Boko Haram’s real name is the Party of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad. In other words, it explains and justifies its activities specifically by reference to Islamic doctrine. Its name Boko Haram means “Western education is sin,” or “Books bad,” and stems from the idea that a Western education is a […]
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Nigeria: Muslim child bride, forced into marriage, poisons husband
There is no justification for murder. Wasila Umaru’s desperation, however, points up child marriage as the serious human rights abuse that it is. And it has abundant justification in Islam. As I explained in detail here, few things have stronger attestation in Islamic law than the permissibility of child marriage. Islamic tradition records that Muhammad’s […]
Nigeria’s top Islamic group: Muslims “endangered species” because of counter-terror efforts
The Jama’atu Nasril Islam is working from the same old playbook. Compare its statements to these: “The new perception is that the United States has entered a war with Islam itself,” CAIR Chairman Parvez Ahmed declared at Washington’s National Press Club in July 2007…. CAIR and other Muslim groups issued a joint statement after the […]
Nigeria: Father charged for murdering daughter in church for leaving Islam
Islamic apologists in the West routinely claim that Islam has no death penalty for apostasy. Unfortunately, misunderstanders of Islam abound in large numbers, and for some reason they cannot shake the notion that Islam does mandate death for those who are considered to have left the faith. Why do they persist in this misunderstanding? Maybe […]
Nigeria: Islamic jihadists screaming “Allahu akbar” murder 17, attack “apostate” mosque
Islamic apologists in the West routinely claim that Islam has no death penalty for apostasy. Unfortunately, misunderstanders of Islam abound in large numbers, and for some reason they cannot shake the notion that Islam does mandate death for those who are considered to have left the faith. Why do they persist in this misunderstanding? Maybe […]
US envoy Samantha Power decries “religiously motivated violence” in Africa, doesn’t mention jihad in Nigeria
“In the world today, we’re seeing far too many victims of ethnic and religiously motivated violence and hate,” says Samantha Power. And that is true. She notes, according to AP, that “there’s a huge amount to be done to protect the Muslims still in Bangui who feel very vulnerable.” Great. But she doesn’t mention the […]
Nigeria: Jihad-martyrdom suicide bombers murder 15 in oil field attack
Clearly the Nigerian government has lost control of the situation. It can’t stop Boko Haram, whose real name is the Party of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad. They can do whatever they wish. And it is doubtful that their victims will get much help from outside Nigeria, as the international community […]
Nigerian cardinal criticizes role of Sharia, says Muslim leaders must “rein in their mad dogs”
No doubt Robert McManus, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, who has said that “talk about extreme, militant Islamists and the atrocities that they have perpetrated globally might undercut the positive achievements that we Catholics have attained in our inter-religious dialogue with devout Muslims,” is on a plane to Abuja right now, so as to […]
Interfaith outreach in Nigeria: Enraged Muslims set fire to Catholic church over alleged insult to Muhammad
Western Christians, Catholic and Protestant, set a great deal of hope upon their ongoing “dialogue” with Muslim leaders. But what good is the “dialogue” if it does nothing to deter Muslims from attacking churches and other Christian installations? What good is “dialogue” if it makes all the parties feel good but doesn’t deal with the […]
U.S. blocks Christian governor from Nigeria peace talks
“The USIP confirmed that all 19 northern governors were invited, but the organization did not respond to requests for comments on holding the talks without the region’s only Christian governor.” Of course it didn’t, because Emmanuel Ogebe is quite obviously correct that Jang’s “visa problems” are “because of bias in the U.S. government.” Ogebe notes […]