re: #535 FemNaziBitch

IIRC, they are made-up Taliban rejects.

Boko Haram originated as an offshoot of the Yan Tatsine Riots of the late 1970s in Nigeria. The preacher who inspired those riots was Mohammed Marwa, a radical who went so far as to deny the prophethood of Mohammed (saas) himself; he portrayed himself as the true prophet of Islam.

The riots came to an end by the mid-to-late 1980s, but some of his followers laid the foundations for what was to become the Boko Haram movement.

Ideologically, there’s not a lot of difference - both are extreme, radical interpretations of Islam that wholly reject science and anything else deemed “Western”.