IS accepts Boko Haram allegiance pledge

BEIRUT (AP) — The spokesman for Islamic State militants said Thursday that the extremist group has accepted the pledge of allegiance by West Africa's Boko Haram group.

In an audio recording released by the group's media arm Al-Furqan, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani claimed the pledge of allegiance meant that the caliphate has now expanded to West Africa.

The recording was released a few days after an audio recording from Boko Haram leader Abubakar Sheka posted online Saturday in which he pledged allegiance to IS.

Al-Adnani also urged foreign fighters from around the world to migrate and join Boko Haram.

Boko Haram killed an estimated 10,000 people last year, and it is blamed for last April's abduction of more than 275 schoolgirls.

In August, Boko Haram followed the lead of IS in declaring an Islamic caliphate in northeast Nigeria that grew to cover an area the size of Belgium. The Islamic State had declared a caliphate in vast swaths of territory that it controls in Iraq and Syria.

Boko Haram is waging a nearly 6-year insurgency to impose Muslim Shariah law in Nigeria. It began launching attacks across the border into Cameroon earlier this year, and then struck in Niger and Chad.

Members of the U.N. Security Council proposed Thursday that the international community supply money, equipment, troops and intelligence to a five-nation African force fighting Boko Haram.


-- (c) Associated Press 2015-03-13

Birds of a feather slaughter together.

I HATE THESE PEOPLE

Who is the 'spokesman for Islamic State militants' and did he go to Yale ?

So ISIS have a 'pledge of allegiance', just like the USA :-) who writes this stuff ? Will he get a purple heart next ?

Who is the 'spokesman for Islamic State militants' and did he go to Yale ?

Abu Mohammad al Adnani, a spokesman for IS, announced in an audio message the group's leader, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, had accepted the loyalty of the Nigerian militants

The statement urged "Muslims everywhere to pledge allegiance to the Caliph".

In his audio message, al Adnani called on Muslims who could not join IS in Iraq and Syria to enter combat in Africa instead.

He added that Boko Haram's pledge had opened a "new door for you to migrate to the land of Islam and fight".

http://news.sky.com/story/1444095/islamic-state-accepts-allegiance-of-boko-haram

But remember folks. This is NOTHING to do with Muslims or Islam.

Who is the 'spokesman for Islamic State militants' and did he go to Yale ?

Abu Mohammad al Adnani, a spokesman for IS, announced in an audio message the group's leader, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, had accepted the loyalty of the Nigerian militants

The statement urged "Muslims everywhere to pledge allegiance to the Caliph".

In his audio message, al Adnani called on Muslims who could not join IS in Iraq and Syria to enter combat in Africa instead.

He added that Boko Haram's pledge had opened a "new door for you to migrate to the land of Islam and fight".

http://news.sky.com/story/1444095/islamic-state-accepts-allegiance-of-boko-haram

But remember folks. This is NOTHING to do with Muslims or Islam.

Indeed they are both aligned to random violence and mental illness. Both follow no common rule book so any similarity in their behavior is purely coincidental.

ISIS should behead every single Boko Haram who's not loyal to the State.

And vice versa of course...

I suspect that Boko Haram are being devious. I suggest that they are suffering defeats and by aligning with ISIS hope that international recruits will go to Nigeria instead of Syria.

They may even hope for funds and supplies too.

Hopefully, by accepting Boko Haram, ISIS resources will be spread a bit thinner and thereby weaken the whole.

Indeed they are both aligned to random violence and mental illness. Both follow no common rule book so any similarity in their behavior is purely coincidental

But of course. I have posed this conundrum on TV before.

Unfortunately I do not believe in coincidences.

Therefore I must be a bigoted, racist, Islamophobe.