SEE WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT ISLAM AND 2015 Boko Haram’s objective is to establish a Muslim fundamentalist state, in the ISIS mold, in the whole of northern Nigeria. They seek to establish a new caliphate where 6th century Islamic sharia law is practiced, where Christianity and all other faiths are banned, where Christians and non-Muslims are compelled to convert to Islam or are killed and where the most radical and extreme form of Islam is practiced. In this respect they can be compared to the dreaded Taliban government that held sway in Afghanistan from 1996 till 2001. They are the quintessential jihadists, indulging in the most extreme forms of violence, including both male and female suicide bombings. Like the Al Nusra Front in Syria, Hamas in Gaza, ISIS in Iraq and Al Shabbab in East Africa, they wholeheartedly espouse the most radical form of salifist and wahabbi philosophies. They are backed and funded by Al Qaeda in the north African Maghreb and they are covertly supported by high-ranking elements within the northern Muslim political ruling elite who see them as a useful tool to fight President Jonathan and to give him sleepless nights. Nigeria will either remain a united, secular, multi-religious, multi-cultural and multi-ethnic modern pluralistic state where human rights, civil liberties and the rights of ethnic and religious minorities are guaranteed by the constitution, or she will explode, breaking up and plunging into fratricidal butchery along ethnic and religious lines, presenting the world with the most horrific civil war that Africa has ever witnessed. Whatever the outcome, Nigeria needs the support, dare I say, the prayers, of the international community more than ever. libertivo/nigeria-nation-at-the-crossroads/
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 08:45:32 +0000
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