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Boko Haram emerges as brutal Islamic State of Africa

c. 2014 USA Today

(RNS) Boko Haram, with its chilling brutality, radical ideology and unstoppable seizure of Nigerian territory is quickly emerging as the Islamic State of Africa.

While much of the world has focused on the terror attacks in Paris and the Islamic militants’ capture of swaths of Syria and Iraq, Boko Haram has gone on a bloody rampage through northeastern Nigeria.