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Nigeria : Radical Islamists and political disturbance
By African Bulletin on March 31, 2010
The radical Islamist splinter group said it intended to continue its “holy fight”. We will launch actions around the world…. but our attention is currently focused on Nigeria. This is essentially what was said by the spokesman of the sect Boko Haram in Kano metropolis of the North.
Is it a real threat in the political disturbance or a simple desire to exist on the media scene? Nevertheless, the authorities had announced that it would get rid of Islamic extremists by making use of a rare violence last July, but just have failed to destroy the movement.
Is it a real threat in the political disturbance or a simple desire to exist on the media scene? Nevertheless, the authorities had announced that it would get rid of Islamic extremists by making use of a rare violence last July, but just have failed to destroy the movement.
Quite the contrary, said a specialist in religions. In eliminating the cult leader Muhammad Yusuf, the police has turned him into a martyr, and it has pushed the less convinced sympathisers to see that his rebellion was legitimate.
The sect Boko Haram, which claims its affiliation to the Afghan Talibans , but had no contact with their models, namely Mullah Omar or Osama bin Laden, is composed mainly of students who dropped out their studies, protesting against the education system, and the lack of democracy.
Faced with these new threats, the security forces were deployed around the city of Maiduguri, the epicentre of the recent clashes that left more than 800 dead.