Monica Mark
The Guardian
May 6, 2014
Why the World Is Finally Talking About Nigeria's Kidnapped Girls http://t.co/Ur9gLBXWHy #BringBackOurGirls pic.twitter.com/RtdtRmGVjC
— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) May 6, 2014
The leader of Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram has said that more than 270 schoolgirls snatched from their dormitories were “slaves” whom he planned to sell in the market.
“I abducted your girls,” a man claiming to be Abubakar Shekau, the group’s leader, said in a video seen by the Guardian. “I will sell them in the market, by Allah. I will sell them off and marry them off. There is a market for selling humans.
“Women are slaves. I want to reassure my Muslim brothers that Allah says slaves are permitted in Islam,” he added, in an apparent reference to an ancient tradition of enslaving women captured during jihad, or holy war.
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