A now-common extremist claim is that education is acculturating African and Asian children to Western ways of thinking (Boko Haram in the local Hausa dialect means “Western education is a sin”). Moreover, extremists like Boko Haram and Al-Shabab calculate that they can attack schools with impunity.
但对于这一袭击儿童的潮流，还有另一个更有力的解释。目前，一个常见的极端主义主张是教育让非洲和亚洲儿童与西方思维同化（博科圣地在其所在地豪萨（Hausa）方言中的意思是“西方教育是一种罪恶”）。此外，博科圣地和青年党这样的极端组织认为他们可以袭击学校并且逍遥法外。