His Qur’an? Why does he have a Qur’an? Doesn’t he know that jihad terror has nothing to do with Islam? “Boko Haram leader urges fighters: kill, slaughter and abduct,” Associated Press, December 31, 2016 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Boko Haram’s leader is urging his fighters to “kill, slaughter and […]
Boko Haram teaching kidnapped children how to rape as jihadi soldiers
In August, a horrifying report from the Wall Street Journal revealed that 10,000 young boys have been kidnapped by Boko Haram over the past three years. The children were being trained up to be jihadists and “used as fighters, suicide bombers and spies.” It was also reported by the WSJ that “Commanders of al Qaeda’s […]
Life in Boko Haram school: “All day, we were just memorising the Koran”
As all the learned experts from Pope Francis to John Kerry tell us, Islamic jihadists have nothing whatsoever to do with Islam, the noble religion of peace. Yet they have an odd and recurring tendency to focus upon the Qur’an. Maybe Pope Francis can make his way to a Boko Haram stronghold and explain to […]
Nigeria: 200 Muslim clerics training to counter Boko Haram ideology and propagate “peaceful nature of Islam”
“Some of the participants who spoke on the programme, described it as a welcome development that would assist in handling extremist and propagation of the peaceful nature of Islam. They pointed out that Prophet Muhammad cherished peaceful coexistence among and between Muslims and non-muslims and viewed non-Muslims as people who should be attracted to Islam […]
Cameroon: Muslim murders three, injures several in jihad-martyrdom bombing
And again: “Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties, for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed.” (Qur’an 9:111) “Suicide Bombing in North Cameroon Kills 3, Injures Several,” Associated Press, August 21, 2016: A local official says a suicide […]
Boko Haram’s new top dog to old one: Mission was to kill “only Christians”
This address from Abu Musab al-Barnawi to his predecessor as the leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, is a carefully reasoned argument from the Qur’an: Shekau, according to al-Barnawi, has transgressed against the Qur’an’s prohibition on Muslims killing other Muslims (4:92). In the course of his discourse he notes that Shekau contends that the Muslims […]
Boko Haram’s new leader vows to “kill every Christian,” “blow up every Church”
The new leader of Boko Haram, just appointed by the Islamic State, has vowed to end his attacks on fellow Muslims regarded by the group as infidels, and instead focus on Christians. Abu Musab al-Barnawi, who replaces Abubakar Shekau, has accused the West of trying to “Christianize the region” and says he will “blow up every […]
Nigeria: Jihad-martyrdom suicide bomber murders at least nine people at mosque
Why would Boko Haram (aka the Islamic State in West Africa) murder people in a mosque? This shows that they must not be Muslims, right? Wrong. All it shows is that they don’t consider the people in the mosque to be Muslims, or the right kind of Muslims. “Suicide bomber kills at least nine at […]
U.S. Ignores the Muslim Slaughter of Over 10,000 Christians and Destruction of 13,000 Churches in Nigeria
Gatestone Institute Boko Haram, the Nigerian Islamic extremist group, has killed more people in the name of jihad than the Islamic State (ISIS), according to the findings of a new report. Since 2000, when twelve Northern Nigerian states began implementing or more fully enforcing Islamic law, or Sharia, “between 9,000 to 11,500 Christians” have been killed. This is […]
US, UK governments knew where girls kidnapped by Boko Haram were, but no one tried to rescue them
Why not? Would rescuing them have been “Islamophobic”? “Western governments KNEW where 80 Nigerian girls kidnapped by Boko Haram were – but no-one tried to rescue them,” by Keiligh Baker, MailOnline, March 20, 2016: The US and British governments knew where at least 80 of the Nigerian girls kidnapped by Boko Haram were but failed […]