An anatomy of Boko Haram

"....What do the emir, top civil servant and politician have in common? They are all western-educated, blinded by a culture of corruption and nurtured on the plundered public resources. So to the ordinary citizen whose pregnant wife dies in labour for lack of basic healthcare; whose child cannot get basic literacy and numeracy skills due to the collapse of education and whose entire life is a painful journey through biting poverty and hopelessness, if western education produces a system as insensitive, an elite as heartless and a society as unjust, then that form of enlightenment (boko) should be anathema (haram). This is the figurative definition of Boko Haram." -- Salisu Suleiman

Nostra Aetate: An Appeal from the Vatican

Over the centuries many quarrels and dissensions have arisen between Christians and Muslims. ....let them together preserve and promote peace, liberty, social justice and moral values.

Jihad the Perception & the Reality

We've heard so much about what Jihad means from the media, almost never from an Islamic Scholar. Here is a chance to learn all about this Islamic concept from an Islamic authority.