Boko Haram: A growing threat in West Africa
Boko Haram is an Islamist extremist group responsible for dozens of massacres of civilians and the abduction of more than 500 women and girls in its five-year insurgency in Nigeria. Boko Haram promotes its own version of Islam which makes it “haram,” or forbidden, for Muslims to take part in any political or social activity associated with Western society.The group’s formal name is Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad, which in Arabic means “People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet’s Teachings and Jihad.” But residents in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, where the group originated, dubbed it Boko Haram. Loosely translated from the region’s Hausa language, this means “Western education is forbidden.”
Boko Haram is an Islamist extremist group responsible for dozens of massacres of civilians and the abduction of more than 500 women and girls in its five-year insurgency in Nigeria. Boko Haram promotes its own version of Islam which makes it “haram,” or forbidden, for Muslims to take part in any political or social activity associated with Western society.The group’s formal name is Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad, which in Arabic means “People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet’s Teachings and Jihad.” But residents in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, where the group originated, dubbed it Boko Haram. Loosely translated from the region’s Hausa language, this means “Western education is forbidden.”
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