Islamists, they are Islamists in Africa. All about “Boko Haram”
International Islamism cultivated by Western political technologists proudly continues its march across the planet. Wherever there are Muslim communities or part of the population lives according to Sharia, there is a threat of radicalization of society based on religious slogans. Nigeria was no exception - this African state has been living literally under the pressure of aggressive Islam in recent years, which significantly slows down its development. A huge role in the political life of the country has Boko Haram - an organization like the notorious ISIL, advocating for “life according to Sharia” and other Muslim charms.
Nigeria as the “explosive center” of the Black Continent
The Nigerian state occupies one of the first places on the territory of the population in Africa and the first with its 178 millions of its number. Rich natural resources gave the country an opportunity to stand out against the background of an underdeveloped region and raise the standard of living at least to the average for Egypt or South Africa. But over the years, Nigeria has been tormented by ethnic and religious conflicts. The country is literally divided in two - Muslims live in the impoverished and abandoned north, Sharia law reigns there, which determine the main social and administrative installations. The south is more economically developed and includes several provinces where mainly Christians live.
Despite the fact that Nigeria, in combination, is also the main economy of the Black Continent and one of the most important suppliers of oil in the world, an archaic society has largely been preserved in which half of the population survives for about one dollar a day. This tendency is pronounced in the Muslim north, poor and depressed, where the proportionality of the religiosity of the population to its well-being and quality of life is clearly reflected. Conflicts motivated by the clash of religion in Nigeria occur here regularly and take the lives of thousands of people.
The formation of the Boko Haram group took place against the backdrop of the 1999 events of the year. Then, several northern states established the “Shari'ah dictatorship”, recognizing this collection as the only competent code on their land. With this, the Christian minority, which conducted active protests, did not agree. Residents of the south and many influential politicians also disagreed with the introduction of Sharia law, as it legally violated the Constitution of Nigeria - officially a secular republic. Clashes began, the first dead appeared. Only the political will of Olusegun Obasanjo, the then president of the country and a Muslim, but a firm statesman, saved Nigeria from a bloody civil war. On the other hand, the first beginnings of Islamist terror were given, which over the past 30-40 has been spreading slowly throughout the north of the country.
Boko Haram, as an organization that loudly declared itself, emerged in the world news reports in 2002. Then the spiritual leader of the group, Mohammed Yusuf, initiated the creation of a religious center in the city of Maiduguri, which included a mosque and a school for universal education. Since 2004, the headquarters of Boko Haram has been moved to Yusuf's home state of Yobe. The leader of the Islamists was killed in 2009 during a special operation by the Nigerian security forces, but his cause still lives on.
The bloody hand of Islamism in the Nigerian state
In a sense, Boko Haram is a unique organization that several years before the advent of ISIL proclaimed its goal to create a purely Islamic Sharia state and took control of some parts of northern Nigeria. Islamist ideologues, relying on contradictions and omissions between the people and the government, actively speculated on the subject of corruption, theft and plundering of the country's national wealth and resources. Thanks to this, Boko Haram was able to attract a lot of young people to her ranks. Initially, she cultivated the restoration of the Islamic caliphate and the transformation of Nigeria into a powerful religious state, but by now the group’s activities have fallen into terror and the massacres of civilians.
Currently, Islamists control a number of areas in the far northeast of Nigeria. In this case, the attacks, the responsibility for which they take themselves, occur throughout the country, very often in the capital Abuja and the largest sea port of Lagos. In the occupied territories, the militants carry out propaganda work and train new members of Boko Haram. To destabilize the situation in other regions, any means are used, up to cars filled with explosives, the explosions of which kill dozens of civilian lives.
The ideology of Boko Haram is surprisingly similar to the ideology of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. In particular, religion is declared a fundamental factor in the formation of society and the state. Moreover, Islamists deny virtually all civilization elements, including secular education, Western culture and science, and the activities of any pro-Western organizations in Nigeria. Everything is good - these goals should be achieved in limited numbers, but not for the sake of a crazy alternative in the form of Sharia in a multi-religious society and a sea of blood due to religious and ethnic issues.
Moreover, the theologians Boko Haram, like their counterparts from ISIS, go to the uttermost insanity, banning the wearing of shirts and trousers and listening to almost any music. At the same time, the paradoxical situation is repeated: the ideas of the next Islamic group, absurd and impossible in the modern world, find their supporters all over the world, including in developed countries. People from Russia, the European Union, the USA, Canada and Australia come to LIH. In smaller quantities, they actively gathered in Nigeria at the beginning of the two thousandth.
Now, when the activities of Boko Haram were marginalized to the level of terrorist attacks and loud appeals, and the territories under the control of this organization have decreased and were economically devastated, it has partially lost its popularity in the international arena. On the other hand, Boko Haram still regularly flashes in the news - a few days ago, gunmen killed 100 civilians in Cameroon, near the border with Nigeria. Oh, how someone does not want to write off this grouping from the account - apparently, they plan to use it for long-term purposes ...
Cui prodest - look for who benefits
A completely natural question arises: how is the Islamist group, practically cut off from its comrades from al Qaeda and fraternal organizations, still retains its relevance in the political arena of Africa and keeps under its control a territory larger than the Kaliningrad region? The answer is unlikely to surprise you - the owners of all the unrest in the world are vitally interested in destabilizing Nigeria as one of the main resource players.
Nigeria is part of OPEC and is one of the leaders of the oil alliance. It leads in oil production in Africa and ranks among the top ten largest producers of petroleum products. It is hardly possible to say that the English colonialists foresaw this, but when they drew the boundaries of local state formations, it was surprisingly unwise to identify the Nigerian territories, where Muslims and Christians who clearly do not like each other now get along.
Now the Anglo-Saxon baton on dominion all over the world was intercepted by the Americans. The United States deliberately creates “controlled chaos” zones around the world, where it plays to the benefit of their strategic interests. This theory has already been written and rewritten, and I will not develop it in detail. In short, I’ll only note that Nigeria plays a decisive role in the oil policy of the African continent, and any more or less major conflict will automatically place natural resources under the complete control of global transnational corporations. And in Nigeria, you can try to implement the famous plans of globalizers to reduce the population - the good, crazy and ready to kill each other fanatics here is enough.
Boko Haram is one of the many trump cards of the Euro-Atlantic civilization in the struggle for peace. It is possible that very soon this organization will disappear without a trace and lose all of its influence and territory, or perhaps it will “shoot” and take control of the entire region. What will happen tomorrow in Nigeria - a country shrouded in the unchecked darkness of religious hostility - no one knows except the Anglo-Saxons. Therefore, we must be ready for any outcome of the struggle, and at the same time neutralize any religious and ethnic conflicts in our big but not always friendly country.
Nigeria as the “explosive center” of the Black Continent
The Nigerian state occupies one of the first places on the territory of the population in Africa and the first with its 178 millions of its number. Rich natural resources gave the country an opportunity to stand out against the background of an underdeveloped region and raise the standard of living at least to the average for Egypt or South Africa. But over the years, Nigeria has been tormented by ethnic and religious conflicts. The country is literally divided in two - Muslims live in the impoverished and abandoned north, Sharia law reigns there, which determine the main social and administrative installations. The south is more economically developed and includes several provinces where mainly Christians live.
Despite the fact that Nigeria, in combination, is also the main economy of the Black Continent and one of the most important suppliers of oil in the world, an archaic society has largely been preserved in which half of the population survives for about one dollar a day. This tendency is pronounced in the Muslim north, poor and depressed, where the proportionality of the religiosity of the population to its well-being and quality of life is clearly reflected. Conflicts motivated by the clash of religion in Nigeria occur here regularly and take the lives of thousands of people.
The formation of the Boko Haram group took place against the backdrop of the 1999 events of the year. Then, several northern states established the “Shari'ah dictatorship”, recognizing this collection as the only competent code on their land. With this, the Christian minority, which conducted active protests, did not agree. Residents of the south and many influential politicians also disagreed with the introduction of Sharia law, as it legally violated the Constitution of Nigeria - officially a secular republic. Clashes began, the first dead appeared. Only the political will of Olusegun Obasanjo, the then president of the country and a Muslim, but a firm statesman, saved Nigeria from a bloody civil war. On the other hand, the first beginnings of Islamist terror were given, which over the past 30-40 has been spreading slowly throughout the north of the country.
Boko Haram, as an organization that loudly declared itself, emerged in the world news reports in 2002. Then the spiritual leader of the group, Mohammed Yusuf, initiated the creation of a religious center in the city of Maiduguri, which included a mosque and a school for universal education. Since 2004, the headquarters of Boko Haram has been moved to Yusuf's home state of Yobe. The leader of the Islamists was killed in 2009 during a special operation by the Nigerian security forces, but his cause still lives on.
The bloody hand of Islamism in the Nigerian state
In a sense, Boko Haram is a unique organization that several years before the advent of ISIL proclaimed its goal to create a purely Islamic Sharia state and took control of some parts of northern Nigeria. Islamist ideologues, relying on contradictions and omissions between the people and the government, actively speculated on the subject of corruption, theft and plundering of the country's national wealth and resources. Thanks to this, Boko Haram was able to attract a lot of young people to her ranks. Initially, she cultivated the restoration of the Islamic caliphate and the transformation of Nigeria into a powerful religious state, but by now the group’s activities have fallen into terror and the massacres of civilians.
Currently, Islamists control a number of areas in the far northeast of Nigeria. In this case, the attacks, the responsibility for which they take themselves, occur throughout the country, very often in the capital Abuja and the largest sea port of Lagos. In the occupied territories, the militants carry out propaganda work and train new members of Boko Haram. To destabilize the situation in other regions, any means are used, up to cars filled with explosives, the explosions of which kill dozens of civilian lives.
The ideology of Boko Haram is surprisingly similar to the ideology of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. In particular, religion is declared a fundamental factor in the formation of society and the state. Moreover, Islamists deny virtually all civilization elements, including secular education, Western culture and science, and the activities of any pro-Western organizations in Nigeria. Everything is good - these goals should be achieved in limited numbers, but not for the sake of a crazy alternative in the form of Sharia in a multi-religious society and a sea of blood due to religious and ethnic issues.
Moreover, the theologians Boko Haram, like their counterparts from ISIS, go to the uttermost insanity, banning the wearing of shirts and trousers and listening to almost any music. At the same time, the paradoxical situation is repeated: the ideas of the next Islamic group, absurd and impossible in the modern world, find their supporters all over the world, including in developed countries. People from Russia, the European Union, the USA, Canada and Australia come to LIH. In smaller quantities, they actively gathered in Nigeria at the beginning of the two thousandth.
Now, when the activities of Boko Haram were marginalized to the level of terrorist attacks and loud appeals, and the territories under the control of this organization have decreased and were economically devastated, it has partially lost its popularity in the international arena. On the other hand, Boko Haram still regularly flashes in the news - a few days ago, gunmen killed 100 civilians in Cameroon, near the border with Nigeria. Oh, how someone does not want to write off this grouping from the account - apparently, they plan to use it for long-term purposes ...
Cui prodest - look for who benefits
A completely natural question arises: how is the Islamist group, practically cut off from its comrades from al Qaeda and fraternal organizations, still retains its relevance in the political arena of Africa and keeps under its control a territory larger than the Kaliningrad region? The answer is unlikely to surprise you - the owners of all the unrest in the world are vitally interested in destabilizing Nigeria as one of the main resource players.
Nigeria is part of OPEC and is one of the leaders of the oil alliance. It leads in oil production in Africa and ranks among the top ten largest producers of petroleum products. It is hardly possible to say that the English colonialists foresaw this, but when they drew the boundaries of local state formations, it was surprisingly unwise to identify the Nigerian territories, where Muslims and Christians who clearly do not like each other now get along.
Now the Anglo-Saxon baton on dominion all over the world was intercepted by the Americans. The United States deliberately creates “controlled chaos” zones around the world, where it plays to the benefit of their strategic interests. This theory has already been written and rewritten, and I will not develop it in detail. In short, I’ll only note that Nigeria plays a decisive role in the oil policy of the African continent, and any more or less major conflict will automatically place natural resources under the complete control of global transnational corporations. And in Nigeria, you can try to implement the famous plans of globalizers to reduce the population - the good, crazy and ready to kill each other fanatics here is enough.
Boko Haram is one of the many trump cards of the Euro-Atlantic civilization in the struggle for peace. It is possible that very soon this organization will disappear without a trace and lose all of its influence and territory, or perhaps it will “shoot” and take control of the entire region. What will happen tomorrow in Nigeria - a country shrouded in the unchecked darkness of religious hostility - no one knows except the Anglo-Saxons. Therefore, we must be ready for any outcome of the struggle, and at the same time neutralize any religious and ethnic conflicts in our big but not always friendly country.
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