So many things can be said that I am sure have been said over and over in the modern educated western world with regards to the role of women in society. We can all be appalled. We can all cry for equality, feminist ideology, and women and human rights – but this doesn’t change how things still are in other parts of the world that are not as evolved as ours. These people remain adamant in their archaic beliefs.
Boko Haram, the group who has claimed to have taken the girls, translates to “western education is sinful” and its leader, Abubakar Shekau, believes that “in Islam, it is allowed to take infidel women as slaves”. He also said in a video that all students should leave school and girls should just drop out to get married.
Wait a minute. Pardon me, but I have a question to ask...
Let me just clarify this Mr. Shekau. So, all this effort, brutality and bruahaha… just so your crew can get some and slash get married to girls?
Cause you know… You guys kidnap girls, rape them, force them to do what you want, sell them, brutalize and terrorize them and then conveniently justify all this by claiming that your religion allows you to take women from different religions as slaves. BUT at the end of the day – it is about GIRLS, am I right?
Oh the misogyny of inadequate men...
So these thugs who claim to do all this for their so called faith are at their core just men who apparently cannot get women in the growing real world they contemptuously call “western”.
They believe that women must be kept low and uneducated to keep them submissive to them.
Misogynistic folks of “Western Education is Sinful”, your barbaric code is not only cowardly; it reflects manhood at its most pathetic state.
If the only way you think you can keep your womenfolk by your side is by keeping them down, then you don’t believe you can get them if they were smart, educated and had actual legitimate professions for a living.
It is pathetic - blaming the girls’ desire to uplift themselves in the world through education as the problem when in reality it is you, barbaric men, who cannot keep up.
I suppose, it is kind of difficult to imagine a Nigerian woman doctor getting impressed and falling in love with a man from your group who, you know, resides in some makeshift rebel camp, whose hobbies include burning down schools, cleaning your knife and other things like that.
But dude, you must see this: you are unattractive the way you are now behaving like a brutal group of women-starved men. GET WITH IT: It's you (that's the problem), not her!
In the same vein, whenever I hear of stories of friend’s husbands and boyfriends who need to constantly put their wives and girlfriends down (or worse, need to physically abuse them) just to make themselves feel more secure... I am disgusted.
Real men do not keep women by keeping them down.
Real men will let women be the best they can be and should likewise uplift themselves to make themselves worthy of these empowered women.
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It is unimaginable what these school girls are being subjected to. One can only imagine what they are going through as they have been virtually forced into sexual slavery. And, the entire world just seem so powerless the way things are right now as about 1 month after their abduction, they still remain at large.
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It might just be a social media campaign but it is something...
Here's to hoping the girls will be found. I am joining in with the netizens of the world in the campaign to #BringBackOurGirls!
Here's to hoping the girls will be found. I am joining in with the netizens of the world in the campaign to #BringBackOurGirls!
