BOKO HARAM

Despite all the development in the world, there are some people who refuse to believe what is proven and hang on to things which they feel are correct. They are entitled to believe whatever they want, but when they take the gun to prove to others that they are correct, they would be going against humanity. Boko Haram is one such outfit. I read about its recent kidnapping of the girls and thought I should know a little more about it. I went to Wikipedia and also some other reports on the net for the purpose. Such outfits are against world peace and should be fought by all the countries together.  

The terror group has kidnapped 276 Schoolgirls from Chibok Government Girls Secondary School and The groups.Present leader Abu Bakar Shekau threatens to sell them in the market as slaves.They have already murdered 59 schoolboys in February this year. 

Like all schools in Borno state of Nigeria, Chibok, an elite academy of both Muslim and Christian girls, had been closed because of increasingly deadly attacks by Boko Haram. It had reopened to allow final-year students to take exams. That is when the kidnappings took place.

Boko Haram took to violence in the year 2009. Violence linked to the Boko Haram insurgency has resulted in an estimated 10,000 deaths between 2002 and 2013, most of them between 2009 and 2013. Boko Haram has killed more than 1500 people in 2013.

Boko Haram  is an Islamic group and militant and terrorist organization based inNigeria, North Cameroon and Niger and it is founded by Mohammed Yusuf.

Boko means Western Education in the local Hausa language and Haram means sinful. This translates to Western Education is sinful. Boko Haram proposes that the contact with Western civilization be forbidden and opposes both the Muslim establishment and the Government of Nigeria.

 The members of the group do not interact with the local Muslim population and have carried out assassinations in the past of anyone who criticizes it, including Muslim clerics.

The Sultan of Sokoto, a spiritual leader of Nigerian Muslims, has called the sect "anti-Islamic" and, "an embarrassment to Islam".

The Coalition of Muslim Clerics in Nigeria (CMCN) have called on the Boko Haram to disarm and embrace peace.

 Founded by Mohammed Yusuf in 2002, the organization seeks to establish a "pure" Islamic state ruled by sharia, putting a stop to what it deems"Westernization".

The group is known for attacking Christians and government targets, bombing churches, schools and police stations, and kidnapping western tourists, but it has also assassinated members of the Islamic establishment.

In a 2009 BBC interview, Mohammed Yusuf, stated his belief that the fact of a spherical Earth is contrary to Islamic teaching and should be rejected, along with Darwinian evolution and the fact of rain originating from water evaporated by thesun. Despite his antagonism to everything in the west Yusuf lived lavishly and drove in a Mercedes Benz.

Before his death, Yusuf reiterated the group's objective of changing the current education system and rejecting democracy.