Boko Haram adopts ISIS' bloody religious cleansing strategy
The Islamic militant group Boko Haram is adopting ISIS' bloody strategy of stamping out Christianity with a frightening fervor, putting Nigeria's 70 million followers of Jesus in danger for their lives, fearful human rights advocates say.
Boko Haram leaders vowed their formal allegiance to IS in an audio message in Arabic posted to Twitter last month, according to intelligence analysts. The militant group has launched murderous rampages across northeastern Nigeria, and into neighboring Chad, Cameroon and Niger. In an attack April 7, Islamist extremists disguised themselves as preachers and killed at least 24 people in Nigerias Borno state.
Meanwhile, the United Nations has condemned the attack and is calling for a multinational strategy to fight the group.
Boko Haram is probably the most lethal Islamic extremist group in the world, They want a pure Islamic State.said Nina Shea, director of the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute.- Nina Shea, Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute
Experts worry the attacks are part of a rising trend by the group to target Christians and other non-Muslims as it works to gain control of territories in West Africa.
That is the strategy of Boko Haram, according to David Curry, head of non-profit Open Doors USA which works with Christian refugees around the world. These attacks are escalating.
The group also kidnapped more than 200 girls last year and continues to target schoolchildren.
Religious freedom advocates say Boko Haram is now working to mirror efforts by IS in Syria and Iraq to execute Christians and others who fail to accept their extremist ideology. Boko Haram has been successful in killing thousands of its opponents and targeted victims, along with displacing more than a million people
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It is so sad to see what is happening in the world today. I saw a video which I would dare to put on this site. It is the most graphic I've ever seen. Mimi put an article up about it. The picture in her article has a video as well and it is terrible. I believe there are enough who would volunteer to destroy these monsters.