... Mohammed Marwa, the man accredited for the formation of Boko Haram strongly opposed Western culture and its popularity in Nigeria24. Marwa declared that reading any book other than the Qur'an was a sin and a form of pagan worship.25 Marwa began a prohibition on reading the Hadiths or Sunnah.26 While ... Muslim Brotherhood cut off ties with Bin Laden in the mid-1980s a short while after he conceived Al-Qaeda because politically he had gone a separate way.33 The idea behind Al-Qaeda was the establishment for a coalition of Islamist organizations and to coordinate their activities.34 Accor...

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