LAGOS, Nigeria (CNN) -- Police in northern Nigeria on Saturday detained almost 4,000 members of an Islamic community, claiming the group posed a potential violent threat, the police commissioner in the Nigerian state of Niger told CNN.
--snip--
The raid follows the violent uprising of another Islamist group, Boko Haram. More than 700 people were killed in clashes between Islamic militants and authorities.
Boko Haram, an Islamist sect, wants the government to impose Islamic law, known as sharia, in the entire Muslim-dominated northern half of Nigeria.
More...
