This is also economic outrage with the appearance of morality on the surface.
Notice the writer said: Paid her “just” 200 Naira
Words like “just” and “only” are not financial facts. There’s no such thing as “just” ex-amount or “only” ex-amount. The price is the price. Those terms are interjected to make it a matter of social justice by suggesting the payment is too low for the service rendered and it’s immoral not to pay more.
This 14-year-old girl and her friend were told by Boko Haram to detonate their explosive vests in a crowded place in the city. They wore the vest for three days before entering the city. The police spotted them and ordered them to remove their vests. The 14-year-old girl removed the vest, but her friend refused and the police shot her dead.
But according to Newsweek’s headline we’re suppose to believe that the moral issue here is how little the teenage girl was paid?
This is an economic outrage if Boko Haram is compared to Saddam Hussein.
Congressional investigators said Saddam Hussein diverted money from the U.N. Oil-for-Food program to pay millions of dollars to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who carried out attacks on Israel, each family received $25,000.
But Boko Haram can defend their selves against this comparison by saying they just started using female suicide bombers over the past couple years. Their suicide program is still in its developing stages. But at least they paid the actual suicide bombers, and they are giving females opportunities beyond being sex slaves.
The sad part here is that for Boko Haram, this is actually a moral argument. Newsweek can’t make the same claim unless they really believe the moral issue is that Boko Haram’s female suicide bombers are underpaid.
(J. Pharoah Doss is a contributor to the New Pittsburgh Courier.)
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