Re: Boko haram massacre over 2000 people
They were done in the name of ‘freedom’ and opposing tyranny. Let’s forgive people her for using false parallels, but there are many to be made. Kudos to your final comment, though…agreed.
I think what doesn’t sit well with me and others, and perhaps it is a trivial concern in the grand scheme of things, is the lack of qualifiers. I mean, a white supremacist captures the ideology quite well…belief in the supremacy and mastery of the white race over all others. Kinda know where they stand.
But, with “fundamentalist”, or “extremist”…to my mind could very well mean anything from one who doesn’t swallow their spit in Ramadan to those who give their entire earnings away in Zakaat in preference to poverty…to those who want to wage perpetual Jihad against the world by playing the role of Sahaba and casting the rest of the world as either hypocrites or pagans.
I know, the pattern of behavior that’s being decried and labeled seems to be similar, and indeed the groups that are committing the atrocities are in fact linked (and not simply "emergent’ behavior from a sufficiently religious mindset). But it’s silly to throw their lot in with the likes of, say, the Brotherhood, or the regime in Iran. Vastly different ideologies and modes of thinking shouldn’t have the same label.