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