American activists decrying the Christian genocide in Nigeria are asserting that jihadist violence is motivated partly by an effort to enslave women and girls. “Most of the individuals captured by Boko Haram jihadists are young women and girls taken by force and trafficked as slave concubines,” according to a statement by the Committee to Free Nigerian Slaves (CFNS), which demonstrated around a billboard in downtown Omaha on Saturday, June 5. “They endure horrendous abuse and mistreatment. An example of one of these victims is displayed on the billboard: she is 18-year-old Leah Sharibu, kidnapped from her school in Dapchi, Nigeria, in 2018,” said event organizer Stephen Enada to The Epoch Times. Because Sharibu refused to recant her Christian faith, she has been condemned to lifelong enslavement and reportedly is still in captivity in Northeastern Nigeria, according to the Leah Foundation in Dapchi. The CFNS had made the same claim at a demonstration in …
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