This terrorist group is sending young boys to school—not to get education but to kill Christian teachers and students as well.
The group is the Boko Haram, the Nigerian Islamic extremist group, whose name translates to "Western education is sin," The Los Angeles Times reported.
Fuelling Boko Haram's hatred for Christians is the group's belief that they are the ones guiding Nigeria's education system, which contradicts the radicals' beliefs, one of which is that the Earth is flat.
The terrorist group has launched a number of attacks on Nigerian schools in recent years as it seeks to create a division between the nation's Christian and Muslim people, who each make up roughly half of the population.
The LA Times said the terrorists have already killed as many as 611 teachers since 2009 when the Boko Haram started its campaign of terror. They have also burned down 910 schools and forced the closure of 1,500 others.
Many of the attacks were reportedly perpetrated by former students who were trained by the terrorist group to return to their schools and kill their teachers and other students.
Even some of the schoolgirls that Boko Haram terrorists have kidnapped have been trained to carry out suicide bombing missions in cross-border attacks in Niger, Chad, and Cameroon. The other girls were sold into marriage and forced to convert to Islam, the LA Times report said.
"Boko Haram believes Earth is flat, and that Muslims are permitted to take slaves and duty-bound to kill infidels. Culture and history also play a role in the group's fixation with secular education, according to analysts," the report said.
"British colonialists brought education and Christianity to the region at the beginning of the 20th century, triggering long-held resentment which lingers to this day," it added.
The Global Terrorism Index has listed Boko Haram as the deadliest terrorist group in the world, even deadlier that the Islamic State (ISIS). According to its report, Boko Haram was responsible for at least 6,644 deaths in 2014, an increase of 314 percent from 2013.
Boko Haram has pledged allegiance to ISIS and uses its emblematic black flag, but operates largely independently, according to Human Rights Watch.
