Who are the Boko Haram and do they pose a threat to the U.S.?
Boko Haram, a Salafi-jihadi Muslim group from northeastern Nigeria, has been in the headlines recently, blamed for a string of recent attacks against the Nigerian government, UN peacekeepers and Nigerian Christians. The group seeks to make Nigeria into an Islamic state, and its name, Boko Haram, roughly translates as “Western education is sin.” Continue Reading