There is nothing ISIS, the Taliban are doing today that has not been done before in Northern Nigeria even long before Boko Haram emerged as a matter of fact. Only that the world wasn’t paying attention then. When the West was still fighting communism and the USSR, when J.F. Kennedy declared that "Ich bin ein Berliner in his 1963 speech, when Ronald Reagan challenged Gobarchev in 1987 to “tear down this wall,” Nigeria has been fighting the ruling Islamic hardliners.
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