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Life in Boko Haram school: “All day, we were just memorising the Koran”

Dec 16, 2016 10:10 am By Robert Spencer

As all the learned experts from Pope Francis to John Kerry tell us, Islamic jihadists have nothing whatsoever to do with Islam, the noble religion of peace. Yet they have an odd and recurring tendency to focus upon the Qur’an. Maybe Pope Francis can make his way to a Boko Haram stronghold and explain to the group’s leaders how true Islam and the proper understanding of the Qur’an reject every form of violence.

Even here a boy says: “Being taught about the Koran is right, but there is nothing in the Koran that says you should hurt people or take their possessions.”

That’s true, as long as one overlooks the Qur’an verses calling on Muslims to “kill them wherever you find them” (2:191, 4:89 and 9:5), to crucify or amputate a hand and foot of those who wage war against Allah and his messenger (5:33), to amputate the hands of thieves (5:38), to behead unbelievers (47:4), and more, as well as the hadith that depicts Muhammad saying: “I have been commanded to fight against people so long as they do not declare that there is no god but Allah, and he who professed it was guaranteed the protection of his property and life on my behalf except for the right affairs rest with Allah.” (Sahih Muslim 30) That means that if people don’t declare that there is no god but Allah, their lives and property are not guaranteed, and can be taken.

“Life in Bama, ex-Boko Haram base,” Vanguard, December 15, 2016:

In the Borno, northern Nigerian town of Bama the streets are eerily quiet. Houses lie empty, riddled with bullet holes, and symbols of the jihadist group Boko Haram are painted on the walls.

Bama, once the militants’ stronghold, was liberated from the Islamist fighters by the Nigerian army in March 2015, but is only reached safely by helicopter – the roads still too dangerous because of the risk of ambush by the insurgents.

Despite its ghostly atmosphere and violent history, the town is now a safe haven for around 10,000 people, among more than two million in Nigeria who have fled areas held by Boko Haram….

In the centre of the camp children play on slides and swings built especially for them. The camp school is a cluster of five tents. “How many oranges and bananas?” shout the pupils in unison, reciting dictations from their English teacher.

For some of the students learning English, Arabic and social studies, this is their first taste of schooling in the rural state, where conflict has crippled education.

Yet this is not the case for all. Aba Modi, 12, attended one of Boko Haram’s Islamic schools, or madrasas, when he lived in Banki, a town under the militants’ control for two years. “They only taught the Koran at our school. All day, we were just memorising the Koran,” Modi said.

Occasionally the pupils would be taken out of class to learn to shoot a weapon or how to crawl under fire.

Modi eventually fled Banki with his brother in the middle of the night. “Life is completely different now. I enjoy coming to school,” he said. “Some of the things they [Boko Haram] taught are correct. Being taught about the Koran is right, but there is nothing in the Koran that says you should hurt people or take their possessions.”…

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  1. Stephanie says

    Dec 16, 2016 at 10:42 am

    Islam is war against UNbelievers

    #fakenews from @BMI_Bund’… The abuse(?) of a religion is forbidden http://translate.google.com.br/translate?hl=pt-BR&sl=de&tl=en&u=https://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Kurzmeldungen/DE/2016/11/vereinsverbot-dwr.html

    Art 2, 2 GG (basic law, constitution) §241 StGB (criminal code)
    vs. warlord, “… 2:191, 4:89 and 9:5”

    https://twitter.com/schnellmann_org/status/809313111891120128

  2. Charles says

    Dec 16, 2016 at 12:06 pm

    Life under the rule of the Satanic State!
    Even the children suffer!

  3. mccode says

    Dec 16, 2016 at 12:08 pm

    And why not?

    One need only ask any adherent of the one ‘true’ faith to be assured that all of life’s answers are to be found within the marvelous text of the Quran. Nothing else needs be known. And certainly it is not to be questioned or challenged.

    Nothing is as amazing, in my estimation, as the ability of humans to be hoodwinked by nonsense and charlatans who masquerade as prophets.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Dec 16, 2016 at 12:47 pm

      “You do NOT” – whack! – “ask questions”.
      Training begins early.

    • john spielman says

      Dec 16, 2016 at 4:00 pm

      especially when that “prophet” is a DEMON POSSESSED MASS MURDERE THIEF LIAR AND PEDOPHILE PERVERT~!

  4. davej says

    Dec 16, 2016 at 1:24 pm

    The children suffer the most as this brainwashing has lifelong effects. Even the boy now getting an actual education still thinks the Quran is appropriate and not repressive.

    Just reading that evil book is stultifying enough, memorizing it word for word is a recipe for madness. Then add banging your head on the pavement 5 times a day to get the complete effect.

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Dec 16, 2016 at 1:56 pm

    As for the subject of the madrasas .Be the madrasas of Boko Haram, ISIS etc. All such “schools” are in reality Islamic mind programming centers. As the following essay explains. There are Muslim mind control places where Muslim males are thoroughly indoctrinated into the strong but blind and unquestioning faith in Koran with all non-watered down; hard core Islam with its militant jihad. Those places, “schools,” are called madrasas. In those Islamic mind programming centers young Muslim male are ingrain in the mindset Koranic dogma of the use of violence and killing for the advancement of Islam. As the Koran instructs. As in, for example, in 2:191. 9:5, 123. 47:4. Many of those who of such center are so much damaged that they are literally dangerous to self and others. As seen many times in jihad suicide, homicide bombing/attacks. For the Koran instructs in 9:111. “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.” Furthermore, those mind programming places also ingrain the outlandish absurd Koranic doctrine of a sex-filled paradise with many virgins, houris, in it for the Muslim male who dies fighting for the cause of Islam in the jihad. Such a strange doctrine of a houris filled- place in found in the Koran in 44:54. 55:56. 78:31. Moreover, such Islamic mind programming centers are further explained about by the scholar Don Richardson in his book SECRETS OF THE KORAN which on pages 69,70. Informs the reader that “The world needs to be warned. At least forty million Muslim youth in the Muslim worlds’ religious schools, called madrasa, are avidly memorizing the entire Koran … These schools become breeding grounds for potential terrorists. When male students, isolated from family and friends in madrasa, reach puberty and their hormones are active, there are no girls to date. Instead, Muslim clerics easily shift to focusing the male student’s attention on Koranic verse that promises sex in heaven with dark-eyed houris. Students can only fantasize about martyrdom followed by the sexual release Muhammad promised. This is an unspeakably cruel brainwashing technique, and the Koran is its perfect guidebook.”

  6. miriamrove says

    Dec 16, 2016 at 2:35 pm

    A big brouhaha is going on in Iran now. The most famous reciter of the Koran had sexually abused at least 50 kids in his class. m

    • Veka Fitzfrancis says

      Dec 16, 2016 at 2:54 pm

      That’s par for the course in that part of the world. Why is it a big deal in Sharia compliant Iran?

      • miriamrove says

        Dec 16, 2016 at 3:01 pm

        The reason got this one here is that this guy is very close to the supreme leader. Very close. m

        • Oliver says

          Dec 16, 2016 at 3:25 pm

          Curious- by ” very close”- do you mean possibly clandestine lovers or at least sex partners? or, that one of the children was a relative of the supreme leader?

          Either way- sounds like fun. Perhaps there can be a civil war in Iran, and they can ask fro volunteers — from the Muslims in the US, Israel, and if necessary, Canada and Europe.

          Help the world’s gene pool.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 17, 2016 at 12:19 am

      This grimly does not surprise, miriam.

  7. John A. Marre says

    Dec 16, 2016 at 2:53 pm

    They learn only one thing: the Quran, and then they go out angry and kill humans. A reasonable person would conclude that the learn that it’s OK to be angry and kill humans.

  8. miriamrove says

    Dec 16, 2016 at 3:43 pm

    @Oliver, I meant part of his inner circle. That kind of closeness. m

    • Oliver says

      Dec 17, 2016 at 4:40 pm

      Thanks for the clarification

  9. Angemon says

    Dec 16, 2016 at 5:29 pm

    Yet this is not the case for all. Aba Modi, 12, attended one of Boko Haram’s Islamic schools, or madrasas, when he lived in Banki, a town under the militants’ control for two years. “They only taught the Koran at our school. All day, we were just memorising the Koran,” Modi said.

    They teach about the quran in madrassas? Well, imagine my surprise…

  10. ibrahim itace muhammed says

    Dec 16, 2016 at 7:40 pm

    evil robert spencer,you represent the mindset of filthy christian evangelist liars.you have been reproducing those century old lies concocted by christian evangelists to blackmail islam.but it appears that you are not ready to verify the veracities of the distorted interpretations of quranic verses and hadiths by these christian evangelists and want your readers to take it as true position of main stream muslims on these verses and hadiths you refered to establish your wrong view. there is no doubt that boko haram is an affiliate of isis from wahhabism.in one of my comment i said wahhabism is a revival of that old isolated khawariji school rejected by main stream muslims as perverted version of islam.yet mr spencer still insists that wahhabism, which yielded these terrorist groups,represents main stream islam to show that islam is all about violence and killings of unbelivers,which is not true.note most of the victims of these terrorist groups are muslims. over 99% of those being killed by boko haram in nigeria are muslims.this is also the case in syria and iraq on those being killed by isis.do these terrorist groups rely those quranic verses and hadiths you cited to justify killings of muslims in these countries? thus, mr spencer your arguement has to fall like a cardhouse.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 17, 2016 at 12:47 am

      Appalling apologist for Islamic savagery ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:

      evil (sic) robert (sic) spencer,you (sic) represent the mindset of filthy christian (sic) evangelist liars.you (sic) have been reproducing those century old lies concocted by christian (sic) evangelists to blackmail islam (sic).
      ……………………………..

      What is muhammed claiming is inaccurate about this story?

      And how is telling the truth about the violence of Islam “blackmail”?

      More:

      but (sic) it appears that you are not ready to verify the veracities (sic) of the distorted interpretations of quranic (sic) verses and hadiths (sic) by these christian (sic) evangelists and want your readers to take it as true position of main stream muslims (sic) on these verses and hadiths (sic) you refered (sic) to establish your wrong view.
      ……………………………..

      How are Suras about beheading and slaughtering unbelievers *supposed* to be interpreted? Notice that muhammed never gets around to saying.

      The fact is that pious Muslims interpret these verses exactly as one might expect, and proof of this is found with Islamic violence all over the world.

      More:

      there (sic) is no doubt that boko (sic) haram (sic) is an affiliate of isis (sic) from wahhabism.in (sic) one of my comment i said wahhabism (sic) is a revival of that old isolated khawariji (sic) school rejected by main stream (sic) muslims (sic) as perverted version of islam.
      ……………………………..

      Isn’t it odd that something that has supposedly been rejected by all mainstream Muslims is so rife in so many parts of Dar-al-Islam? In Syria, in Iraq, in the Islamic State, in Nigeria, in Afghanistan, in Somalia, in Yemen, in all of Saudi Arabia, and in Muslim enclaves all over the West. You might almost get the idea that this is pretty mainstream after all…

      And if Boko Haram is so un-Islamic, why would they ever teach the Qur’an, which according to muhammed is opposed to everything they stand for? Of course, this makes no sense.

      More:

      yet (sic) mr (sic) spencer (sic) still insists that wahhabism (sic), which yielded these terrorist groups,represents (sic) main stream (sic) islam (sic) to show that islam (sic) is all about violence and killings of unbelivers,which (sic) is not true.
      ……………………………..

      Note that muhammed never says just why it is that so many of his coreligionists *are* violent and are killing unbelievers.

      More:

      note (sic) most of the victims of these terrorist groups are muslims (sic). over 99% of those being killed by boko (sic) haram (sic) in nigeria (sic) are muslims.this (sic) is also the case in syria (sic) and iraq (sic) on those being killed by isis (sic).
      ……………………………..

      This has always been the case, since the days of the “Prophet”. Muslims regularly slaughter each other for being “apostate”, or “insufficiently Islamic”.

      More:

      do (sic) these terrorist groups rely those quranic (sic) verses and hadiths (sic) you cited to justify killings of muslims (sic) in these countries?
      ……………………………..

      Well, yes. Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar noted that that Sura 5:33 specifically relates to some Muslims deemed insufficiently Islamic whom Muhammed had limbs cut off from opposite sides of their bodies and then left to die of thirst in the desert.

      More:

      thus (sic), mr (sic) spencer (sic) your arguement (sic) has to fall like a cardhouse.
      ……………………………..

      Not at all. This quite confirms what Robert Spencer is saying.

    • maghan says

      Dec 17, 2016 at 5:10 am

      An educated guess here: your natural IQ is approximately 60-65. Borderline mental retardation. Sorry. Only mentally retarded people could ever believe the stupidities that nonsense Arab book called the Qur’an. There is more evidence for Santa Claus than the fantastic nonsense that so many people believe.

  11. abad says

    Dec 16, 2016 at 9:46 pm

    Based on personal experience, I am going to make this rundown list super fast:

    Education at an average Roman Catholic junior high and high school:

    English
    Science (Biology, Chemistry, Anatomy and Physiology)
    History (American and Western Civ)
    Theology
    Music
    Math (Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Business)
    Accounting

    And in Boko Haram:

    Quran
    Quran
    Quran
    Quran
    Quran

    Quite a difference eh.

    • abad says

      Dec 16, 2016 at 9:48 pm

      Whoops forgot the foreign languages: 3 yrs Spanish, 2 yrs French

  12. gravenimage says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 12:16 am

    Life in Boko Haram school: “All day, we were just memorising the Koran”
    ……………………..

    You might almost think that Boko Haram had something to do with Islam…

  13. JUSTICEFORALL says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 2:27 am

    iN THE KORAN THERE ARE 109 PLACES WHERE IT TELLS THEIR MUSLIMS TO KILL FOR ONE REASON “THE OTHER PERSON IS NOT MUSLIM”! SINCE WHEN IS THAT A “RELIGION OF PEACE”. READ THE KORAN AND SEE WHERE IT SAYS TO CUT THE THROAT, CUT OFF THE FINGERTIPS, HANDS AND FEET AND MURDER THE INFIDELS, ETC., ETC. READ THE KORAN AND SEE FOR YOURSELF! IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, THEIR GOAL IS TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD AND FORCE EVERYONE TO BE MUSLIM!

  14. jtd says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 8:29 am

    All of us 21st Century civilized nations should be building a wall–around Arabia.
    These Stone-Age animals should be penned in. No country should be buying oil from them or trading with them. They can’t be helped. They can’t be cured. They need to be isolated from us for our own good. Allow them a thousand years to evolve–or exterminate themselves (“in the name of Allah!”)–probably the latter will win out!

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