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EXPERIENTIAL FOOD FOR THOUGHT
when you think that all hope is gone;
When you think that life is unfair;
When you think that there is nothing left
When you think that life is full of misery, agony and impartiality;
When you think that life is so frustrating;
When you think of regretting the life you come into;
When you ask that what's the purpose of living?;
When you think that dying is the best option or solution;
When you ask GOD why don't YOU end my life;
When you think that there is no one to help;
When you think that no one believes in you;
When you think that no one truely loves you;
When you think that no one cares about you;
When you think that you are being misjudged for who you are;
when you think that you are being misunderstood for your actions;
When you think that no one believes the truth you say or your honesty;
When you think that you have the worst character base on people's misjudgement;
When you think that no one understands who you are;
When you think that no one understands your mind and reason with you;
When you think that no one knows who you are;
When you think that you are worthless in the eyes of GOD;
When you think that GOD has forsaken you and abandoned you to suffer
When you think that GOD has rejected you;
When you think that GOD is unfair to you;
When you think that GOD can do miracle for others but can't do for you;
When you think that GOD doesn't love you anymore
When you think that your problems is impossible to solve;
When you think that you are not worthy to receive the favour and blessing you are seeking from HIM;
When you think that GOD can't solve your problems because of your sins;
When you think that you don't deserve GOD'S miracle,mercy,forgiveness and love;
When you think that your sins is preventing your prayers from being answered;
When you think that you deserve the suffering or punishment you are receiving;
When you think that quitting prayer is best since you are'nt getting any answer;
When you think that giving up is the best since you don't deserve it from GOD
When you ask that what's the essence of praying since you aren't getting answer?;
When you think that giving up in GOD is the best since HE is silent to your prayers;
When you think that your prosperity depends on you not GOD since HE'S silent;
When you think that you Can do without GOD due to frustration;
When you ask does GOD exist? due to frustration
When you think that drinking can make you forget your problems;
When you think that committing sin one after the other can ease your frustration;
And finally
When you think that suicide is the best option.
My dear sisters, brothers, friends, uncles, aunts, parents you are far better than others;GOD believes in you, HE knows you ,who you are and who you shall be,don't worry yourself because HE cares about you and has good plans for you that will only come to pass if only you will come closer for what HE is stretching to give you reach you.Never give up because among all the people that love you, GOD loves you most.His love is free but human love is expensive because it requires(cost) perfections but GOD'S love doesn't mind your sins(imperfections) but only require your openness ie allowing HIM in your heart completely and make HIM the landlord in your life and whatever you do;and with that you succumb to HIS will, commands and imitate HIS ways.
GOD understands the pains, humiliation, frustration and agony you are passing through;but sometimes we are the ones that's doing ourselves. No one actually knows the mind of GOD but experiencially proven and logically reasoned by the anointed men of GOD, HIS silence could either be (i) test(to test how strong your love, faith and trust in HIM is) or (ii)your sins(e.g you can't be asking GOD for something,fasting and at the end of the day you go and fornicate or keeping malice.what do you take HIM for?);HE is a jealous GOD, it is when you allow HIM in your heart completely leaving worldly things(idols) that HE shows you that HE is GOD and will care and love you unimaginably(iii)to prevent you from danger in the future(you know HE is OMNIPRESENT) (iv)or how strongly you are in spirit--as a jealous GOD HE is, it is when HE that you are spiritually strong;HE wouldn't allow you to be taken away from HIM by the temptation of money or whatsoever HE has blessed you, to be carried away by that worldly thing HE has blessed you with making you to forget HIM.
So, my dear brother or anybody that is reading this, whatsoever your problem is, let this "experiencial food for thought "console you, strengthen you, add more grease to your elbow,encourage you,inspire you, advise you etc.i believe that everbody can make it in life and also believe that anybody can do the good things he or she supposes to do but due to the way things are(bad condition),it prevents him or she from doing it;stop thinking you have the worst bad character, no one is perfect but working towards perfection by imitating JESUS CHRIST and I also believe the good inside one that has not been shown physically . If no one has ever believed in you ,I strongly believe in you,I believe there is something good in you (but make adjustment where necessary) whether I have met or seen you or not ; but GOD believes in you most ,just work as if it depends on you and pray as if it depends on GOD. Make amendment in your way of life where it's needed and never give up in your faith,believe,trust in GOD entangled with patience,perseverance and love with one another(leave grudge behind by forgiving and forgetting what one has done to you or your family and leave vengeance for GOD).

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emmynwah:Stunning Story Of Boko Haram Fighter's Ex-Wives Who Prefer Life With The Terrorists Than In IDP Camps

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An internally displaced person camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria, like the one that houses Zahra and Amina. Photograph: Sunday Alamba/AP

Zahra and Amina seem like lucky survivors of the scourge of northeastern Nigeria, the jihadist movement known as Boko Haram. Both were wives of fighters. Zahra escaped by agreeing to detonate an explosive vest that the militants strapped to her. After walking miles to her intended target, a government checkpoint, she turned herself over to soldiers. Amina fled with her three children after her husband was killed in battle.

Today, both women live in a camp for survivors of the conflict in the northeastern city of Maiduguri. When I met them on a recent research trip to the city, the last thing I expected to hear was that they wanted to rejoin the insurgents. Conventional thinking and security policies that aim to dissuade women from extremist groups tend to focus on ideology, presuming that only brainwashing could compel them to voluntarily join radical, violent militias. But here in the northeast, some women have largely been compelled to affiliate with Boko Haram by social and political conditions. Perversely, the group offers them respite from insecurity and the limited opportunities afforded them in a deeply patriarchal society riven by poor governance.

Zahra and Amina say that when they were with the militants, life was harsh and uncertain, but they had enough to eat. As voluntary wives of fighters, they were protected from s*xual predation. They attended religion classes, the first formal schooling many had ever received, and their children went to school, learning literacy and religion. There were courts where women could report abusive husbands. In contrast, in their now emancipated lives in the camp, they often go hungry. There is little chance to work to buy more food, and shortages have contributed to s*xual exploitation by the security forces who guard them. “Most Boko Haram women regret coming here, because life is just so hard,” says Amina.

These two women are just one small part of a massive humanitarian and security crisis that has been unfolding across the Lake Chad basin – the area where Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon meet – since 2014. Overshadowed by the conflicts in Syria and Yemen, the scale of humanitarian disaster in the region is nevertheless vast: more than 2.4 million people displaced, 5 million in need of food and shelter, and half a million children at famine levels of malnourishment.

While the Boko Haram insurgency may not directly affect the west – it doesn’t contribute to migration flows and the militants are not involved in attacks in Europe – the experiences of Boko Haram women carry wide implications for our understanding of why people join such movements. While the group, like many others that self-identify as “jihadist”, deploys ideological rhetoric to promote its political goals, it is the deprived and fractious context in which it operates that best explains its appeal – especially to women.

Zahra and Amina, like many women in the northeast, joined the militants by choice. They left by choice, too – unwilling to marry other fighters appointed by the group after their own husbands had died. Their stories challenge the dominant narrative around Boko Haram, shaped by the global outcry over the Chibok schoolgirls’ kidnapping, which holds that women only join by force, and that, similarly, only those who were abducted can be regarded as genuine victims. Returning from Nigeria, I met a group of Swiss women who regularly spend their holidays doing freelance volunteer work with female victims of Boko Haram. “We only help the ones who were kidnapped,” one pointedly told me.

But the circumstances that propel women such as Zahra and Amina into and out of Boko Haram show the limits of the neat categories of victim and perpetrator. In the early days of the insurgency, many women found the movement appealing because it offered alternatives to the patriarchy endorsed by their conservative families. The group’s leaders supported lower dowries, which meant more young women could choose husbands from among their peers, rather than the greying, financially secure men they would be traditionally compelled to marry. And while the militants were only able to provide for them so generously by looting and pillaging, some women felt the Nigerian state’s corruption justified these abuses. Life in the forest felt freer and more dignified than living in the dust of an internally displaced persons’ (IDP) camp, dependent on international aid groups for a meal a day.

Even now, Zahra’s and Amina’s thinking about the group – their belief that returning to the militants would improve their lives – is mostly a calculus of immediate survival. Dalori II, the camp where they live, like most in the city, is chronically short on food, and across satellite camps in the region groups such as Amnesty International have documented an epidemic of rape and s*xual exploitation. Some progress has been made to curtail these abuses, and humanitarian groups have tried to adjust food distribution practices to blunt the potential for abuse, but this has only changed the dynamic of the exploitation. “You have to become a harlot to stay in the camps,” says Amina.

One reason Zahra says she was glad to leave the militants was because she saw that their blind rejection of teaching in English was harming her children: “It does not benefit them to stay home. It’s better for them to learn.” She assumed that in Maiduguri, her kids would be able to attend school. But camp managers in Dalori II dismantled the one school on its premises, claiming it was no longer needed since people would be returning to their villages. But nobody has gone home, and now there is no school.

The northeast Nigerian state of Borno is now a vast patchwork of towns and villages with few men, a whole sub-society of single mothers trying to cope as breadwinners in areas with collapsed economies without their husbands’ protection and support. Some reintegration programmes offer skills training, but embroidering and selling a cap a month neither enables a woman to feed three children nor does it protect her from rape after dark. Plus, some international groups devote funds and attention to what they call “countering extremism”, with extremism often conceived in an amorphous way that views ideology, rather than a complex patchwork of political grievance and social frustrations, as a root cause of the violence.

While ending the insurgency and countering the militants’ appeal is obviously vital, it is also essential to recognise what precisely has guided women to join the militants in the first place. This has wider implications for the whole of the northeast, not just displaced women in the camps, or former Boko Haram women, but all women, who are trying to cope with conditions so impoverished and limiting that, sometimes, joining a militant group appears to offer a way out.

• Zahra’s and Amina’s names have been changed

• Azadeh Moaveni is senior gender analyst for the International Crisis Group and a former Middle East correspondent for Time magazine

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