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More 'Chibok Girls' escape Boko Haram in Nigeria, parents say
By Clyde Hughes
Nearly 300 schoolgirls were abducted from Chibok, Nigeria, in 2014. Parents in a support group say more have escaped from the Boko Haram militant group. File Photo by EPA
Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Several of the missing "Chibok Girls" who were abducted in Nigeria several years ago have escaped African militant group Boko Haram, some of their parents say.
Emmanuel Ogebe and Lawal Zannah, members of the Chibok Parents Association, said some of the more than 100 girls still missing after the 2014 mass kidnapping have fled from their captors.
They didn't say exactly how many had escaped from the terrorist group.
"Information currently available to us indicates that there are other escapees with the army whom parents are anxiously waiting to identify," Ogebe said.
Boko Haram raided a boarding school in Chibok, Nigeria, in 2014 and abducted nearly 300 schoolgirls. The mass abduction prompted global outrage and widespread social media campaigns condemning the kidnappings and demanding the girls' return.
Some girls escaped immediately and others were released as part of a deal with the Nigerian government in 2016. Dozens more were freed in a prisoner exchange in 2017.
Officials had estimated that about 112 of the Chibok girls were still missing.
"We heard that some of our girls have escaped from the forest, but we are yet to get the detail about their number," Zannah said.
Boko Haram has fought the Nigerian government since 2009 and has also spread into nearby Niger, Chad and Cameroon. It pledged allegiance to the Islamic State terror group in 2015.
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau and several commanders broke away from the group in 2016, citing ideological differences, to form their own militant faction.
Search this blog for 'Chibok' for many more stories, none of which are very encouraging.
Kuwait: Bangladeshi MP gets 4 years in jail, fined KD1.9m
for human trafficking
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2 Kuwaiti officials handed down same sentence and ordered to be dismissed from job
Published: January 29, 2021 16:44
Ramadan Al Sherbini, Correspondent, Gulf News
Cairo: A Kuwaiti criminal court has sentenced a Bangladeshi lawmaker to four years in prison and ordered him to pay a fine of KD1.9 million on charges of human trafficking and bribery in a high-profile case, local media reported.
The lawmaker, named in the media as Mohammed Shahid Islam, was charged with receiving money from dozens of workers in return for bringing them in from Bangladesh to Kuwait through a company he managed with illegal assistance from Kuwaiti officials charged in the case.
He has reportedly amassed KD5 million worth of assets in the Gulf country.
The court also sentenced Undersecretary of the Kuwaiti Interior Ministry Maj. Gen. Mazen Al Jarrah; Hassan Al Khedr, a manpower director; and ex-parliamentarian Nawaf Al Muteiri to four years in prison each in the same case. Both officials were charged with receiving bribes in return for illegally facilitating the Bangladeshi lawmaker’s transactions.
The court ordered Al Jarrah and Al Muteiri to pay a fine of KD1.9 million each while it fined Al Khedr KD180,000. The court ordered Al Jarrah and Al Khedr be dismissed from their government jobs.
A fugitive Syrian man and a Bangladeshi defendant were also handed down three years in jail each and ordered their deportation from Kuwait after serving the sentencing.
Meanwhile, sitting MP Saadoun Hamad and ex-lawmaker Salah Khurshed were acquitted of charges of influence peddling and receiving bribery from the Bangladeshi defendant.
All the rulings can be appealed.
During the court hearings, the defendants had denied charges of human trafficking, bribery and power abuse.
Al Qabas newspaper quoted an unnamed source close to investigations as saying that the defendants are still connected to a separate case of money laundering that prosecutors are still investigating.
Syria: Woman kills husband after 35 years of marriage
Woman claims she was humiliated, beaten and mistreated for many years
Published: January 29, 2021 15:34
Tawfiq Nasrallah, Senior News Editor, Gulf News
Dubai: A Syrian woman killed her husband with a razor blade after allegedly being mistreated for 35 years, local media reported.
According to the Syrian Minister of Interior, the woman has been arrested after being found guilty of intentionally killing her husband, who is in his 70s.
While being interrogated she tried to fabricate stories about the incident in order to mislead the police, but eventually admitted to killing her husband after 35 years of unhappy marriage during which she claimed she was humiliated, beaten and mistreated.
On the day of the incident, the woman said she slashed her husband with a razor in his hand and kept slashing him until she reached his neck.
After the victim fell to the ground, the perpetrator went to spend a night with her relatives to prove that she was outside the house. She then returned home as if nothing had happened in an attempt to hide her crime and claimed that her husband had committed suicide.
It may have been a planned murder, but it certainly wasn't a well-planned murder. At least she doesn't have to clean up the bloody mess.
Greek Archbishop Tells the Truth About Islam, Muslim Leaders Enraged
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Noticing the obvious is forbidden
Thu Jan 28, 2021
Robert Spencer, Front Page Mag
Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and all Greece touched off a firestorm in mid-January when he dared to note, according to the Orthodox Times, that “Islam was not a religion but a political party.” He added: “They are the people of war.” In response, Muslim leaders the world over have rained down condemnations upon the archbishop. He spoke inaccurately when he said that Islam was not a religion at all, but proof that he was wrong about Islam having a political aspect has not been forthcoming.
Muslims in Greece were outraged. The Western Thrace Turkish Minority Consultation Council (BTTADK) declared: “We condemn the statement of the Archbishop of Greece, Mr. Ieronimos….We hope a more peaceful language to be used instead of anti-Islamic discourse in such difficult times of pandemic.” The Xanthi Turkish Union added that Ieronymos’ words were an “Islamophobic attack” and even a “hate crime.” It thundered: “The fact that these statements, filled with insults, came from the number one name in the Greek church increases the gravity of the situation. We see this move as one of the typical examples of the rising Islamophobia and xenophobia in Greece in recent years.”
For its part, the Western Thrace Imam-hatip Schools Graduates and Members Association (BIHLIMDER) asserted that the archbishop was displaying “ambition and jealousy,” and stated: “We are leaving the examination of the psychological state of this person, who uses words that even the most ordinary people wouldn’t use, to the experts. We are condemning such a hostile attitude.” Ahmet Ibram, deputy head of the province of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, said fancifully: “One of Islam’s basic beliefs is to have life based on peace between religions. It can never be accepted to have grudge and hostility against other religions’ members.”
What planet has he been on for the last 1400 years?
The Turkish Foreign Ministry also issued a statement: “These provocative expressions of Archbishop Ieronimos, which incite the society to hostility and violence against Islam, also show the frightening level Islamophobia has reached. Such malign ideas are also responsible for the increase of racism, Islamophobia and xenophobia in Europe.”
Anyone with half a brain knows that Islamophobia and xenophobia (particularly Antisemitism) is directly proportional to the increase in Muslims in Europe. Consider what Muslim migrants have contributed to European countries in the past half a dozen years - criminal gangs, drug gangs, thousands of rapes and gang rapes of young European girls, no-go zones, burning cars, etc., etc.
The fact that the Turkish Foreign Ministry would attack the Archbishop of Athens for abetting “the increase of racism, Islamophobia and xenophobia in Europe” confirms that the concept of “Islamophobia” is an illegitimate conflation of two distinct phenomena: crimes against innocent Muslims, which are never justified, and honest analysis of the motivating ideology of jihad terror, which is always necessary. Archbishop Ieronymos pointed out that Islam was political and expansionist, which its scripture, doctrine, and history show it to be.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry knows that Archbishop Ieronymos is right. In January 2018, as Turkish troops launched a military operation in Syria against the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), 90,000 mosques in Turkey prayed the Qur’an’s “Conquest” sura, sura 48, which calls upon Muslims to be “ruthless against unbelievers.” Why did they do that, unless they assumed that their military action had an Islamic aspect? And in November 2019, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: “Our God commands us to be violent towards the kuffar (infidels). Who are we? The ummah [nation] of Mohammed. So [God] also commands us to be merciful to each other. So we will be merciful to each other. And we will be violent to the kuffar. Like in Syria.”
Archbishop Ieronymos said: “Islam, its people, is not a religion but a political party and are the people of war…They are the people who seek expansion, that is the characteristic of Islam.” Erdogan proved him right.
Nonetheless, all this led the unnerved Archdiocese of Athens to issue a clarification, claiming that Archbishop Ieronymos was “meaning nothing more than the distortion of the Muslim religion itself by a handful of extreme fundamentalists, who wreak death and destruction all over the world. These are exactly the people the Archbishop was referring to, that is, people who instrumentalize Islam and turn it into a deadly weapon against all those who have a different view from that of ‘unbelievers,’ even that of believers.”
Except it is not a handful - they are numbered in the hundreds of millions. And those who are not radicalized can be radicalized in a New York minute.
It is understandable that the archdiocese would release this clarification in light of all these denunciations of the archbishop. The archdiocese doesn’t want any violence from Muslims who believe that perceived insults to their faith should be requited with violent attacks, after the pattern of the prophet of Islam himself. But that proves the archbishop’s point yet again.
Austria: Muslim gang of Sharia enforcers threatens to behead children
JAN 30, 2021 4:00 PM
BY ROBERT SPENCER2 COMMENTS
“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4)
“The moral guardian gang threatened children with beheading,” translated from “Sittenwächter-Bande drohte Kindern mit Enthauptung,” by Christoph Budin, Kronen Zeitung, January 24, 2021:
The notorious moral guardian gang of devout Muslim Chechens does not shy away from the brutal extortion of protection money. A father of two was threatened in Vienna with the beheading of his sons – police protection for the family and handcuffs for four young suspects!
The Caucasus gang – among them mostly recognized or tolerated war refugees – had already made headlines several times in the federal capital and Linz. Their compatriot women always had to wear headscarves. And if their behavior was too “Western” or, in their eyes, their values did not correspond (photos in swimwear or meetings with non-Chechen men were sufficient), the victims and their families were severely threatened and persecuted.
“Take your sons head off”
Now apparently blackmail has been added to the long criminal list of arms trafficking, imprisonment, grievous bodily harm, car theft and burglary. Because four young Chechens between the ages of 21 and 25, who are apparently part of the large group, are said to have scared a father in Vienna via WhatsApp.
They know where he works, where his family lives and where his two children go to school. If he doesn’t pay 5000 euros, then, according to the gloomy message in bad German, they will “take your sons’ heads off”.
The blackmailers were also so cheeky as to pretend to be protectors (“solve the problem”) and to demand money again. While the threatened family was under police protection, the quartet was arrested by the WEGA.
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