The program is called The Northern Education Initiative Plus and its stated objective is to increase literacy skills of the predominantly Muslim population in northern Nigeria.
However, northern Nigeria is home to the terrorist group Boko Haram, which Obama was initially reluctant to call a terrorist group, but after attacks on government and civilian groups, like murdering Christians during church services, Obama had to cave to congressional pressure and label the group as terrorist.
Make no mistake, Obama is a Muslim and he has been aiding jihadists in the Middle East by suppling them with arms and money through Syrian rebels, who are tied to ISIS. Obama has opened our borders allowing them to enter, which of course they have.
He has finally come up with a plan to handle ISIS, which is no plan at all and actually arms ISIS more as he funnels even more arms through the so-called ‘moderate Syrian terrorists’ and provides him the excuse to bomb Syria.
The U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, mentions the role of religious conflict in disrupting regional education efforts yet fails to identify Boko Haram and its violent jihad, such as the group’s kidnapping of hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls earlier this year.
The Obama administration initially declined to designate Boko Haram as a terrorist organization, despite the group’s frequent attacks on government as well as civilian groups.
The attacks included multiple incidents of murdering Christian worshipers during church services.
Indeed, as WND reported in 2012, the administration once took the position that northern Nigerian violence was mistakenly characterized as a religious conflict, classifying it as a tribal dispute over land.
Last year, however, in response to congressional pressure, the State Department relented and slapped the terrorist label on Boko Haram.
The administration likewise has since sought to deploy advisers to Nigeria to assess and improve safety conditions of U.S. consulates, personnel and recipients of $1.2 billion in U.S. government-aid programs currently in operation
Propagating extremism
USAID acknowledges that persistent conflict, particularly in the northern region, has contributed to Nigeria’s poverty and overall national fragility.
Religion, politics and ethnicity, intertwined with corruption, poverty and insecurity, “have shaped the education system in Nigeria and altered access to and quality and delivery of education.”
The USAID contractor, therefore, must integrate a “conflict-sensitive approach” to changing the culture of education-delivery in northern Nigeria, making sure to “avoid reinforcing stereotypes and exclusion” when designing the NEI+ program.
“Education can help promote social cohesion, contribute to identity formation, build peace, and bridge the gap between humanitarian assistance and sustainable development,” it says.
“However, education can also undermine these processes. When it is not provided responsibly, education can be exclusionary, oppressive, exploitative and corrupt, and it can propagate extremism.”
U.S. policy objectives
Bringing an end to extreme poverty and creating a democratic Nigerian society – particularly one willing to work with the U.S. government on matters of global security and prosperity – “is critically important” to the Obama administration, according the project’s Statement of Work, or SOW.
“The U.S. and Nigeria share extensive economic interests, represented by the $8.1 billion of U.S. foreign direct investment in Nigeria in 2012 and the $11.6 billion of Nigerian crude oil that the U.S. imported in 2013,” the SOW says.
“This highly profitable bilateral trading relationship will only be strengthened by the ascension of growing numbers of Nigerians out of extreme poverty and into the middle class.”
Overall annual aid to Nigeria has grown incrementally since Obama’s first term, rising from a fiscal year 2009 total of about $600 million to $721 million under the administration’s fiscal year 2015 request.
If they recite the Koran they will be ready to burn infidels in fire and cut their heads off.
When is everyone getting together?!?!?
It better be his own #%$&@ money!
What a pathetic looking sight.Send him to Africa or the middle east where he belongs.
We’ll always said he was trying to,destroy our America. He wants all his Muslin cohort to take over AMERICA. Meh should be deported to his wonderful Muslim killers
BOO
Wish the A hole had stayed there
We have been deceived, and now we must stop accepting the politically correct language of the media, that Obama is a Christian! He continues to unravel our nation, while our Congress does nothing to stop him! We must unite against our common enemy…the outright lies that blind people and keep us from seeing the horror that is now within our borders! Muslims know that we are their enemy…we must fight against them; they will kill us whether we fight or just lie down. I would rather die like a Lion than be slaughtered like a sheep!