#BRINGBACKOURGIRLS

I’ve just given my 12^th CBSE Board Exams and now I’m preparing for my medical college entrances. Well, school is over and I’m missing the discussions that my friends and me would have about the recent happenings like the elections in India, or for that matter the abduction of Nigerian girls by Boko Haram.

Every day I read newspaper in the morning and wish before I reach the “world news” section that today may be the day when I read that finally those Nigerian girls are rescued, that finally they are home. But, every day my wishes and prays are going in vain. As the days are passing by, well…I’m getting very agitated and angry. The newspaper every day informs me about the countries that have joined in to help Nigerian government to rescue the girls. But all I’m doing is just reading. I feel so helpless.

 The first time I read this news I was shocked and the first thing that I said was “thank god I don’t live in a place where going to school can get you abducted!!” But, I kept on following the news out of curiosity and somewhere I’d thought that in a matter of a day or two the Nigerian government will rescue the girls and punish the abductors. Alas, I was wrong!! It’s been weeks and the girls are not rescued. Few days back I read that few of girls are sick and some died due to snake bite. They’re also being converted to Islam and some are forcefully married!!

All my life I’ve lived in a protective bubble created by my family. They’ve been with me and if I’m taken away from them or if they’re taken away from me, well…I know that the pain felt would be immeasurable!! And this makes me wonder how much pain and suffering these parents and girls would be going through being separated from each other. Those parents must be devastated!!

Boko Haram had offered to release the girls in exchange for his prisoners. In the beginning the video released by him said that the group intended to sell the girls in market!! “I abducted your girls. I will sell them in the market, by Allah,” and “Allah has instructed me to sell them. They are his property and I will carry out his instructions.” He said these horrible things. In the name of Allah he’s trying to justify his evil act. 

As Malala said in a recent interview “They should go and they should learn Islam, and I think that they should think these girls as their own sisters. How can one imprison their own sisters and treat them in such a bad way?” I totally agree with her. I’ve not studied Islam but I know this much that no god or religion teaches anyone to treat a fellow human being and little girls in such heartless way regardless of their caste, creed, colour, religion and gender.

According to Boko Haram “Western Education is sinful” but then I ask isn’t selling teenage girls in market sinful too?? And, if he really thinks that abducting little girls and selling them isn’t sinful then I must say that his moral meter is faulty and he should really get it repaired. Also, he should go and learn Islam and think twice before doing such outrageous things in the name of Allah when his real selfish motive is to just get his prisoners out!! Allah would never want such cruel thing to happen.

In the end all I can say is…#BRINGBACKOURGIRLS and please be fast!!