I have many friends who ask me why I so despise religions, especially Islam. I suppose they don’t read any of the news stories I post in this blog… TGO
Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press
Maiduguri (Nigeria) (AFP) – Dozens of Nigerian women who were forced to marry Boko Haram fighters were reportedly slaughtered by their “husbands” before a battle with troops in the northeast town of Bama, multiple witnesses said Thursday.
Five witnesses who recounted the massacres to AFP said the Islamist militants feared they would be killed by advancing soldiers or separated from their wives when they fled the town.
They killed the women to prevent them from subsequently marrying soldiers or other so-called non-believers, they added.
“The terrorists said they will not allow their wives to be married to infidels,” said Sharifatu Bakura, 39, a mother of three.
Nigeria’s military along with forces from neighbouring Cameroon, Chad and Niger have claimed huge victories over the insurgents in recent weeks but defenceless civilians still face serious threats.
– ‘Dozens’ of corpses –
According to Bakura’s account, which was supported by others, Boko Haram fighters received word of a military assault on Bama, formerly an Islamist stronghold in Borno state.
The insurgents had decided to flee to the nearby town of Gwoza before the troops’ arrival but first decided “to kill their wives so that nobody will remarry them”, she said.
Bukara’s husband was killed by the insurgents four months ago but she was spared from a forced marriage because she was visibly pregnant.
Boko Haram forcibly married scores of women in Bama after seizing it in September. Nigeria’s military announced the recapture of the town on Monday.
Witnesses who were taken under military protection this week to Borno’s capital Maiduguri, 73 kilometres (45 miles) away, said the killing of women began 10 days before Bama was liberated.
The Islamists said “if they kill their wives, they would remain pious until both of them meet again in heaven, where they would re-unite”, said Salma Mahmud, another witness.
A vigilante who fought alongside the military in the battle to retake Bama, Abba Kassim, said he saw “dozens of women corpses” in the town.
– Commander’s instructions –
While other witnesses reportedly a similarly high casualty figure the numbers were impossible to verify.
Fanna Aisami, 52, also in Maiduguri after escaping Bama this week, said the executions followed a warning from Boko Haram’s top commander in the town.
“He informed them of the situation and the consequence of the takeover of the town by the advancing troops.
“He warned them that when soldiers killed them they would take their wives back to the society where they would be forced to marry and live with infidels,” the mother of seven said, speaking by phone to AFP in Kano.
The commander “said it would be better for them to kill their wives and send them to heaven,” Aisami added.
A number of women were shot dead in front of the commander’s house, she further said.
Yagana Mairambe, 58, reported similar details but told AFP that “some Boko Haram men refused” and fled with their wives towards neighbouring Yobe state.
Nigeria’s national security spokesman Mike Omeri told AFP he would try to verify the reports while the military could not immediately be reached for comment.
With Boko Haram gunmen facing heavy military pressure across northeast Nigeria, attacks, including suicide bombings, have persisted, even as the government in Abuja tries to assure voters that March 28 elections will be secure.
The Islamist uprising has claimed more than 13,000 lives since 2009 and President Goodluck Jonathan has faced fierce criticism over failure to contain the violence.
The latest reported atrocities in Bama recall similar massacres at high schools and colleges across northeast Nigeria, where Boko Haram has executed scores of students learning a so-called infidel curriculum.
BTW….thought I might save you some effort cause Ghostrider Wisdom is what it is, not something to be believed in…or debated…or clinically tested…it just is what it is.
But along those lines, I gotta tell ya. In and of itself, Ghostrider absolutely is a Houdini Act too and I am completely aware of the escapism that I get out of the fella. Had I thought of him back in the late 80s, I probably would not have needed a Houdini Act that took me away to Boca Raton, and away from my kids, family, and friends. But then, the egg must come first no? Or is it the chicken? It is incredible how time really does fold in and into itself making everything taking place simultaneously. How else can I explain my alterego crossing thru that vast space / time? -Ghostrider Wisdom…even linear thinking doesn’t cut it at times
So, other societies across the globe have not taken steps to correct their blunders and injustices. Oh well! I feel strongly both ways. Hey! You are preaching to the choir (maybe not) here, Mi Amigo.
In respond to your semi-rhetorical, but very real question that starts off this post: “I have many friends who ask me why I so despise religions, especially Islam.” I think I made myself pretty clear in answering, “None of it makes any sense to them. I on the other hand understand it completely but only because, one, I understood my own Houdini act, and two, I was never the type that cared what the neighbors think.”
In other words Mr. TGO, as I first and foremost mention, I understand the behavior that you are questioning the reader with and not only do I clearly let you know that I am not one of your many friends who ask you why you so despise religions, especially Islam, because, primarily I understand your inner dynamics at work here, but furthermore because I understood my own “Houdini Act” (as you brightly named it), although in the world of science it is called Psychological Escapism. The Great One’s Blog is in fact, my friend’s Houdini Act. Since I understand it, you waste your time – but need not to – in trying to create an explanation for your chosen modalities of expressing it. Additionally, being that I don’t care what others think I am relatively non-judgmental in my own thoughts about your own or others actions so you need not justify yourself with it comes to the soft core porn here. As I have said many a time, while some of us enjoy the static art that is the female body, some of us enjoy the dynamic performance art that is called fucking. How was it that the Cubanitos would put it, “Para los gustos se isieron los colores.”
Back to Houdini Acts. Since our lives are not always solution-oriented and can be represented by denial, rationalization, and escapism. few would deny that relaxation and recreation, in measure, are healthy activities which enable us to enjoy life more and to engage better with others. We all need some time off. However, many people are becoming so habituated to escaping reality that engaging with others has become a scary and unwelcome prospect.
The term ‘escapism’ is really reserved for those who take excessive time away from real life to the point at which they seem to be trying to escape from it. Traditionally regarded as extreme, escapism is in fact increasingly the norm for many people. In Japan, for example, the average household watches over 8 hours of television per day1.
Escapism is not defined by the behaviour itself but the motivation behind it. Anything from sport to fashion to sex can become escapist activities. Certain escapist options are socially accepted, such as consumerism and celebrity worship, others are not, such as recreational drug use. Modern technology has brought digital culture – television, films, social media, blogging, increasingly realistic computer games and virtual realities that provide escapist experiences with huge degrees of immersion. Means of escapism have become increasingly varied over the past few decades.
Mr. TGO, The professionals, or your much worshiped scientists, interpret the popularity of escapism as an indication that people are unhappy with the lives they are leading – whether due to material deprivation or cloying over consumption. They believe that allowing consciousness growth is the key to helping escapists – by encouraging them to experience altruistically, it can break them out of their self-imposed prison and they can start living for real once more, enjoying their connections with others.
Ultimately, the means of escapism is relatively unimportant. Its root cause is an inability or the lack of desire to establish meaningful relationships with other people in the real world, and it is generally associated with feelings such as guilt, powerlessness or pointlessness. It is natural to abhor a zero-sum economic system which assumes an unnatural selfishness and attempts to motivate people by fear not love. No wonder people try to escape from the depression that results from taking part in it.
In closing, not only do I not post photos of teenage girls, I do not post photos of any girls at all on my blog – if you want to call it a blog, which I don’t “do”. If you are referring to https://ghostriderandfriends.wordpress.com/ghostrider-friends-come-to-life/ and the photo below the blog header, I use that much as you use the Einstein photo to the right of your blog header. What can I say, I have better taste than you? It’s a welcome into the site and it was I that was used as a prop in the photo and certainly not the girls. Harems are all paid for or part of human trafficking waves and have all lost their freedoms. The girls that you see surrounding Ghostrider in that web shot simply do it because they have not lost any of their freedoms and will react to the Ghostriders charming persona and consciousness in any way they choose to because they really don’t give a fuck as to what a neighbor, friend, or even a blogger might think. In this shoot, the group may surely have some teenagers, if by that you mean the their ages are a number that ends in “teen” like 18 or 19, and they are all students at Florida International University and I am certain that they were all going home to fuck their teenage boyfriends as that is how our culture expresses it self normally, be it by those that are 18, 19, or 58. -Ghostrider Wisdom…that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
So lets give this a shot, and mind you, it’s a long shot lat since quite often fanatism impairs ohomeland ability wheit comes to understanding but at times I do believe in the seemly imposible so I take a stab at an atempt to reach your understanding of what I am telling you in my own unique way. When a friend asks you as to why you despise religion, yada yada yada It fills you with wonder… Don’t they read the stories?… As if reading any story be it Dante’s Inferno or Cinderella will create the same emotional response in every reader. If that was the case I would despise my own
homeland when I read of how they barbarically almost eliminated entire cultures simply because they lived where the Buffalo roamed. Or how they would lynch a black man just for eating some white pussy. So even though your friends may read the posts they remain at a loss for understanding because for all intents and purposes you have been posting The same story day in day out for years now – in context the story is identical – and to make it worse your commentary on the story is contextually the same also. Then throw in the Larry Flynnt impersonation. So it isn’t as much as your friends not understanding why you despise religion so much or why you like the photographical image of the cunt so much its their lack of understanding your need for The Great Ones Blog. -Ghostrider Wisdom…that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
I have never stated, nor will I, that white man hasn’t done harm, and lots of it. But while in the United States we have taken steps to correct our blunders and injustices, the same cannot be said of other societies across the globe, more specifically in the Islamic world; quite the contrary.
Yes, I do post the same things over and over. Maybe that’s because the same things occur over and over. It isn’t as if I’m fabricating the stories. And what do you suggest I do for commentary? Would you suggest that I agree with all the violence taking place in the name of Allah, just to add some variety?
Let it not go unnoticed that when you comment on this Blog I never erase any of your content, most of which is CACA. But nevertheless, there is no censorship. Certainly if I “allow” your gibberish on my Blog than certainly I can choose to post and comment what I wish and how I wish.
In closing, I always find it amusing how you criticize the babes. Yet your blog has photos of you surrounded by teenage girls, as if they were your harem. At least the photos I post are of professionals who are getting paid good money to pose for the camera.
They do but none of it makes any sense to them…and I’m not talking about just the fanatical atheism, I’m talking none of it….the whole blog of which the news stories you post about on this blog\, make up a much smaller content than the hole – no pun intended – than the whole of it. None of it make any sense to them. I on the other hand understand it completely but only because, one, I understood my own Houdini act, and two, I was never the type that cared what the neighbors think. -Ghostrider Wisdom…being understood doesn’t make a difference, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
… And it’s a good thing that being understood doesn’t make a difference, because no one can understand you, at least not your writing.