Militant Islam’s 2014 March
Militant Islam’s 2014 March by Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times
Year after year, the acts of Islamic militants grow more terrifying. Witness the 2012 point-blank shooting of Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai and the random slayings a year later of 60-plus shoppers at an upscale mall in Kenya.
The year 2014 was no exception. The newly dominant zealots calling themselves Islamic State produced gruesome videos of their beheading of aid workers, journalists and captured fighters. In April, Boko Haram abducted more than 270 Nigerian girls and dispatched them to sexual enslavement. As the year drew to a close, the Pakistani Taliban slaughtered nearly 150 students and staff at a military school in Peshawar.
It is a virtual certainty that freshly incomprehensible horrors are looming in 2015…
