what the takfiri in Boko Haram did - they killed something close to 2,000 people in northeast Nigeria in what I can only describe as an epic killing spree. That's a death toll that's damned near 9/11 levels.
And yet.....very little coverage on this atrocity.
Earlier today (Saturday) several were killed in Tripoli, Lebanon when two suicide bombers set themselves off in a cafe.
Perhaps it's what many in the West consider "run of the mill" for that part of the world. The sad reality remains that the bulk of those killed by groups like al-Qaeda or IS are Muslims.
The reason they end up dead? They're the 'wrong kind' of Muslims. IS in particular has, as one of its objectives, a "purification" of the Ummah in mind as their primary goal. And they intend to achieve that "purification" through mass murder.
I have my own view - the problem, quite bluntly, is Salafism/Wahhabism. It is a cancer that is destroying the Islamic world. And what's worse - America's putative allies, the House of Saud, has spent tens of billions of dollars since the mid-1970's to propagate this toxic and virulently fanatical doctrine on a global basis. Indeed, IS is perhaps the most extreme manifestation of Wahhabism, so extreme that they're now wanting to go after Saudi Arabia itself, viewing them as insufficiently "pure".
The logical end result of extremism. And Sufis such as myself know to keep our heads down because these fanatics have made it known in no uncertain terms that people like me are - in their view - apostates who are to be killed without question.
Wahhabists have killed more Muslims than in Pamela Geller's wildest fantasies. Sad but true.