What Gives Boko Haram its Strength by David Jacobson, Atta Barkindo and Derek Harvey, CNN
The Islamist terrorist organization Boko Haram has been active as a violent group since 2009 and in recent months has killed Nigerians, both Christian and Muslim, at rates frequently exceeding a hundred people weekly.
It is puzzling how little attention this has received in world media, especially in comparison to, say, the attack of Islamist militants on the mall in Kenya in September, resulting in 67 dead.
That is, until now. The abduction of a reported 276 schoolgirls from Chibok village in the northeastern Borno state has shocked people around the world. A deeper examination of Boko Haram provides a revealing prism of the conflict in Nigeria…
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The article asserts: "The issue is the education system, not religious belief."
But it overlooks what should be the central point of the debate: In what way religious narratives or beliefs themselves retarded the embrace of modern education.
In fact data from Pakistan seems to suggest that religious entities (including the Saudi Wahhabi influence) are the primary cause.