December
21, 2020
More than
340 schoolboys were abducted in Nigeria because Boko Haram rebels believed that
the Western education they were receiving was anti-Islam. After a week of
forced marching with minimal food and water, and death threats if they returned
to the school, the boys were released.
After their release, they met with the Nigerian president. Apparently not wanting the boys’ lives to be stopped in their tracks as a result of the abduction, the president told the boys that they should not be deterred in life by “this little difficulty.”
It’s nice that he had such faith in their ability to overcome obstacles.
But as a motivational speech, it left something to be desired.
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