I was reading the page on Boko Haram
KEYWORDS, KEYSENTENCES:
1. Western education is forbidden
2. opposition not only to Western education, but to the theory of evolution
3. opposition to teaching about a spherical Earth
4. opposition to teaching about the hydrological cycle: rain doesn't come from "evaporation caused by the sun". It is created and sent down directly by God.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boko_Haram
KEYWORDS, KEYSENTENCES:
1. Western education is forbidden
2. opposition not only to Western education, but to the theory of evolution
3. opposition to teaching about a spherical Earth
4. opposition to teaching about the hydrological cycle: rain doesn't come from "evaporation caused by the sun". It is created and sent down directly by God.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boko_Haram
Quote:The name Boko Haram is usually translated as "Western education is forbidden". "Haram" is from the Arabic = Forbidden.
and the Hausa word boko (the first vowel is long, the second pronounced in a low tone), meaning "fake",[50][51] which is used to refer to secular Western education.[52] In a 2009 statement they denounced that translation as the work of the "infidel media", claiming the true translation is "Western Civilization is forbidden", and that they are not "opposed to formal education coming from the West" but "believe in the supremacy of Islamic culture (not education)".
Quote:The founder of Boko Haram, Muhammad Yusuf, was reportedly inspired by the controversial Islamic preacher Mohammed Marwa (Maitatsine), who condemned the reading of any books other than the Quran.[51][69][70][71] Yusuf, himself, in one 2009 interview, expressed his opposition not only to Western education, but to the theory of evolution, a spherical (not flat) Earth, and to the idea that rain comes from "evaporation caused by the sun" rather than being created and sent down directly by God.[72]