Boko Haram

Boko Haram was originated as a native group, revolving itself into 

a Jihadist group in 2009. It suggests that communication with the 

Western World is prohibited, and also supports opposition to the 

Muslim founding and the administration of Nigeria.

Members of the unit do not interact with the Muslim population 

and have carried out assassinations in the past of anyone who 

criticises it, including Muslim clerics.

2009, BBC interviewed Mohammed Yusuf, then leader of the 

group, stated his belief that the fact of a globular Earth is contrary 

to Islamic teaching and should be rejected, along with Darwinian 

evolution and the fact of rain creating from water evaporated by 

the sun. Before his death, Yusuf reiterated the group's 

dispassionate of changing the existing schooling system and 

rejecting democracy.  Nigerian academic Hussain Zakaria told 

BBC News that the contentious cleric had a graduate education, 

spoke proficient English, lived a extravagant life and drove a 

Mercedes Benz.

In the wake of the 2009 crackdown on its members and its 

following re-emergence, the growing frequency and 

environmental 

range of attacks attributed to Boko Haram have led some political 

and religious leaders in the north to the conclusion that the group 

has now expanded beyond its original religious composition to 

include not only Islamic militants, but criminal elements and 

disgruntled politicians as well. For instance Borno State Governor 

Kashim Shettima said of Boko Haram: “[they have] become a 

franchise that anyone can buy into. It's something like a Bermuda 

Triangle.” The group has also forcibly converted non-Muslims to 

Islam