NIGERIA: #BringBackOurGirls: Solidarity vs Appropriation.
But the real tale of how a Twitter TWTR +0.28% hashtag grew into a rallying call for more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by the Boko Haram terrorist group is a more complex web. In her online biography. Elizabeth Smart, a former child abductee turned activist, talks to the Wall Street Journals Lee Hawkins about the more than nearly 300 girls who are missing in Nigeria and reveals what she would tell them if she could speak with them now. Lee Hawkins��.
Does Israel Have The Right To Self Defense: Continuing.
All of them���Al Shabab, Boko Haram, ISIS, Jabhat Al Nosra, diverse and varied Salafists, Wahabis, Muslim Brotherhood, and down to the so-called lone wolves��� are manifestations of one and the same force that is exploding in the. She has published widely in print and online media, including the Wall Street Journal Europe, New English Review, Dispatch International, Middle East Quarterly, American Thinker, Commentary, Jerusalem Post, New York Sun, National��.
Cuban Refugees Fled to the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay a Half Century.
Then, before dawn, he walks the streets, talking, he says, with the ghosts of his fellow exiles: He sees Gustaff Polica, who raised two children on Guantanamo and whose body is buried in the hills. He spots a woman in white who went home to Cuba to die.
What Do the Attacks in France Mean for the Survival of.
In the last four weeks alone, we have seen a lone jihadist take ten hostages in Sydney, Australia, leaving three dead; Taliban gunmen slaughter 132 children in a Pakistani school; and, at the same time as the attacks in France, Boko Haram massacre. If politicians, journalists, and ordinary citizens have already modified their behavior in response to terror attacks and the threat of violence on the street, how would they react if the scale of terrorism were increased ten or twentyfold?
Boko Haram threatens Nigerian elections after fresh violence
Kano (Nigeria) (AFP) - Islamist group Boko Haram has vowed to make voting impossible in Nigerias upcoming election after a spate of deadly attacks in the countrys violence-wracked northeast.
Africa in Transition �� Boko Haram Christmas Bombings - Blogs
A car burns at the scene of a bomb explosion at St. Theresa Catholic Church at Madalla, Suleja, just outside Nigerias capital Abuja, December 25, 2011. (Afolabi. Boko Haram, a highly de-centralized Islamic radical movement, has allegedly claimed responsibility for attacks on Christian churches in an Abuja suburb and elsewhere in the North and the Middle Belt over the Christmas weekend. Reports.. I do not see Jonathant capable of mending this cracked wall.
#BringBackOurGirls: How Boko Haram Puts The American.
Its that a bunch of female students are threatened to be sold into arranged marriages, and yet the entire world is going apeshit anyway, even though nobody gave a damn about the male victims of Boko Haram. 27... Without a doubt ��� ditto the same on Wall Street Journal and Forbes articles discussing gender/marriage issues, and a number of other places (thought catalog and intellectual-pastiche places like it)... In the big picture, HUS isnt a significant problem.
InSecurityWatch: Cops, crime, war, terror, history | eats.
The witness, Pedro Castillo, 43, is a maintenance man at the Heights at Chamblee, the apartment complex northeast of Atlanta where Anthony Hill, 27, was shot and killed Monday afternoon... men executed, and a child executes an alleged spy, Chinese ISIS recruits head home to Xinjiang, the curious state of that ISIS/Boko Haram hookup, the Boko Haram campaign heats up with stronger foes and a new Nigeria raid, the CIAs stealthy spookery to crack the iPhone,��.
90% of Top Newspaper Headlines Censor Islam in Nairobi.
The Wall Street Journals (WSJ) headline by Heidi Vogt announced that ���Assault on Mall Stuns Kenya��� and called the act a ���terrorist attack��� by ���armed militants.��� In a small reference to the Pakistan Christian fatalities,. In fact, on the front page the Times used every description but the Islamic connection to describe the aggressors: ���the ferocious armed political movement known as the Shabab��� ��� with ties to Al Qaeda and Boko Haram. Only USA Today (number three in��.
Satellite Images Show Boko Haram Massacre in Nigeria
Amnesty International released satellite photos on Thursday that it said suggested Boko Haram killed hundreds of people when it stormed a remote Nigerian town this month, the latest attempt to assess the toll from one of the Islamist insurgencys.
Police Say Suicide Bomber Kills At Least 47 at Nigeria School
A suicide bomber blew himself up during a school assembly in northeastern Nigeria, killing at least 47 people and showing how an Islamist insurgency is apparently drawing young, radical and educated people to its ranks. The explosion took place. In.
Boko Haram and the Nigerian Insurgency �� Aint Got No.
In Uganda, the Lords Resistance Army would participate in mass kidnapping in order to draw new recruits to their ranks or to use females as sex slaves. In 1996. Indeed, the Wall Street Journal has observed that most Boko Haram attacks occur when villages host traveling markets, making them tempting targets to the ill supplied militants[13]. With BHs. [8] Larisa Epatko, ���Mother on Nigerian Abductions: Each Missing Girl is Like my own Child���, PBS, May 7, 2014.
France Mulls Deep-Rooted Problems Behind Attacks
Later Friday, French police killed the Kouachi brothers in a raid on the building where the two brothers had holed up with a hostage. The hostage held by the.. Write to Max Colchester at max.colchester@wsj.com and Ruth Bender at Ruth.Bender@wsj.com.
Nigel Farage on European Disunion
As the U.K. approaches elections, the recent terrorist attacks in Paris have added to long-standing financial and economic worries, and UKIP has been a beneficiary of the gloomy news. He sees his role as larger than the British arena. ���You mustnt.
Suspected Copenhagen Gunman Is Killed as Denmark Reels From Attacks
People visit the memorial site for the victims of the deadly attacks in front of the synagogue in Krystalgade in Copenhagen on Monday.. A gunman shouting Allahu akbar targeted free-speech activists, policemen and Jews in a 14-hour rampage through.
Charlie Hebdos New Issue Flies Off Newsstands
PARIS������Je suis Charlie��� has become ���Where is Charlie?��� Distributors said they would expand the print run for the first issue of Charlie Hebdo since last weeks terror attacks in France to as many as 5 million copies, after the newspaper sold out.
Boko Haram | Abagond
Jamaatu Ahlis Sunna Liddaawati wal-Jihad (2002- ), the People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophets Teachings and Jihad, is better known by its Hausa nickname, Boko Haram. Haram means forbidden, Boko. to the punk holding up the sign about how many children Obama has killed, is a hypocryte of the highest order since radicle Islamic violence has killed more Islamic children than anyone else in this last decade. the truth is, most people who��.
Je ne suis pas Charlie | Brad Warthen
The Wall Street Journal posted a video today telling about some of the victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack. At the very end, you... One more point: Again, Im disappointed that our poster child for free expression is something so silly and unsavory... However, as we were transfixed by the 24/7 coverage given those events, an estimated 100 or so people were indiscriminately slaughtered by Boko Haram militants in a northeastern Nigerian village. In that same story to��.
2013: March - June Political Notes - Richard Stallman
The UK says it will draw up a national pollinator strategy. I hope it is a serious.. Companies are withdrawing ads from Facebook to pressure it to block mysogynist material, including photos of women who have been attacked. I expect I would find.. a phony attack. Some of their excuses, such as that police would clean up litter, were also used by the Obama regime against Occupy Wall Street... 16 May 2013 (Boko Haram forcing people to join). Boko Haram is��.
The Man in the Middle of Obamas Showdown With Netanyahu
Prior to joining Foreign Policy, Dreazen was a contributing editor at the Atlantic and the senior national security correspondent for National Journal. He began his career at the Wall Street Journal and spent 11 years at the newspaper, most recently as.
At Least Two Children Beheaded In Pakistan School Attack.
Pakistani schoolgirls pray for the victims of the attack, which ended after a nine-hour gun battle. Cameroon army says killed 116 Boko Haram fighters. At least two of the children killed by Taliban militants in the attack on a school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar were beheaded, medical staff said.. Martin Dempsey, the Pentagons top uniformed officer, told The Wall Street Journal in an interview that the ISIS military leaders were killed in Iraq in recent weeks.
FPs Situation Report: U.S. shifts policy on Syrian President.
FPs Situation Report: U.S. shifts policy on Syrian President Assad; Paris attacks prompt European rethink on terrorism; EU stands firm on Russia sanctions; and much more from around the world. �� | Foreign Policy. The Wall Street Journals Emmanuel Tumanjong with a small piece of good news: ���Cameroons military said it had freed 24 of the 80 people kidnapped by Boko Haram fighters over the weekend.. He lives in Alexandria with his wife and two children.
Frances Anti-Terror, Free-Market Socialist
���But unfortunately I think that the anti-Semitism that struck French society is much deeper than that. In 2013 or 2014, you have people in the streets of Paris chanting Death to the Jews! And in all the attacks in Paris or the attacks in Copenhagen.
More Women Are Leaving Behind Religious Identities For Something More.
Nadia Bulkin holds a picture of her parents, Jan Hostetler, left, and Farchan Bulkin, taken in Indonesia. Her father died when she was 11 and her. ���Its married women who go to church and they take their kids. Certainly single women go to church.
Facts For Working People: To Understand Boko Haram, The.
In the South I lived in Yaba and our landlord was a Nigerian who became a very wealthy man and whose children I played with.. As I read an article in the Wall Street Journal this morning about the leader of Boko Haram labeling him as the continents worst and most infamous terrorist, I couldnt help cringing at the thought of the journal representing the interests of the most violent. After all, many of Boko Harams victims are Muslim civilians and even Muslim clerics.
Victims of terror in Africa mostly ignored, while media rages.
For a brief period it was fashionable to show concern for the victims of political extremism in Africa. Remember the BringBackOurGirls hash tag when the militant Islamist organization Boko Haram kidnapped schoolgirls in��.
Anti-French Protests in Niger Kill 10 as Rallies Hit Africa, Middle East, Asia
Angering many moderate Muslims, the caricature risks playing into the hands of Islamic fundamentalists who paint a picture of a Europe that is bent on desecrating the faith, several Muslim leaders said.. ���We were happy with what happened to Frances.
Kerry Ties Military Aid to Peaceful Vote in Nigeria
LAGOS, Nigeria���Secretary of State John Kerry, moving to prevent another key U.S. counterterrorism ally from collapsing under a militant insurgency, on Sunday warned Nigerias top two presidential candidates that future military assistance will depend.
War on Civilization
Islamic State has turned from beheading hostages to waging war on the worlds cultural heritage. Last week the jihadist would-be caliphate posted a five-minute video of its members destroying statues in the Mosul museum with sledgehammers and power .
Way Station for War
When, at a birthday party for 8-year-olds, suddenly a child gets up on the sofa, puts her hand on her heart and starts singing the Ukrainian national anthem and asks the adults to do the same, its a completely different world.. In July, volunteers.
Does Murdoch Think His No. 2 Shareholder To Blame For.
Rupert Murdoch posted a tweet blaming all Islam for the extremists who committed Charlie Hebdo attacks.. Obama Speaks At Wall Street Journal CEO Council Annual Meeting. DRAW YOUR OWN AND UPLOAD IT... is the Muslim world now starting to realize that their hate-filled text-books, TV shows and Friday prayer diatribes against the ���infidels��� has come back to haunt them in the form of Isis, Boko Haram and all the other murderous, intolerant groups.
The Ideological Islamist Threat
Al Qaeda, Islamic State, Boko Haram and other jihadist groups are waging more than a military conflict. They are also waging. In his speech Wednesday, Mr. Obama acknowledged that ���al Qaeda and ISIL do draw selectively from the Islamic texts,��� and he.