Boko Haram for the day

The BBC has an article about the latest suicide bombing:

Nearly fifty students have been killed by a suicide bomber at a school assembly in the north-eastern Nigerian town of Potiskum, police said. The explosion at a boys' school in the town is believed to have been caused by a suicide bomber dressed as a student.
The militant group Boko Haram is believed to have carried out the attack, according to police. The group has targeted schools during a deadly five-year insurgency aimed at establishing an Islamic state. It is waging a sustained campaign to prevent children from going to school. It believes girls should not attend school and boys should only receive an Islamic education.
The explosion ripped through the assembly hall at the Government Science Secondary School, reports say. Police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu told the BBC Hausa service the attack had left 47 people dead, including the suicide bomber. Another 79 were wounded.
Analysis by Will Ross, correspondent for BBC Nigeria:

By setting off the bomb during the morning assembly, the militants clearly aimed to kill as many students as possible.
Few of the attacks here are ever claimed by any group but Boko Haram will once again be suspected. The jihadists have carried out particularly brutal attacks on schools before.
Chibok is known in many parts of the world because of the mass abduction of girls from that remote village in April of 2014. But there have been many other horrific attacks on schools which have received less attention, including last February's raid on Buni Yadi, in Yobe State.
Dozens of boys were burnt to death, shot or killed with knives in the dormitory. Female students were spared, but told to never attend school again and go off and get married. Boko Haram wants the education of boys to be limited to strict Quranic studies only.
The insecurity in the north-east is so rampant, with entire towns and villages now in the jihadists' hands, it will be extremely hard for other bombings to be prevented.

"At about 0800, a suicide bomber disguised himself as one of the male students and, while the school was holding its normal assembly, the bomb went off," Ojukwu said. He added that police were investigating the explosion.
One student told the BBC that he saw the mutilated bodies of fellow students at the scene, where emergency operations were ongoing. A resident reported seeing parents wailing at the sight of their children's bodies at the hospital.
Soldiers who attended the site of the explosion were met with fury by the assembled crowds, who pelted them with stones and accused them of not doing enough to halt the Boko Haram insurgency. A grieving relative told the BBC: "My brother, a student in the school, died in the blast. He was about sixteen years old. The government needs to be more serious about the fight against Boko Haram, because it is getting out of control," he added.
Potiskum is no stranger to attacks; last week a suicide bombing there targeted Shia Muslims, and schools in Yobe state have been frequently attacked by Boko Haram militants. The state is one of three in Nigeria that have been placed under a state of emergency as a result of the group's activities.
Potiskum, one of the largest towns in Yobe, has been targeted before by Boko Haram.
Last week, a suicide bombing killed fifteen people in the town. The bomber joined a religious procession of the rival Shia Muslim sect before blowing himself up.
In April of 2014, Boko Haram sparked global outrage by abducting more than two hundred girls from a boarding school in Chibok in Borno state.
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has dismissed government claims to have agreed a ceasefire, under which the girls would be released. He says the children have converted to Islam, are learning to memorize the Quran, and have been married off.

Rico says that their religion is so peaceful, ain't it?