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Islamic jihadists of Boko Haram now control land the size of Ireland

Sep 14, 2014 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

boko-haram-AFPNothing to be concerned about. It’s just a tiny minority of leprechauns extremists. And remember: they have nothing whatsoever to do with Islam.

“Boko Haram Now Control Swath of Land as Large as Ireland,” by AWR Hawkins, Breitbart, September 12, 2014 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Boko Haram has control of a swath of land the size of Ireland and the group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, says he will rule the land as a caliphate in a fashion similar to ISIS’s Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

According to Newsweek, Boko Haram is drawing inspiration from ISIS’s success in Iraq and Syria and now operates as “a conventional army in north-eastern Nigeria.” This has resulted in a move from “guerilla tactics” to the tactic of seizing and holding large areas of land.

On September 8, the Borno state government said:

At this very moment, most parts of Borno state are being occupied by Boko Haram insurgents. Government presence and administration is minimal or non-existent across many parts of the state…Most settlements in the affected areas in the state have either been deserted or access to them is practically impossible.

Insurgents now have their sights on the Borno state capital–Maiduguri–which is “completely surrounded” and facing “annihilation.”

On March 2013 Breitbart News reported that Boko Haram destroyed 50 of 52 Catholic churches in the Maiduguri diocese. Reverend Jerome Ituah of Christ the King Catholic Church in Kurudu, Nigeria, was in Maiduguri to lead a retreats for the Bishop and Priests of the diocese when he said he witnessed the destruction first hand.

Townhall.com reported that Boko Haram began “systematically” targeting Christians in 2009. The guerilla tactics then in use meant many of these Christians were shot, burned, or chopped to death with machetes.

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  1. Champ says

    Sep 14, 2014 at 2:08 pm

    According to Newsweek, Boko Haram is drawing inspiration from ISIS’s success in Iraq and Syria …

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    And of course they are “drawing inspiration” from the unholy quran, as well …

    Both Boko Haram and ISIS are part and parcel of the same evil religion: islam!

    • Jay Boo says

      Sep 14, 2014 at 2:47 pm

      The Huff Post would say this is a Homegrown Insurgency and has nothing to do with Islam.
      The Islam apology network’s buzzword is — (Homegrown)

      Boko Haram — (Homegrown)
      Boston bombing — (Homegrown)
      ISIS — (Homegrown)

      Grown and nurtured in Mecca
      Faith diseased, Islam’s flower crafted from within sprouts a demonic weed
      Haunting screams cry unheard in the vast emptiness of Islam’s vile creed.

      • Champ says

        Sep 14, 2014 at 3:02 pm

        The Huff Post would say this is a Homegrown Insurgency and has nothing to do with Islam.

        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

        Well, the HuffPo is dangerous and ill-informed regarding islam and company, since the teachings within the unholy quran and other islamic texts are at the *core* of these terrorist organizations: Boko Haram & ISIS, et al.

  2. Jay Boo says

    Sep 14, 2014 at 2:25 pm

    And know that whatever ye take as spoils of war,
    Lo! A fifth thereof is for Allah.

    Many of these Christians were shot, burned, or chopped to death with machetes just so Allah could have Muslim style sex with their children.

    Allah is a PERVERT.

  3. Jay Boo says

    Sep 14, 2014 at 2:34 pm

    Muslims have the nerve to complain about Salman Rushdi revealing their satanic verses in the Qur’an.

    Islam the only ideology that has multiple instructions how to pee to please Allah while seeking enemies to hide all of its vile stupidity.

  4. Angemon says

    Sep 14, 2014 at 3:00 pm

    According to Newsweek, Boko Haram is drawing inspiration from ISIS’s success in Iraq and Syria

    The Islamic State which, has Cameron and Obama assured us, has nothing to do with islam, right? RIGHT???

  5. Éamonn Gavin says

    Sep 14, 2014 at 3:37 pm

    Obama and Cameron: “ISIS is not Islam”, “These are not Muslims”, “Islam is the Religion of Peace”.

    Me: “And The Pope is not a Catholic”. Éamonn, Dublin, Ireland.

  6. Beagle says

    Sep 14, 2014 at 3:38 pm

    Boko Haram? Never heard of it.

    /Your MSM betters

    Changing gears a bit but still in the same car.

    Tom Brokaw insisted recently that bombing IS would cause recruiting to increase. Ah, there has never been recruiting for jihad like what we see now with the IS. Their manpower seems to double or triple every couple months.

    So what should we learn from this?

    Success in conquering territory for Islam helps recruiting. Sex slavery as a perk helps jihad recruiting. Giving jihadis captured homes and booty is a huge draw for jihadis and is emphasized in almost every major public call for manpower by the IS on social media. Genocide in no way discourages Muslims from joining the jihad, the contrary in fact. Torture porn on the Internet which should repel anyone doesn’t when it comes to a large subset of Muslims. Tens of thousands of Muslims opened social media accounts to see video of genocide of the Christians, Shia, and Yazidis as well as torture porn.

    Many of the above examples have also driven Boko Haram to unprecedented in modern times success like the IS.

    Not that I expect the Islamic apologist-peace studies brigades to in any way adjust their belief system to facts on the ground. I just like to point out these things for the tiny minority of people in the fact-based community.

  7. Éamonn Gavin says

    Sep 14, 2014 at 5:02 pm

    As a fully qualified leprachaun, I have a message for all ISIS supporters. Get de feck outta here!!!

    Éamon, Dublin, Ireland.

  8. Wellington says

    Sep 14, 2014 at 5:04 pm

    Next, they’ll want Ireland. Well, don’t devout Muslims want all the world?

    Instructive, highly so I submit, how acquistion of real estate, and Islam implemented to its fullest, go very well together. Oh yeah, to be sure, they’re made for each other.

    Islam is quite arguably the most purely imperialistic religion in history. Of course, the only bad imperialism, courtesy of the pc/mc thought police, is Western imperialism. When Islam has engaged in it, the euphemisms pour forth from the politically correct, multicultural crowd. Anodyne phrases such as “Islam expanded” and “Islam spread” litter the wretched excuses for history texts these days. Of course, when the West engaged in imperialistic endeavors, phrases like “savagely conquered” or “ethnocentrically imposed Western values” can be found throughout the same textbooks that exculpate Islam virtually completely from any wrongdoing.

    Ah yes, the Age of Nonsense marches on. At this point, I see no end in sight to this stupidest of ages. Still lookin’ for an end though. Hope it’s sooner rather than later——-for true civilization’s sake, since Islam and pc/mc have little to nothing to do with true civilization or, for that matter, with truth in general .

  9. R Cole says

    Sep 14, 2014 at 6:02 pm

    Remember it was George Bush who said we should listen to the terrorists.

    Instead now we are treated almost like three year old children – supposedly incapable of dealing with the knowledge that there are violent aspects within the Islamic religion that form the basis of these many attacks.

    Which allows for many to peddle the theory that it is the west’s fault. How many times have we heard Muslim commentators say this – and those on the Left who give their tacit support for these ideas. It is inconceivable how solving the Palestinian crisis could have any effect on Boko Haram action. The same is true for the jihadist waging war for territory in Southern Thailand and the Philippines.

    We have been fighting this battle for years – and witnessing these jihadist acts of aggression – swearing blind that it has nothing to do with Islam – and instead of the situation shrinking – it is mushrooming.

    The only good thing now is that these battles are somewhere over there – and not here.

  10. gravenimage says

    Sep 14, 2014 at 7:34 pm

    Islamic jihadists of Boko Haram now control land the size of Ireland
    ………………………….

    We often hear about how much territory ISIS has seized—the “Islamic State” is now *larger than Great Britain*—but Boko Haram is now in control of large swaths of territory.

    And notice that the worst “Islamists” flourish in in territory that is *already* profoundly Islamic—ISIS in Syria and Iraq, Boko Haram in Shari’ah-ruled Muslim-majority northwestern Nigeria, Al-Shabaab in 100%-Muslim Somalia.

    And why not? These are places already primed to accept such Islamic rule, and where any arguments against them fall flat.

    Meanwhile, Scotland is seriously talking about seceding from Great Britain—which would render the West even more fragmented. Suicidal madness…

  11. EvenEzer says

    Sep 15, 2014 at 10:23 am

    The Boko Haram insurgency is more than a civil war. It is a continual three-pronged attack on Nigeria by Islamic extremists from Niger, Chad and Northern (http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/310975/Kanem-Bornu)Cameroun with the active connivance of Muslim Kanuri fifth columnists in Nigeria.
    It is an attempt to revive an Islamic Caliphate in the former territory of the old Kanem-Bornu Empire, which “included what is now southern Chad, northern Cameroon, northeastern Nigeria, eastern Niger, and southern Libya.”

    By Turaki A. Hassan, Daily Trust – 26 June 2013
    Leader of the Boko Haram sect Imam Abubakar Shekau hails from Niger Republic, according to the report of a Senate joint committee that investigated the deadly violence in Baga town of Borno State in April. Shekau is widely believed to be from Shekau village of Yobe State, but the Senate committee in its report submitted yesterday said Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima told visiting senators that the man was actually from the neighbouring Republic of Niger.
    The report, a copy obtained by Daily Trust, said senators were told that “although the Boko Haram sect members have some Chadians and Cameroonians within their midst about 80 per cent of them are of Kanuri tribe, adding that the leader of the sect Abubakar Shekau is a Kanuri from Niger Republic.”
    (http://allafrica.com/stories/201306260430.html;
    http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/daily/old/index.php/top-stories/57803-boko-haram-leader-is-from-niger-republic ;
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs6YDIMhoEc)

    The on-going war in northeastern Nigeria is similar to the Northern invasions of Ivory Coast, Mali and Central African Republic. (With the benefit of hindsight, Nigeria should not have supported the alliance of Alan Quaterra with the Northern rebels in Ivory Coast.)

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