On April 16, 2014 over 250 Nigerian schoolgirls were abducted from their school in Chibok, Nigeria. The group behind the kidnapping and subsequent selling and force marriage of the girls was the notorious Boko Haram. The outcry of this deplorable act was intensified within social media using the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls. We here at R3 thought we would collect stories, essays and opinions on this terrible tragedy. We ask that if you come across some articles please share them with us on our Facebook page or on Twitter.
1. Boko Haram: what a murderous Islamist freak show tells us about the future of religion
2. Boko Haram – An Annotated Bibliography
3. Shame Day: The Boko Haram Kidnappings (and the reasons I postponed reporting it)
4. Boko Haram and the Chibok Affair: The Emerging and Uncomfortable Facts
5. What’s at stake in war against girls’ kidnappers?
6. Sale of Girls by Boko Haram Could Be Crime Against Humanity
7. Hey Boko Haram, pick up a Quran and bring back our girls
8. On Boko Haram, Missing Children, and Narcissism
9. Rape Marriage in the Bible-by Dr. Wil Gafney
10. Nigerian girl describes kidnapping, among 50 who escaped
11. How a million people called to #BringBackOurGirls
12. Dear Americans, Your Hashtags Won’t #BringBackOurGirls. You Might Actually Be Making Things Worse.
13. Boko Haram’s Satanism – See Where the Politicisation of Religion Has Led Us
14. In Cameroon Boko Haram Is Preached As A Religion
15. Boko Haram and the Lord’s Resistance Army: Hunted Children & the Problem of Fundamentalism in Africa
16. Boko Haram: The Complex Simplicity of the Cause and Solution
17. Freeing the girls isn’t enough. We must wipe out Boko Haram
18. Who Are The Boko Haram Islamists?
19. How Pastor Adeboye, Bishop Oyedepo, Tbjoshua Can Destroy Boko Haram
20. What Is Boko Haram, and Why Do Its Members Kidnap Schoolgirls?
21. Nigeria’s Boko Haram: Who Are They and What Do They Want?
22. Boko Haram: Not My Shariah
23. Open letter to Boko Haram rebels
24. Address, Don’t Deny Religious Component to Boko Haram
25. Clinton’s handling of Boko Haram questioned
26. Nigerian Expats Talk School Girl Abductions, Boko Haram and What’s Next
27. The Real Africa
28. Boko Haram Are Not Muslims but the Enemy of All Muslims
29. Boko Haram campaign shows Twitter’s power – but is that power dangerous?
30. Don’t Blame Islam for Boko Haram
31. #BringBackOurGirls Is Not Going to Stop Boko Haram
32. Nigeria – Boko Haram, A Toxic And Deadly Mix Of Religion, Politics And ‘Exclusion’
33. Boko Haram, Religious Unity and the Education of Girls
34. What gives Boko Haram its strength
35. Boko Haram’s Bin Laden Connection
36. The Blood-Stained Hunters of Boko Haram
37. TFW’s Aishah Shahidah Simmons participated in Philly Rally to #BringBackOurGirls
38. Terrorism is about Greed not Religion
39. The Boko Haram-Benghazi Link
40. Buhari and Boko Haram
41. Boko Haram Has Released a Video Showing Abducted School Girls
42. Boko Haram Is Not New
43. How Colonialism Benefits from Boko Haram’s Mass Kidnapping of Girls
44. Boko Haram and Tentacles of Terror
45. Boko Haram’s Terror Is Based on Thuggery, Not Islam
46. EBONI MARSHALL TURMAN: SOUNDS THE ALARM #UPLIFTNIGERIA #BRINGBACKOURGIRLS
47. Texas Faith: Boko Haram, false prophets and phony messiahs
48. Understand The ‘Law’ Behind The Schoolgirl Kidnapping And Dare To Redefine It
49. To Understand Boko Haram, The West Must Look More Closely At Itself Than At Nigeria
50. #Bringbackourgirls and the politics of Islam and women
51. When to Negotiate With Terrorists
52. ON BOKO HARAM – HOW I SEE THINGS AS A CHRISTIAN
53. All Have Erred on Boko Haram
54. Who is Boko Haram? Is this a blame game on ‘terrorism’ in Nigeria?
55. Boko Haram from the beginning
56. Contextualizing Boko Haram
57. Boko Haram and the crippling of Islam in Africa – Radical movements in Africa are hurting the future of Islam on the continent.
58. Ten Things the United States Is Doing To Counter Boko Haram
59. How Boko Haram Puts The American Sistahood’s First World Problems Into Proper Perspective
60. Addressing The Threat of Boko Haram
61. How Islam can fight back against Boko Haram
62. Boko Haram and Southern Baptists
63. 5 Reasons Boko Haram is Un-Islamic
64. Boko Haram and Bill Maher Are Both Wrong
65. Revolt in the North: Interpreting Boko Haram’s war on western education
66. Boko Haram Socio-Political and Ethno-Religious Demand on Nigeria
67. Call to ‘Bring Back Our Girls’ Includes 64,000 Missing Black Females in America
68. OPINION#BRINGBACKOURGIRLS AND THE PITFALLS OF SCHOOLGIRL FEMINISM
69. How Obama Derangement Led Conservatives to Laugh about Child Slavery
70. The Less You Know
71. Teaching guide for Boko Haram
72. Thinking Beyond Boko Haram
73. THE OBSCENITY THAT IS BOKO HARAM
74. Boko Haram and why their actions shouldn’t be blamed on Islam
75. Boko Haram and the shame that we share
76. The Emergence of Boko Haram: From Religious Intolerance to Religious Terrorism in Nigeria
77. Boko Haram, Release Our Sisters Now
78. Thinking Beyond Boko Haram
79. Boko Haram: A Violent Symptom of a Rotten Embrace
80. Boko Haram: Jonathan’s nightmares
81. Boko Haram Scholars And King Kongi – Part 2
82. Of Islam, Boko Haram and sexual slavery
83. Standing by the Education Rights of Schoolgirls
84. The Anatomy of Boko Haram
85. Abducted schoolgirls: Boko Haram’s threat to Nigeria and beyond
86. The evolution of Boko Haram (3)
87. Of Islam, Boko Haram and Sexual Slavery
88. BOKO HARAM: BEYOND PRAYERS
89. Sinister ideology must be defeated
90. Boko Haram Are Not Northern Nigerians
91. The Menace of Boko Haram and Fundamentalism in Nigeria
92. Whose Sharia Is It?
93. Africa’s Islamic extremist groups are on the rise