Boko Haram means “Western education is sin,” or more literally, “Books bad.” The mainstream media has reported on this name as if the group were a bunch of Luddites with AK-47s – people who for some unexplained reason object to modern education and 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.
“Suicide bomber kills 48 students in Nigeria,” Associated Press, November 10, 2014:
POTISKUM, Nigeria — A suicide bomber disguised in a school uniform detonated explosives at a high school assembly in the northeastern Nigerian city of Potiskum on Monday, killing at least 48 students, according to survivors and a morgue attendant.
Soldiers rushed to the scene, grisly with body parts, in the capital of Yobe state, but they were chased away by a crowd throwing stones and shouting that they are angry at the military’s inability to halt a 5-year-old Islamic insurgency that has killed thousands and driven hundreds of thousands from their homes.
A suicide bomb attack in the same city killed 30 people one week ago, when suspected Boko Haram fighters attacked a religious procession of moderate Muslims.
Some 2,000 students had gathered for Monday morning’s weekly assembly at the Government Technical Science College when the explosion blasted through the school hall, according to survivors.
“We were waiting for the principal to address us, around 7:30 a.m., when we heard a deafening sound and I was blown off my feet, people started screaming and running, I saw blood all over my body,” 17-year-old student Musa Ibrahim Yahaya said from the general hospital, where he was being treated for head wounds.
Hospital records show 79 students were admitted and health workers said they include serious injuries that may require amputations. The hospital was so overcrowded that some patients were squashed two to a bed.
A morgue attendant said 48 bodies were brought to the hospital and all appeared to be between the ages of 11 and 20 years old. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to give information to reporters.
Survivors said the bomber appeared to have hidden the explosives in a type of rucksack popular with students. Months ago Nigeria’s military had reported finding a bomb factory where explosives were being sewn into rucksacks in the northern city of Kano….
Boko Haram — the name means “Education is sinful” in the local Hausa language — attracted international outrage with the April kidnappings of 276 mostly Christian schoolgirls writing exams at a northeastern boarding school. Dozens escaped on their own but 219 remain missing. Boko Haram has said that the schoolgirls have all converted to Islam and been married off to extremist fighters….
noellsq says
When are Christians and peaceful Muslims (if their are any) rise up and kill these rats. They have no courage to bomb and kill children for their medieval religion. It is time for us to start to fight back. Bomb their Mosques desecrate them with pigs blood. Rock throwers should be killed or their arms cut off. We have to stop thinking like westerners and think like they do. Kill or be killed.
Neil Jennison says
No. We do not have to sink to their level at all. We don’t need or want to desecrate and bomb.
What we need is for our leaders to wake up to threat from Islam and enforce our laws and stand up for our culture. We need to accept that Islamic immigration is incompatible with the free west and it must cease completely.
If Muslims stay here they must accept our society.
Amadeus says
I agree with that. Also all necessary security measures, to protect innocent non Muslim lives, should be taken, even if they will be perceived by Muslim communities as discriminating against them, which of course is not true.
In all fairness, if they don’t like it, they should change their religion! This how logic works, if still there is any left in this world!
Darren says
They won’t accept our society. Sure they will pretend to but give them an inch they will take a mile. They will also exploit our major glaring weaknesses, one of which is we have no counter to stealth jihad or any tactic that doesn’t involve bombs and tanks. This has been evidenced on many occasions, one of which was the massive communist infiltration which contrary to many media reports was quite successful.
There are many reports out of Europe stating how they are using similar tactics the communists used infiltrating and co-opting institutions and what not. This is fact not conspiracy theory. Stealth jihad is a bigger threat strategically than a terrorist attack. Sure a terrorist attack kills innocent people, but it serves no real long term strategic goal in most western countries.
Now when they do it in countries where they have a bigger tactical and strategic advantage on the ground it serves a bigger purpose, to make the populace more willing to submit out of fear. In the west I argue terrorist attacks have the opposite effect and just p*ss people off more and make people more willing to start researching islam and finding out the truth. At least going off my own gut reaction, when I see stories of innocent children being blown up, it just P*sses me off further, I am sure I’m not alone in my feelings.
Neil Jennison says
I don’t disagree. I am not arguing for no change. Islam is an evil belief system and that needs exposing.
But the great error has already occurred. We have had mass muslim immigration. It has been a massive and unbelievable disaster for the west that threatens our very existence.
Lioness says
Right! No mosques, no imams, no face-covers. We should never allow Islam in the West, they are our enemies that would kill us all in a jiffy if we turn our backs. More immigration of Muslims? I know we like to “turn the other cheek”, but shoot ourselves in the head? No, let’s stop the insanity. Deport the bastards that are already here, unless they renounce their Islam. If they don’t like it, they can move to a more tolerant country, like Saudi Arabia.
Neil Jennison says
Why is it 72 virgins? That’s quite a lot surely? Why not a more reasonable 7 or 8 ?
Darren says
Maybe kindergarten classes at the time had 72 students. One day when the prophet was whacking off to small children he had a thought, surely heaven and the after life must have a kindergarten class waiting for me to molest all to myself. This is how the 72 virgins thing was born, out of a fantasy the prophet had when he was leering at a kindergarten class and spanking his monkey. As we all know he finally got his wish, with Aiesha, but one 6 year old girl wasn’t enough to pleasure this holy man, this perfect human specimen of islam. Allah be praised isn’t the prophet one holy perfect specimen of humanity.
Lioness says
Judging by their gang-rape methods, they like to have a lot of them. Our goal shouold be to hasten their encounter with the virgins. Perhaps we can even offer 80 virgins to entice them?
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
As pointed out by Spencer, the transliteral of Boko Haram is books bad. The transliteral of Islam is submission good. But what’s gained and lost in submission to Islam is a verboten subject, one too hot to broach in public. That would be bigoted, but it’s a fair question to ask. And you can bet that the Yazidi women sitting around in their new homes in the New Caliphate are asking that very question, same for the adolescent school girls snaked off into the jungles of North Nigeria.
mortimer says
Boko Haram = books FORBIDDEN (by Allah)
That means backwardness is good and the 7th century is all you need.
Boko Haram’s leader declared he was making war on ‘Christians generally’.
That is the definition of GENOCIDE.
bernie says
“books bad”…what a goofy name.
Actually, that’s an insult to the Disney character Goofy…he evidently has a lot more intelligence than the Boko Haram idiots. Even pigs do.
Chyrissipus says
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities—-Voltaire. I wonder how ‘belief,‘ takes away some people‘s inherent altruism, and transform them into stone cold murderers, but those Muslim murderers, the Jihadists, could be said to be totally insane, what about the rest of the moderate ummah? Especially those in the West where apostasy and honor killings are not much, shouldn’t they be in constant protests against these daily barbarities? The world is truly weird, even the Islamic and Christian concepts of hellfire is anathema to altruism.
Steffen Larsen says
News on German radio – “Klassisk Radio” – got pretty close a few minutes ago: Boko Haram “fighting with great brutality for the introduction of the islamic (or islamist) state”.
mortimer says
The actual name of Boko Haram…Party of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad…combines PROPAGANDA (dawah) and WARFARE (jihad).
In other words, they assume that Islam is SPREAD BY THE SWORD!
Darren says
And of course they are right it is. What sane person would want to live under sharia law. Even things like fun are considered evil according to islam. That’s right even having simple pleasure is looked down upon in islam. Music for instance, who doesn’t love listening to some good sounds now and then. Or dogs. How can someone hate a creature that is so full of love. That to me is more telling than anything, music is evil and so are dogs.
Coolio says
Quite amazing that, even with another violent Islamic state infection, in his own country President Goodluck and his buffoon government have not declared war on Islam, or been overthrown by a government who will. I guess no more amazing than Western leaders, still bending over for Islam while Islam is slaughtering innocents and soldiers on our streets. How much longer will our phoney war go on?
john spielman says
Ah, Bokon Haram is just doing what muhammed-pbuh* commanded in the qur’an and hadiths to do to nonmuslims! Just MORE PROOF that Allah (Satan to Christians /Ba-al of the cannanite religion) loves human sacrifice and muslims are guilty of worshiping Satan disguised as God
pbuh* perpetual banishment unto hell!
tpellow says
Yes, the Western media is always politically programed to relegate the Islamic nature of the barbarity of Boko Haram.
One absurdity of reporting is that the BBC, paid for as it is by the Britsh people, uses its Islamic radio station, BBC Hausa of Nigeria, as a key source for the euphemistic reporting on Boko Haram.
Walter Sieruk says
This is yet another tragic and terrible example of the great amount of harm that is done in mosques as well as other places of Islamic mind programming where people are thoroughly brainwash into believing in the Koran along with its many teachings. As the doctrine /story of a lust filled paradise with many virgins, houris, in it for the male Muslim who dies in the jihad for the cause of Islam. This story/ doctrine of a lust filed place with many virgins may be found in the Koran in ,for example, 44:54. 5:56. 78:31. The Islamic clerics such as the imams ,very much indoctrinate this belief in a lust filled place with many virgins into the hearts and minds of others. Such clerics have been warned about in the Bible. Which in Second Peter 2:18. reads “For they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lust of the flesh…” Furthermore, many a times a jihad minded Muslim in his death recording speaks of “the wedding with the virgins” that he will have after he becomes a “martyr.” Such a belief Jesus would denounce as being based on false teaching. For Jesus taught “Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures ,nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are as the angles in heaven.” Matthew 22:29,30. In contrast to the Islamic pipe dream of the jihadist in the Koranic story/doctrine of a place with virgins, Christians have the reality of Second Peter :16. Which reads “For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ…” [K.J.V.]
Jay Boo says
Since they attacked moderate Muslims Pres. Obama might use the word ‘justice’ as in need for justice but notice when Christians or Jews are attacked Obama becomes wistful and melancholy
“I have this remarkable title right now — president of the United States,” Obama said. “And yet every day when I wake up, and I think about young girls in Nigeria or children caught up in the conflict in Syria . . . there are times in which I want to reach out and save those kids.”
Now isn’t that so very sweet of him to wish upon a star?
Salah says
Boko Haram means Books Bad.
Books mean knowledge, and to Islam, knowledge means death.
Unfortunately for Islam, we live in an era where books are not the only way to acquire knowledge.
The new technology, especially the internet, is by far more important than books. This means more knowledge. And to Islam, it means: Death is near, very near.
To our Muslim friends: Browse the net. Know your prophet. Feel the shame.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/12/perfect-man-of-islam.html
gp says
Boko Haram means “Western education is sin,” or more literally, “Books bad.”-
“Books Bad!” Killing Good! Savages, pure evil a culture of death and destruction.
Their God, Satan, who is the father of lies through his satanic verses commands them to kill-or be killed.