The students will no doubt find this an enormously appealing advertisement for Islam and the Qur’an. But after all, the Qur’an does command Muslims to “strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah” (8:60). More on this story. “Boko Haram leader calls for more schools attacks after dorm killings,” by Monica Mark in the Guardian, July 14 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The leader of Nigeria’s Islamist militant group Boko Haram has called for more attacks against schools, describing western education as a “plot against Islam”, in a video released days after his fighters killed 46 students in an assault on a dorm.
In the 15-minute recording released at the weekend, Abubakar Shekau said schools would continue to be targeted “until our last breath”.
“Teachers who teach western education? We will kill them! We will kill them in front of their students, and tell the students to henceforth study the Qur’an,” he said, gesticulating energetically while dressed in military fatigues and a traditional hat.
Shekau denied that his fighters killed children. “Our religion does not permit us to touch small children and women, we don’t kill children,” he said, reading from sheets of paper as he cradled a Kalashnikov. He also dismissed talk of a ceasefire. Last week the government said it had signed a deal with Shekau’s second-in-command….