{"id":48258,"date":"2015-02-06T17:30:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T17:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_ny_times_profile_artilce_on_boko_haram-a_grim_world_of_punishment_prayer\/"},"modified":"2015-02-06T17:30:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T17:30:13","slug":"a_ny_times_profile_artilce_on_boko_haram-a_grim_world_of_punishment_prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48258","title":{"rendered":"A NY Times profile Article on Boko Haram&#8211;a grim world of punishment, prayer and death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They came in the dead of night, their faces covered, riding on motorcycles and in pickup trucks, shouting \u201cAllahu akbar\u201d\u009d and firing their weapons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey started with the shootings; then came the beheadings,\u201d\u009d said Hussaini M. Bukar, 25, who fled after Boko Haram fighters stormed his town in northern Nigeria. \u201cThey said, \u201d\u02dcWhere are the unbelievers among you?\u2019 \u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Women and girls were systematically imprisoned in houses, held until Boko Haram extracted the ones it had chosen for \u201cmarriage\u201d\u009d or other purposes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were parking\u201d\u009d \u201d\u201d imprisoning \u201d\u201d \u201cyoung girls and small, small children, parking them in the big houses,\u201d\u009d said Bawa Safiya Umar, 45, whose 17-year-old son was killed when her town fell under Boko Haram\u2019s control. \u201cThey parked 450 girls in four houses.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/02\/06\/world\/africa\/boko-haram-refugees-recount-brutality-and-random-killings-in-nigerias-north.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They came in the dead of night, their faces covered, riding on motorcycles and in pickup trucks, shouting \u201cAllahu akbar\u201d\u009d and firing their weapons. \u201cThey started with the shootings; then came the beheadings,\u201d\u009d said Hussaini M. Bukar, 25, who fled<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48258\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,202,143,168,426,327,155,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-africa","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-islam","category-nigeria","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}