When I heard the news, I could not hold myself from hysterical laugh..!! Remembering that Nigerian Ustaz, or Religious Teacher who has 27 wives in a compound –alike house, and 74 children..!! However, Nigerian State Security had dealt with the matter in a pure African way.. If you meet a snake, smash the head..!! So, the leader of this funny illiterate group was announced dead while was in police custody..!! More than 700 is the death toll, and more than 200 hostages; mostly women, were freed.. Then; they announced that normacy is restored..!! Despite the protest from human rights groups, Negirean Authorities did not give any attension.. Again, it is an African way in eliminating the dangers.. Every thing is due to be forgotten..!! Certainly, some guys are discussing this technique behind closed doors..!! Anyway, the questions are loud; about poverty, illiteracy, corruption and of course: education. It is almost the same as Taliban; desperate and frustrated youth; who blame modern civilization for all the evils they are confronting in daily life.. Ironically, their people listen, as they speak both language and catastrophe.. No wonder; the amount of confusion and uncertainty the allied security agencies are facing, as they are not facing only terrorists, but marginal people with broken hopes.. No wonder that all literate Muslims (me included) have their voices not heard, as they no longer speak the language..!!
Boko Haram (literally, Western education is a sin) is a Nigerian militant Islamist group that seeks the imposition of Shariah law throughout all 36 states of Nigeria. The group was founded in 2002 in Maiduguri by Ustaz Mohammed Yusuf. In 2004 it moved to Kanamma, Yobe State, where it set up a base called "Afghanistan", used to attack nearby police outposts, killing police officers. Yusuf is hostile to democracy and the secular education system, vowing that "this war that is yet to start would continue for long". In Bauchi the group was reported as refusing to mix with local people. The group includes members who come from neighbouring Chad and speak only Arabic. Boko Haram opposes not only Western education, but Western culture and modern science as well. In a 2009 BBC interview, Yusuf stated that the belief that the world is a sphere is contrary to Islam and should be rejected, along with Darwinism and the theory that rain comes from water evaporated by the sun. For more:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/jul/31/nigeria-violence-boko-haram
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The National; August 15. 2009 4:40PM UAE
Members of a group called Jund Ansar Allah surround their leader Abdel-Latif Moussa, centre, after Friday prayers. Moussa was killed in the fighting with Hamas police. Ibraheem Abu Mustafa / Reuters
The leader of a radical Islamist group was among those killed during fighting with Hamas police in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics said today.
Medics said 22 people were killed and at least 120 wounded in the battle, which lasted almost seven hours.
The shooting erupted on Friday afternoon following weekly prayers in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, which straddles the Egyptian border.
Radicals holed up in a mosque declared an Islamist “emirate” in the city, defying the authority of Hamas, which has ruled Gaza’s 1.5 million people for the past two years.
“We are today proclaiming the creation of an Islamist Emirate in the Gaza Strip,” Abdul Latif Musa, a representative of Jund Ansar Allah (Soldiers of the Partisans of God), was reported by witnesses to have said at the Bin Taymiyya mosque. The radical leader Musa was later killed during the fighting although exactly how remained unclear.
It was one of the most violent incidents in Gaza since Israel’s 22-day onslaught on the impoverished enclave in December and January.
Rafah is the Gaza stronghold of the so-called Salafist movement, of which Jund Ansar Allah is said to be a part and which is ideologically close to al Qa’eda.
Among the dead in the clashes was Mohammed al Shamali, the head of the Hamas military unit for southern Gaza, emergency services said.
* AFP