They murdered 29 students. Boko Haram’s real name is Jama’atu Ahlus Sunnati Lidda’awati wal Jihad, which means the Party of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad. It is carrying out is campaign of blood and terror for the goal of imposing Islamic law upon Nigeria and (given its activities outside that country) the surrounding areas. It is a movement that owes its existence to Islamic teaching, and which is devoted to implementing Islamic teaching. Yet in analyzing such movements, Western analysts begin by discounting the religious motive, in every case assuming that it must be a cover for something else. Then upon these mistaken assumptions they pile more mistaken assumptions, until we get the mess that is U.S. foreign policy today.
“Nigeria school raid ‘leaves dozens dead,'” from the BBC, February 25 (thanks to Darcy):
Suspected Islamist militants from the Boko Haram group in north-eastern Nigeria have attacked a school and shot some students, the military has said.
Dozens of pupils are reported to have been killed. Police told Reuters that all the dead were boys and that some of the bodies “were burned to ashes”.
The attack took place in troubled Yobe state, the military said.
Residents of the town of Buni Yadi said the attackers struck at night, slitting the throats of some students.
They said that others were shot.
Teachers at the remote Federal Government College boarding school in Buni Yadi told the AP news agency that as many as 40 students had been killed in the assault which began early on Tuesday morning.
Hospital sources in Yobe told the BBC 29 corpses had been brought in following the attack.
‘Pursuit of the killers’The military has confirmed that an attack took place on “student hostels” but says it cannot yet give further details.
Homes destroyed by Boko Haram militants in Bama, Borno State (February 2014) Boko Haram have been accused of numerous attacks in northern Nigeria including one earlier this month in Borno state“Details are still sketchy due to lack of telephone access, and it is still not clear how many students were affected in the attack,” Yobe military spokesman Lazarus Eli told the AFP news agency.
“Our men are down there in pursuit of the killers,” he said.
Boko Haram, whose name means “Western education is sinful” in the northern Hausa language, has frequently attacked schools in the past.
Scores of people were killed in two attacks last week. In one incident, militants destroyed a whole village and shot terrified residents as they tried to escape.
The failure of the army to destroy the militants has fuelled anger in the north-east, correspondents say.
Thousands of people have been killed since 2009, when Boko Haram launched its campaign to install Islamic law….
Ayatrollah says
These pious brother “boko haram” have figured out it is better to die than to learn at kafir schools.
monkey says
Yes! Forget about human rights or individual liberty or civil virtues. Just use money for building hospitals and use them to buy Western guns and bombs!
That will fix all our problems!
No need to worry about Western natural gas revolution. It’s not like oils is the only thing keeping our toilet society from circling the drain.
Veracious_one says
I have not seen one black TV preacher say one word about the ongoing slaughter of black African Christians by Muslim terrorists…and I haven’t heard any white TV preachers say anything either…they need to be educating their flocks….
boakai ngombu says
Veracious-one, TV preachers won’t issue any word, save those already under investigation by malicious groups … but, should you step inside a church (although not every one) you will hear white and black preachers and even nonpreachers speak out against these atrocities and consider what to do
in the meantime be concerned about the thousands of attacks adherents of SHARIA are waging, just as they have since Muhammad (lately contrived; depicted to be full of lust, just like sinful human beings) by which millions have died and critics have been silenced and many have been enslaved.
Beagle says
Regular readers of JW know all this.
Sunnah is the Islamic notion that the Seventh Century traditions of Muhammad and his companions are the template for perfect conduct.
Dawah is inviting people to Islam with the implied threat of jihad if the offer is refused.
Jihad is struggling to exercise every day to stay in shape.
Wait, what?
Jay Boo says
Al Jazeera influenced NPR radio seems to loose all their smug liberal self-righteous indignation whenever they mention attacks on Christians attacks in their special interest segments, if they even mention it at all.
It appears they wish to avoid tarnishing their anti-Islamophobia image.
Td Sonnier says
Wow!! What a great religion of peace. I feel so save with them around….. NOT…
Christopher W. Young says
Once again Islamic Jihad us kill students,children Who are striving to gain an education for themselves….. In all of my years I have never heard of any other religious sect murdering children and innocent people for the sake of their religion. It’s always the Islamists. It’s always Muslims. And they wonder why there is islamic phobia around the world. Islam is not a religion of peace. is dangerous to freethinking human beings.
bobm says
Ayatrollah…. hear this……….. If you, as your comment suggests directly ; are a muslim; you are on the highway to hell…………
Jesus is Lord…..John 3:16.
gravenimage says
bobm wrote, replying to Ayatrollah:
Ayatrollah…. hear this……….. If you, as your comment suggests directly ; are a muslim; you are on the highway to hell…………
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bobm, Ayatrollah’s comment was intended as sarcasm.
Ayatrollah is anti-Jihad. His very username, “Ayatrollah”, is a pun on “Ayatollah” and “troll”. He is no fan of violent Islam.
boakai ngombu says
say, Boko Haram, as you seek to get close to the Allah god (unknowable; the best of all deceivers) by murdering (supposedly cleansing the land of corruption) humans – like yourselves – may
the Sahara dust burn your eyes, the scorpions sting, the adders bite, and your throats dry … so that you REPENT from all you do and learn of the One who provides refuge and forgiveness …
some of those whom you have killed and spilled their blood, did not deserve to die simply for believing Jesus, who is true refuge, and, able to save, but also empowered to utter condemnation and execute JUSTICE – in due time.
King Dave Newsvine says
The Western liberal media outlets are ignoring Boko Haram because they can’t point the finger of racism or Islamophobia at anyone.
Boko Haram means the Book is forbidden, as Western education is un-Islamic.
Boko Haram’s leader Abubakar Shekau has said Allah has made him invincible. As of now, I have little reason to doubt that.
mortimer says
Genocide. Ethnic cleansing. The world looks on. Nothing is done. Saudi money continues to pour in to pay for weapons smuggled from Al Qaeda through a porous border, through tunnels, carried by soldiers disguised as hijab wearing women.
But this has nothing to do with Islam. Nothing at all. To say anything critical about jihad is Islamophobic.
Jay Boo says
Quran Haram
Andrea McGann Little says
You evil monsters, you jihadists. How could you kill innocent children?
PJG says
Because the children are the joy and hope of their parents. Killing children creates even more terror than killing adults. Terror in the name of Allah and his Prophet is the name of the game.
Then of course the children were getting an education not designed and approved by BH, ie Koran only.
Richard Niemann says
No story found…link seems bad
Frank Harrison says
My goodness! Will we see thousands of Muslims all over the world rioting for such a blasphemy committed in Allah’s name? Or will there be no reaction at all from Mullah’s so quick to take offence on so many other issue? Silent acquiescence. No reaction from the cleric means it is sanctioned and no protest is required. Now let your dog pee on the Koran and that is a very different situation. And these are the sort of people you think will live harmoniously in Australian society. What was that biblical maxim? “By your deeds, so shall I know thee.” COME ON MODERATE MUSLIMS, SHOW YOUR DISGUST IN ACTS COMMITTED IN YOUR GODS NAME. That is if you don’t silently agree with it.
Frank Harrison says
My goodness! Will we see thousands of Muslims all over the world rioting for such a blasphemy committed in Allah’s name? Or will there be no reaction at all from Mullah’s so quick to take offence on so many other issue? Silent acquiescence. No reaction from the cleric means it is sanctioned and no protest is required. Now let your dog pee on the Koran and that is a very different situation. And these are the sort of people you think will live harmoniously in Australian society. What was that biblical maxim? “By your deeds, so shall I know thee.” COME ON MODERATE MUSLIMS, SHOW YOUR DISGUST IN ACTS COMMITTED IN YOUR GODS NAME. That is if you don’t silently agree with it.
gravenimage says
Nigeria: Islamic jihadists raid school, murder students
They murdered 29 students.
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*Horrifying atrocity against vulnerable young people.
More:
Boko Haram’s real name is Jama’atu Ahlus Sunnati Lidda’awati wal Jihad, which means the Party of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad.
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That’s always the threat implicit in Da’wa—if you *don’t* convert, Muslims will wage violent Jihad against you.
More:
Thousands of people have been killed since 2009, when Boko Haram launched its campaign to install Islamic law…
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Brutality in the name of imposing a brutal system.
God, I hate Islam.