Nigeria, April 30 -- Borno State, North-East Nigeria has been the epic centre of Nigeria's longest running war between the Islamist terror group, Jama'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihad, commonly known as Boko Haram and the Nigerian state. Founded by Mohammed Yusuf, a radical Salafi cleric in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state around 2002, Boko Haram, an anti-western civilisation and violent extremist group has as its main objective the supplanting of Nigeria's plural secular constitutional democratic order with an Islamic theocracy through armed struggle [Jihad]. Starting first with a most virulent form of preaching against western education, democracy and pluralism while calling for a complete imposition of Sharia law over Borno ...