<p>As the daughter of Nigerian immigrants ,I feel personally affected by the hurendous actions of Boko Harum. They’ve kidnapped over 300 school girls,and turned them into everything from sex slaves to cooks. The world believes that They’re hiding the girls in a dense forest in Northeast Nigeria.This forest is hot and humid,they’re drinking from dirty soucres of water, and are at a HUGE risk for malaria.Also,it’s believed that a lot of the girls have been SOLD INTO MARRIAGE and moved to other countries. Nigerian or not, we should all recognize this horrible act and pressure the Nigerian government into actually doing something.#BRINGBACKOURGIRLS</p>
<p>PS: I’m Igbo for thoses who want to know. Igbos are mainly in the South,around Lagos,but this affects,and hurts, everyone. </p>
<p>These S.O.B.s are terrorists, plain and simple. Terrors usually do not heed the cries of celebrities or ordinary civilians who have no idea what’s happening on the ground in the battle zones.</p>
<p>Maybe the Nigerian army/police should take a lot of guns and go into the forest and kill the terrorists. It isn’t the responsibility of the US to place her soldiers at risk by fighting a war that should be fought by the Nigerians.</p>
<p>One reason for the Twitter campaign is the lack of responsiveness on the part of the Nigerian government and worldwide media coverage before the campaign.</p>
<p>This is reinforced by news about offers of help not being accepted in a timely manner:</p>
<p>Wow. I don’t think you guys could be more insensitive if you tried. Should people instead just sit back and do nothing? Of course terrorists don’t respond to twitter. Twitter does, however, get people to notice. If no one notices nothing will get done. Famous people getting involved makes people listen, like it or not, and we need people to care about those missing girls. </p>
<p>Insensitivity was not my intent. My intent was to question the purpose of a Twitter campaign. It seems the answer is raising awareness. Hmmm. I was thinking about the 2012 KONY campaign which basically made a war criminal famous on Facebook before everyone went back to posting trivial stiff about their lives. I guess it makes people feel better for a while. But, I’m doubting the Nigerian government is going to act due to American celebrities tweets.Thanks.</p>
<p>Who cares if people aren’t deeply moved? Guess what, most people are shallow and self centered, especially Americans. The point is not to get through to people because you are right, people who don’t truly care will forget soon enough. The point is to bring attention to those girls because even though a Twitter campaign seems useless to you it could help save those girls lives. KONY 2012, although it was seen as a teen fad, did get Kony noticed. Countries, including the U.S. I believe, sent troops to help find him. Whether that would have happened without it, I don’t know but I am glad something is being done to stop him. Hopefully Boko Haram and Kony will be stopped soon.</p>
<p>** I am American. Sorry everyone, but we as a nation are pretty shallow.</p>
<p>Before you start tossing around words like insensitive, consider that maybe you should have come to the party a bit earlier, as some of us have whom have been upset at the negligence of the ruling class in Nigeria and elsewhere for years. Now that you’ve gotten concerned from your armchair or computer keyboard, start thinking of methods to impact the powers that be in Nigeria and the suffering they have tolerated for far too long. And no, I don’t expect that you, nor Anne Hathaway or Oprah or Ellen or Michelle Obama will organize and lead an armed brigade.</p>
<p>OK, I don’t want to argue but before you start throwing around accusations about who joined the party late I will inform you that I have been a part of this party my whole life (you might even say I was born into it). While you might not care about or want this to get attention for some reason, I just want what is best for those girls and if that means publicity to force action then that is what I will support.</p>
<p>I will say one last thing, as I admit I was getting a little heated and don’t want to detract from this thread any longer. This campaign is for one thing and one thing only those girls. While those terrorists might not care, many of us do. Cancer campaigns are supported by many people but do you think cancer cares about tending topics? This is a way to help those girls, no matter how impactful. Please don’t belittle it.</p>
<p>What I want to know is why is it up to the western countries to handle this. Where is the Islamic world, where are the Saudis, all the people who can get outraged when someone publishes a book they don’t like or cartoon, and put a death penalty on someone who "denigrates the faith’, Yet in this case, when these slimeballs claim what they are doing is in accordance with Islamic law (which it isn’t), no one in the Islamic world seems all that upset. There have been decrees from Imans and such, outrage, but where is the action? If someone deserves to be hunted down and killed, it is the perpetrators of this, and it is hypocritical to make death threats against someone whose only offense is to write a book or draw a cartoon, and to let someone who truly denigrates the faith like this get away with it. The Saudi’s could hire people like the Blackstone group or ex members of groups like the Navy Seals or British SAS who act as mercenaries and take these guys out and rescue the girls, but as far as anyone knows it seems like everyone is expecting the Nigerian government to do something, which is a joke.</p>
<p>The Nigerian government doesn’t care much, until now that they look very bad. They initially claimed that all were rescued except for eight girls. </p>
<p>“Who cares if people aren’t deeply moved? Guess what, most people are shallow and self centered, especially Americans.”</p>
<p>And who is possibly arrogant enough to make such an all encompassing statement like that, for “most people” and specifically Americans? I think, perhaps, you are assuming that your own personal qualities and those of your friends are the same as everyone else’s, and they’re not. We are a generous people. We send our money all over the world, we volunteer like crazy, and when something happens to others, individuals and our military are out there helping to deal with it. Don’t assume that everyone is like the people you hang out with. And if you really think people are so awful out here, leave. Go to one of those places (apparently anywhere) where people are far less self centered.</p>