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At least 110 people are feared dead in a
weekend attack on farmers in the northeast part of Nigeria blamed
on Islamic jihadists that are active in the area.
United Nations humanitarian coordinator for the African
country, Edward Kallon, said in a statement he was "outraged and
horrified by the gruesome attack against civilians" in the village
of Koshobe near Borno State capital Maiduguri.
"At least 110 civilians were ruthlessly killed, and many others were
wounded in this attack," Kallon said, adding that it was the most
violent attack on innocent civilians this year. He called “for the
perpetrators of this heinous and senseless act to be brought to
justice."
Late Sunday, the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio
Guterres spokesperson issued a statement in which he
strongly condemned the “horrific attack on rice farm workers
in Koshobe village.”
Guterres extended “his deepest condolences to the families of the
deceased and to the people of Nigeria,” Stéphane Dujarric said in the
statement, wishing “a swift recovery to the injured and calls for the
immediate and safe return of the abductees and those still reported
missing.”
Guterres reaffirmed the UN commitment “to support the Government of
Nigeria in its fight against terrorism and violent extremism and in its
response to pressing humanitarian needs in the northeast of the
country.”
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari issued statement condemning the
killings, in which he also said that “the entire country is hurt by
these senseless killings.” Buhari said the government had equipped
the armed forces with everything needed “to take all necessary steps to
protect the country’s population and its territory.”
Although, there is no group to have claimed the responsibility for
the weekend massacre on Nigerian farmers, such attacks have been carried
out in the past by Boko Haram or the Islamic State West Africa
Province, which are both active in northeast Nigeria, where
Islamic jihadists have killed at least 30,000 people.
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nominated as a presidential candidate
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PARIS — A feminist who is in a relationship with
another woman is stirring controversy after stating in her book “The
Lesbian Genius” that women should “eliminate men from their minds,”
outlining that she personally no longer consumes entertainment created
by men as it is “the extension of a system of domination.”
“It is not enough to help each other. We must, in our turn, eliminate
them. Eliminate them from our minds, from our images, from our
representations,” wrote Alice Coffin in her publication meant to praise
the achievements of lesbians. “I no longer read men’s books. I no longer
watch their films. I no longer listen to their music. At least I try.”
“The productions of men are the extension of a system of domination.
They are the system. Art is an extension of the male imagination.
They’ve already infested my mind. I protect myself by avoiding them,”
she stated. “So let’s start. Later, they can come back.”
Coffin, who sits on the Council of Paris and is the
co-founder of the Association of LGBT Journalists, the European Lesbian
Conference and a coordinator of the feminist activist group La
Barbe, states that one of the reasons she rejects movies created by men
is because they objectify women.
“It is not enough to help each other. We must, in our turn, eliminate
them. Eliminate them from our minds, from our images, from our
representations,” wrote Alice Coffin in her publication meant to praise
the achievements of lesbians. “I no longer read men’s books. I no longer
watch their films. I no longer listen to their music. At least I try.”
“The productions of men are the extension of a system of domination.
They are the system. Art is an extension of the male imagination.
They’ve already infested my mind. I protect myself by avoiding them,”
she stated. “So let’s start. Later, they can come back.”
Coffin, who sits on the Council of Paris and is the
co-founder of the Association of LGBT Journalists, the European Lesbian
Conference and a coordinator of the feminist activist group La
Barbe, states that one of the reasons she rejects movies created by men
is because they objectify women.
Her remarks have erupted in controversy, with some sympathizing with
her sentiments regarding male “domination” and the patriarchy — and
giving her book a five-star rating — and others stating that Coffin’s
feminism goes too far by nixing men from their lives.
“Alice Coffin shows very well how lesbians are invisible, even in the
language and the use that one makes of it. It demonstrates the extent
to which male domination is exercised at all levels and in all sectors,”
one reviewer wrote. “How to rebalance things? The author has no quick
fix. It is a daily struggle that every woman must lead and that men must
learn to support.”
“I know women who have taken a similar stance, and will no longer
consume books, films or songs authored by men. Their general stance is
that women’s contributions to the arts have been on the fringes for long
enough as it is, and that there are plenty of men who sidestep women’s
contribution to the arts, deeming it as ‘other,'” also explained Irish Times reporter Tanya Sweeney. “But this is not the way to redress the balance.”
“It’s one thing to make a concerted move to explore culture by women
(or people of color, or people with disability, or anyone who feels
marginalized by the mainstream cultural canon); quite another to say
that you’re going to do so while actively ignoring a whole other cohort
of people,” she opined.
“Trust me, there are a few men I’d love to, as Coffin puts it,
eliminate from my mind. I think of all the energy I spent on bad dates,
badder boyfriends and unrequited crushes, and wish I’d not bothered and
saved my bandwidth for something else. But men and women need each
other, and not just for watching Netflix,” Sweeney said. “And one’s
contribution to the arts and letters is not ‘lesser’ than the other’s.”
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The Bible states that God created the woman for the man, as the two
sexes complement each other, a doctrine in Christianity known as
complementarianism.
1 Corinthians 11:7-12
teaches that man “is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the
glory of the man. For the man is not of the woman but the woman of the
man. Neither was the man created for the woman but the woman for the
man. For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of
the angels. Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither
the woman without the man, in the Lord. For as the woman is of the man,
even so is the man also by the woman, but all things of God.”
It also outlines that marriage is a picture of Christ and the Church,
and that husbands and wives are to love each other accordingly.
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the Church and
gave himself for it, that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the
washing of water by the word, that He might present it to himself a
glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but
that it should be holy and without blemish,” Ephesians 5 reads.
“So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth
his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but
nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the Church, for we are
members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.”
“For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be
joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great
mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the Church. Nevertheless let
every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself, and the
wife see that she reverence her husband.”
