Persecuted Church News: Nigeria: the Boko Haram Threat

Persecuted Church News: Nigeria: the Boko Haram Threat: "AUSTRALIA (ANS) -- Boko Haram, also known as Jamaatul Alissunna lid da a wa wal jihad and the 'Nigerian Taliban', was founded in Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria's most north-eastern state of Borno, in 2002 by a religious teacher named Mohammed Yusuf. The name Boko Haram comes from the Hausa word boko, which means animist, Western or simply un-Islamic education and culture, and the Arabic word haram, which means forbidden. For Boko Haram, boko isfitna: i.e. something that can shake the faith of Muslims and lead to apostasy. For this reason, boko must be haram. "