“I question a world that has capacity to talk about 12 French victims @ #CharlieHebdo but not the 2k nigerians killed by Boko Haram this week”
charlie hebdo depicted the kidnapped girls of boko haram as pregnant “welfare queens” people would rather grieve for racists than black lives
!!!!!
not just 2k nigerians but their ENTIRE TOWN was razed there is literally no town left
And thousands have had to flee into Lake Chad where they are waiting for rescue on sand bars and getting attacked by wild animals (x)
The only victims of Islamic fundamentalist violence (which is spurred and caused by Western imperialism) that matter to the mainstream media are Westerners and non-Muslims, unless the narrative can be twisted to advance some white-washed imperialist agenda like they have attempted to do with Malala Yousufzai and #BringBackOurGirls. All of this is despite the fact that the vast majority of the victims of this Western-spured violence are Muslims. Even in the news about Charlie Hebdo you hear people memorializing the racist editors and barely talking about Ahmed Merabet, the Muslim security officer who was also killed in the attack. Americans only cared about ISIS (which they helped create) not after they butchered and massacred thousands of in Iraq and Syria, but after white journalists were executed too. And how much more are we hearing about the attack in Paris than the Taliban’s attack in Pakistan last month which killed more than 100 people?
The ruins of over 20 destroyed towns and villages in Borno state Nigeria are still smoldering as we speak and bodies continue to litter the streets. Thousands have been displaced in this attack and are still awaiting rescure, and over 300,000 have been displaced to date by Boko Haram. Their lives matter too, not just those of white French people.