Boko Haram adopts ISIS strategy in targeting Christians

April 21, 2015 01:01

The latest attack on Christians by the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram appears to indicate that the group is adopting the same murderous tactics as the Islamic State to demonstrate their allegiance to ISIS' goal of erasing Christianity from its home region.

"Boko Haram is probably the most lethal Islamic extremist group in the world. They want a pure Islamic State," Nina Shea, director of the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute, tells Fox News.

Since Boko Haram's March release of a video, via Twitter, in which they pledged allegiance to ISIS, their attacks have increased in number and become more brutal.

ISIS responded by posting a message in which the terror group's spokesman Mohammed al-Adnani accepted the group's pledge.

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