Liberty Minute May 13 2014

Michelle Obama and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Malala Yousafzai both joined the worldwide social network protest demanding the return of 276 Christian schoolgirls who were abducted by Muslim militants. The Twitter-based campaign encouraged people to pose with signs reading #BringBackOurGirls.

This will do nothing to pressure the kidnappers into releasing the hostages, but that really isn't the point. The objective is to build public support for a ?humanitarian? military operation in Nigeria.

Unlike Mrs. Obama, Malala Yousafzai has consistently condemned both Muslim extremism and Western militarism. She survived being shot in the head by Taliban gunmen as punishment for promoting education for young girls. During a White House visit last October, Malala pointedly said to President Obama that his drone strikes in her native Pakistan are killing innocent people and ?fueling terrorism.?

Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of innocent girls in the near East and northern Africa have been killed by US drone attacks. In Syria, US-backed Muslim radicals are driving Christians from their homes when they aren't raping and slaughtering them. The Nigerian terrorists who prompted the #BringBackOurGirls movement are vile, but the evil they do is contained to one country. The apparatus of state terror over which Michelle Obama's husband presides is global in scope.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.