative industry.

By: Wall Street Journal, February 26, 2021:

Armed militants broke into the Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in Zamfara state at around 1 a.m. Friday and packed schoolgirls onto vehicles or walked them toward the nearby Rugu forest, which spreads over three states and hundreds of miles. By morning, community leaders were still working to tally the number of people missing.

Ahmad Abdullahi, a parent, said that his daughter had escaped, but that five of his nieces, between 14 and 17 years old, were among the missing.

The abduction is the second in a little over a week in Nigeria’s northwest, where a surge in armed militancy has led to a worsening breakdown of security.

Dozens of schoolboys and staff are still missing after being kidnapped from another school, the Kagara Government Science College in Niger state on Feb. 17. In December, 344 boys were taken from a school in nearby Katsina and freed after a week. Three of the abducted boys told The Wall Street Journal that the kidnappers told them a ransom had been paid for their release. Government officials denied paying a ransom and said the kidnappers released the schoolboys because the military had surrounded them.

There was no immediate comment from the federal government and no claim of responsibility. Analysts said the culprits were likely one of the heavily armed bandit groups that have become increasingly powerful across swaths of Nigeria’s northwest and not the jihadist groups based in the northeast.

“Kidnapping for ransom is now the most thriving industry in Nigeria,” said Bulama Bukarti, a terrorism analyst and columnist with the Daily Trust, northern Nigeria’s most popular newspaper.

The latest incidents come six years after the kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls in the town of Chibok in the northeastern state of Borno, an abduction that ignited the global #BringBackOurGirls campaign. The outcry led to the formation of the Safe Schools Initiative, which is backed by former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and raised over $30 million to protect schools.

The number of children out of school in the country has risen to more than 10.5 million, the highest in the world, according to the United Nations. “One in every five of the world’s out-of-school children is in Nigeria,” the agency said in a recent report.

Some Nigerian lawmakers have called for investigations into the Safe Schools Initiative amid allegations of mismanagement, but no investigation has been authorized by the government.
Another sick story. These girls will either be ta... (show quote)

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Christians in Africa are killed by Muslims. Female children in schools are abducted, raped, and converted to Islam. It has been going on since several years ago. Islam is Obama's religion of peace.

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