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Muslims recruiting children as soldiers, jihad suicide bombers in Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger and Chad

Sep 9, 2020 12:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams 14 Comments

Jihadis indoctrinating and recruiting children to commit human rights abuses, including murder, is all too common.” Such conditioning is, of course, child abuse. Yet Western leaders who consider themselves to be champions of human rights turn a blind eye to this activity and much more as they seek out the Muslim vote and abase themselves in every conceivable way to avoid being smeared as “Islamophobic.”

“Experts: Boko Haram Recruiting Children as Soldiers, Suicide Bombers,” by Sirwan Kajjo and Hassan Maina Kaina, Voice of America, September 4, 2020:

ABUJA/WASHINGTON – The militant group Boko Haram continues to recruit children and use them in battlefields across Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger and Chad, officials and experts say.

While it has suffered major military losses in the Lake Chad Basin, the extremist group seems to be adopting new strategies to revive its influence in the region, according to the experts.

Officials with the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), a regional military alliance fighting the Boko Haram insurgency, say one strategy of the group is to step up child recruitment.

“Information on this disturbing development was brought in by human intelligence sources and corroborated by concerned individuals and groups,” said Colonel Timothy Antiga, a spokesman for the MNJTF.

“Boko Haram terrorists themselves further confirmed the atrocious acts when they posted pictures of children dressed in military fatigues and holding assault rifles in a video released during a celebration of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha,” he told VOA in a recent interview.

The Nigerian military official added that the recruitment of child soldiers “is the latest in a retinue of brutal and inhuman tactics deployed by Boko Haram” since it began its insurgency a decade ago.

Boko Haram has been fighting to create an Islamic caliphate based in Nigeria.

Long-standing practice

Boko Haram has long engaged in mass abduction of schoolgirls, sexual enslavement of women and the mass murder of innocent civilians, officials and rights groups say….

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Filed Under: Boko Haram Tagged With: Lake Chad Basin, Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF)


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  1. anon says

    Sep 9, 2020 at 12:41 pm

    In other news, England is now the rape capital of Europe, replacing Sweden, stats released in July show

    https://www.statista.com/statistics/283100/recorded-rape-offences-in-england-and-wales/#:~:text=Rape%20offences%20have%20increased%20dramatically,42%20thousand%20in%202016%2F17.

    Increase of several fold since 2012….interestingly the UK home office refuses to release the background of said perpetrators. It replaced Swedistan as rapist capital in 2017.

    https://www.euronews.com/2017/11/24/which-eu-countries-have-the-highest-rate-of-sex-crimes-

    Pakistani Muslims wouldn’t have anything to do with this would they?

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  2. somehistory says

    Sep 9, 2020 at 1:03 pm

    It isn’t really “recruitment” when this moslim terror org takes children and forces upon them the ways of jihad…murder in every way possible.

    Did they not kidnap hundreds of Christian girls? moslims brag that they will defeat the West through having babies…and many through rape of non-moslim girls and women they kidnap and enslave.

    moslims do nothing to allow others to choose a course…whether it ‘s through threats, extortion, intimidation or otherwise. These children may say what they are told, they may pick up their guns, knives or bombs, etc,. but it is not by free will that these are made to murder and commit suicide for the great evil filth from satan the devil, known throughout the world as islam. They are braindirtied and forced to murder. Like little zombies they go forth, already dead from what has been done to them by moslims intent on forcing the world to bow to satan as they bow to that evil demon they call ‘god.’

    There was an account some years ago about a couple who had several small…very young children…. The “father” strapped backpacks with bombs on their backs and made them go forth to slaughter and be killed. The kids were terrified.g

    There is no love in islam; only murderous hate. That is why they can use children as fodder for their evil onslaught. They are imitating their fake god and their demon father, satan. They are like the god they worship.

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  3. Ismail Ali says

    Sep 9, 2020 at 2:23 pm

    Boko haram is a criminal gangsterism .who specilazes in banditry, killing ,maiming ,raping ,kidnapping ,robbery and all forms of Satanism ,like drug intakes, homosexuality, bombing of mosques, churches ,schools ,banks ,markets and so on ..They are not known by any religious faith .their footsoldiers are largely Christians .though their leadership claims to be Muslims ,which is not true.. Because no Muslim will burn mosques or attack Muslims during prayer session.

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    • gravenimage says

      Sep 9, 2020 at 2:52 pm

      Ismail Ali wrote:

      Boko haram is a criminal gangsterism .who specilazes in banditry, killing ,maiming ,raping ,kidnapping ,robbery and all forms of Satanism ,like drug intakes, homosexuality, bombing of mosques, churches ,schools ,banks ,markets and so on
      ………………..

      That describes orthodox Islam to a tee.

      The idea that it is Christians waging violent Jihad in the name of Islam makes no sense whatsoever.

      As for Mosques, any coreligionists whom Muslims consider “insufficiently Islamic” or “apostate” are fair game–including their Mosques. In fact, we see Muslims attacking each other’s Mosques all the time–including in many places where there are no Christians at all; as in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia.

      How can Ismail Ali think that the savvy Infidels here at Jihad Watch don’t know this? What a tool. This is really poor quality Taqiyya.

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      • somehistory says

        Sep 9, 2020 at 4:30 pm

        Thee is no lie too big or too small that a moslim like this ali poster won’t tell in support of the evils of islam.

        There have been numerous accounts of moslims setting fires in their own barracks and attempting to blame it on non moslims. There have been countless accounts of one sect of moslims bombing the barracks of the other sect. So, to claim that a moslim would never bomb a barracks is just too ridiculous for words. moslims tell so many lies, they forget that people can see right through them, esp when the Truth is staring them right in the face on a daily basis.
        No Christian would do the things that these scum are doing to the children and the women most vulnerable. No Christian willfully murders, and none attempt to force other people to accept their faith. moslims point dirty, guilty fingers at Christians in the hope that someone will believe them and not care what islam is all about.

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        • gravenimage says

          Sep 9, 2020 at 11:44 pm

          +1

        • Steve says

          Sep 10, 2020 at 9:41 pm

          +1

      • talleyrand says

        Sep 10, 2020 at 2:36 am

        +1

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    • CogitoErgoSum says

      Sep 9, 2020 at 2:55 pm

      You need to contact the BBC, Ali. They think Boko Haram is trying to establish a Caliphate in Africa for the spread of Islam. They seem to have no idea that it’s Christians who are behind it all doing it on behalf of Christ. I just hope they don’t think you are insane when you tell them what you know. At the very least they might ask you for some proof – but who knows? You can give it a try. This is what they now think:

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    • FYI says

      Sep 9, 2020 at 3:02 pm

      ‘banditry,killing,maiming,raping,kidnapping,robbery and all forms of satanism..”

      That sounds like someone you might know:your ‘prophet’ muhammed ,the mass-murderer of Jews{Abu Dawud 4390}who stole from them at khaibar,and the rapist of a 9 year old child{Sahih Bukhari 5:58:236}the caravan robber.

      Rape is officially permitted by allah;see Sunan Abu Dawud vol 2 hadith 2155 and of course in the ‘holy’ koran{koran 4:24 ‘what your right hand possesses”}

      Robbery from infidels is sanctioned by koran 48:20

      Boko haram is defined as being an islamic jihadist group.

      “no muslims will burn mosques or attack muslims during prayer session”

      Here at JW ..

      “Afghanistan:taliban murder 170 people in 70 attacks on MOSQUES and Gurdwaras since last October”July 21 2020

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    • Keith O says

      Sep 9, 2020 at 5:41 pm

      Ismail Ali,
      WOW, are you so deranged that you think that? or are you simply so demented that you are trying to do what YOUR prophet said and use deceit to confuse the infidels?
      In either case your in the wrong location for that.
      You might have more luck with your fantasy stories at a Barack Obama fan club meeting or a facility for the less gifted! but not here where there are people who can actually think.

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    • talleyrand says

      Sep 10, 2020 at 2:47 am

      Ismil Ali
      gee just what i read and see your mob doing to each other ,should you belong to another branch of MOs nighmare to that of the perpatrator of such deeds .

      How is it that you can walk around with your head so far up your rear end for that is where it must be .

      It is not the way of Christians if that is what they truely are to do this type of mayhem to fellow beings ,where is your proof ? but look closely in your own back yard of the local Mosque

      I

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  4. gravenimage says

    Sep 9, 2020 at 2:53 pm

    Muslims recruiting children as soldiers, jihad suicide bombers in Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger and Chad
    ……………..

    *Just horrifying*–abusing children to murder others. There is really nothing worse.

    And note that much of this “recruiting” is simple kidnapping.

    Reply
  5. DavidR says

    Sep 9, 2020 at 4:59 pm

    Africa has a long history of child so!diers. Islam ensures their suffering will not lessen.

    Reply

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