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Nigeria: Muslim clerics recruiting for Boko Haram in mosques

Apr 24, 2014 10:19 am By Robert Spencer

Nigerian_muslims_at_prayer_432169539In the U.S., Muslim leaders and Leftist academics are agitating for the 9/11 Memorial and Museum to remove mention of Islam and jihad from its exhibits, on the grounds that the 9/11 hijackers were not true Muslims and do not represent Islam. But in the real world, Nigerian Muslim clerics — men who have dedicated their lives to understand Islam and teaching it properly — are recruiting for a jihad terror group in mosques, where Muslims go to pray and express their Islamic faith. If there is anyone in Nigeria who believes that these clerics are twisting and hijacking the true religion of Islam, they aren’t doing anything effective to stop them.

“Nigerian Muslim clerics recruiting Boko Haram members – Cameroon Govt,” The Sun, April 24, 2014:

Nigerian Muslim clerics living in the border towns of Cameroon and Nigeria are recruiting Boko Haram members in their mosques, the government of Cameroon has alleged. Worse still, government officials in the North East states of Yobe, Borno and Adamawa collaborate with the terrorists and take bribes from them, thereby, hindering the fight against the terrorists. Governors of these states also capitalize on their civilian fears to berate the army and the federal government.

These allegations were published in a report, yesterday, by US-based online military news agency, StrategyPage. The magazine explains that the army wants governors in the affected states removed because “many officials in those states are cooperating with Boko Haram (to avoid attack) and are taking bribes from the Islamic terrorists.

“Some of these officials are covering themselves in case Boko Haram should gain power and the governors are often just responding to civilian fears of army misconduct,” it noted.

The magazine said: “Cameroon is also concerned about pro-Boko Haram clerics from Nigeria quietly preaching and recruiting for Boko Haram in Cameroon mosques.

“Islamic conservative clergy are not unusual on either side of the border, but those who do not denounce Boko Haram are suspected of quietly recruiting young men to join the “jihad” (struggle) and fight (and often die) in Nigeria. These preachers have to recruit quietly because otherwise police in Cameroon will arrest and deport them, sometimes after a vigorous interrogation. Evidence of this recruiting is showing up when some of the recruits return from Nigeria with tales of disillusionment and adversity while with Boko Haram,” the report said.

The magazine said that the Cameroonian government is “being criticized because recent claims of large (over 5,000 weapons) arms seizures near the Nigerian border could not be verified by reporters. Civilians living in villages near where the government said the seizures took place said they saw nothing. The government responded that the smugglers operated in remote areas and avoided civilians as well as security forces. There are also concerns that even if weapons were seized they would, as often happens, be sold back to black market arms dealers so that government officials could keep the cash.”

On the military, the report said: “Residents of those three states have justifiable complaints about the army, in particular the casual attitude of the military towards the safety of civilians and their property.

“The army is also unreliable when it comes to sharing information on casualties. Thus Boko Haram related deaths so far this year are believed to be (based on local reports) at least 1,500, which is 50 per cent more than what the army reports. Boko Haram related deaths from 2010 to 2013 were about 3,600, so the violence is not declining.

“The government has been saying, for several years, that Boko Haram would be crushed within a year and never happens. More insightful observers point out that the problem is mainly one of corruption and poverty, as well as the appeal of Islamic radicalism as a magical cure. All of Nigeria suffers from corruption.

“Poverty is more prevalent in the Muslim north, in part because of climate. That’s because the semi-desert Sahel region south of the Sahara Desert is found in the north. Another problem is the more conservative nature of Islamic populations and the lower education levels.”

So the report still assumes the oft-disproved notions that poverty and ignorance cause terrorism, when in fact study after study has shown that jihad terrorists are generally wealthier and better educated than their peers.

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  1. mortimer says

    Apr 24, 2014 at 10:36 am

    The 164 jihad verses in the Koran are the basis of Islam’s mandate of warfare against disbelievers. The best-supported doctrine in Islam according to Islamic jurists is hatred of disbelievers (al-Walaa wal-Baraa). Al-Walaa wal-Baraa is the second most important ESSENTIAL DOCTRINE in Islam. The third ESSENTIAL DOCTRINE (usul ud-din) in Islam is jihad.

    To deny these essential doctrines insults our intelligence.

    Fortunately, leftists like Tony Blair are beginning to see the facts. Hope the Left pays attention to Blair before Islam’s jihad in the West becomes intractable.

    • Salah says

      Apr 24, 2014 at 2:42 pm

      “Fortunately, leftists like Tony Blair are beginning to see the facts.”

      And most importantly, Muslims themselves are beginning to see the facts. And when they do, they spit on their Qur’an, tear it apart, burn it, and urinate on it.

      http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2014/01/egyptian-muslims-tear-up-quran.html

  2. mariam rove says

    Apr 24, 2014 at 10:41 am

    what a surprise!! The so called religion of peace is busy recruiting murderers while the PC elites are trying to white wash it. M

  3. Jay Boo says

    Apr 24, 2014 at 10:43 am

    NPR/BBC/Al Jazeera Radio
    They had a spokesperson on yesterday who claimed that Boko Haram was a “grass roots insurgency” and suggested that the approach of the Nigerian government might be the source of the problem that needs closer examination. Rather than pursuing Boko Haram terrorists, this guest unofficial spokesperson person (a former diplomat) recommended Nigeria implement a “hearts and minds” approach’.
    Islam is the problem
    How do these once idealistic journalists manage to look at themselves in the mirror?

    • mariam rove says

      Apr 24, 2014 at 11:23 am

      Yes. the leftists and PC media and the muslim jihadists have one thing in common.: blame someone else. It is never their fault. M

    • DVult says

      Apr 24, 2014 at 12:04 pm

      By all means hearts and minds, 2 bullets for each.

  4. john spielman says

    Apr 24, 2014 at 10:43 am

    I think the world needs to separated by forced expulsion, into muslim and non muslim areas and never the two will mix; a true Dal al islam (house of Islam) an, instead of Dar al Harb( house of war),
    Dar al Shalom( house of peace). The house of Islam is perpetually at war with itself and with the world and nothing will change it. KNOW Islam, NO peace NO Islam, KNOW peace

    • Rezali Mehil says

      Apr 24, 2014 at 10:58 am

      Hello John,

      Are you that dude who lives in Alaska and fishes for a living? I have been scouring JW and came across that horrible finishing line that you used elsewhere too.

      I understand that guy was shot by his brother-in-law (who was not muslim)….because he want after his wife….I didn’t think he was alive any longer.

      More Later …

      Rezali

      • john spielman says

        Apr 24, 2014 at 11:58 am

        Poor Rezali: what? no refuting that slogan (which, by the,way,did not originate with me ) Islam is a house divided and can not and will not stand as the Lord Jesus-who is God incarnate, made clear. Why not accept Jesus as your savior and receive forgiveness of your sins( which cannot be canceled by good works) and ever lasting life now and forever!

        More later: john spielman

      • Mirren10 says

        Apr 24, 2014 at 1:04 pm

        rezali, or shall I call you the shiite scab (ious) ?

        Why haven’t you taken my advice, and hopped on the next plane to Indonesia ? Your shiite brothers need you !

        Oops, I was forgetting, you mohammedans are total cowards. Much better to point guns at toddlers, n’est pas ?

        So, you’ve been ‘scouring’ the archives, eh ? I wish I could think you’ve profited from reading about the phantasmagoria of horrors perpetrated by your co-religionists, but alas for you, I really don’t think
        you’re capable. All you are capable of is a little nasty, mean spirited spite.

        Poor old rezali !

        More later, chumbawumba !

        • dumbledoresarmy says

          Apr 25, 2014 at 1:23 am

          Rezali’s vicious fantasising above is absolutely typical.

          What I suspect the boggart was trying to do, by telling one poster here a pack of malicious lies and BS about another non-Muslim poster, was a spot of “split the camp”.

          I came across something really interesting in a blog by another Islamosavvy Englishman, a young bloke who has just been to university.

          In one posting, he describes what he sees as mohammedan social immaturity.

          Read it here:

          http://defendthemodernworld.wordpress.com/2014/04/22/violence-jealousy-and-ignorance-more-tales-from-university/

          “The Social Jealousy of Muslims: A Tale from University.”

          But when *I* read it, what I saw was something much more sinister: an almost demonic Will To Destroy that drove the mohammedans to try to prevent non-Muslims from forming and maintaining relationships – romantic or fraternal – with other non-Muslims.

          This “impulse to divide”, to confuse, to destroy, to wreck non-Muslim people’s perceptions of and interactions with each other, is truly revolting. Mischief-making, on steroids.

          I *bet* that mohammedan ‘diplomats’ and businessmen and academics, for example, are doing this *all the time*, in all sorts of ways, wherever they are in contact with Infidels: *constantly* attempting in all sorts of ways, large and small, to foment distrust and enmity, to create confusion, to attack and try to destroy non-Muslim relationships (whether between friends, or lovers, or spouses, or parents and children or co-religionists or co-workers or team members or students and teachers, etc, at the micro level; or between countries, or groups of countries, at the macro level) *wherever and whenever they get the chance*. To turn individual non-Muslims, or groups of non-Muslims, against one another.

          Dante knew what he was doing when he placed Mohammed among the Sowers of Discord.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 27, 2014 at 2:12 pm

        What is Rezali Mehil babbling about now?

  5. nacazo says

    Apr 24, 2014 at 10:46 am

    StrategyPage says:

    “many officials in those states are cooperating with Boko Haram (to avoid attack) and are taking bribes from the Islamic terrorists.”

    CORRECTION

    “many officials in those states are cooperating with Boko Haram (TO HELP IN THE NOBLE JIHAD OF KILLING KUFFAR) and are taking bribes from the Islamic terrorists.”

  6. nacazo says

    Apr 24, 2014 at 10:59 am

    Here am I, the public official of a Nigerian state, with all the resources of the state at my disposal, but who is so afraid of Boko Haram that goes to them and tells them: “You Boko Haram, pay me a bribe or else”.

    Does it make sense? Are they really afraid or are they just as guilty?

  7. Theb Nyip says

    Apr 24, 2014 at 12:07 pm

    The Nigerian military needs to study Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje’s approach for Islamic clergy recruiting for jihad. It worked for the Dutch military in Aceh in the 1890’s, it could work for them now.

  8. Isabella says

    Apr 24, 2014 at 7:38 pm

    I am so surprised (sarc.)

  9. gravenimage says

    Apr 27, 2014 at 2:16 pm

    Nigeria: Muslim clerics recruiting for Boko Haram in mosques
    ……………………..

    This should surprise no one. Muslims have always used their foul Mosques to recruit for bloody Jihad, and their vile “Kutbahs” to whip up blood lust.

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