Normal People Are Horrified At The Boko Haram Kidnapping Of 276 Girls While Right Wing Sociopaths Claim It's An Obama Benghazi Plot

View the FOX 17 clip "Western Michigan Mothers Rally to Bring Back Our Girls" here.

Everyone in the world knows the tragic story by now. Primitive, anti-education, mysogynist religious fanatics in the failed oil plutocracy of Nigeria kidnapped 276 young girls from their school and are threatening to sell them into slavery. On Mothers Day, both Pope Francis and Michelle Obama helped publicize the "Bring Back Our Girls" movement. "Like millions of people across the globe," said the American First Lady, "my husband and I are outraged and heartbroken at the kidnapping of the more than 200 Nigerian girls from their school dormitory in the middle of the night."

As you can see in the video above, Fox News in Michigan interviewed Dr. Paul Clements, the progressive candidate for Congress who taught mathematics at a similar school while serving in the Peace Corps in the Gambia. "They pulled up with pickup trucks and motorcycles, heavily armed, and they kidnapped at least 276 girls who were just trying to do their school leaving exams. This group has been such a ruthless terrorist group for five years. They’ve already killed over 1,500 people this year. These girls are trying to get an education because that's the way they can improve themselves."

Clements told Fox, that the terrorist group is Boko Haram and that that their name translates, roughly, into "Western education is forbidden." But, he warned, "That's the exact thing that their name says they're against. So it shouldn't come, unfortunately, as too big a surprise that that's who they're attacking."

Republican Party icon Allen West, however, sees it differently. Viewed through the prism of deranged GOP obsessions and psychosis, West-- a Fox News contributor, torturer and war criminal who was booted out of the U.S. military and later booted out of Congress by his own Florida constituents-- wrote on his insane, paranoid website that the worldwide concern over the horrific kidnapping is a Wag the Dog scenario that Obama is using to divert attention from… yes, the Republican Party efforts to fundraiser off the Benghazi tragedy! Yep, in West's crazy little right-wing world this-- as everything-- is all about Benghazi, the only "issue" the crackpots wing of the GOP has left after public opinion turned so sharply against them on the Affordable Care Act.

I circled back to Paul Clements and told him about Allen West's taking on this. He didn't seem amused. "As a Peace Corps Volunteer," he told me, "I taught math for two years at a school in West Africa. Far too many young people in Africa and around the world don't have access to quality education-- in Nigeria only 44% get to secondary school. We need to stand up for young people trying to educate themselves around the world. To people like Mr. West who have consistently disrespected educators and women, that might be a distraction, but it's not to the people in those classrooms."