From Gateway Pundit:
Militants from Boko Haram, whose name means “Western Education Is Sin” in the regional Hausa language, bombed churches and police stations and killed 150 infidels in northeastern Nigeria on Saturday. The radical Islamists want Shariah law in Nigeria.
Robert Spencer reports wryly and ironically: "Nigeria: Muslims misunderstood Islam, shouted "Allahu akbar" as they murdered 67 in gun and bomb attacks on churches and police stations." [He wrote the headline before the death number rose to 150].
"Misunderstanders" of Islam? Spencer explains:
Occasionally people ask me what I mean by referring to Misunderstanders of Islam on this site, or ask me to stop baiting the irony-deficient by doing so. In doing so, I am making a point, of course: we're constantly told by the mainstream media, government and law enforcement that Islam is a peaceful religion that doesn't justify terrorism, and that those who think otherwise are laboring under "misconceptions" or misunderstandings about the religion. Yet that explanation leaves us with the curious phenomenon that so many Muslims apparently misunderstand Islam -- not simply in the fact that they commit violence, but in that they do so explicitly and proudly in the name of Islamic teachings on jihad warfare against unbelievers.