Utter Desolation
The Boko Haram terrorist group has been a scourge of unfettered religious dementia viciously embarked on carnage in the name of Islam, intent on reviving 7th Century Islam as a marauding, entitled horde of scimitar-wielding Bedouin tribesmen in their murderous spree of conquest. Invested with fanatical religion-inspired zeal, they attack villages, slaughter inhabitants, torch their homes and their farms, abduct the women and girls to enslave them.
Like other terrorist groups for whom martyrdom simply means a personal blessing, an advance ticket to Paradise where fulsome praise for their courage in slaughtering human beings by the means of explosives strapped to their bodies entitles them to the divinely ordained services of a harem of virgins, Boko Haram enslaves captured girls, converts them to Islam, and trains them to become living slaves to be bartered.
Some of them can be useful in additional ways, persuaded to surrender their lives for the greater good of the jihadists' vision of terror-induced submission to their rule. Teenage girls whose lives have been turned inside out and rendered unlivable have been dispatched, explosives plastered to their chests, to be detonated when they are in the midst of crowds of people.
In Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria's largest city which also happens to have given birth to Boko Haram, now a faithful ally of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant whose demented ideology they share, two teenage girls conducted a twin suicide bomb attack near a crowded mosque located in a busy market. At least thirty people died, and many more injured in the suicide blast involving Boko Haram captives.
On an increasing basis young girls are being used to do the work of Boko Haram, carrying explosive vests strapped to their bodies, and forced to blow themselves up. These girls wearing those vests don't decide how and when the explosives will go off; that choice is not given them, since they don't represent willing converts to martyrdom. The explosives they carry are remotely detonated, leaving them no option but to be torn to shreds and in the process carry innocent others with them.
This double suicide attack represented the fourth such suicide bombing in Maiduguri in the past three weeks. A witness explained that one of the girls blew herself up as she approached the crowded mosque nearby the Baga Road fish market. People were performing afternoon prayers for the holy month of Ramadan The second girl seemed to remove herself from the area, and when she exploded only she alone died.
Nigeria's new President Muhammadu Buhari announced that he has ordered the military command center to be moved from the capital Abuja to Maiduguri. Simultaneously Boko Harm stepped up its attacks, just as Nigeria and its neighbours prepare plans for a multinational army to be expanded based on its success earlier in the year driving Boko Haram from towns and villages where it had set up its Islamic caliphate.
Attacks continue apace, along with cross-border raids and bombings. Earlier a group of jihadis attacked two towns in Niger. Two buildings, including the national police academy in N'Djamena, Chad were attacked by suicide bombers last week, killing 33 people. Abubakar Shekau, Boko Haram's leader, swore formal allegiance to ISIL, with the result that the terrorist group now has what is considered an 'official' presence in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon.
Like other terrorist groups for whom martyrdom simply means a personal blessing, an advance ticket to Paradise where fulsome praise for their courage in slaughtering human beings by the means of explosives strapped to their bodies entitles them to the divinely ordained services of a harem of virgins, Boko Haram enslaves captured girls, converts them to Islam, and trains them to become living slaves to be bartered.
Some of them can be useful in additional ways, persuaded to surrender their lives for the greater good of the jihadists' vision of terror-induced submission to their rule. Teenage girls whose lives have been turned inside out and rendered unlivable have been dispatched, explosives plastered to their chests, to be detonated when they are in the midst of crowds of people.
In Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria's largest city which also happens to have given birth to Boko Haram, now a faithful ally of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant whose demented ideology they share, two teenage girls conducted a twin suicide bomb attack near a crowded mosque located in a busy market. At least thirty people died, and many more injured in the suicide blast involving Boko Haram captives.
On an increasing basis young girls are being used to do the work of Boko Haram, carrying explosive vests strapped to their bodies, and forced to blow themselves up. These girls wearing those vests don't decide how and when the explosives will go off; that choice is not given them, since they don't represent willing converts to martyrdom. The explosives they carry are remotely detonated, leaving them no option but to be torn to shreds and in the process carry innocent others with them.
This double suicide attack represented the fourth such suicide bombing in Maiduguri in the past three weeks. A witness explained that one of the girls blew herself up as she approached the crowded mosque nearby the Baga Road fish market. People were performing afternoon prayers for the holy month of Ramadan The second girl seemed to remove herself from the area, and when she exploded only she alone died.
Nigeria's new President Muhammadu Buhari announced that he has ordered the military command center to be moved from the capital Abuja to Maiduguri. Simultaneously Boko Harm stepped up its attacks, just as Nigeria and its neighbours prepare plans for a multinational army to be expanded based on its success earlier in the year driving Boko Haram from towns and villages where it had set up its Islamic caliphate.
Attacks continue apace, along with cross-border raids and bombings. Earlier a group of jihadis attacked two towns in Niger. Two buildings, including the national police academy in N'Djamena, Chad were attacked by suicide bombers last week, killing 33 people. Abubakar Shekau, Boko Haram's leader, swore formal allegiance to ISIL, with the result that the terrorist group now has what is considered an 'official' presence in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon.
Labels: Atrocities, Boko Haram, Islamic State, Islamism, Jihadists, Nigeria
posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, June 30, 2015
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