Madonna
has added her name to the growing number of people in the world who are
demanding to rescue the abducted Chibok schoolgirls in Borno.
The
queen of pop Madonna shared this pic of Malala, the Pakistani
schoolgirl who stood up to the Taliban and defended her right to an
education, on Instagram and wrote, “223 Teenage girls being held captive
in Nigeria by Religious fundamentalists who believe it is a sin to
educate girls! They are being sold as brides in the market place. This
insanity has to stop! What is the US government doing about this?
#bringourgirls back. #revolutionoflove”.
While there were some initial reports that the girls were being forced to marry against their will, there was some debate on how accurate that is. Now Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the terrorist group Boko Haram that kidnapped the girls, has released a video.
He made his sexist views on women more than clear, demanding that girls
just get married and releasing alarming threats about the kidnapped
girls.
“I abducted your girls. I will sell them in the market,” he
says in the video. “There is a market for selling humans…I will sell
women. I sell women.”
In the past few days more Nigerian girls have been kidnapped.
The United States has put a $7 million bounty on Shekau and they are
part of the international community demanding that Shekau be stopped and
the schoolgirls returned safely. Meanwhile, people around the world
gather together to protest the abduction of hundreds of GGSS Chibok
female students in Borno.
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