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The Mujahedeen,” wrote one dubious poster on a web forum used by
Islamic militants whose administrator uses a picture of Osama bin Laden.
“I have brothers from Africa who are in this group,” attested
another, insisting that they were like “the Quran walking the earth.”
Boko Haram was rejected long ago by mainstream Muslim scholars and
Islamist parties around the world for its seemingly senseless cruelty
and capricious violence against civilians. But this week its stunning
abduction appeared too much even for fellow militants normally eager to
condone terrorist acts against the West and its allies. “There is
news that they attacked a girls’ school!” another astonished poster
wrote on the same jihadi forum, suggesting delicately that Boko Haram
may perhaps be killing too many noncombatants instead of armed enemies.
He prayed that God would “hold them steady to the path” of Islam.
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