Point of View: The world rallied for Paris following the Charlie Hebdo attacks. Why isn’t it rallying against Boko Haram?

“Why does the world pay more attention to 17 murders in France than to 2,000 murders in Africa?”

That’s the question Rex Murphy and many others are asking after a brutal massacre by the terror group Boko Haram in Nigeria received less media coverage than the terror attacks in Paris last week.

And it wasn’t just the media. More than 40 world leaders showed up in Paris this weekend for a unity rally. There was no such show of support by the world’s most powerful for the victims in Nigeria.

Murphy thinks that’s a travesty. Why do you think the massacre in Nigeria received less attention than the Paris attacks? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments.

I know the strife in Nigeria is an internal matter but still countries around th eworld should be offering troops and other help to quell this revolt by mass killers. Once again Islamic terrorists as killing Christians and Muslims to further their sick agenda. I know religion seems to be the reason but it is more than that in this country. It is about taking control of the country and they are using religion as a front for killing and taking control. I certainly hope that that is all that it is about because I can not fathom the idea of men, so savage that they would kill young children and women for the sake of a religion but then again they are Islamic and here it seems it is their excuse to kill with great zeal. We really should be bombing the living crap out of them but then again maybe Nigeria has nothing to offer the west and so the plight of innocents is just ignored.