When Boko Haram kidnapped the schoolgirls in 2014 the world should probably have tracked the terrorists down and killed them rather than have a Twitter campaign to "#Bring Back Our Girls"
Hamas has people in captivity. Think about that: In Captivity. And that follows on the gang-rapes and the torture and the mass murders.
Although they don't use this sort of language, Hamas has self-identified as the world's biggest losers. Duudes, you deserve what is coming to you. And more.
From The Times of Israel, November 16:
Israel historically serves as a ‘guinea pig’ for acts of terror, says Reichman University’s Prof. Boaz Ganor. ‘What is different this time is the scale of the abduction’
Massacres and large-scale abductions of civilians such as seen in Israel on October 7 are nearly unprecedented in the annals of global terrorism, an already horrific history that includes atrocities such as the hijacking of civilian aircraft, the deliberate crashing of planes into skyscrapers, and the execution of civilians using various methods — sometimes broadcast live to the world.
But the events of October 7 are a world apart, according to Prof. Boaz Ganor, president of Reichman University and founder of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT).
“What happened on October 7 is unprecedented from an Israeli perspective, and the only known international precedent is the abduction of 276 girls by Boko Haram” in Nigeria in 2014, Ganor told The Times of Israel in a recent interview.
“What sets this apart is the scale of the abduction, encompassing a diverse range of ages, including soldiers and civilians, women, and infants,” said Ganor.
On October 7, Hamas abducted from Israel 240 individuals — many of whom hold dual citizenship — including 30 minors and approximately 20 people aged 60 and above. They were violently taken from their homes, a massive outdoor music festival and army bases....
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From the Indianapolis Star, August 7, 2014 i.e. ~4 months after the schoolgirls were taken:
Hashtag campaign didn’t ‘bring back our girls’
Do you remember #BringBackOurGirls, the social media campaign launched to help rescue 276 girls abducted from a secondary school in northeast Nigeria?
Well it turns out that the online campaign has been no match for Boko Haram, a group of men willing to prey on the weak and defenseless and die for the cause of establishing an Islamic state.
You may remember that in early May the audacious mass kidnapping ignited a social media firestorm. Rescuing the girls quickly turned into a cause among politicians, celebrities and commentators across the globe.
The slogan #BringBackOurGirls became a rallying cry for millions on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter, where the hashtag was retweeted more than 4 million times.
But the attention of the world outside Nigeria soon faded. Journalists moved on to other stories; the hashtag stopped trending, a reflection that social media is failing. As the New Yorker‘s Naunihal Singh put it, “a viral hashtag, it seems, is a fever that breaks quickly.”
But the fever of Islamic extremism is much more virulent. Boko Haram is still holding more than 200 girls captive. Most are Christians who, according to news reports, have been forcibly converted to Islam. Reports also suggest that some of the girls may have been sold in markets and spirited over the border to Chad and Cameroon.
The Nigerian government insists it is doing everything it can to rescue the girls. But it has treated the mass abduction as more of a political nuisance than a national security or humanitarian crisis.
The government first denied that the abductions had taken place then bizarrely claimed that it had liberated the girls. Patience Jonathan, Nigeria’s first lady, even accused her husband’s political enemies of fabricating the story to damage him politically ahead of the 2015 presidential election.
In June the Nigerian government banned demonstrations involving the activist group Bring Back Our Girls, arguing that the protests posed a security threat.
For months the group, comprised mostly of family members of the abducted, requested a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan. It took a visit from Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani-girls education activist, to finally persuade him to meet with the group on July 22.
Boko Haram, meanwhile, seems to have been emboldened by the government’s anemic response to the abductions. By one count, since the Chibok kidnappings it has carried out nine major gun and bomb attacks that have killed more than 1,000 people.....
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And that's the problem. If criminals think they have impunity they don't stop.
As a side note, where in hell are the Western women's organizations?
The Israeli doctors have forensic evidence of women being raped until their pelvis' broke.
Of being tortured in the sickest ways imaginable. And yet the Women's groups say nothing.
Back to Boko Haram, after three years of being raped, beaten, tortured starved and in some cases forced into actual chattel slavery in addition to the sexual slavery, around 160 of the Chibok schoolgirls had made it back to their families. The whereabouts of 112 of the girls are unknown.
