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Robert Spencer in PJ Media: 5 Things the Media and Government Won’t Tell You About Boko Haram

May 12, 2014 11:03 am By Robert Spencer

HillaryClintonOver at PJ Media I examine five reasons why it shouldn’t have taken so long for Hillary Clinton’s State Department to declare Boko Haram a terrorist group:

5. The abduction of the schoolgirls is only the latest in a huge string of atrocities.
The world has only begun to notice them because of the abduction of the schoolgirls, but the Nigerian jihad terror group Boko Haram has been around for years. Without attracting the international outrage they have drawn upon themselves now, they have committed innumerable acts of unimaginable savagery, murdering over 2,500 people in the first three months of 2014 alone and torching numerous churches and Christian homes.

At my website Jihad Watch a Google search turns up about 115,000 results for “Boko Haram,” indicating that anyone who has been tracking jihad activity over the last few years has had plenty to track in Boko Haram, and that the outrage over the abducted schoolgirls, as welcome as it is if it results in genuine action to stop this brutal and bloody group, is quite late and arbitrary.

Of course, in the Obama administration it hasn’t been fashionable to talk about jihad activity other than within the context of al Qaeda, and Boko Haram is not al Qaeda. Therefore it essentially did not exist (either for the administration or for the mainstream media that it carries around in its pocket like so many nickels), or if it did, it wasn’t a terrorist group: Hillary Clinton’s State Department was notoriously slow to designate it as such, even as the dead bodies piled up.

4. Their real name is Party of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad.
Boko Haram means “Western education is sin,” or more literally, “Books bad.” The mainstream media has reported this as if the group were a bunch of Luddites with AK-47s – people who for some unexplained reason object to modern technology except for the weaponry. But actually the moniker “Boko Haram” is a specifically Islamic name, referring to the sinfulness of any system of education that is not based and centered upon the Qur’an and Islam.

And the actual name of the group is not Boko Haram at all; it is the Party of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad. Sunnah is accepted Islamic practice as derived from the Qur’an and Hadith; dawah is Islamic proselytizing; and jihad, of course, is (according to mainstream Islamic tradition) primarily warfare against unbelievers in order to establish the hegemony of Islamic law. Clearly, then, the group’s focus and motivation is entirely Islamic – which is probably why the media never calls the group by its actual name: too much focus on Islam in connection with terrorism is, for the media, as verboten for today’s media as it would have been for Der Stürmer to run a piece favorable to Jews.
3. Muslim clerics recruit for them in mosques.
The British tabloid The Sun reported in late April that “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.” It quoted StrategyPage, an American military news site:

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.

Why would Muslim clerics, no matter how “conservative,” recruit in mosques for a group that – it is universally assumed – twists and hijacks the true, peaceful religion of Islam? Haven’t these clerics been trained in the Qur’an and aren’t they utterly familiar with its contents? Did they overlook the peaceful verses that Boko Haram is ostensibly ignoring?

This recruitment gives the lie yet again to the mainstream media and government dogma that Islamic jihad groups actually pervert the teachings of Islam. If they did, Muslim clerics, above all, would know that and oppose them. Yet Muslim clerics, all too often, are enthusiastic in their support of such groups, and sometimes even participate in them. But that fact is not one that our law enforcement or military establishment is willing, at this point, to ponder.

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  1. mortimer says

    May 12, 2014 at 11:22 am

    The Leftards didn’t get upset that Malala was shot in the face for demanding education for women.

    Now they are upset that schoolgirls are abducted and sold into slavery.

    IS THAT WHAT IT TAKES FOR THEM TO REALIZE THAT ISLAM IS CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE?

  2. Ralph says

    May 12, 2014 at 12:22 pm

    What; do you expect a Secretary of State (Hillary) to be able to control anyone? She could not even control One Man, let alone a Muslim… Stupid on Stupid.

  3. Burt says

    May 12, 2014 at 3:36 pm

    “Boko Haram means “Western education is sin,” or more literally, “Books bad.””
    pity they don’t ban one book that really IS bad…that evil Koran!

  4. raylanfear says

    May 12, 2014 at 6:43 pm

    Just google “theprojectmuslimbrotherhood” their doctrine to destroy us from within by stealth jihad, lies and deception. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFO1AtjoUoo

    • Salah says

      May 13, 2014 at 1:46 am

      The Muslim Brotherhood thugs have been destroyed and declared terrorist organization first in Egypt, then in Saudi Arabia, U.A.E. and Bahrein.
      Will America follow? I doubt it; they are running the White House!

  5. Gamaliel Isaac says

    May 13, 2014 at 6:01 am

    The Obama administration apparently has some concern for women even though it doesn’t care about Christians. That’s why it didn’t respond during the mass killings of Christians by Boko Haram, but is responding to the kidnapping of girls by Boko Haram. Likewise the Obama administration has not stopped the persecution of Christians in Pakistan but is trying to improve the situation of women in Pakistan.

  6. abhay gupta says

    May 13, 2014 at 6:24 am

    book is haram and ak-47 is right ? if other then islam start following the same then what will happen,did they estimated d loss ? killing of innocent people is justified ? religion of killing innocents what the religion is that.

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