Remember: Boko Haram is not just an “indigenous” group of Nigerian “insurgents.” The Congregation of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad, aka Boko Haram, has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. It’s one big happy caliphate now. “23 ‘beheaded’ in NE Nigeria on eve of election: lawmaker, nurse,”AFP, March 29, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
Kano (Nigeria) (AFP) – Suspected Boko Haram gunmen beheaded 23 people and set fire to homes in Buratai, northeast Nigeria, on the eve of Saturday’s general elections, a federal lawmaker representing the area told AFP.
“There was an attack on Buratai late Friday by gunmen suspected to be insurgents….They beheaded 23 people and set homes on fire,” said Mohammed Adamu, who represents the town some 200 kilometres (125 miles) from Borno’s capital Maiduguri.
“At least half the village has been burnt,” he added.
A nurse at the nearest major hospital, in Biu, said the 32 injured who were receiving care also reported that many were decapitated during the attack.
Further details of the violence were not immediately available, but the attack is consistent with Boko Haram’s past strikes in the area in the south of the state, where defenceless civilians have been repeatedly targeted.
It was not clear if the raid late Friday was linked to Saturday’s polls, but Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau had vowed to disrupt the vote.
Elsewhere in Nigeria’s restive northeast, suspected Islamist militants killed at least seven people in separate attacks in the Gombe state.
Witnesses reported that the assailants in Gombe made clear their intention was to disrupt the polls.
jewdog says
This is what happens when the civilized countries abandoned their responsibilities and entrusted the locals to run these countries. It’s high time that the US and other civilized powers went in and set up Islam-free zones and reestablished colonialism.
RG says
Probably a little too late for that – especially knowing what our current regime is like! Truth is, I shudder to think of what the US will be like in a couple more years of Obamanation!
mortimer says
Nigeria is 50% Muslim. Boko Haram is ‘at war with Christians generally’.
Africa’s biggest problem is tribalism.
Jay Boo says
If Boko Haram ever comes to power.
NPR will do a pre-emptive spin story about the “new & improved” Boko Haram.
Obama will then do a follow-up about how they need to be reclassified.
epistemology says
Unfortunately Nigeria is a divided country, more or less half/half. One half is civilised meaning non-Islamic and the other half is Islamic. I can only hope that the better half will prevail,at the ballots. Boko Haram is scum, they’re barbarians deprived of any human feelings. With ISIS’s quick rise and conquering quite a big swath of land, the Bokos feel they’re on the rise as well. No wonder they pledged allegiance to ISIS, the same brutality, the same sharia craziness and the same hatred for women.
I think the best thing to do is to offer the civilised Nigerians our help, but that won’t happen under Obama who is in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood.
Sam says
I am stiill worried about human right violations in Israel as declared by UN.
YES you guessed I am a liberal