as if humans were not a mess of interests and sincerity of ideas and beliefs that can also be self-serving, of a capacity for sacrifice, and powerful ratchet effects... gaffe-avoiding animals, said dear Ernest Gellner a while back. Indeed...
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Quoting below from a recent interview with a former
#BokoHaram fighter, asking him about Mohamed Yusuf's preaching...Prikaži ovu nit -
"I heard about him 20 years ago. I heard him at Indimi mosque. He was a talented preacher. We understood, and he guided us. Everything was going nicely. Yusuf was showing the right path, the path of the Prophet. We did not know Sunna. (...)"
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"The way we pray, the way we live, often we did not know, so he showed us the right path. Also, there was corruption in the nation. We have wealth, agriculture. If there is equity, everybody will have what he wants. He talked about all those things. (...)"
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"Thirdly, the injustice. A common man will not go any place, a police station or a judge, and we will not be listened to. Accountability we need. Yusuf talked about that."
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It's all in there, really. How to be a good Muslim. How to get some wealth. How to get a fairer world. Denying that man's religious sincerity and hopes, simultaneously individual and collective, is absurd...
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This is, of course, an early committed affiliate. A trajectory not "typical" of many others - forced recruits, boys and girls brought in under family pressure, fugitives from repression seeking refuge, local traders or other "awam" trying to survive when BH settles among them...
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In this as in so many other human affairs, beware of the "typical"...
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Let me read on... About 2009 uprising: "No. I had not been informed. But I knew something was going on. There had been people killed at Customs bridge. And Yusuf called for an investigation. But the government did nothing. There was no justice. All of us, we wanted justice."
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And that guy, though he likes Yusuf, tries to get on with his life. He resettles in his hometown, but the military "were doing things there. Injustice". So he goes to a border town to Cameroon. But vigilantes come there too. So he crosses into Cameroon.
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At some point, the Cameroonian security forces begin to target Nigerian refugees (many of whom indeed had some connection to Boko Haram, like my guy). And so he finally ends up going to Sambisa... Safety? Loyalty to the cause? A bit of everything.
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