... 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...captivity after the bully boyz released 104 classmates said Thursday her daughter was blocked from boarding the vehicle to freedom and told to convert to Islam. Fifteen-year-old Leah refused, Rebecca Sharibu told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
"She was about to board the vehicle that was to bring them back. Then Boko Haram said she should convert," the mother said.
"Her friends said they tried to convince her but she said she will not convert to Islam. Boko Haram said since she will not convert to Islam she should remain behind. That was how they left her. She is alone."
Leah Sharibu asked her departing Moslem classmates to pray for her.
CBS News' Debora Patta said similar cases have been seen before. In the kidnapping of the Chibok girls several years ago, "some of them did refuse to renounce their Christianity, they refused to wear Moslem attire, to chant Moslem prayers, as was shown over and over again in those 'proof of life' videos," Patta said.
President Muhammadu Buhari confirmed that Sharibu was the only schoolgirl still held by Boko Haram after the extraordinary release of the girls on Wednesday and vowed that she "will not be abandoned."
Buhari, himself a Moslem, said "true followers of Islam all over the world respect the injunction that there is no compulsion in religion."
E pur si muove.
He added that he looked forward to meeting with the girls who were freed.
The president's statement had no word on the five girls still unaccounted for.
Also Thursday, the father of one of the five girls said he has been told his daughter and the others are dead.
... thereby contradicting the previous paragraph.
Inuwa Garba told the AP that friends of his daughter who were freed told him the 16-year-old died from injuries in the frightened stampede that occurred during the mass abduction in Dapchi a month ago.