I didn’t think anything was worse than homosexuality in the Islamic world.

(Reuters) – The leader of Nigeria’s Islamist group Boko Haram said his fighters now ruled the captured north-eastern town of Gwoza “by Islamic law”, in the first video to state a territorial claim in more than five years of violent insurrection. His message also contained taunts for Western governments and compared democracy to incest.

“Allah has granted us success in Gwoza because we have risen to do Allah’s work,” Mr Shekau said, reading out a statement off a notebook, with two masked gunmen on each side of him and three four-wheel-drive vehicles behind him in thinly forested bush. […]

Police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu said on Sunday that 35 policemen were missing after an attack on a mobile police training camp in Gwoza.
Mr Shekau also taunts France, Israel and the US in the video.

“Democracy is worse than homosexuality, worse than sleeping with your mother,” Mr Shekau says. “You are all pagans and we will kill you, even if you do not attack us we will kill you … Allah commands us to kill without pity.”