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The Boko Haram Terrorist Islamic Sect in Nigeria: Origin and Linkages
Review of History and Political Science
Although Boko Haram came as an Islamic sect in 2002, its origin is traceable to a Sahaba Islamic group, formed in 1995. Emerging as one of the historical continuities of a society generally built on centuries of Islamic tradition, with a legacy of Islamic warfare, Boko Haram drew inspiration from romantic visions, transmitted from previous generations, for a return to the old Islamic order in northeastern Nigeria. The confounding rise and sudden strength, audacity, and gains of Boko Haram, an organization that started as a rag-tag militant Islamic sect, are linked to such forces as the radical Islamic ideology of jihad, sharia, and related tenets of fundamental Islam as well as to the contemporary socioeconomic problems of poverty, inequality, corruption, unemployment, and illiteracy. They are also due to support from AQIM, ISIS, Global al Qaeda, and Islamists in Mali, and the proliferation of arms in the Sahel. Given these propitious links Boko Haram grew into a formidable force, conquered and occupied much of northeastern Nigeria, and established itself as a threat to Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger. In the last quarter of 2015, the sect was routed out of the Nigerian territory, where its operations have been limited to sporadic suicide bombing against soft targets. However, given its links with certain sustaining forces within and outside Nigeria and its bellicose, implacable, and atavistic nature, it is yet ominous to think that Boko Haram is no longer a threat to Nigeria.
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Although Boko Haram came as an Islamic sect in 2002, its origin is traceable to a Sahaba Islamic group, formed in 1995. Emerging as one of the historical continuities of a society generally built on centuries of Islamic tradition, with a legacy of Islamic warfare, Boko Haram drew inspiration from romantic visions, transmitted from previous generations, for a return to the old Islamic order in northeastern Nigeria. The confounding rise and sudden strength, audacity and gains of Boko Haram, an organization that started as a rag-tag militant Islamic sect, are linked to such forces as the radical Islamic ideology of jihad, sharia and related tenets of fundamental Islam as well as to the contemporary socioeconomic problems of poverty, inequality, corruption, unemployment and illiteracy. They are also due to support from AQIM, ISIS, Global al Qaeda and Islamists in Mali and the proliferation of arms in the Sahel. Given these propitious links Boko Haram grew into a formidable force, conquered and occupied much of northeastern Nigeria and established itself as a threat to Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger. In the last quarter of 2015, the sect was routed out of the Nigerian territory, where its operations have been limited to sporadic suicide bombing against soft targets. However, given its links with certain sustaining forces within and outside Nigeria and its bellicose, implacable and atavistic nature, it is yet ominous to think that Boko Haram is no longer a threat to Nigeria.
Boko Haram Insurgence in Nigeria: ACritical Examination
Nigeria is at present in a state of chaos, especially in relation to order and spirit of oneness as a nation. The greatest harm to the nation at present is the consistent use of religious sentiments to destroy the remaining strings of the nation's unity and cohesion as observable in the callous destructive tendencies of the Islamic sect called Boko Haram.
Reports Anatomy of Boko Haram: The Rise and Decline of a Violent Group in Nigeria
The Nigerian Army has recently initiated a new military operation in the northeast region of the country and around Lake Chad to eradicate the remaining Boko Haram militants. Major General David Ahmadu, army chief of Training and Operations, said the operation would last four months and involve the deployment of additional six army brigades and other military assets in Borno state, where the insurgents remain active.(1) Boko Haram insurgency is believed to have claimed at least 100,000 lives, displaced more than 2.6 million people, caused pain to over 52, 311 orphans and 54,911 widows, and led to about $9 billion worth of damage.(2) UNICEF blames the militant group for killing around 2,295 teachers and destroying more than 1400 schools destroyed since the conflict started nearly nine years ago. Boko Haram waged a short-lived uprising surged in violence under President Goodluck Jonathan's administration, and has grown resilient under President Muhammadu Buhari's administration. This paper examines the trend of Boko Haram’s violence, and aims at explaining the group, societal, state and international dynamics that have shaped its rise and decline.
Boko Haram and Turmoil in Northern Nigeria
Jadavpur Journal of International Relations, 2015
Nigeria, especially the northern region, seems to be threatened by multifarious internal and possibly external forces. The levels and dimensions of insecurity range from ethno-religious crisis to abduction of persons, clashes between herdsmen and farmers, electoral violence, and the most conspicuous one, the Boko Haram activities. The latter has caused serious socioeconomic and political turmoil in the region, in the nation, and in the neighboring states at large. Cross-border terrorism is also a serious factor of destabilization as after every attack, insurgents succeed to take shelter in the neighboring countries. The other financial and logistic support by the neighboring countries with the help of external powers seems to be a planned design of instability. The capture of many parts by the Boko Haram in Yobe and Borno is the pointer to the fact that Nigeria’s north is passing through a danger of falling into the hands of the dreaded Boko Haram. Establishing control over the oil ...
Anatomy of Boko Haram: The Rise and Decline of a Violent Group in Nigeria
The Nigerian Army has recently initiated a new military operation in the northeast region of the country and around Lake Chad to eradicate the remaining Boko Haram militants. Major General David Ahmadu, army chief of Training and Operations, said the operation would last four months and involve the deployment of additional six army brigades and other military assets in Borno state, where the insurgents remain active.(1) Boko Haram insurgency is believed to have claimed at least 100,000 lives, displaced more than 2.6 million people, caused pain to over 52, 311 orphans and 54,911 widows, and led to about $9 billion worth of damage.(2) UNICEF blames the militant group for killing around 2,295 teachers and destroying more than 1400 schools destroyed since the conflict started nearly nine years ago. Boko Haram waged a short-lived uprising surged in violence under President Goodluck Jonathan's administration, and has grown resilient under President Muhammadu Buhari's administration. This paper examines the trend of Boko Haram’s violence, and aims at explaining the group, societal, state and international dynamics that have shaped its rise and decline.
The Boko Haram terrorist group's philosophy and activities have been subjected to different interpretations among the Nigerian populace. Such interpretations follow traditional lines of ethnic, regional, cultural, and religious cleavages in Nigeria. Some perceive it as war by Muslims against Christians, some as a sponsored conspiracy against the Muslim North, and others interpret it as the Northern war against the emergence of President Jonathan from the south-south geopolitical zone. A few regard it as a generic name for criminal gangs in Northern Nigeria. While overwhelming opinions in the south tilt toward a scorched-earth policy to counter Boko Haram, much of the north favors dialogue. One of the implications of these responses is the widening of already existing cleavages in Nigerian society, thereby further undermining efforts at building unity and coexistence among Nigeria's varying nationalities.
Boko Haram and the Stability of the Nigerian Nation
The malignant hostile manner of the activities of Boko Haram has left thousands of people dead in Nigeria with countless number of people in addition to the destruction of properties. The menace of the sect has therefore become of interest not only to Nigerians but to the globe. Threat of war looms over the nation, between muslim dominated North and Christian dominated south. Boko Haram is a strong security challenge to Nigeria. And the mystery must be unraveled shortly. The methodology adopted is purely historical and the data used were gotten from the secondary sources. The finding of this paper revealed that the worst implication of the notoriety of Boko Haram sect is the state of insecurity it has brought to the nation which consequently is both economic paralysis and national disrepute. The paper showed that Boko Haram represented diverse veiled groups: disgruntled political elite of the North, Islamic Jihad groups and external terrorist groups which have linked with Al-Quaeda. It was further discovered that some security personnel aided the Islamic sect. The study recommends a concerted effort be made by stakeholders ranging from federal, state, local governments and individuals to expose, thwart and distabilize the activities of Boko Haram.