I am totally sickened

Girls don`t seem to have any value in these `cultures` . I agree with you , blow themselves up if they must , preferably alone in the middle of a field !

It's horrible beyond imagining. I can't get my head around how you would persuade a seven year old to actually willingly detonate a suicide vest - unless they do it remotely, without the child knowing what they are carrying and why, which would make it even more horrible.

I can't imagine that they would 'persuade' these poor little girls to do it. What scum these people are. In fact scum is too good a word for them.

These monsters seem quick to send other peoples' children on "missions". If they think dying for their cause is justifiable, why don't they kill themselves - too cowardly of course. I weep for these poor children

This is about as cowardly as it gets. What next? Bombs strapped to babies?

It's beyond understanding.

I feel sick. Beyond understanding.

You have all said everything I feel but thought I must add my name to this. Every time we think things can't get any worse ..... they do.

I just hope this poor child didnt know what was happening. Bastards.

Fanatics believe they are acting for the good of all. Their mindset it totally removed from our own, we will never understand it.

I wonder if there will come a time when they reflect and are horrified, or will they be able to come to some sort of accommodation with themselves as the Germans have, over the horrors of the Third Reich?

I read a book called 'Wilful Blindness' all about how cultures can make themselves oblivious to some horrific things, just as individuals can.

For cultures where life is brutal, I imagine that finer feelings are a luxury few can afford.

Yes I too agree with everything said here. I can't begin to imagine how anyone could do this. But isn't that it - we are all "normal" people. These perpetrators are not. They are all brainwashed until they are mad/mentally ill/unhinged; otherwise they couldn't do what they do. That is the only way I can begin to understand it.

Unfortunately, in the name of multiculturalism and fostering the mistaken idea that all cultures are equal we have allowed religions based on misogyny to flourish in our midst. Anyone who pointed out in reasonable tones and with valid arguments that this was eroding the rights of women was called a racist.

This is where it leads. You reap what you sow.

What kind of people are these? How very wicked - in the wholly biblical sense.

This has made me so upset and angry.

I could never understand the kind of mind that uses innocent children as weapons.

Are these people on drugs possibily and this is worrying.

Lilyflower, you're so right. It seems to me that the suffragettes suffered in vain.

It's beyond appalling, beyond heartbreak, beyond being sentient humans. 'They' do not think in terms of human life just cold 'collateral damage' like some obscene video game. I agree with all the above posters esp. radicalnan and barbaralynn regarding these perpetrators actually being mentally ill.

The sufragettes never reached Nigeria. In any case, as far as I know, girls weren't used as suicide bombers in the UK.

I'm at a loss to know how tolerating multi-culturalism in the UK fosters extremism in Nigeria.

It's shocking beyond comprehension. I'm at a loss to know what else to say.

The sad fact is we have known the extremist groups such as Boko Haram, Daesh et al have used child suicide bombers for years. They take children from parents, or wherever for training as foot soldiers or rape women, children and males. and brain wash the poor souls into their extremist religious 'duties' including being a suicide bomber.

We have had this knowledge for years and it will not stop until the likes of Boko Haram and Daesh are eradicated . Lord knows when that will be.

The terrifying thought is we in the UK are not immune from this form of terrorism either.

They are barbaric animals who hide behind religion but children grow into adults with their brainwashed , extremist hatred of the west and all those who do not agree with them and they have covered the world with their hatred.

What a world!

Beyond comprehension. How do you cope with a mindset that believes if you 'die for your faith' it is a ticket to paradise? Someone (it might have been a 'Boris' opinion) said that these 'freedom fighters' are mostly young men who are disaffected, minds blown by hard drug use, and totally lacking in anything passing for humanity. What a terrifying thought, and what can be done to counter this?

Two mothers somewhere must either have condoned this, or be going through every shade of hell there is - that's beyond imagining too.

I agree totally sickening and absolutely unforgivable. What is really wrong with a person who could do this? They must be severely mentally ill or else high on drugs.

It is beyond comprehension that anyone would do this. Having lived in the Middle East women are so undervalued and unimportant. Those poor little girls. I doubt they knew.
I used to try explaining to those I knew using farming as an example; one bull and lots of females etc; all the baby bulls being killed and eaten as they weren't important. I also explained that we all start off as females - they didn't like that.