[An Nahar] Hundreds of people are feared dead in a suspected Boko Haram... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
attack on four villages in northeast Nigeria
... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
, in the latest upsurge in violence claiming increasing numbers of civilian lives.