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Abortion will not help victims of Boko Haram’s violent rapes

June 12, 2015Laymanabortion, Boko Haram, Nigeria, Nigerian girls, rape

By Marie Bowen, A Christian Manifesto. Few things have wrenched my heart like the plight of the young women and girls abducted from their Nigerian school by Boko Haram and violently and repeatedly raped and impregnated by terrorists. I have not written about it because the horror these girls have experienced leaves me wordless, stunned,…

Boko Haram: We are at war with Christianity

May 24, 2014Layman1 Boko Haram, Council on American-Islamic Relations, jihad, Juicy Ecumencism, Nigerian girls

By Ryan Mauro, cross-posted at Juicy Ecumencism The reason that Boko Haram believes its kidnapping of over 200 Nigerian girls is justified is because of Islamist teachings that the taking of female slaves is justified during jihad. And this jihad is not limited Nigeria. In a recent video, its leader said it is at war…