What happened elsewhere while Muslims killed 12 people in Paris

While the eyes of the world were turned on the Muslim murders of 12 people in Paris, this is what the Muslim terrorists in Nigeria were doing: Boko Haram Massacres 2000 in Attack on Baga, City Burnt to the Ground.

Nigeria’s militant Islamists have carried out a second attack on the key north-eastern town of Baga, an official has told the BBC.

Boko Haram fighters burnt down almost the entire town on Wednesday, after over-running a military base on Saturday, Musa Alhaji Bukar said.

Bodies lay strewn on Baga’s streets, amid fears that some 2,000 people had been killed in the raids, he added.

Boko Haram launched a military campaign in 2009 to create an Islamic state.

But remember: when Muslim commit atrocities, it has nothing to do with Islam!

However, as Andrew C. McCarthy points out, the Paris murders cannot be blamed on extremists.

What Charlie Hebdo has satirized is a savage reality. That reality was visited on the magazine again today. As night follows day, progressive governments in Europe and the United States are already straining to pretend that this latest atrocity is the wanton work of “violent extremists,” utterly unrelated to Islam. You are to believe, then, that François Hollande, Barack Obama, David Cameron, and their cohort of non-Muslim Islamophiles are better versed in sharia than the Muslim scholars who’ve dedicated their lives to its study and have endorsed such scholarly works as Reliance.

Let me repeat what I have detailed here before: Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State did not make up sharia law. Islam did. We can keep our heads tucked snug in the sand, or we can recognize the source of the problem.

As I detailed in Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy, the literalist construction of sharia that Islamic supremacists seek to enforce is “literal” precisely because it comes from Islamic scripture, not from some purportedly “extremist” fabrication of Islam. Moreover, this “classical sharia” is enthusiastically endorsed in principle by several of the most influential institutions in the Islamic Middle East, which explains why it is routinely put into practice when Islamists are given — or seize — the opportunity to rule over a territory.

Islam is inherently a religion of death. Anyone who has actually studied Islam as presented by actual Muslim authors and clerics (as opposed to what is presented by Western secular-liberal apologists) cannot help but take a very stout anti-Islamic stand. 

Islam is itself at war with us and everything liberal-Western society holds dear. ISIS and the rest are fighting us violently as headlines too sadly prove, but Islam is itself the problem, for it is a pure, totalist religion that does not admit of any competitor.

See also, "The Threat of a Greater Jihad." "Greater" jihad is the peaceful kind, but it is actually the greater threat to freedom and liberty.

Also my three-part series on the theology of jihad and why jihad the the central act of worship in Islam.

Part one is here, What is Jihad, Really?

Part 2

Part 3

Aayan Hirsi Ali tutors us.