In a new video released Saturday, Shekau said he, "fully supports" attacks on several schools in northeastern Nigeria in recent weeks.
The United Nations
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Children's Fund says at least 48 students and seven teachers have been killed since June, with some burned alive in a dormitory this month.
"We support the work they did at the school, at Mamudo and Damaturu, and other attacks in other schools," said Shekau, who wore military fatigues in the video. "We are going to burn down the schools, if they are not Islamic religious schools for Allah."
But Shekau insisted his fighters do not kill children.
"We don't touch small children, we only burn the schools," he says. "Our religion does not permit us to touch small children and women, we don't kill children."
He said his fighters would, however, attack teachers. "School teachers who are teaching Western education? We will kill them! We will kill them!" he warns, wagging his finger.
Shekau is a leader of the bad turban group Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
, whose name means "Western education is forbidden" in the Hausa language.
Attacks on schools have continued although thousands of troops have deployed in northeastern Nigeria to put down the Islamic bad turbans' violent campaign which poses the greatest threat in years to the security of Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil producer.
President
Goodluck Jonathan... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau...
declared a state of emergency on May 14 in the three northeastern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe.