WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?

All of a sudden men with arms starts showing up out of thin air claiming Islamic  I then start to wonder if it just an excuse or is it really for Islamic  I might be a christain but i know both originated from the same family and none will ever support killing of innocent people just to influence others,they are nothing but murderers claiming islamic. It no longer news that people are dying in the north then i asked my self what can i do? 

Nigeria is not only the country suffering from Islamic extremist but also a few other African countries  i did fear for my life and family mostly my country.it hurts me badly when i see news of people dying and numerous unburid bodies scattered every where just like a war.  just like the north is battling with the so called islamic extremist so is the southern and western facing kidnapping.

HERE IS A LITTLE HELP FROM WIKIPEDIA:Beginning with the 7th century Arab era of Muslim conquests, and continuing on until the 21st century resurgence of Muslim violence on non-Muslims in the name of "Jihad",^{[citation needed]} many have debated whether Islam was fundamentally a religion of peace, of violence, or perhaps of some combination of the two.^[2] Within the Quran itself, there appears to be some ambiguity regarding the infliction of injury upon noncombatants.^{[citation needed]} In the Quran's "No-Compulsion verse" it is suggested that "there shall be no compulsion in religion".^[3] However, later in the Quran's "Sword verses", Muslims were advised to "...Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the last day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and his messenger (Muhammad) have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth (Islam)." (The word "fight" translated from Arabic could actually be used to describe an intellectual "fight" (i.e. debate of ideas), it has to be understood depending on the situation).^[4] Down through the ages, the apparent ambiguity between such Quranic verses has left room for a multitude of differing interpretations of the final or ultimate meaning of such verses.^{[citation needed]}

Early Islamic positions on terrorism[edit]

Mark Gabriel, Founder and president of Hope for the Nations, holds that certain Quranic verses such as the Quranic "Sword verses" have been instrumental in promulgating various forms of Islamic terrorism since the very beginnings of Islam ca. 622 AD.^{[5][unreliable source?]} Yet sources indicate that there are no such verses in the Quran that mention the word "Sword".^[6]Some scholars, such as Mark Burgess of the Center for Defense Information, would trace the roots of Islamic terrorism only as far back as the 11th-century Assassins, an order of Isma'ili Shi'ism that targeted political and religious opponents who stood in the way of the Assassins' sectarian ideology. In positing a continuity between Islamic terrorism's medieval and modern manifestations, Burgess identifies a common underlying motive, namely loyalty to a divine imperative, and similar tactics, such as actively seeking out martyrdom.

So many years passed that i heard of kidnapping for ransom unlike now where family members gets missing and the bones will decay somewhere remote with the flesh in someones system. it no longer news that cannibalism is rampant in Nigeria of today. I only traced it to those days of Elijah when the two women fought and reported to the king,every knows the story as it was covered up but nw it beyond that. only the messiah can help us out of this mess. For it now everywhere.