It never ceases to amaze me that some folks think the way to win hearts and minds is by killing people.

Yes, I’m thinking of Boko Haram in Nigeria. The Islamist militants have overrun an army base in the remote northeast Nigerian town of Baga, according to this report.

Conversion by the sword may have been effective in the Seventh Century, but not so much in the 21st. (“There is no compulsion in Islam.”)