Solsticewitch13's BOS: Boko Haram Terrorists Hooked on the Jihadist Drug of Choice: Viagra

Thursday, June 2, 2016

Boko Haram Terrorists Hooked on the Jihadist Drug of Choice: Viagra

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/31/boko-haram-terrorists-hooked-on-the-jihadist-drug-of-choice-viagra.html

Kidnapping girls and raping them many times a day is standard practice for the young men recruited to Boko Haram’s ‘holy’ cause, as are the drugs help to keep them going.

CALABAR, Nigeria — Every time the Nigerian military raids Boko Haram hideouts in northeast Nigeria, soldiers report intriguing stockpiles quite apart from the predictable guns, bombs, and machetes. Often these include magical amulets and trinkets, and, frequently, quantities of Viagra and similar sex-enhancing pharmaceuticals.

There is a reason for the obsession with erectile function, and it is common to most of the extreme jihadist movements, especially those, like Boko Haram, that have pledged allegiance to the so-called caliphate that claims the name “Islamic State”: the promise of sex is a great recruiting tool, and sexual prowess is deemed to have mystical powers.

Thus in Iraq, ISIS has a record of enslaving women and girls deemed “non-believers,” then handing them over to the not-so-tender ministrations of men with years of pent-up frustrations. In Nigeria, Boko Haram has made the kidnapping of young women, like the girls taken from Chibok school two years ago, almost a trademark of its movement. Such practices, from the jihadist point of view, have a couple of benefits. They sow terror at the same time they attract young men to jihadist ranks.

But we have to be careful here. The jihadists’ enemies are forever claiming they are sex-mad monsters more interested in concubines than the Quran.

A photograph released on Tuesday 08 February 2005 shows anti-impotency drug Viagra in Multan. Pakistan's Drug Appellate Board has allowed the sale of Viagra in the country and asked the concerned authorities to consider its registration along with 15 other contenders. Seven years ago, the authorities had ruled that Viagra sales were "not in public interest". The new push has come from the Drug Appellate Board at its meeting here Jan 27, 2005 chaired by Health Secretary Anwar Mehmood. Pfizer Laboratories, Karachi, the Pakistani arm of the US pharmaceutical major, had applied in 1998 for registering Viagra and the issue was referred to a commi

“When the military captured their bases and training camps, they never found Quran or other Islamic books,” Nigerian army spokesman Sani Usman said in a statement released last September after a number of camps were raided. “What they found were ammunition, local charms, condoms and all sort of drugs including sex enhancing ones in their enclaves.”

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