Boko Haram Recruited Little Girls as Suicide Bombers

The world at large continues to defend Muslims, simply because they belong to a religion, as if religions are sacred. Meanwhile, Muslims continue to be the only members of a religious ideology who murder, maim and torture innocent people on the basis of superstition and their obsession with the Koran and Muhammad.

Using little girls as suicide bombers is a despicable act of cowardice and barbarism that is on par, if not surpassing, beheadings, stoning to death and the like. TGO

Refer to story below. Source: Yahoo News

On Saturday, a bomb exploded in a bustling northern Nigeria market, killing as many as 20 people and injuring several more. The culprit: a 10-year-old girl, who hid the explosives under her veil. She is believed to have been recruited by Boko Haram, making her one of the militant Islamist group’s youngest suicide bombers ever.

“It’s something quite new, and it’s disturbing, using these young, young girls wearing hijabs,” a top police official in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, anonymously told The New York Times.

Some witnesses to the attack suggest that the girl may not have known she was carrying a timed bomb, which reportedly tore her body in two.“

Now, one has to be suspicious of any lady wearing a hijab—whether it’s a young lady or an old lady,” said the police official, warning that Boko Haram’s unprecedented new tactic could result in more discrimination against Muslim women who wear the religious head coverings.

In October, a Nigerian court in Lagos upheld a ban of hijabs in primary and secondary schools, a decision that the Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria called “shameful.”

Saturday’s attack in the market comes in the wake of a series of northeast Nigeria massacres, including one in Baga that Amnesty International called Boko Haram’s “deadliest” yet. The terrorist group has a history of abducting girls across northeast Nigeria, including the 276 boarding school girls whose April kidnapping prompted First Lady Michelle Obama’s viral hashtag #bringbackourgirls. All but 57 of those girls are still in captivity.

It’s not uncommon for Boko Haram to employ women as suicide bombers, but hiring a child to kill appears to be a terrible new low in the insurgency.

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One Response to Boko Haram Recruited Little Girls as Suicide Bombers

  1. GhostRider says:

    The Ghostrider stiil likes Boko Harum music and the stoning to death is a myth as one cannot smoke enough marijuana to die.-Ghostrider Wisdom…is there any other.

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