Harakat al shabaab al mujahideen also known as al shabaab is an extremist Jihadist organisation based in somalia, which describes itself as waging jihad against the enemies of islam.
Al Qaeda is a global militant islamist organisation which has attacked civilian and military targets in various countries with the conviction that a Jewish Christian alliance is conspiring to destroy islam.. they believe the killing of infidel civilians is religiously sanctioned, and replace existing laws with sharia law.
Islamic state of Iraq and the Levant (isil) has declared a world wide islamic caliphate over all muslims worldwide the deadliest terror group in recent years.
Boko haram officially ja ma'atu ahlis sunna lidda awati wal jihad meaning people commited to the prophet's teaching for propagation and Jihad is a militant islamist movement based in north eastern nigeria. it seeks to establish an islamic state in Nigeria... boko haram kill people who engage in activities perceived
to be un islamic. not forgetting the dreaded hezbollah in lebanon, taliban in Afghanistan the list goes on and on.. for the sake of nairalanders who are not lovers of long essays let me stop there.
Over the last ten years more than 20000 people have died as a result of the activities of these groups and hundreds of thousands displaced.
Islamic clerics keep telling us islam is a religion of peace often classifying founders of terror organisations as misinformed persons. but the mode of operation of these groups, their rapid growth in strength and numbers ... their ability to defeat better armed military forces has demonstrated that their leaders are brilliant intelligent charismatic and well schooled individuals could they all have been misinformed or misunderstood islam as these clerics would have us believe ?
what really is the concept of jihad all about?
Reminding ourselves of the exploits of our very own great jihadist Usman dan Fodio.. did he misunderstand jihad too?
The exploits of the blessed Prophet himself at the battle of Badr (624AD) .
Who do you think is telling the truth?... the peaceful clerics or the terrorists?
N.B: this is not intended to condemn but for clarifications.