Boko Haram Calls for War to Annihilate Nigerian Christians

Religion Today | Updated: Sep 21, 2012

Boko Haram Calls for War to Annihilate Nigerian Christians

March 5, 2012

The African Islamist terror group Boko Haram announced Sunday a "war" on Nigerian Christians and said it would launch a series of coordinated attacks to annihilate all Christians living in the northern parts of the country, the International Business Times reports. An unnamed Boko Haram spokesman reportedly said, "We will create so much effort to end the Christian presence in our push to have a proper Islamic state that the Christians won't be able to stay." Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for a series of increasingly frequent and increasingly violent attacks against churches and individual Christians in Nigeria. The Nigerian government has pledged to crack down on the terrorists, but it "cannot be prepared for what is to come," the Boko Haram spokesman asserted.



Boko Haram Calls for War to Annihilate Nigerian Christians