Boko Haram and abducting girls, and women's value in the world

My thoughts on the story out of Nigeria, which leads me to think of human trafficking in general, but also women's rights specifically, in response to this:

Fears for the fate of more than 200 Nigerian girls turned even more nightmarish Monday when the leader of the Islamist militant group that kidnapped them announced plans to sell them.

"I abducted your girls. I will sell them in the market, by Allah," a man claiming to be Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said in a video first obtained by Agence France-Presse.

"There is a market for selling humans. Allah says I should sell. He commands me to sell. I will sell women. I sell women," he continued, according to a CNN translation from the local Hausa language.

Boko Haram is a terrorist group receiving training from al Qaeda affiliates, according to U.S. officials. Its name means "Western education is sin." In his nearly hourlong, rambling video, Shekau repeatedly called for Western education to end.

The selling or trading of any human being is an incredible evil. Selling or trading a human being simply because she's female and is therefore considered to be even less value than a "normal" human being, is a greater evil. Any faith, any political system, any social structure, any institution that cannot accept educated girls or women, or female leaders, or cannot offer equal access to all religious rites/rights/writings for women needs to die. Preferably to die only to the old ways and reborn in new ways, but if unwilling to do so, it just needs to die. Humanity - even in the Christian Church - lives too much in the binary, too little in the unity.

Obviously the folks at Boko Haram think differently than I do, and normally I entertain the thought that I might be wrong and the other person might be right. But not in this case. Sometimes lines have to be drawn, and that line is to drawn such that any thought that devalues human life, especially women, is outside the line. Sorry, Boko Haram, but you are horribly, dangerously, heinously, evilly wrong.

For more news, see this: http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/05/world/africa/nigeria-abducted-girls/