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This paper critically examines the ongoing religious terrorism of Boko Haram  in northern Nigeria, focusing on why the group exists and its growing connection to the global jihad. It evaluates the coercive and conciliatory responses of the Nigerian government to Boko Haram, with particular reference to the Joint Military Task Force. Problematizing a security-only, killing approach to dealing with religious terrorism, it argues that countries fighting terror abroad should learn from the Nigerian experience of fighting Boko Haram that the war on terror begets a vicious cycle of terror and war without end.