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Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād (JASDJ), mostly known as Boko Haram, recently released a video threatening ISWAP. The group in the video appears to be based in the Lake Chad area under the authority of the JAS overall leader Bakura Doro, aka Abu Umaymah. The speaker begins by calling ISWAP apostates and deviants, and tells them not to rejoice over the death of Abu Bakr al-Shekawi (Shekau). As a reminder, Shekau blew himself up in 2021 when he was cornered by ISWAP in the Sambisa Forest. ISWAP had called upon him with loudspeakers to surrender, but he refused. He adds that after Shekau there are many other Shekaus who don’t die and don’t change, and who follow his ways and teachings, and will remain until the Day of Judgement. He calls ISWAP deviants for not considering regular Muslim civilians apostates for living in territories controlled by the Nigerian government, which JAS describes as “the general of the polytheists”. This is a major difference between JAS (Boko Haram) and ISWAP, as the latter only sees the military, their auxiliaries, and Christians who don’t pay the jizyah as legitimate targets. By contrast, JAS views everyone living under the “apostate governments” as legitimate targets, which is the reason behind the recent bombings in Maiduguri by JAS. The speaker then addresses ISWAP again, urging them to repent before JAS destroys them, and says that if they do, they will be safe from them. He then greets JAS fighters in all their “provinces”, the Mandara Mountains, and Sadiku’s mobile faction in the northwest and north central, as they renew their pledge of allegiance to Abu Umaymah. Children are visible among the group.

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