Boko Haram and the Demon Consensus

[Famous Mortimer]

I thought the calls of "Why is no one talking about Nigeria?" were ironic too.

You can be sure, if the media was actually covering it, the same people making that original call would be complaining about that story demonizing Muslims too.

Why would anyone think that pulling attention away from one Islamic fundamentalist perpetrated massacre to an even larger Islamic fundamentalist massacre would stem feelings of "Islamaphobia"?

There was an additional layer of irony if you know how Charlie Hebdo got its name. It was ribbing Charles de Gaulle after his funeral got more media coverage than the deaths of several people at a building collapse. So the people at Charlie Hebdo probably would have agreed with the people saying "What about Nigeria?" only they would have meant it more than as a knee jerk anti-Western/pro-Muslim thing.

[Famous Mortimer]

It's now widely reported that the school the initial bringbackourgirls girls were kidnapped from was a mostly Christian school. When it happened, I saw a lot of places saying it was a Muslim school, I can only assume specifically to avoid "demonizing Muslims."