The irony here is that the same Guardian that has published this story will turn around and excoriate anyone and everyone who dares oppose jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women as an “Islamophobe.”
“Smuggled diary tells how abducted women survived Boko Haram camp,” by Jason Burke, Guardian, February 20, 2021:
The resistance began three months after the young women were taken from their school dormitory by Islamist militants and hidden in the depths of a forest. It would end in direct confrontation and disobedience, and an unlikely victory which saved their lives.
But as the extremists of Boko Haram drove them through the bush to camps beyond the reach of any rescue, freedom was years away.
The story of the extraordinary courage of the women held for up to three years by the Islamist extremists in north-eastern Nigeria has never been told, despite the massive global attention focused on their abduction in April 2014….
Among the students was Naomi Adamu. Her defiance began when the extremists told the students to swap their school uniforms for a black, flowing, all-covering garment. The 24-year-old kept her chequered blue dress, and then, risking a beating or worse, she began a diary….
Adamu wrote on the days when it was safe, after compulsory lessons on the Qur’an and foraging for meagre rations from the forest.
The small act of rebellion gave her strength. When her Boko Haram minders told her she would be killed if she did not convert, marry a fighter and bear his children, she refused and was beaten with the butt of a rifle. Her captors did not follow through on their lethal threat, nor were she or the others who refused “marriage” subjected to sexual abuse. But they were condemned to backbreaking labour as “slaves”
By mid-2015, with Boko Haram now on the retreat, Adamu and her closest friends were starting to lose their fear of the extremists. Inspired by her example, the other hostages began to fight back too, risking lashings with sticks and wire….
A small group of the most defiant students was separated. Adamu, their leader, was dubbed “the chief infidel” by furious Boko Haram leaders.
“When they realised we don’t wear hijab like the other girls they beat us and said they would cut off our heads. They made us wear hijab and pray but we decided together to fake the ceremony. We mouthed Christian prayers and told each other the story of Job,” said Adamu.
Once again the students were told they would be killed if they did not submit and convert. Again the small group of rebels refused.
“At a certain point we had seen so many bodies, we were no longer afraid to die,” she told the authors….
But Adamu remained determined to resist. “Partly I was strong because I was angry. I was angry we had been kidnapped before graduation,” she said. “And I was angry when 30 girls converted to Islam and got married … I felt some didn’t fight hard enough. It divided the group and weakened our resolve. People accepted they wouldn’t go home,” Adamu said….
tim gallagher says
Typical of Islam, the religious ideology of gangsters and violent, evil scum. You don’t go out and preach to people and try to convert them willingly to your religion, nope, you just go and violently kidnap them and try to force them into joining stinking Islam. And we are told by so many people that we should respect islam, for reasons that I cannot understand at all.
James Lincoln says
tim gallagher says,
“…we are told by so many people that we should respect islam, for reasons that I cannot understand at all.”
The people who say this are either muslims or Leftist muslim apologists.
Islam should be respected about as much as, say, antifa…
gravenimage says
The Sahih Hadith:
Abu Hurraya said, “you are the best of people for people, you bring them in chains and fetters until they embrace Islam”.
–Bukhari, 4571
The creed of thugs and lidnappers.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the comments, James and gravenimage. I do wonder what sort of people can be members of a religion as evil and violent as islam because, in so many different ways and areas of human life, it is so barbaric in its attitude. And, of course, at the heart of it all is this appalling, evil creature, Muhammad, and I wonder how he can be considered the “ideal man” and god’s chosen man, in any religion, or by any bunch of people. Once you are twisted enough to think that such an evil creature is your ideal man, then you are bound to go and commit all the atrocities Islam commits. As I said, it is these people who tell us Islam deserves respect, ( to me, impossible to comprehend) and that, unfortunately, has to include the Pope, (extraordinary attitude from him!!) that really annoy me. As you say,James, Islam deserves as much respect as antifa or the Nazis. Christianity has been thuggish sometimes in its history, but this report about Muslims kidnapping these girls made me think of Christian preachers, way back to St Paul, travelling around and preaching, but with no violence used at all.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Tim.
tim gallagher says
Thanks, gravenimage. I get how many Muslims are simply born into the disgusting religion and also would scared to try to leave islam, since you can be murdered for daring to leave it, but I find so much of the content of Islam is so primitive and backward and vicious that I keep thinking that it has to go. It has to become Waslam, as Emilie put it. Until it does disappear, my only other policy is to keep Muslims out of all non-Muslim countries. As for the people who keep telling us that Islam deserves respect, well, I guess most of them know absolutely bugger all about islam’s nature, including my golf playing friends, the Pope and all the other apologists for Islam.
gravenimage says
Agree, Tim.
gravenimage says
Nigeria: Islamic jihadis forced kidnapped Christian girls to study the Qur’an, pressured them to convert
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Brave, brave girls–especially Naomi Adamu.
God, I hate Islam.