Boko Haram abduct more than 100 schoolgirls in northeast Nigeria

You might recall from yesterday that things are, to use a technical term, pretty fucking terrifying in Nigeria right about now, what with the terrorist bomb blast at a busy bus station that killed over 70 people. Well, it's just getting better: between 100 and 200 female students have reportedly been abducted from a school in the country's north.

The hardline Islamist group Boko Haram are not fans of women or education, and particularly hate the idea of educated women. The clue is in the name, which translates loosely as "non-Islamic education is a sin". So they've been pretty big on abducting women from schools, or just firebombing the places. According to women who've subsequently escaped those kidnapped by the group are then used as unpaid domestic servants and sex slaves, which is apparently totes fine with God because these people are, let's be clear, fucking monsters.

Some of the women abducted yesterday escaped by jumping from the back of the open trucks or grabbing onto low-hanging tree branches as they passed underneath, proving that these women are not just students - they're goddamn action heroes.

If these are the sort of enemies that Boko Haram wants to make, they're even more stupid than they appear.

eddie wrote:Oh my god that's awful.
Those poor girls and their families!