Boko Haramis! Who Are They? By Aslam Abdullah
Boko Haramis! Who are they?
Boko Haram has created a human
disaster by abducting over 200 girls
with the intention to sell them as slaves.
It is a group that claims to be Islamic,
yet in the eyes of most Muslims it has
nothing to do with Islam. It claims to be
a saved sect blessed by God and it
believes in the supremacy of the Sharia
under the domination of men only
authority. Who are Boko Haramis? What
are their ideas? Have a look at the
article.
In the Northeast Nigerian city of
Maiduguri, one year after the September
2001 al-Qaeda attack in the US,
Mohammad Yusuf, who was part of a
group known as Shabaab since 1995
with Mallam Lawal as its leader formed
what in local Hausa language now is
known Boko Haram, the Congregation of
the People of Tradition for Proselytism
and Jihad or Jamāʻat Ahl as-Sunnah liddaʻwa wal-Jihād. Yusuf was later killed
in a fight with the Nigerian army. Baku
supporters accuse that he was captured
alive but tortured to death by the
soldiers. Since its establishment, the
group has claimed responsibility of
killing over 10,000 people, Muslims and
non-Muslims alike.
It now has three splinter groups that are
active in Borno, Adamawa, Kaduna,
Bauchi, Yobe, and Kano. The ideas of the
leadership are influenced by a deceased
Nigerian preacher Mohammed Marwa