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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Muslima, Jeff: What's the explanation for Boko Haram razing entire villages the other day, killing at least 2000, mostly kids, women and elderly?  To date, they are estimating at killing 10k.  What is the explanation for that?  Is it the same as killing a dozen journalists and cartoonists?  The same as 4 patrons at a kosher market?  Or are all Islamic radicals killing for different reasons?  [/quote]

Occasionally there are events that are unexplainable either because we simply don't know the explanation or because the explanation is not comprehensible to us (i.e. voices in someone's head told them to commit murder). But, most of the time, people and groups act based on some logic. We often categorize that logic as being strategy or tactics. I don't know enough about Boko Haram to explain either their strategy or their tactics. But, possible explanations are that they were punishing the villagers for some reason and their brutal response was mean to intimidate other villagers that might consider doing whatever it was that provoked the punishment. Another possibility was something similar to ethnic cleansing in which they were trying to rid the territory of members of another group to make the land available for their own group.

AQAP has been very clear about why they organized the attack on Charlie Hebdo. The group has published a "hit list" of individuals they consider to be enemies of Islam. They are attempting to eliminate those enemies as punishment, to intimidate others, and to demonstrate their power (i.e. propaganda). There is also an old communist expression, "heightening the contradictions" in which actions are taken to provoke a backlash and increase divisions between groups. France has a large disaffected Muslim population. If an event like this results in a significant backlash against that population, it will only push more people into the AQAP camp. That is why I consider those who exploit events like this to attack "Islam" to be in league with AQAP and similar groups.
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