Indonesian Journal of Islamization Studies
Vol. 2 No. 2 (2025): Indonesian Journal of Islamization Studies (INJAS)

The Radicalization of Islam: Case Study of Media Reportage of Boko Haram Insurgency in Northern Nigeria: Radikalisasi Islam: Studi Kasus Pemberitaan Media tentang Pemberontakan Boko Haram di Nigeria Utara

Sulaiman A. osho (Robert Gordon University, United Kingdom
Garthdee House, Garthdee Rd, Aberdeen AB10 7AQ, United Kingdom)



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Publish Date
01 Feb 2025

Abstract

One of the challenges of the world today is the plethora of wars, hostilities, violence, andpogrom engineered by the militarization of religions. From the north, to the south, east andwest of the globe, there is religious war cloaked in political gimmicks. And the humandevastation continues endlessly in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Turkey, Iraq, Greater Sahel and LakeChad Basin, North Eastern Nigeria, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo,Afghanistan, Myanmar, Israel and Palestine, Ukraine, Mexico, and among others includingpockets of terrorist acts in United Kingdom and United States. This study examines theradicalization of Islam and its multiplying ef ects on the peace in the world. It looks at themedia reportage of the Boko Haram terrorist religious group in Nigeria. It analyzes thecoverage of the insurgencies in the Radio Nigeria news bulletins at the height of themutinies. It concludes that the coverage of Radio Nigeria of the Boko Haram radicalizationin the killing, kidnapping, and destruction of property in the north eastern Nigeria hasn’treduced the hostilities of the terrorist group. The research of ers recommendations for theways out of the crises.

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Indonesian Journal of Islamization Studies (INJAS) (E-ISSN: 3026-5398 | P-ISSN: 3026-5401) is a peer-reviewed and bi-annual (August and February) Indonesian journal (but accept English and Arabic article) dedicated to specific scholarly study about Islamization of (both classical and contemporary) ...