"Most of the Boko Haram terrorists captured by Nigerian Military cannot read the Holy Quran, some of them cannot even recite the first chapter- Suratuh Al-Fathiha, yet they claimed they want to establish an 'Islamic State',” acting director Army Public Relations (Ag DAPR), Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, wrote on Facebook.

Considering the acts of extremist group’s acts as “ironically shameful”, the senior military official revealed that “when the Nigerian Military captured their bases and training camps, they never found Quran, Hadith or other Islamic literature.”

“What they found were ammunitions, chams, condoms and all sort of drugs including sex enhancing drugs in their enclaves at Sambisa Forest, Borno, North Eastern Nigeria,” officer Usman said.

Usman’s Facebook post was shared hundreds of times by his followers who asserted that the terrorist group tarnishes the image of Islam.

“Of course, we all know vividly that they are not Muslims because the Muslims that I know can never be that heartless to the point of beheading their fellow human being all in d name of western education,” one user wrote, Naij.com reported.

“God will bring them to His rout of fire and they will be doomed soon.”

Another user wrote: “Very interesting… We must get to the root of the matter as well as their sponsors, financiers.”

On his part, Stephen Andow, former Military officer, said that the insurgents were never Muslims from the onset.

“From the beginning it was obvious that they were not Muslims. I see them as what would unify Nigeria and help us to set aside religious, tribal differences and other forms nepotism,” he said.

“We must face it. This problem affects the whole of Nigeria and not just the North. We must all arise with one voice to condemn these evil men.”

Boko Haram, a Hausa term meaning “Western education is sinful”, is loosely modelled on Afghanistan's Taliban.

For the last five years, Nigeria has battled a fierce Boko Haram insurgency that has ravaged the country's volatile northeastern region and claimed thousands of lives.

But 2014 has been the bloodiest year of the insurgency yet, with increasingly frequent attacks, higher death tolls and a deluge of displaced persons.

The militant group has been kidnapping females for years and has hundreds in their custody.

Earlier this year, Boko Haram militants killed around 2,000 people and burned down homes in the northeast Nigerian town of Baga, according to Amnesty International.

Last month, President Muhammadu Buhari accused the US of aiding the Boko Haram militant group by denying his country weapons under a sustaining arms ban.

Source: On Islam