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| ISIS officially berths in Nigeria: Acknowledges Boko Haram Allegiance |
The Islamic State welcomed a pledge of allegiance made to it by Boko Haram and vowed to press with its expansion, according to a recording Thursday purportedly from its spokesman. With this acknowledgement ISIS is officially in Nigeria.
“We announce to you to the good news of the expansion of the caliphate to West Africa because the caliph ... has accepted the allegiance of our brothers of the Sunni group for preaching and the jihad,” Isis spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani said in the message, using the Arabic name for Nigeria’s Boko Haram extremist group.
In the tape of some 30 minutes, Adnani urges Muslims to join militants in West Africa and played down “victories” by the US-led coalition and Iraqi forces against his group.
The radical Sunni movement has seized large swathes of Iraq and Syria and declared an Islamic “caliphate” there. It has also drawn expressions of allegiance from jihadists in Egypt and Libya.
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau had pledged allegiance to ISIS stating: “We announce our allegiance to the caliph of the Muslims, Ibrahim ibn Awad ibn Ibrahim al-Husseini al-Qurashi,” referring to Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Isis’s Adnani said Muslims must support Boko Haram in West Africa, and claimed that the Islamic State was growing in strength and expanding.
“Our caliphate is resisting and it is advancing in the right direction. We are fighting the crusaders and the rafidah (Shiites) and day by day the Islamic State is becoming strong,” he said.
-Culled from the Guardian
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