Viagra Has Become The Drug Of Choice For Boko Haram Fighters

Keith Bedford. Reuters

Philip Obaji Jr., Daily Beast: Boko Haram Terrorists Hooked on the Jihadist Drug of Choice: Viagra

Kidnapping girls and raping them many times a day is standard practice for the young men recruited to Boko Haram’s ‘holy’ cause, as are the drugs help to keep them going.

CALABAR, Nigeria — Every time the Nigerian military raids Boko Haram hideouts in northeast Nigeria, soldiers report intriguing stockpiles quite apart from the predictable guns, bombs, and machetes. Often these include magical amulets and trinkets, and, frequently, quantities of Viagra and similar sex-enhancing pharmaceuticals.

There is a reason for the obsession with erectile function, and it is common to most of the extreme jihadist movements, especially those, like Boko Haram, that have pledged allegiance to the so-called caliphate that claims the name “Islamic State”: the promise of sex is a great recruiting tool, and sexual prowess is deemed to have mystical powers.

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WNU Editor: No mention in this article if providing these drugs is an official Boko Haram policy .... or an individual choice. I suspect that it is both. This is alo one more reason why sex crimes should be included in the definition of `crimes against humanity`.