06/05/2014
Will Nigeria's abducted schoolgirls ever be found?
Nigeria#039;s militant Islamist group Boko Haram abducted more than 200 girls from a boarding school in the northern town of Chibok on 14 April. An estimated 200 heavily armed militants arrived at night in 20 vehicles to steal supplies and kidnap the students. Why were the girls captured? In the local Hausa language, Boko Haram means quot;Western education is forbiddenquot;. So the abductions show the group#039;s visceral hatred for Western education. Moreover, the group promotes the puritanical Islamic view that a woman#039;s place is in the home. The militants have attacked schools before. The school in Chibok, which was hosting final year exams for Christian and Muslim schoolgirls,...
