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by ButlerianJihad 18 days ago
“Boko” is actually a loanword from “book” so it literally means they want to forbid “book-learning”.

It is also instructive to understand that the Quran calls Jews and Christians “People of the Book”, in other words, people who read and believe the Bible.

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People should more than one book. Even better, people should know when to stop reading a book.