Boko Haram's "Just War" Critique and Opinion

IntroductionBoko Haram's unabated terrorist activities are based on Quran justifications, and coupled with their successes in recruiting members for their missions. Equally unhelpful in resolving Boko Haram’s activities were the religious leaders inability to deconstruct the sect’s communications in the media by some of the religious leaders, and how those comments have created more lacunas amongst the bodies. Video: 2013 Witness reports of Boko Haram attack an air base in north-eastern Nigeria December 3, 2013.OriginsBoko Haram (Western Civilization forbidden), is officially known as “Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati Wal Jihad” which in Arabic means people committed to the propagation of Prophet’s Teaching and Jihad. It is an ideologically based Islamic religion sect established in 2002 by Sheik Yusuf Mohammed, a Sunni Salafist who believed in the doctrine of complete submission to Allah as dictated by the Quran and Hadith. Boko Haram rejects Western culture and its…

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Femi Ibrahim

Holds a Master in Peace and Conflict Studies awarded with excellent in 2012 by the European Peace University, Stadtschlaining, Austria. Studied and awarded with Bachelor degree in Linguistic (1986)...