“Make ready for them all that you can of force and of warhorses, so that by them you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy…” (Qur’an 8:60) “UPDATED: Suspected Boko Haram Terrorists Kill Nine In Yobe,” by Musa Mingyi, Channels TV, April 14, 2023: Suspected Boko Haram terrorists have launched a […]
Nigeria: Muslims storm brothel, tell people to recite Qur’an, murder ten who cannot do so
This is reminiscent of other incidents, including when a Muslim in Minnesota in 2016 asked mall shoppers if they were Muslim and then stabbed non-Muslims. In January 2022 in Nigeria, a man recounted that Fulani jihadis stopped him and started beating him. Then they asked him if he was Muslim or Christian; when he said he […]
Nigeria: Muslims storm community, open fire as residents flee, murder 10 soldiers and children
Often people object to my identifying the killers in instances such as these as “Muslims.” However, they call themselves the Islamic State West Africa Province, and were formerly known as Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād, or the Party of the People of the Sunnah for Proselytizing and Jihad. They do what they do because of […]
Nigeria: Muslims raid village, ambush fleeing civilians, murder 11
“The Guardian learnt that the deceased persons were buried, yesterday, according to Islamic rites.” The fact that jihadis in Nigeria and elsewhere attack fellow Muslims is often used as evidence that the jihadis are not actually Muslims at all, because the Qur’an (4:92) forbids Muslims to kill other Muslims. However, Islam also mandates death for […]
Nigeria: Muslims seek out and murder two Christians and two Muslims they didn’t think were Islamic enough
When jihadis kill fellow Muslims, Western analysts use the murders to argue that the jihadis aren’t really Islamic at all. The Islamic State West Africa Province, however, offers a different explanation for why it kills Muslims: “We are fighting unbelievers; Christians and any other person or group going against the teaching of Islam even if […]
Nigeria: 10-year-old female Islamic State jihad martyrdom bomber murders 14 at crowded market
This girl may have been one of the “captives of the right hand” (Qur’an 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50) that Boko Haram seized some time ago, eliciting a hashtag from Michelle Obama — perhaps one that proved to be not as compliant as the others. Boko Haram pledged allegiance to the Islamic State last February. “14 […]