Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped two weeks again are being sold

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The girls were kidnapped on April 14 by gunmen who raided the dormitories taking the girls while they slept.
Initially officials said that about 85 girls had been taken. But it later emerged that as many as 234 were missing.

The girls' families and their supporters have now organised mass demonstrations across Nigeria in an attempt to force President Goodluck Jonathan to take more drastic action.
Boko Haram has been abducting girls and young women in attacks on schools, villages and towns, but the latest mass kidnapping is unprecedented.
The extremists use the young women as porters, cooks and sex slaves, according to Nigerian officials.
Boko Haram has a history of abducting women, and there has been an estimated 10,000 deaths caused by the group since it was formed in 2002.
The group rejects western beliefs and its purpose is to establish a "pure" Islamic state ruled by sharia law.


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Nearly 300 schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria by Islamist militants could be released in exchange for jailed comrades, a former Boko Haram negotiator has reportedly said.
The group snatched the girls from their boarding school in Chibok in the lawless Borno region in the north of the country.
A former mediator of the group has told the Telegraph he believes the video, where Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau threatens to sell the girls as slaves, shows he plans to use them as ‘bargaining chips’ rather than kill them.


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I most sincerely hope so.

Maybe the brave brave abductors waving guns in the air are getting concerned at the multi national offers of help to the Nigerians to combat the problem.

gerber wrote:Not becoming of you.................

I see and hear and believe everything put before me....

Let me ask, o wise ones; if this is the way of the Muslim world, then why are Muslims rising up in mass protest?

veya_victaous wrote: 

Yes it is Only a Few, almost 2 billion Muslims in the world and you gonna take 2 dozen terrorists as your sample and say the rest are like them......  and you wonder why people think that is Brain dead stupid   

  

FACTUALLY, there about 1.4 billion Muslims in the world, veya'...

Against 2 billion Christians, and 1 billion Hindus..

OF those Muslims, approximately 30%, give or take, belong to the more fundi'/trad'/conservative sects and cults among their faith. As with the Christian and Buddhist religions, Islam is a "house of many rooms".

GOING on past behaviour, 99% of those ~400 million fundi' Islamists will prove to be too spineless, plain lazy or simply disinterested, as to join in any of their petty Jihads..

THAT still leaves maybe 4 million potential Islamist nutjobs ready to "bite the bullet", or maybe forcing others to don their suicide vests, in the name of their favourite Mullahs...   

I'm afraid Veya is right and you are wrong Bee:

World Muslim Population
2013 is 2.04 Billion & 2014 is = 2.08 Billion
** Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

http://www.muslimpopulation.com/World/

Sassy wrote:I'm afraid Veya is right and you are wrong Bee:

World Muslim Population
2013 is 2.04 Billion & 2014 is = 2.08 Billion
** Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

http://www.muslimpopulation.com/World/

 @Wolf
        
       

And if it were seriously 4 million that would already be the 6th largest army on earth    almost twice the size the US armed forces (including reserves and paramilitary)
About the Size of China's Paramilitary   

 @ veya' and sassy : 

MY references certainly don't agree with that Carnegie/Sassy guestimate.

The one's I looked at had a range of 1.3 to 1.6 billion for 2012-13.

http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html
http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Theology-World-Religions.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_religious_groups
http://www.religionfacts.com/big_religion_chart.htm
http://richleebruce.com/mystat.html

To reach 2 billion last year, the world's Islamic population would have had to have grown by more than 60% in the last few years (i.e. in well under a decade..) !

THAT would be a phenomenal growth in any religion, by anyone's standards..

THOSE figures would mean that Islam had overtaken Christianity in the last two years ~ an event that wasn't expected for another 2 or 5 decades..     

I simply DON'T believe that total of >2 billion (!), and have to wonder just what the Carnegie Institutes motives might be, as well ~ maybe they themselves support the idea of a new anti-Islamist crusade...

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VEYA ~ that 4 million Islamist zealots that I proposed is just the rough number of how many potential recruits could be available around the world, at this time.

Obviously only a small fraction are actively involved at any given time; and financial constraints probably limits their likely anti-social activities, just as much as "the war on terror" ever does..  

the highest I can see is 1.6Billion from 2010 count   

Interesting HOW far from reality most people stereotype of a Muslims is



3 times more East Asian Muslims than Arab Muslims

 

THE world's most populous Muslim nation is also our closest neighbour ~ Indonesia, with over 90% of it's 220+ million inhabitants being Muslim...

Malaysia and Brunei are also predominantly Muslim..

AND the Bali bombings by the Islamist Jemaah Islamiyah thugs were probably the second or third worse terrorist assaults in the years following 9/11.

(I also wonder if that Carnegie mob has seen fit to also lump some of the fringe religions and other groups in the same regions as Islamic nations (like Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia) - add 10 million extra here, 20 million there and the estimated total grows faster;  allowing extra again for faster growth in invaded territories, and enslaved populations, could add even more..).

 

I think you will find that Carnegie are one of the most reliable centres for information around:

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a foreign-policy think tank with centers in Washington, D.C., Moscow, Beirut, Beijing, and Brussels.[1] The organization describes itself as being dedicated to advancing cooperation between nations and promoting active international engagement by the United States. Founded in 1910 by Andrew Carnegie, its work is not formally associated with any political party.

In the University of Pennsylvania's 2013 Global Go To Think Tanks Report, Carnegie is ranked the third most influential think tank in the world, after the Brookings Institution and Chatham House.[2]

Its headquarters building, prominently located on the Embassy Row section of Massachusetts Avenue, was completed in 1989 on a design by architecture firm Smith, Hinchman & Gryll. It also hosts the embassy of Papua New Guinea in the U.S.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Endowment_for_International_Peace