Boko Haram by Brandon Kendhammer

Author:Brandon Kendhammer [Kendhammer, Brandon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2018-10-08T16:00:00+00:00

Figure 2. “Wanted poster” showing Boko Haram’s suspected leadership in mid-2015

Most important, however, was Shekau’s own ideology of takfir and support of violence. In July 2014, Shekau recorded a video praising ISIS and expressing support for its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Soon after, the group’s videos began reflecting some of ISIS’s visual symbols and styles, a fact that led some analysts to argue that the links between the two were more than superficial. Yet, as we now know following ISIS’s 2016 disavowal of Shekau, the relationship between the two groups was always uneasy. Factions within the movement seem to have wanted to affiliate with ISIS not only for the potential of material support but also to moderate Shekau, whose willingness to engage in violence against civilians would not have been (and, indeed, was not) acceptable to ISIS’s leadership. It was not until the Nigerian military—this time, with help from regional allies—began to pry back its losses that the true devastation of Boko Haram’s “Islamic state” was revealed.

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