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Margaret Kimberley's website
, Freedom Rider has a link to an audio and transcript of an interview titled:
"The Problem with Bring Back our Girls" via Anne Garrison @ KPFA. I understand Ms. Kimberley's ideology about U.S. interventions in the affairs of countries in Africa, however, my concern is more in line with the innocent young ladies who were kidnapped by Boko Haram. There is footage of the leader, Abubakar Shekau, currently reported as deceased; cavalierly speaking of selling the girls into slavery and that the
Quran supports this practice. There was the slaughter of innocent people in villages that they pillaged and removal of other young women from their homes. Frankly, I would like to see more of the focus on the atrocities of the Nigerian elite, the Boko Haram and those ideologues who spend too much time defending those who participate in genocidal behaviors towards their own people based on religious and political sentiments. Whatever, the indirect and direct causes of why people choose to murder and kidnap innocent people; it doesn't deserve our support or rationales. The
end doesn't always justify the
means and while we're questioning the intentions of the U.S. on this matter; there should be an outcry and disdain for the behaviors of the Nigerian government and Boko Haram. I'm sure the mothers of those young ladies want their daughters home
by any means necessary. I tend to agree more with their plight.
