Ten Reasons to Demonstrate for the Nigerian Schoolgirls Abducted by Boko Haram

There will be a demonstration tomorrow, May 6, from 10AM to 1PM, at the Embassy of Nigeria, in Washington, DC to protest the abduction of some 276 Nigerian school girls from Chibok, Borno State, by the Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram. There have also been demonstrations in Abuja, Nigeria and elsewhere.

Here are ten reasons why you should be at the demonstration, if you are able, or to be involved in some other kind of advocacy for the Chibok girls.

#10. Almost 300 school girls taking their final exams were brutally abducted from their school on April 14.

#9. The Islamist militant group that abducted them, Boko Haram, is an Al-Qaeda associated Foreign Terrorist Organization.

#8. Boko Haram has sworn to eradicate the Christian community in first northern Nigeria, and then, all of Nigeria.

#7. Boko Haram, whose leader says he would have no more compunction about killing an “infidel” than killing a chicken, is responsible for the deaths of thousands of Christians and others in Nigeria.

#6. Boko Haram leader, Abubaker Shekau, declared in March 2014 that it is permissible (encouraged, even) to take infidel women and girls and selling them in the marketplace, so they would soon begin doing just that. And now they have done it.

#5. If you are a Christian, you have a Biblical mandate to be an advocate and an intercessor for your persecuted brothers and sisters.

#4. If you happen to be an ANGLICAN Christian, if you have even more responsibility — the Anglican Church of Nigeria offered a place of Anglican identity and welcome for those in the Anglican realignment in the North America. The debt to them is immeasurable.

#3. If you are a fellow human being, you have a moral responsibility to victims of violence and injustice.

#2. The Nigerian government must be encouraged to pursue aggressively Boko Haram, in spite of pressure from some in the U.S. government to view the Islamic militants as victims of poverty and marginalization.

#1. You would want everyone to demonstrate and do advocacy, IF IT WERE YOUR DAUGHTER.