Nigeria’s Terror Group Boko Haram Pledges Allegiance to Islamic State (ISIS)

Looks like Boko Haram is pledging allegiance to the JV, IS

According to the BBC, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has pledged his allegiance to the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Boko Haram has been pillaging, looting, raping and kidnapping you girls in Nigeria as Barack Hussein Obama has stood back and done nothing. Oh wait there, there was that lame Twitter offensive #BringBackOurGirls Twitter campaign. Gee Barack Obama, what could these two terror groups possibly have in common that Boko Haram would pledges allegiance to IS, could it be Islam and the want to establish a “caliphate”?

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Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has pledged allegiance to Islamic State (IS), according to an audio statement.

The message, which has not been verified, was posted on Boko Haram’s Twitter account and is believed to be by the group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau.

Boko Haram began a military campaign to impose Islamic rule in northern Nigeria in 2009. The conflict has since spread to neighbouring states.

It would be the latest in a series of groups to swear allegiance to IS.

In the past Boko Haram is thought to have had links with al-Qaeda.

IS took control of large swathes of territory in eastern Syria and across northern and western Iraq last year.

The group aims to establish a “caliphate”, a state ruled by a single political and religious leader according to Islamic law, or Sharia. Its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is known to his followers as Caliph Ibrahim.

Boko Haram With Pledge of Allegiance to Islamic State.

Some experts say that the pledge, or “bayat,” made by the leader of Boko Haram is a spiritually binding oath, which indicates that the Nigerian Islamist group has agreed to accept the authority of the Islamic State.

But as with similar pledges to the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, by other extremist groups, there are few details about how much direct control the Islamic State leaders have over their distant proxies.

If confirmed, the agreement with Boko Haram would mirror the steps taken by Islamic State affiliates in Libya, Algeria, Egypt, Afghanistan and beyond. In each case, a group’s leaders swore allegiance in a public message posted online. Weeks later, the oath was formally accepted by the Islamic State, in a statement issued by the group’s spokesman.