"Western Education is Forbidden", or Boko Haram, is an Islamic group responsible for recent violence against Christians in the African country of Nigeria. They seek to strike the current government and create an Islamic state. Intense hostilities last week led people to flee the violence, which is aimed at Christian communities in the predominantly Muslim north of Nigeria.
The president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, claims that the judicial, executive, and legislative branches of the government and the police and military have some members who are sympathetic to Boko Haram.
Some northerners living in the south are fleeing in fear of retaliatory strikes. The government seems incapable of confronting the group directly, as many Christians feel an inadequate job is being done to protect them.
Roughly half the country is Muslim, and the other half Christian. The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Nigerian-Biafran War, saw the country divided by religion. Continued violence may lead to the country reverting to civil war. If President Jonathan is correct, the divided government may crumble and the country, if power is assumed by a group like Boko Haram or another such Islamic fundamentalist group, would institute Sharia law and become an Islamic state.
Bob Hartzer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16462891
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