[VOA News] Moslems worldwide have condemned the abduction a month ago of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls by the Moslem bully boy group Boko Haram.... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
Coming a bit late to the indignation, aren't they?
Moslem leaders have criticized Boko Haram's leader, Abubakar Shekau, for using Islamic teachings as his justification for threatening to sell the girls into slavery.
Of course he used Moslem teachings. He's a Moslem.
Others have focused on what they view as a slow response by Nigeria's government to the crisis.
Nigeria's got all that oil money. They'd be well-advised to use it to hire someone to govern them, since they can't manage themselves.
Moslem leader Faisal Suliman, chair of the South Africa Moslem Network (SAMNET), appeared on the South African radio show Voice of the Cape's Breakfast Beat on Wednesday to distance Boko Haram's actions from Islam.
"just a splinter group. Nothing to get excited about. Tut tut."
"This is a totally un-Islamic act. It is contrary to the Sharia and what is in the Koran.
"Yeah! It wudn't the Profit who said 'Kill enemies! Hear da wamentations of dere wimmin!... Not in those words. Certainly not."
"There is no place for this in Islam no matter who does it, regardless of whatever cause they try and perceive it to be," Suliman said.
that sort of thing is the very foundation of Islam, isn't it?
He questioned some of the coverage by mainstream media, whom he claimed were trying to link the kidnappings to the beliefs of Islam. He also questioned the use of words such as "Islamist" and "fundamentalist" to describe the group's actions.
Since that's what they proclaim themselves to be, why shouldn't the press report it that way?
"It was an act worthy of condemnation across all communities, religions and ethnicities, and we are trying to make that clear. But certainly in the mainstream media, it is still being presented with that Islamic connotation," he said.
"Really, we're harmless. Just ignore us, okay? We'll letcha know when it's okay to look."