Since the kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls in Nigeria last month, the meaning of Boko Haram–the name used by the terrorist group that seized the girls–has become more widely known. The translation from the Hausa language is usually given in English-language media as “Western Education Is Forbidden,” though “Non-Muslim Teaching Is Forbidden” might be more accurate.
But little attention has been paid to the group’s formal Arabic name: Jam’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-da’wa wal-Jihad. That roughly translates as “The Fellowship of the People of the Tradition for Preaching and Holy War.” That’s a lot less catchy than Boko Haram but significantly more revealing about the group and its mission. Far from being an aberration among Islamist terror groups, as some observers suggest, Boko Haram in its goals and methods is in fact all too representative.
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Organizations like Boko Haram do not arise in isolation. The men who establish Islamist groups, whether in Africa (Nigeria, Somalia, Mali), Southeast Asia (Afghanistan, Pakistan), or even Europe (U.K., Spain and the Netherlands), are members of long-established Muslim communities, most of whose members are happy to lead peaceful lives. To understand why the jihadists are flourishing, you need to understand the dynamics within those communities.
Devout muslims….
let’s call them what they are.
I get a whiter shade of pale when I think about Boko Haram.
What do you get when you think of the Lord’s Resistance Army?
(Keep paying more taxes. The Military-Industrial-Spying complex needs more of your tax money to protect you from ‘Muslim’ terrorists, alien abductors and the flying spaghetti monster.)
We were discussing this terrorism on Monday after our weekly golf game. One of my long term friends is a true Liberal. His body language is perfect as his arms cross and he simply refuses to believe these atrocities and says I am an islamophobe and racist for discussing them. This is the type of person Hirsi Ali can’t reach and I am amazed reading comments to her brilliant articles denouncing her.
Melanie Phillips said this about liberals several years ago, that they always try to compromise with islam, which is not interested in compromise but in your defeat. Liberals keep offering more accommodation and islam moves one step forward.
When will “the West” wake up? The answer is easy: when the first liberal female journalist is held down and cliterodectomised
by a couple of hair men using clamshells and no anaesthetics.
The muslims have been at it for 1400 years. Islam is the enemy of civilization, whether it’s Persian, Chinese, Hindu, Secular or Christian.
Really? Don’t hold your breath.
“When will the West wake up”, some people out there will deny the facts even when the knife is dragged across their throats.
Oh no. Neil MacDonald just did a piece where he found a few Muslims who said Boko Haram have nothing to do with Islam.
So there you go: 9/11 didn’t happen.
Next up: inmates who say they’re innocent.
Send Hillary & Michelle to these slavers ,giving them a stern talking to.
The cloud of fog that has fallen on the West with the help of our traitorous politicians about Islam, is no mistake.
From banning anti Muslim speakers to the media hiding the insanity of this cult.
From the police submitting if not running of our police forces, to our schools being Islamified. Is the sign of a successful invasion.Even our food is now prepared for the invader. Phoney courts so they can persecute the real inhabitants here. Governments are paying billions in Jizra.
Our own armed forces have enabled the madness by our so called elected honourable men.
Sharia Law
Is the final solution.
Lets not forget all the Muslims that were given citizenship to Canada under the Harper government either. Must be a few hundred thousand of them by now. Lets not forget the special right they have been granted in the last few years such as praying in public schools, gender segregation at public swimming pools, the wonderful protection of the government agency known as the Human Rights Commission of Canada and much more. Just saying!
“The answer is easy: when the first liberal female journalist is held down and cliterodectomised.”
Actually I think this has degenerated to the point that our politicians, especially our liberal politicians, have cliterodectomised ours and western society.
Ken….a sad,but true point.But not to worry.All the fem-nazis and their man-boys will protect us!
Oh Snap!
I had it all lined up. The real story.
It was the turbulent 60’s, the summer of love and the summer of hate(’66); the snubbing of “A Blacker Shade of Dark” and the triumph of a band named after a stupid cat over a band of….
So I opened the comments…
“when will the West wake up?”
I know the answer to that one.
Betcha you do too.
All of a sudden liberals care about the treatment of
little girls in the Muslim world? The Sultan of Brunei
established Sharia law that calls for the execution of
Homosexuals?
Are you freaking kidding me? If this were not a pivotal
election year, there is not a Democrat in America that
that would even broach these subjects! Since when did
any American Democrat give a rats ass about female genital
mutilation, honor killings, 12 year old “Brides” dying
because their 40 year old husbands ripped their insides
up on their “Wedding night?”
When did any American Democrat give a flying F&^k about
Homosexuals being executed in Saudi Arabia or Iran?
This is the most cynical political ploy I have ever seen!
When will the West wake up? Well folks, it’s been 42 years since Black September attacked the Munich Olympics and were still making excuses. Oops, forgot, the Munich victims were just Jews and we all know they don’t really count.
Sarc/off
I read somewhere that these guys have murdered 1500, Seems in my simple mind that that may have been a more reportable item than this, but it doesn’t fit with the MSM style. After all they are dead. What difference does it make
If the West didn’t wake up after the September 11th attacks, it probably never will. One can count on a handful of people seeing the light.
People keep asking “when will the West wake up?”
Its a stupid question. No one is asleep here, everybody knows what’s going on. Terrorism is USEFUL to Western governments. It justifies all kinds of legislation that trims back the inconvenient freedoms of Western citizens.
Everybody knows a bunch of backwoods punks running around Nigeria stealing wimmin is no threat to anything. But they do make a very nice bloody shirt for the feminists to wave on Twitter. It distracts from the inconvenient Monica Lewinsky who has had the gall to not vanish into obscurity. The Sultan of Whateverstan makes a very nice rhetorical target for the Gaystapo to rail against. It distracts from the inconvenient coverage of them trashing Christians and getting Christian shows cancelled on the HGTV network.
Mooselimb terrorists are nothing. They are a side show. The real enemy of Western civilized life is the Left.
“(Keep paying more taxes. The Military-Industrial-Spying complex needs more of your tax money to protect you from ‘Muslim’ terrorists, alien abductors and the flying spaghetti monster.)”
Off your meds again, I see.
Tell me, do you use Edmonton public transit?
JJM…Sure do. And that broad would be laying on the floor wondering what happened. And the one taking the video would be next. You wimps wonder why this happens? Look at yourself. When it gets to the point that you can’t defend yourself in a police state,from wannabes,you are fubared. Me? Not so much.
Just get this onta yer wet-works hard-drive.
This is just slave raid which have been goin’ on there-abouts…like forever….
That’s jus’ the way it is and always has been….