The media’s reporting of Boko Harem more evidence female suffering is seen as more important than male suffering. Boko Harem also murder boys. Where’s the protest for them. The kidnapping of the 276 predominantly Christian schoolgirls by Islamic terror group Boko Haram is an atrocity, but it is not the first atrocity they have committed. It is just the first one to trip the West’s interest switch. A girl’s right to an education has become an important pillar in western ideology, and an important pawn in the battle against radical Islam. It is why Malala has seen herself elevated to an almost saint-like position. The recent kidnappings have enraged western sensibilities, because they desecrate hallowed ideas about female equality. The West has responded in the only way it knows how: a self-righteous selfie protest using the hashtag ‘Bring Back Our Girls’. Michelle Obama, Cara Delevingne, Jessica Biel and Anne Hathaway have all involved themselves in it. On a more pragmatic front, Britain announced this week that it would send in a small team of Whitehall experts (the subtext being that they are members of our intelligence services and Special Forces). In a toss-up between a selfie and the SAS, I know who I’d back to ‘bring back our girls’. But Boko Haram – whose name means ‘western education is sinful’ – does not distinguish between the education of girls and boys. In February, the group attacked another school. After boarding up every exit, its men seized 59 boys and gunned them down or cut their throats with machetes. Some buildings were sealed up and set alight. The girls were ordered to go home, abandon their ‘wicked’ schooling and seek husbands. Where was the selfie protest then? Or does a savage affront to male education matter less than a savage affront to female education? The answer should clearly be no. For equality to count, both boys and girls need to feel safe in school. By focusing only on the girls – ‘Our Girls’ – we forget the boys who are also in danger. http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffee...rders-boys-where-was-the-selfie-protest-then/
Kidnapped Girls Shown In New Video... Nigeria kidnapped girls 'shown in Boko Haram video' 12 May 2014 ~ Islamist militants Boko Haram have released a video apparently showing about 130 girls kidnapped from a school in northern Nigeria on 14 April. See also: Nigeria’s Missing Girls: The End of Terror Is Nowhere in Sight Terrorism is the most pressing of many issues facing Nigeria, TIME's Rana Foroohar writes after a visit to Abuja, amid the government's sluggish response to the April kidnapping of almost 300 girls by the militant Islamic group Boko Haram
I know you like to whine about all the horrible "inequalities" men have to suffer through but the coverage of this incident is ALL POLITICAL and nothing else. Children of both sexes have been/are/will be stolen and sold constantly...both sexes are used for sex slaves all over the world in every country all the time. So , as I claim, this is purely politcal ...BUT whoever is using it for their own ends IS being sexist as in general females are seen as weaker and more helpless than males...even though they're not...it plays better to the media..
As much as the liberal media ignores Islamic terrorists these days I am surprised they are reporting this at all. At least they are not blaming it on a YouTube video.
Since you consider me a, "whiner," for, "complaining," about inequalities effecting men, surely you must also consider feminists, "whiners," for, "complaining" about say, the, 'wage gap'-right??? Surely right??? Because, you know, it would be sexist if you thought men were, "whiners," for complaining about inequalities effecting then, but you didn't think feminists were, "whiners," for percieved inequalities effecting women
In modern American society women are more important than men. And remember, it's okay to oppress men because men oppressed women for so long.
Boko Haram runs out of food to feed schoolgirls... Chibok girls in hunger as Boko Haram runs out of food items May 31, 2014 ~ Indications emerged yesterday that theres an ongoing food crisis in the camp of the Boko Haram sect where over 200 female students of Government Secondary School, Chibok are being held hostage.
Arab Muslims are not modern society. They treat their women like dogs ( less than dogs ). Europians are blind to that fact.. their tolarent to Islam Shariah will cause great demage. I hope Americans know better.
Few "Americans" consider Shariah to be anything approaching acceptable, and all I know are disgusted with, and very much dislike most of the Arab/Muslim philosophy. I personally freely admit to bigotry where these people are involved, and will go out of my way to avoid them completely.
