Sounds as if he'll have Phil Robertson's endorsement. Shekau's no doubt a big-time Second Amendment supporter too.According to a video obtained Monday by Agence France-Presse, Boko Haram ["Western Education Is Evil." Heard that before? — M.B.] leader Abubakar Shekau declared that the group abducted the girls — missing now for nearly three weeks — and intends to sell them into slavery. “I abducted your girls,” Shekau said according to AFP. “I will sell them in the market, by Allah.”
According to a BBC News translation of the video, Shekau also said, “The girls should not have been in school in the first place, but rather should get married,” and, “God instructed me to sell them, they are his properties and I will carry out his instructions.”
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
G.O.P. Candidate Announces
W/ Actions, Then Words
And some words they are: Put this guy on the ticket w/ Putin & the neo-cons, worshippers of oligarchy & theocratic fucksticks of the Reactionarypublican Party will unite as one.
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I am - and continue to be - amazed at American's willingness to tell itself comforting lies, and cling to them no matter how conclusively they have been falsified.
There has been much academic discussion of the meaning of 'Boko Haram', as it is from an obscure West African tribal language called Hausa. But, much like Ahmedinejad's "Wipe Israel from the face of the earth" intentional mis-translation, somebody decided that 'Boko' is derived from the western 'Books' and 'Haram', of course, is an arabic/islamic phrase for 'Forbidden' so it MUST mean 'Western Education is Evil' and the goal of the group is to fight against all non-islamic education.
Except it doesn't, and it isn't. The definitive research comes from a paper by Paul Newman, professor emeritus in linguistics at Indiana University and one of the world's leading authorities on the Hausa language. You can read the paper here: http://www.megatchad.net/publications/Newman-2013-Etymology-of-Hausa-boko.pdf
The upshot is that Boko means 'things that are fraudulent', and was often applied to everything the colonialists believed or taught.
So they're a particularly nasty breed of humanity, a particularly nasty species, but let's not keep repeating the lies that work their way into Wikipedia and get repeated by lazy jingoistic stenographers..
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