Nigerian Girls vs. Native American Girls - Part 2

It is indeed admirable that people in the West are concerned about the Nigerian school girls kidnapped by Boko Haram guerrillas.

I wonder though, what is our chief concern: that they may be raped or otherwise harmed, or that they are being forced to convert to Islam?

The other day I wrote about our hypocrisy in this matter, in that we seem to care more about these Nigerian girls than the native American girls we abused, raped, and murdered:

http://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2014/05/nigerian-girls-vs-native-american-girls.html

Allow me to also remind you that the kidnapped native American children that our ancestors imprisoned at so-called Indian boarding schools were forcibly converted to Christianity.

So far, it appears that the Boko Haram conversion process does not involve sexual abuse, rape, or murder of the children being converted, while the American conversion process for native American children did in fact involve such atrocities.

So, all of you who think America is "doing the right thing" this time are full of crap. America's chief concern here appears to be a desire to perfect surveillance methods that can be used to find anyone, anywhere and bring them to what we call "justice". You may be thrilled when these girls are finally found and their captors are slaughtered, but keep in mind that these same search and destroy techniques soon will be used against you.

Will you be happy then?

By the way, a recent essay in The Christian Science Monitor about the work of Professor Paul Newman has shed some light on the meaning of the phrase "Boko Haram":

Newman explains that when Britain's colonial government began introducing its education system into Nigeria, seeking to replace traditional Islamic education (including replacing the Arabic script traditionally used to write Hausa with a Roman-based script that they also quickly called "boko") , this was seen as a "fraudulent deception being imposed upon the Hausa by a conquering European force."

Rather than send their own children to the British government schools, as demanded by the British, Hausa emirs and other elites often shifted the obligation onto their slaves and other subservients. The elite had no desire to send their children to school where the values and traditions of Hausa and Islamic traditional culture would be undermined and their children would be turned into ’yan boko,’ i.e., “(would-be) westerners”.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Security-Watch/Backchannels/2014/0506/Boko-Haram-doesn-t-really-mean-Western-education-is-a-sin

So ... Boko Haram seeks to do what the parents of native American children failed to do: prevent Western sociocide of their culture, by any means necessary. Some believe that native American tribes failed to fight this aspect of the white man's invasion of their homeland because they felt it was hopeless to do so and also that their children would be better off if they learned the white man's ways. Boko Haram refuses to capitulate in a similar cultural war, and considering the ultimate fate of native American peoples and former African slaves in America I'm not sure I blame them.