I think it's a bit more complicated than that but I'm not qualified to give an in-depth explanation om the matter. But I would look to how those terrorist cells are formed and who finances them and such.
What does qualification have to do with the issue?
Marie Harf has qualifications and she's championed billions of dollars in unsuccessful programs.
Qualifications are things to take into account when evaluating sets of opinions. They are not hallmarks of ability.
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"The story of Boko Haram’s fundraising began after the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. The group’s original leader, a charismatic cleric named Mohammed Yusuf, who was later killed, founded the group in 2002 pushing an alternative to Western education, which he claimed undermined Nigeria’s development. (The group’s Hausa name translates as “Western education is sin”.)
Around that time, Osama bin Laden sent an aide to Nigeria with about £1.8m in local currency to dispense among groups that shared al-Qa’ida’s mission to impose Islamic rule. One of the “major beneficiaries”, the International Crisis Group said, was Boko Haram.
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The connection between Boko Haram and al-Qa’ida – and its money – perhaps deepened when Yusuf fled to Saudi Arabia to escape one of Nigeria’s first crackdowns on the terrorist group. It remains unclear what happened while he was in Saudi Arabia, or who he met, but Boko Haram leaders have later said that much of their funding comes from al-Qa’ida. A Boko Haram spokesman said in 2011: “Al-Qa’ida are our elder brothers. We enjoy financial and technical support from them. Anything we want from them we ask them.”
But even such alleged financial connections with al-Qa’ida cannot explain Boko Haram’s money. The group reportedly also gets cash from Islamic terrorist groups such as al-Shabaab in Somalia and local al-Qa’ida affiliates.
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The Combating Terrorism Centre at West Point, the US military academy, said: “Kidnapping has become one of [Boko Haram’s] primary funding sources, a way to extract concessions from the Nigerian state and other governments, and a threat to foreigners and Nigerian government officials.”
Experts now estimate that kidnapping is worth “millions of dollars in ransom money” to the militants."
Now - there is a bit of a "but" to this:
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"Nigerian recruits were reportedly trained in an earlier incarnation of AQIM, referred to as the Algerian Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat (GSPC) [22], and superficial aspects of Boko Haram’s operations reflect Nigeria’s 1982 Maitatsine uprisings, a fundamentalism movement countering perceived government oppression [23]. As sectarian violence continues unimpeded, the prospects for a civil war between Nigeria’s economically dominant Christians in the South and marginalized Muslims in the North remains ever present. Although most Nigerians find themselves less divided by religious differences and more victimized by the nations notoriously corrupt political institutions, outside forces funding Boko Haram’s deplorable campaign of violence are bent on exploiting tension between Nigeria’s two largest religious groups.
A divided and warring Nigeria ultimately serves the interests of the United States as cited by Zbigniew Brzezinski, top adviser to Barack Obama and leading US foreign policy theoretician. Brzezinski, who co-founded the Trilateral Commission and openly credits himself with the creation of the Afghan Mujahideen [24], has influenced policy that encourages the division of existing nation-states by the succession and emergence of microstates, based on all cultural, ethnic and religious peculiarities. Author and historian Dr. Webster G. Tarpley writes, “For Africa, Brzezinski recommends the so-called ‘micro-nationalities’ concept, which means that national boundaries established in the 19th century should be swept aside in favor of a crazy quilt of petty tribal entities, each one so small that it could not hope to resist even a medium-sized oil multinational” [25]."
Brzezinski is a name that jumped out to me:
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"What we have learned in this cautionary tale of early US involvement with the MB during the Cold War era, is how myopic this country’s leaders have been about the international political agenda of the Ikhwan. Hopes to use the MB in a "holy war" against Soviet Communism backfired. Consider too the feckless nature of the CIA during the secret war in Afghanistan with Saudi partners against Soviet forces, the so-called Charlie Wilson’s War of the 1980’s. That effort was spawned by National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski under President Carter in 1979 and was another anti-Soviet attempt to use a "holy war," along with billions from the US, the Saudis and the corrupt Pakistani Inter-Service Intelligence service, to weaken the USSR. After the Soviet 40th Army retreated from Afghanistan in 1989, al Qaeda, followers of the MB Islamic doctrine of Qutb, arose to afflict us with global Islamic terror. The Bush Administration while feigning refusal to meet with the MB in Egypt, nevertheless cultivated the successor to the World Muslim League founded by Said Ramadan, the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), a virtual Caliphate composed of 57 Muslim nations. In 2007, President Bush appointed the first special envoy to the OIC, giving it embassy status in Washington, DC. In the wake of the Arab spring in Egypt, the Obama Administration has reached out to the Egyptian MB that might become the ruling party if, as expected, their new Freedom and Justice Party receives a plurality in the coming elections this fall."
Obviously, this article is a bit dated.
However, it should be noted:
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""Our caliph, God save him, has accepted the pledge of loyalty of our brothers of Boko Haram so we congratulate Muslims and our jihadi brothers in West Africa," Islamic State spokesman Abu Mohammad al-Adnani said in an audio message, referring to his group's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Islamic State, an ultra-hardline offshoot of al Qaeda, has declared a caliphate in captured territory in Iraq and Syria. The militants have gained global notoriety for killing or kidnapping members of ethnic and religious minorities and posting videos of its members killing Arab and Western hostages.
In the audio message, Adnani urged Muslims who could not join Islamic State in Iraq and Syria to enter combat in Africa instead, saying Boko Haram's pledge had opened a "new door for you to migrate to the land of Islam and fight."
"We are calling you up for jihadis, go."
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Islamic State militants, who reject all but their own limited interpretation of early Sunni Muslim theology as heresy, also issued a threat to Jews and Christians.
"If you want to save your blood and money and live in safety from our swords ... you have two choices: Either convert or pay jezyah," he said, referring to tax for non-Muslims under Islamic rule.
"(Otherwise) you will soon bite your fingers with remorse." "
The article references some U.S. officials who claim that ISIS and Boko Haram are not working together - but we've already covered the research that shows that these groups are financially tied.
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"Boko Haram, which means “Western education is sinful,” was founded in 2002 by an Islamist cleric named Mohammed Yusuf in response to Nigeria’s democratic transition, nationalism and Western influence.
The group’s official name is not Boko Haram but Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad, which means “People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet’s Teachings and Jihad.” Members are known to reference the Islamic verse that states, “Anyone who is not governed by what Allah has revealed is among the transgressors.”
Osama Bin Laden invested $3 million in northern Nigeria, where Muslims are the majority, to promote his brand of Salafist Islamism. Bin Laden also endorsed an Islamist revolution to topple the Nigerian government and establish a Sharia-based state.
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The immediate objective of Boko Haram is to establish strict sharia rule in northern Nigeria, where the majority of the population is Muslim. Although the 12 northern states have implemented sharia governance, Boko Haram believes they are too lenient and violate Islam.
Islamist ideology holds that Muslims are required to wage jihad until all territory once under Muslim rule is returned. Boko Haram regards itself as the successor to Usman Dan Fodio who founded the Sokoto Caliphate, which ruled parts of Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon from 1804 until it was formally abolished by the British in 1904. Boko Haram regards the current Sultan of Sokoto, who has a traditional religious and tribal role, as un-Islamic as he cooperates with the Nigerian government, and wants to concentrate religious authority in their own hands.
However, like all Islamists, Boko Haram’s ultimate objective is to bring all of mankind under sharia governance. Yusuf preached that a sharia state “should be established in Nigeria, and if possible all over the world, through preaching the faith (dawa’).” "
The reality is that these groups do exactly what they do for precisely the reasons they state. They will exist and persist regardless of where they receive their funding. The funding is a means justified by the ends.
I would suggest your view of humanity is a perpetually pessimistic one.
You are basically saying that you believe I can offer someone an amount of money to kidnap children and there will be tens of thousands of otherwise virtuous people who will hop-to in order to make a few bucks. IE - I can offer someone a few thousand dollars to bomb a grocery store and there will be hundreds of applicants; if I offer a few million I would get thousands of applicants who would plant a bomb to blow up their own countrymen.
Yours is a world where people have no integrity or principle - where they can be very simply swayed by simplistic perceptions of monetary gain. "Everyone has their price."
While that doesn't mean there is no such thing as people who operate on those principles - the reality is that such monetary pursuit represents a set of principles. There are many, many principles people can choose to live by and to varying extents, but people are governed more strongly by principle and culture more so than they are by the luring of others.
It really is as simple as "Islam is evil and promotes a culture of evil."
It isn't the only evil out there - but it is precisely the evil of Islam that makes it so easy for other evils to fund it in pursuit of some gain.
