Nigerian Islamic terrorist organization Boko Haram has taken to a new tactic to try and boost the morale of their soldiers. They are kidnapping Christian women, forcing them to convert to Islam through violence and then are forcing them to marry terrorist fighters.
A 19-year-old woman identified only as Hajja escaped from the group after four months of captivity. The Christian woman said she was forced multiple times to kneel and beaten while her captors yelled at her to worship Allah. She said she eventually pretended to go along with them because a fighter told her she was about to be beheaded.
She told reporters that she was forced to be a slave for a group of fourteen terrorists and was used as bait to lure in civilians working with the military so that the terrorists could slit their throats. She reported being forced to watch multiple murders at the hands of her captors.
Hajja now lives in the nation’s capital city of Abuja and is free to worship Christ. She says that she has trouble sleeping at night because of nightmares related to her captivity.
The Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram has targeted Christians for extermination in northern Nigeria and has killed more people for their faith in Christ in one year than the rest of the world’s martyrdom of Christians combined.
The Jubilee Campaign released a report showing that close to 1,200 Christians were killed for their faith in northern Nigeria. The persecution watchdog group Open Doors agreed with Jubilee’s data that more Christians have been killed in Nigeria than the rest of the world combined in the last year.
The group released their information at an event sponsored by the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom.
One of the event’s speakers was Adamu Habila, a Nigerian Christian who survived being shot in the head at close range by a Boko Haram militant when he refused to convert to Islam.
“I give thanks to God Almighty for keeping me alive up to this moment. I know if not because of God I am a dead man now,” said Habila. “But because of His grace I am still alive in order to testify the goodness of God in my life and the work of God in my life.”
The U.S. State Department officially declared Boko Haram a terrorist organization last week.
Nigerian military officials say that close to 100 terrorists were killed after a major clash between troops and Islamic terrorists in Yobe state.
The military spokesman said that the attack from the Islamic terror group Boko Haram lasted over five hours and was the result of a major government action against terrorist safe houses. Sources tell Reuters that both planes and ground forces were used in the raids.
The military says that 95 terrorists were killed along with 23 soldiers and eight police officers. However, local hospital officials put the total of military fatalities at 35.
Boko Haram also lost 37 terrorists in a military raid last week in Borno. The assaults are part of the state of emergency declaration made in May.
Boko Haram terrorists wearing military uniforms slaughtered 19 people at a checkpoint in Nigeria’s northern Borno state.
While the terrorist group has not yet claimed official responsibility, the BBC is reporting that multiple witnesses linked the killers to the terrorist organization. Borno state has been under a state of emergency as the Nigerian military has been trying to eliminate the Islamic extremist group.
“We were asked to get out of our vehicles and lie face down by nine men dressed as soldiers who blocked the road,” a witness told AFP news agency. “They shot dead five people and went about slaughtering 14 others before someone called them on a phone and said that soldiers were heading their direction.”
Witnesses say the terrorists fled the scene on motorcycles. They claim they knew the men were not soldiers because the military does not allow soldiers to have beards.
The terrorist group targets both military and civilians and has killed more than 2,000 people since 2011. Most recently, they attacked an agricultural college in northeast Nigeria and shot 50 students while they slept in dorms.
Islamist terrorists killed 50 students in northeastern Nigeria while they slept in their dormitory according to local officials. Continue reading →
A new front in the war against Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram in Nigeria has resulted in the deaths of 20 vigilantes that resisted the group’s attempt to control a town in Borno state.
Vigilante groups have now risen across the north as Nigerian citizens fight back against the terrorists wanting to force an Islamic state on the region. Continue reading →
Boko Haram has struck again in Nigeria, killing 35 people in the northeastern part of the country.
Government officials in Borno state say Boko Haram terrorists raided the village of Demba after the locals would not surrender to them. According to a rescue worker in the region, the terrorists set houses on fire, shot victims and even slit throats of the residents. Continue reading →
The leader of the Boko Haram Islamic terrorist group in Nigeria is believed to have been killed in a clash with government troops.
Abubakar Shekau is believed to have died near the end of July according to an intelligence report released by the Nigerian government. The U.S. government had placed a $7 million bounty on Shekau because of his power within Islamic terrorist circles. Continue reading →
Nigeria’s interior minister, Abba Moro, said that despite a Sunday terror attack on a mosque there has been major progress in the army’s efforts against the terrorist group Boko Haram.
At least 44 people are dead from the attack with dozens more injured. The mosque was located in Konduga, a town 22 miles from the Borno state capital where Boko Haram was founded in 2002. Witnesses say the terrorists were wearing army uniforms. Continue reading →
At least 44 were killed when Boko Haram attacked a mosque in northeast Nigeria.
Terrorists opened fire during dawn prayers on Sunday morning in Konduga, 22 miles from Borno’s state capital Maiduguri. Hospital officials in Maiduguri say 26 people are being treated for injuries. Continue reading →