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June 04, 2012

CS Monitor: Nigeria's Boko Haram a holy war? Maybe not entirely

by Gredrick Nzwili and Ibrahim Garba
The Christian Science Monitor

Nigerian Roman Catholic Archbishop John Onaiyekan, on a visit to Kenya, said the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency is as rooted in bad governance as much as in its push for Islamic sharia law.

From a distance, the violent campaign of a shadowy Nigerian Islamist group called Boko Haram is nothing less than a holy war between Muslims and Christians that has killed more than 2000 people.

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