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BOKO HARAM:
THE POLITICIANS MADE A BOMB 

The group was founded by Mohammed Yusuf in 2002 in the city of Maiduguri with the aim of establishing a Shari'a government in Borno State under former Governor Ali Modu Sheriff. (In the year 2002 Ali Modu Sheriff was not a governor then; he was a senator). He established a religious complex that included a mosque and a school where many poor families from across Nigeria and from neighboring countries enrolled their children.

The centre had ulterior political goals and soon it was also working as a recruiting ground for future jihadis to fight the state. The group includes members who come from neighbouring Chad and Niger and speak only Arabic.  In 2004, the complex was relocated to Yusuf's home state of Yobe in the village Kanamma near the Niger border.

“Boko Haram has become a franchise that anyone can buy into,” said Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima.

In a 2009 BBC interview, Muhammad Yusuf, then leader of the group, stated his belief that the concept of a spherical Earth is contrary to Islamic teaching and should be rejected, along with Darwinian evolution and the concept of rain originating from water evaporated by the sun. Before his death, Yusuf reiterated the group's objective of changing the current education system and rejecting democracy. Nigerian academic Hussain Zakaria told BBC News that the controversial cleric had a graduate education, spoke proficient English, lived a lavish lifestyle and drove a Mercedes Benz.

(Excerpt from wikipedia on Boko Haram)

And so I'm thinking:








If western education is such a sin, how would they have translated... 

And for every time someone dares to be different or beg to differ, do we make a bomb?