Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the Nigerian Islamic Terrorist group Boko Haram, has declared that the abduction of the almost 300 school girls was not merely an act to deny education to women, but also a proclamation of war on Christians and the damaging effects of Christianity on Nigeria.
In a translated video footage delivered by Sahara Reporters, the militant group leader declared how there have been wars waged in the name of Christianity in the past in countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan. He expressed his belief that a similar conflict is about to happen in Nigeria.
Shekau said, "Here is what Bush once said and we will repeat it here. He said all the fights going on in Iraq and Afghanistan are Christian war, crusade, it is a known issue. And that they will crush Afghanistan, today I will say my own."
He stated that Boko Haram will be starting the Jihad – the Islamic holy religious war. He also heavily criticized Nigerian politicians who were cooperating with Western leaders, calling their actions apostasy.
"You are sitting down in the name of clerics with turbans; you are sitting with Christians thinking it is mediation. Saying it is development and progress, what progress after you have deviated from Allah? We will die killing and slaughtering them, if you meet infidels in battle field brethren, just harvest their necks; Allah said it and not Shekau," he noted.
He then ripped into human rights groups for promoting homosexuality.
"And you are saying you are advocates of human rights. Humor sexual people like you, promoters of same sex marriage, animals knows rights more than them, even sheep doesn't sleep [with] sheep, but you keep a woman and a woman as husband and wife," he said.
