Hillary's State Department Refused to Brand Boko Haram as Terrorists

Hillary's State Department Refused to Brand Boko Haram as Terrorists
Under Hillary Clinton, the State Department repeatedly declined to fully go after the terror group responsible for kidnapping hundreds of girls.
Politics 05.07.14
by Josh Rogin

The State Department under Hillary Clinton fought hard against placing the al Qaeda-linked militant group Boko Haram on its official list of foreign terrorist organizations for two years. And now, lawmakers and former U.S. officials are saying that the decision may have hampered the American government’s ability to confront the Nigerian group that shocked the world by abducting hundreds of innocent girls.

In the past week, Clinton, who made protecting women and girls a key pillar of her tenure at the State Department, has been a vocal advocate for the 200 Nigerian girls kidnapped by Boko Haram, the loosely organized group of militants terrorizing northern Nigeria. Her May 4 tweet about the girls, using the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls, was cited across the media and widely credited for raising awareness of their plight.

On Wednesday, Clinton said that the abduction of the girls by Boko Haram was “abominable, it’s criminal, it’s an act of terrorism and it really merits the fullest response possible, first and foremost from the government of Nigeria.” Clinton said that as Secretary of State she had numerous meetings with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and had urged the Nigerian government to do more on counterterrorism.

What Clinton didn’t mention was that her own State Department refused to place Boko Haram on the list of foreign terrorist organizations in 2011, after the group bombed the U.N. headquarters in Abuja. The refusal came despite the urging of the Justice Department, the FBI, the CIA, and over a dozen senators and congressmen.

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These people will never call a real terrorist a terrorist, but the first time they get into an armed confrontation with someone from the tea party right they'll never shut up about the 'terrorists'.

 

Exactly. I'd add that Boko Haram is too extreme even in Al Qaeda's view.

 

In about a year Hillary is going to blame all this on Obama and his agenda. that little tweet of hers... we will be hearing that is her proof that it was not her policy.

The Clintons are very cagey. That tweet was meant to begin to defuse the issue for her.
It was her terrible policies which caused all these problems but she is going to pull a pontius pilate and say it was all his fault.
She was a failure not because of her screwed up marxist filters and actions but because of Obama or because of Bill.


She does not have the guts to call out Obama not on his pro muslim brotherhood, soft on extremist / anti Christian agenda now but she will act like she was against it later.
She has never done anything that does not result in a scandal. That should tell us something about her decision making abilities.

 

Don't forget that Hillary's top aide at State was Huma Abedin, wife of disgraced former Rep. Anthony Wiener. Abedin is an Egyptian whose family had deep ties to the muslim brotherhood. The fact she could get a security clearance raised questions about why we even bother with the process.

 

It's what leftists do when dealing with radical Muslims. Ignore and/or appease them. Then things go south and they walk around wringing their hands. Whatever shall we do with them? We talked real nice about them, and they still are a bunch a kill crazy maniacs.
Wasn't the Nobel Peace prize guy supposed to have us all Kumbaya by now? What happened?

 

I sort of tried to keep myself from thinking about this crap because it is so disturbing to read as a father.
But this is the sickness off our executive and state department leadership made manifest. Refusing to call these guys terrorists?


http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/05/09/Boko-Haram-Child-Rape-Girls-Jihad-Radical-Islam


On April 14, 2014, Boko Haram, (whose name either means “Western education is forbidden” or “a colonialist fraud being perpetrated against us”), captured three hundred Christian and Muslim Nigerian schoolgirls to become their sex and domestic slaves. The Muslim fundamentalists swooped down upon them as they were learning in a “forbidden” government secular school. Some girls managed to escape. Two hundred and seventy six girls are still missing.
The world media calls this a “kidnapping” in Nigeria. It is not a “kidnapping.” It is the face of Jihad, the way of Jihad. Boko Haram are not holding these girls for ransom, they are not willing to return them for money. They already view the girls as their God-given booty, and as sale-able property.
The girls are between the ages of twelve and fifteen. The Christian girls will be raped, converted to Islam, and then, like the Muslims girls, “married” to one of their captors. Some will be trafficked into the sex trade, which is pandemic throughout Africa and the Muslim Middle East. Sharia law allows men to purchase the sexual favors of a female child or a young woman for one hour, a week, or a month. Private and public brothels exist as well.
Please understand: Boko Haram are the Nigerian Taliban. Like their Pakistani and Afghan counterparts, they oppose education for girls and would rather marry and impregnate them instead--for Allah’s sake.
This behavior is absolutely par for the course in Islamic history. Anyone who is surprised or shocked by this latest outrage in Nigeria simply does not know the facts.
Boko Haram’s behavior is typical of any armed Muslim force beginning in Mohammed’s time. The Prophet’s warriors went on raids and systematically massacred the Jewish tribes in Arabia. The men who refused to convert were beheaded--and then the Prophet divided the women, children, houses, and chattels among the Muslims. The women were forcibly converted and kept as “wives” or slaves.
Thereafter, Muslim warriors in search of power, land, and gold, did much the same thing.
Contrary to the politically correct intelligentsia, who focus only on Western sins, Islam also has a long and ongoing history of imperialism, colonialism, conversion by the sword, sex slavery, (of both boys and girls), polygamy, sex trafficking, and the brutal subordination and cyclical massacres of religious minorities.
Westerners either do not know this, do not want to know this, don’t care all that much, or misunderstand this.
Some, including journalists, still believe that Boko Haram and other such groups are crying out against injustice and poverty, against government corruption and ineptitude--all of which exist.
But that is not Boko Haram’s major concern. They want to assert an Islamic state in Nigeria, similar to that which exists in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, and now, Brunei. These Muslim extremists, both Sunni and Shiia, want Sharia law to dominate public and private life. This means that the state will have the power to stone people to death for adultery and apostasy, to amputate for theft, to lash and jail for “blasphemy,” to tax and hold hostage, jail, murder, or exile infidels.
Oh, yes--male polygamy will be legal, marriage will be forced, women will be veiled, normatively beaten and raped without recourse, honor killed for the slightest perceived disobedience. Women are breeders and housekeepers--an education would ruin them.
Nevertheless, for the first time, the world is mobilized, we have a “teachable moment.” Petitions have been signed, tweets tweeted, articles written, offers of military support tendered. I have remained silent because I have not liked how many in the media have jumped on this latest example of barbarism to plead their own special cause.
The capture of girls is horrifying but, they say, let’s remember that Boko Haram and other groups like them have also persecuted religious minorities in the Muslim and Arab world; let’s not forget that there are so many moderate Muslims who believe in women’s rights and the Western enterprise; let’s remember that this is just one more face of Jihad against the West, etc. All true--but this all takes the focus away from the way in which historical Islam views and treats women.
In 1971, hundreds of thousands of women were raped during the Bangladesh Liberation War. Pakistani Muslim soldiers publicly and repeatedly gang-raped and tortured Muslim (future Bangladeshi) women. These women became known as “Birangona,” or “brave women.” At the time, many killed themselves or, if pregnant, their families killed them in honor killings. Forty years later, those who survived are still traumatized and shamed by what was done to them. Many were humiliated by their relatives, rejected by their husbands.
At the time, the West paid no attention.
From 1992 on, Islamic paramilitary troops enslaved young Muslim girls in Algeria both sexually and domestically; they just grabbed them off the streets. If they tried to escape, they would be shot dead; the same was true when they became pregnant. Their names are lost in history.
At the time, the West paid no attention.
And then there was 2004, in Sudan, a long and ugly war, in which ethnic Arab Muslims engaged in what I call “gender cleansing” when they publicly and repeatedly gang-raped mainly Black African Muslim, Christian, and animist women. I was approached for advice and suggested setting up Women’s Talking Tents where the raped girls and women could come and speak their pain, see they were not alone, learn that it was not their fault.
And Western governments did nothing.
I wonder what will happen to those poor Nigerian girls who survive this ordeal? Will they be rescued and embraced? Will they be able to one day see themselves as war heroes, not victims? Will they all ever be found?
Mainly, will the world finally take a strong stand against such militant and barbaric Islamic groups who not only rape and imprison Muslim girls and women but who also slaughter both Muslim civilians and "infidels" indiscriminately?
Dr. Phyllis Chesler is an Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies, and the author of fifteen books including the classic Women and Madness, Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman, and The New Anti-Semitism. Her latest book, An American Bride in Kabul, just won the National Jewish Book Award for 2013. She is a Fellow at the Middle East Forum and can be reached through her website: www.phyllis-chesler.com

 

Has it occurred to the geniuses in the administration that advertising in advance we're coming to help is in effect warning Boko Haram to split up the hostages and move them as far away and in as many different directions as possible?

Like when Obama personally killed bin Laden and they immediately bragged about it and how many garbage bags they filled with intel, which in effect warned al Qaeda of the extent to which they'd been compromised.

 

A panel of Fox News contributors mocked the #BringBackOurGirls hashtag on Sunday, bashing the Twitter phrase for being a useless "exercise in self-esteem."

The hashtag #BringBackOurGirls has gone viral worldwide sparking global awareness of the 276 schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria by Boko Haram, an Islamist extremist group. Celebrities, politicians and world leaders have united behind the cause in what is being called "hashtag activism" to bring the girls back to safety.

But Fox News contributors got a laugh on "Fox News Sunday" in a conversation that began with Chris Wallace wondering if the hashtag could actually "make progress" or was rather simply a tool to make people "feel better about themselves."

"Exactly that," George Will said. "It’s an exercise in self-esteem. I do not know how adults stand there, facing a camera, and say, 'Bring back our girls.' Are these barbarians in the wilds of Nigeria supposed to check their Twitter accounts and say, 'Uh oh, Michelle Obama is very cross with us, we better change our behavior'?"

"It's trending! It’s trending on Twitter!" Brit Hume then exclaimed, which garnered a chuckle from the rest of the panel.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/...activism-brit-hume-george-will_n_5305749.html

 

It's embarrassing. We're supposed to be a global superpower and we are reduced to Michelle Obama holding a freakin' sign and making her sad face?

A huge task force was mobilized to search for the missing Malaysian Air plane, even though there were fewer people at risk. Of course, liberals are very "concerned", just like they are about gun violence in Chicago.

They just aren't concerned enough to do anything meaningful. Are we really supposed to believe that with all our drone and sat technology, we can't track a relatively large group of people hiding in the jungle?

Maybe we should sponsor a UN resolution. That'll really teach those bastards a lesson.