Boko Haram Is The Most Powerful Group

In Nigeria, a student detonated himself during a school assembly. Many students were killed and many more were injured. The student was part of a group called Boko Haram. The group has been recruiting young people. The suicide by the student was part of the violent campaign to get more people recruited for Boko Haram which does not like the Nigeria's school system. The group wants Islam to be prominent in peoples lives. The social issues between Nigerian schools and Boko Haram led to the suicide bomber detonating during

The Boko Haram sect in Nigeria has been a huge problem for the country in the past, and the threat is only growing. This group is considered responsible for a handful of government attacks, targets on the United Nations, and often churches who undermine the Islamic religion. Their actions have spawned from the idea that their country is controlled by “fake Muslims”, and aim to create an Islamic nation ruled with Sharia law.

Boko Haram are motivated by a Jihadist version of Islam and is believed to be believers of the one true interpretation of the (Brinkel & Ait-Hida, 2012, p. 16). Their ultimate goal to create a true Islamic state in Nigeria directly associated with Sharia law. (Chothia, 2015, p. 5). The group has maintained their secrecy and the authorities have yet to be captured by law enforcement. Boko Haram is seen to have many basic views including their religious motivations, political downfall, and their extreme actions taken on the people of Nigeria. Boko

This article is about the mistreatment of people fleeing from Boko Haram who thought that the Nigerian soldiers would save them. As hundreds flee from Boko Haram claimed territories, Nigerian soldiers are picking them up and holding them as prisoners in detention centers, claiming to be trying to protect others from extremist claiming to be victims. This has lead to some accusations of mistreatment because these detention centers are holding men, women, and infants for months on end in unsanitary and unsafe areas. The article then explains that the Nigerian government and army are being accused of being too extreme in its persistence and ways of trying to eliminate Boko Haram. While Nigeria is struggling to handle the threat that is Boko Haram,

This article was about the Nigerian school girls that were kidnapped by Boko Haram about two years ago. The author wrote about how the search for the girls isn’t over as well as how the girls rescues are being planned, but the military and government officials from America are afraid that if they attempt to rescue one group of the girls the other will suffer because of it. African officials are afraid that Boko Haram is making the school girls become suicide bombers or giving them the option to become suicide bombers to escape the lives they are facing. They believe that the girls are choosing to be suicide bombers to escape the lives of being trapped, used for childbearing and abused that they have been forced into.

On Tuesday, January 17, a Nigerian bombing jet accidentally bombed a refugee camp in Rann. It was an attempted attack against the Nigerian islamist group Boko Haram. The bombing error resulted in over 50 deaths and more than 200 reported injuries. The people that were harmed by the bombing were mostly refugees or aid workers. Some of these workers were affiliated with the Red Cross and MSF, which is an international medical aid organization. The Red Cross was at the camp on the day of the bombing to deliver food to the refugees. Starvation has been a big threat in Nigeria with about 100,000 people at risk. Boko Haram has attempted to overthrow Nigeria's government and replace it with an Islamic state by the means of bombings, assassinations, and abductions. They are responsible for over 20,000 deaths and they have forced 2.6 million people to flee their homes.

For the past seven years innocence have been injured, killed, or brutally tortured by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram. They have lost their homes and precious possessions due to a cruel, selfish satisfaction of this organization. Boko Haram members believe that these “brutal penalties” is just an ordinary way to express their culture. Although Nigeria came to a conclusion that these terrorists had given up, it only took five months later to realize it was not the end. Nigeria’s strategies had gotten them nowhere and only led them back to where they started.

I personally believe that some of the children run from their houses, and some parents send their children to beg on the street. This makes me tend to ignore the part about how children are taken from their houses. Even though I understand that people get abducted, I do not believe that the big number of Boko Haram has been gathered from fights and abduction activities. Cognitive Dissonance made me want to jump to the section about promising to give people money to join the army. This was due to the fact that I did not want to read information that contradicts my personal

Boko Haram is not able to sustain its success by just its ideological interpretation. Therefore, the organization needs some source of money which comes from external sources. According to the International Business Times (2014), Boko Haram has received millions through ransoms from kidnapping. In addition, the group receives donations from external sympathizers from all around the globe (Caulderwood, para. 8). Boko Haram also has ties to Al-Qaeda as both organizations are known to have exchanged weapons, cash, and some soldiers (para. 9). According to the South African Journal of Military Studies (2012), Boko Haram also gains revenue through an extensive drug trafficking empire. Additionally main is gained by tapping into oil pipelines and

Boko Haram has yet to stray from its notoriety as a harsh terrorist threat to both the people of Nigeria and the government itself. In 2014, nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls were stolen from their families in the town of Chibok and taken into captivity by Boko Haram. This event has yet to be rectified now two years later, nor have the families received any news or closure from the Nigerian government. Both citizens of Chibok and activists around the world have developed voices in regard to this ongoing investigation. Videos of the girls have recently surfaced which lead one to believe that the girls are still alive; these videos, however, are most likely either old or altered. Boko Haram has yet to

Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen, more commonly known as Al-Shabaab is a Somali jihadist terrorist group. The group started as the militant wing of the Somali Council of Islamic Court that took control over Somalia’s southern area in late 2006. The group was soon overcome by Ethiopian and Somali forces, but continued with its violence. Al-Shabaab recruited regional sub-clans and their militias. This group pledged allegiance to the well known Islamic militant organization Al-Qaeda in the year 2012.

“We kill every man, woman, child, Shia, Sunni, Zoroastrian, Kurd or Christian.” A quote by one of the world's biggest influences, Abu Bakr Al-baghdadi. The leader of isis has launched or inspired over 100 attacks across the world including one on every continent except for Africa and Antarctica according to CNN. In 2014 ISIS gained control over Mosul, a huge turning point in the influence of ISIS. Whether you realize it or not, he affects people all across the world making him the most influential person that will ever, and has ever lived.

Boko Haram is an extremist militant group in Nigeria with a goal of ultimately changing the current state of Nigeria into a Caliphate under their control. Their beliefs fall under the Muslim sect of Jama’ atul Alhul Sunnah Lidda’ Wat, Wal Jihad, an extremist group. (Omadjohwoefe 2013, 82) Understanding their name also helps to gain better knowledge about who they are. Boko translates to “book” in Arabic, and Haram translates to “forbidden”, their name means, “Western education is forbidden” (Agbiboa 2013, 145) There is a dispute of the meaning,

Despite Nigeria’s growing economy, the nation still has a startling percentage of citizens living in poverty. For children, the choice became easy: to survive and support their family or to get educated. Boko Haram’s radical ideals of religion’s role in society, conformed gender roles, and tradition have not only destroyed families and communities but they continually add fuel to the fire – destroying the newest generation’s only chance at a better life. The jihadist group has an infamous reputation not only to burn down schools and villages but to kidnap school children, especially girls, and educators. The most notorious event in Boko Haram’s cruel initiative against Western Education was when it captured 276 school girls, 60 of whom managed to escape now fear to return back to school as alike with many girls who have been directly affected by the group. Boko Haram, through its violence, aims to control the northeast through crippling fear and wants to clearly establish a message: it will stop at nothing to see western education abolished.

Nigeria has been having a lot of problems lately, but the most important problem Nigeria is facing is genocide; committed by Boko Haram. Stated by World History of Gale, “Boko Haram is a militant Islamic extremist group that has been terrorizing the civilian population of Nigeria since 2009. The group’s official name in Arabic is Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati Wal-Jihad (Which means People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet’s Teachings and Jihad). In 2009, the Boko Haram began a series of attacks in Nigeria that included taking hostages and bombing the government facilities, security installations, banks, schools, and other public places. In 2011, they bombed the United Nations Headquarters in the Nigerian capital, Abuja. The terrorist group raided villages, torched houses, and staged mass abductions, which became increasingly frequent in the bloody, violent conflict” (“Boko Haram Hostage Crisis in Nigeria”). Genocide has been a problem in a lot of places in the world and not just Nigeria; In World War II there was an event of genocide called the Holocaust. Through the Holocaust, many innocent Jews are being killed by the Nazis who believed they should exterminate Jews because they were the cause of the Germans losing World War I. The Jews were taken of their belongings and left to starve till death or die of sickness. These events remind people of the damage genocide has done to humanity over the years. Genocide in Nigeria is the result of the terrorist group