{"id":49353,"date":"2015-04-13T23:01:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T23:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/leadership_journal_healing_the_horrors_of_boko_haram\/"},"modified":"2015-04-13T23:01:10","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T23:01:10","slug":"leadership_journal_healing_the_horrors_of_boko_haram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49353","title":{"rendered":"(Leadership Journal) Healing the Horrors of Boko Haram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 7, 2015, two Islamist terrorists stormed into a small publisher&#8217;s office in Paris and murdered 12 people. The world reacted swiftly and forcefully. Within a few days, an estimated 3.7 million freedom-of-speech sympathizers, joined by 40 world leaders, thronged the streets of Paris as a show of solidarity.<\/p>\n<p>A few days earlier, some 3,000 miles to the south, the terrorist group Boko Haram swarmed into a small town in the northeast corner of Nigeria and slaughtered up to 2,000 villagers. Amnesty International called the attack &#8220;catastrophic.&#8221; An eyewitness reported that the terrorists were killing people &#8220;like animals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the world hardly noticed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/le\/2015\/spring\/healing-horrors-of-boko-haram.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 7, 2015, two Islamist terrorists stormed into a small publisher&#8217;s office in Paris and murdered 12 people. The world reacted swiftly and forcefully. Within a few days, an estimated 3.7 million freedom-of-speech sympathizers, joined by 40 world leaders,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49353\">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":[39,40,50,202,168,327,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-nigeria","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49353","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=49353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}