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Nigeria Muslim leader: “We are running our caliphate, our Islamic caliphate. We follow the Koran.”

Sep 21, 2015 10:37 am By Robert Spencer

Boko Haram’s caliphate is that of the Islamic State. Boko Haram pledged allegiance to the Islamic State several months ago, and renamed itself the Islamic State in West Africa. It would be refreshing if some moderate Muslim leader in the West would explain to us exactly how Shekau (or his “clone”) and his group are not actually following the Qur’an, but none of them will bother. They know they don’t have to, because non-Muslim leaders in the West take that for granted.

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“Nigeria: Army Dismisses ‘Shekau’s’ Claims in New Video,” by Karls Tsokar and Bertram Nwannekanma, The Guardian (Nigeria), September 21, 2015:

The Nigerian Army has dismissed the claims of leader of the Boko Haram sect, Abubakar Shekau or his clone, in a recent video describing them as barefaced lies.

Shekau, who was said to have been killed in Konduga last month by Nigerian military, had announced in a recent video that he was alive.

In the 36-minute video obtained and reported by AFP, Shekau did not only debunk reports by the military that he was dead but said members of his sect were running a Caliphate in the captured towns in north east of Nigeria.

The heavily bearded Shekau, who was said to have appeared to be the same as in previous video clips, said report of his death was propaganda by the military.

Apparently reading from a script, Shekau said: “Here I am, alive. I will only die the day Allah takes my breath. Nothing will kill me until my days are over. I’m still alive. Some people asked you if Shekau has two souls. No, I have one soul, by Allah.

“It is propaganda that is prevalent. I have one soul. I’m an Islamic student.

I’m the Islamic student whose seminary you burnt… I’m not dead.” He spoke in apparent referrence to the destruction of the group’s mosque in the Borno Sstate [sic] capital, Maiduguri, in 2009.

“We are running our caliphate, our Islamic caliphate. We follow the Koran… We now practise the injunctions of the Koran in the land of Allah.”

But the Acting Director, Army Public Relations (Ag. DAPR), Col. Sani Usman, in his reaction to the report told The Guardian yesterday in Abuja that it is only those that are not in tune with the reality on ground that would believe the barefaced lies contained in the message, supposedly relayed by the leader of the Hoko [sic] Haram sect.

According to him, “it is also an insult on the institution of the Nigerian Army for anyone to think that its trained and well motivated troops will run from the insurgents. Running from where to where and when? It is an insult for anybody to believe that.

“It is the reaction of a drowning man. My advice to the terrorists is that they should lay down their arms and surrender. It would be in their interest to do that.”…

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Filed Under: Boko Haram, caliphate, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Nigeria Tagged With: Abubakar Shekau


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  1. Angemon says

    Sep 21, 2015 at 11:10 am

    Apparently reading from a script, Shekau said: “Here I am, alive. I will only die the day Allah takes my breath. Nothing will kill me until my days are over. I’m still alive. Some people asked you if Shekau has two souls. No, I have one soul, by Allah.

    And then the drone dropped, and he dropped dead, his soul nowhere to be seen. The end.

    Oh, wait, no drones – just #bringbackourgirls

  2. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Sep 21, 2015 at 11:30 am

    God I love that photograph. It’s got it all: the face masks, the guns, the armored vehicle, the hearty laughter at all of us losers. And by “God” I mean Yahweh, not the awful Allah.

  3. ICH says

    Sep 21, 2015 at 12:08 pm

    Most people are oblivious to whats happening.
    And if you show them , they get offended.

    Probably what happened in WW2.

  4. Western Canadian says

    Sep 21, 2015 at 6:20 pm

    Every time I see pictures of human beings who have descended to a level lower than vermin….. I can’t help but think of the same thing.

    Carpet bombing.

  5. kay says

    Sep 22, 2015 at 6:51 am

    Shekau can Honestly claim to be under Sunni / Sharia law process, that is, under the Saudi judges who administer Sharia law for Islamic State and under the Caliph al Baghdadi, as the later has a PhD in Islamic Law ( from a university in Baghdad ).

    This vicious psychopathic murderer Shekau is an honest Muslim jihadi, murder, enslavement, rape and all. He slaughters whole villages, and machine guns whole mosques, and the Nigerian “military” rarely tries to do much about it.

    This has been going on since about 2009 or so, when two Nigerian churches were burned to the ground. However, the Islamofascist program has been slowly trying to gain traction in Nigeria from about a century back. Boko Haram is a new expression of longstanding Nigerian jihad.

    Islam is the worst thing to ever hit Africa. Many tens of millions of darker skinned Africans perished as a result of Arab Islamic slave trade.

    From ISLAM’S BLACK SLAVES: THE OTHER BLACK DIASPORA
    by Ronald Segal (Author) ISBN-10: 0374527970
    “However, at least 28 million Africans were enslaved in the Muslim Middle East. Since at least 80% of those captured by Muslim slave traders were calculated to have died before reaching the slave markets, it is believed that the death toll from 1400 years of Muslim slave raids into Africa could have been over 112 million.
    “When added to the number of those sold in the slave markets, the total number of African victims of the Trans Saharan and East African slave trade could be significantly higher than 140 million people.”

    Strangely, for all that the northern half of Nigeria is Muslim. These African people joined up with their worst enemies, which really sounds like Jews trying to be Nazis in the Third Reich. This makes no sense to me. Islam is always the worst choice.

    From the CourierMail 2015:
    http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/opinion/opinion-christians-are-suffering-barbaric-attacks-by-muslim-extremists-but-our-bishops-and-media-are-mute/story-fnihsr9v-1227361837886
    “In Nigeria, the Islamist Boko Haram has killed more than 10,000 Christians in six years and abducted more than 1000 women. This month more than 200 of the 700 women and children rescued from Boko Haram were found to be pregnant.”

    • mortimer says

      Sep 22, 2015 at 6:18 pm

      Black people who are not enraged by the unspeakable misery caused by the Islamic slave trade are completely CLUELESS. They are in denial of the horrors committed by AUTHENTIC ISLAM against black Africans.

      • kay says

        Sep 22, 2015 at 8:40 pm

        Yes Mortimer.
        And this is very very important on several levels and in several directions.
        I want everyone – whether darker skinned or lighter skinned – to know how truly fascist and cruel and sociopathic and medieval the Islamic culture is in practice.
        That’s why I posted this here. And that is why I will post material like this on youtube discussions.
        I posted something under a youtube video for Minister Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam just yesterday.
        It is critically important that all black people know that Islam Is The Enemy. And not the saving grace of universalism and brotherly love that some thought in 1963.
        I get the job done. My public outreach work matters.
        And anyone who reads my stuff here can use this material also. The counter-jihad web sites have good stuff on Bad Islam and Islamofascist slavery.
        We build a movement by supporting and protecting Everyone, be they women, black European, Christian or whatever.
        This is for everybody. I am a true and universal humanitarian, and that is a very cool and valuable kind of public service. I just wish I had more people working with me.

        Boko Haram Must Be Exterminated. It’s as simple as that. These Islamists must be killed in order to defend little black girls and people generally in Nigeria. That is real human rights work: destroy theses bloodthirsty psychopaths and mass murderers.
        This is, by the way, acceptable according to Buddhist principles of universal service.
        And the Dalai Lama is wrong to claim that classical Sharia and jihad and Boko Haram and Islamic State type culture are in any way acceptable.
        I do not expect to get a Nobel Peace Prize for my work. I’m just doing the right thing. And I just spent half an hour defending the Dalai Lama and Buddhism from a stupid Catholic on youtube. I blew him away.
        My workload is infinite. Whatever I do will not be half as much as is needed, but still I solve problems and help people get the real story. Most of religion and politics is just lying. But the light in the darkness shall shine. We call that “enlightenment”.

  6. sidney penny says

    Sep 22, 2015 at 11:19 pm

    “Boko Haram’s caliphate is that of the Islamic State. Boko Haram pledged allegiance to the Islamic State several months ago, and renamed itself the Islamic State in West Africa. It would be refreshing if some moderate Muslim leader in the West would explain to us exactly how Shekau (or his “clone”) and his group are not actually following the Qur’an, but none of them will bother. They know they don’t have to, because non-Muslim leaders in the West take that for granted.”

    “…if some moderate Muslim leader in the West would explain to us exactly….”

    Robert,are you suggesting that there are Muslim leaders in the West who are not moderates?

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