I'm thinking that, perhaps we should take a more active role in combating this violent religious group, Boko Haram. The term "Boko Haram" has been interpreted several ways: "books forbidden" or "Western education is forbidden," or "books from Hell", etc.
Whatever, these guys do NOT like "Western" education and life. If not for religion, we would not be dealing with these mutant faith retards. But since it exists, what could or should be done about them? I don't think we can just sit by as if there is nothing to worry about or think about.
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| Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram |
Boko Haram ("Western education is forbidden"), officially called Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'Awati Wal-Jihad ("People Committed to the Prophet's Teachings for Propagation and Jihad"), is a terrorist, militant and Islamist movement based in northeast Nigeria with additional activities in Chad, Niger and Cameroon.[9] The group is led by Abubakar Shekau, and estimates of its strength vary between 500 and 9000. They have been linked to al-Qaeda and ISIS.[1][2][3] [14]
The group is designated as a terrorist organization by New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States and the United Nations Security Council, which declared it an al-Qaeda affiliate and imposed the al-Qaeda sanctions regime on the group.[9][15][16]
but what about Nigeria, Chad, Niger or Cameroon?
Boko Haram killed more than 5,000 civilians between July 2009 and June 2014, including at least 2,000 in the first half of 2014, in attacks occurring mainly in northeast, north-central and central Nigeria.[17][18][19]Corruption in the security services and human rights abuses committed by them have hampered efforts to counter the unrest.[20][21] Since 2009 Boko Haram have abducted more than 500 men,[22][23] women and children, including the kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls from Chibok in April 2014.[24] 650,000 people had fled the conflict zone by August 2014, an increase of 200,000 since May; by the end of the year 1.5 million had fled.[25][26]
They kidnapped girls and I heard that they "sold them into slavery." I wondered if that is general slavery or sex slavery? Either is disgusting. And how totally inconsistent with a "religion of peace."
After its founding in 2002, Boko Haram's increasing radicalisation led to a violent uprising in July 2009 in which its leader was executed. Its unexpected resurgence, following a mass prison break in September 2010, was accompanied by increasingly sophisticated attacks, initially against soft targets, and progressing in 2011 to include suicide bombings on police buildings and the United Nations office in Abuja. The government's establishment of a state of emergency at the beginning of 2012, extended in the following year to cover the entire northeast of the country, resulted in a marked increase in both security force abuses and militant attacks. The Nigerian military proved ineffective in countering the insurgency, hampered by an entrenched culture of official corruption. Since mid-2014, the militants have been in control of swathes of territory in and around their home state of Borno, but have not captured the capital of Borno state, Maiduguri, where the group was originally based.
The official name is جماعة أهل السنة للدعوة والجهاد Jamā‘atu Ahli is-Sunnah lid-Da‘wati wal-Jihād, meaning "People Committed to the Prophet's Teachings for Propagation and Jihad."[28] The group was also originally known informally as 'Yusifiyya', after its first leader, Mohammed Yusuf.[29]
The name 'Boko Haram' is usually translated as 'Western education is forbidden'. Haram is from the Arabic حَرَام ḥarām, 'forbidden'; and the Hausa word boko [the first vowel is long, the second pronounced in a low tone], originally meaning 'fake' but has come to mean[30] and is widely translated as "Western education" and thought to possibly be a corruption of the English word 'book'.[31][32] Boko Haram has also been translated as "Western influence is a sin"[33] and "Westernization is sacrilege."[19]
Some Nigerians dismiss Western education as ilimin boko ("education fake") and draw a distinction between makaranta alkorani (religious school), based on the Qur'an where students learn to write and recite Arabic, and makaranta boko — government schools imparting secular education in the colonial English (official) language.[34] [31][32][35]
Ideology[edit]
According to Borno Sufi Imam Sheik Fatahi, Yusuf was trained by Kano Salafi Izala Sheik Ja'afar Mahmud Adamu, who called him the "leader of young people"; the two split some time in 2002–4. They both preached inMaiduguri's Indimi Mosque, which was attended by the deputy governor of Borno.[29][51] Many of the group were reportedly inspired by Mohammed Marwa, known as Maitatsine ('He who curses others'), a self-proclaimed prophet (annabi, a Hausa word usually used only to describe the founder of Islam), born in Northern Cameroon, who condemned the reading of books other than the Quran.[31][52][53][54]
In a 2009 BBC interview, Yusuf, described by analysts as being well-educated, reaffirmed his opposition to Western education. He rejected the theory of evolution, and said that rain is not "an evaporation caused by the sun", and that the Earth is not a sphere.[55]
Boko Haram was founded as a Sunni Islamic fundamentalist sect advocating a strict form of Sharia Law and developed into a Salafist-jihadi group in 2009, influenced by the Wahhabi movement. The movement is so diffuse that fighters associated with it do not necessarily follow Salafi doctrine.[16][36][37][38][39][40][41]
Boko Haram seeks the establishment of an Islamic state in Nigeria. It opposes the Westernization of Nigerian society and the concentration of the wealth of the country among members of a small political elite, mainly in the Christian south of the country.[42][43]
Most info above from Wikipedia.
Look at the type of garbage that offshoots from Islam. Is it Islam's fault? Would Boko Haram exist without Islam? Toss in ISIS and the Taliban and Islam starts to look like a cancer upon humanity. But that's basically what religion is, Christianity included.
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