Boko Haram announced his allegiance to the Islamic State

Boko Haram announced its allegiance to the Islamic State; this bond, although not, perhaps, the immediate practical consequences, represents the signal as the scene of fundamentalism world has been taken now almost entirely by the caliphate of al-Baghdadi. The success of the Islamic State of Al Qaeda is due to the real prospect of the creation of a sovereign state in effect, which refers to the so strong connotation and wants to recreate the Islamic caliphate on 'historical example of the Ottoman Empire. It is a remarkable contrast with the approach of Osama Bin Laden. proclaiming the fight to the West and the spread of Islam, in the abstract, without a political agenda practical well defined. Boko Haram, which has not decided immediately with those who take sides, it was recognized in setting the caliphate, wanting to recreate the Sokoto Caliphate, existed from early 1800 to early 1900, which extended it to an area between the existing states Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad, where the action takes place in the African terrorist group. If the Islamic state focuses its action on a pan-Islamic vision, so does Boko Haram, which wants to cancel the pan-Arab perspective from the African continent to give a connotation in which there is no place for the secular and democratic values, but only for the application of sharia. Both movements fill the ideological vacuum and political environment in which they act: for the caliphate Middle East it is the crisis of the Assad regime, coupled with the inability Iraqi politics, for Boko Haram is the failure of the Arab Spring, on which the West has done too heavily, making a clear error of judgment. For the moment, the two groups have a military capacity and political very different, with values ​​far superior to the Islamic state, which happens to be a magnet for Islamic terrorist groups, of which Boko Haram is the largest affiliate. The practical effects for the African movement may, however, be, for the moment, limited. An acceptance of the faithfulness of Boko Haram, the Islamic State, will enhance the ability of recruiting Islamist African and probably access to funding from Islamic organizations. For the moment, a weld between the territories of the Middle East and African Caliphate seems impossible, but if the political link should have positive developments for the two parties, there may be situations to be reckoned absolutely. Meanwhile, in his small, Boko Haram is already experiencing a capacity to aggregate to itself, smaller formations, which contribute to increase its military capacity, constituting a major problem for Western oil companies operating in African areas. The direction seems to be to emulate the Islamic state in the war against Christians and adopting spectacular forms of executions, a gruesome imitation of the techniques of executions and then distribute them on social networks. To the west it is a challenge to be met as soon as possible, to preserve its own borders too close to the shores of the Mediterranean; but this time the danger is also about China, which unofficially has already started military cooperation with African governments involved, using the same method as the American: the use of drones, which must protect its investments in Africa identified as vital to its economy. Moscow also has to be involved in the fight against Islamic terrorism, because it already has the militia within its borders and an affirmation of the Islamic State would only further endanger their security. It remains clear that the potential establishment of an Islamic state in effect extended in the Middle East and Central Africa, would have a huge scope the balance of world with a realistic ability to alter them. The ideological reasons underlying the self-styled caliphate must be the starting point for a struggle that unites states, now enemies, whose need for a common front should know overcome any conflict until the defeat of Islamic fundamentalism.