So there are at least two separate situations near Paris? One is at a kosher market (I’ve heard it referred to as a supermarket, deli, or market) on Ave Porte de Vincennes in the 13th Arr (that’d be Southeastern Paris). The other is near CDG airport.

Both appear related to each other and to the Charlie Hebdo attacks, as well as a separate attack resulting in the death of a French policewoman the other day. It’s likely all part of the same cell.

Yet, there’s something irking me about all this. We’re being told that it required training and tactics to carry off the attacks, but yet the best that this cell could manage is to kill a bunch of unarmed journalists and a couple of cops who were caught by surprise and off-guard.

Is this the best that AQ in Yemen can do - and I know that sounds off, but when looking at capabilities, al Qaeda has gone from being able to pull off attacks against the USS Cole, the embassy bombings that killed hundreds of people, and 9/11, to now being able to attack a French satire paper. That’s quite telling about the limits of what AQ is able to do more than a decade after 9/11. It doesn’t mean let your guard down, but it should also put things in perspective.

Also putting things into perspective? That the cry and hue about Muslims overwhelming Europe are so vastly overblown that a handy dandy visual is needed to hammer it home:

This is the best visualization I’ve yet seen of Europe’s “Muslim tide” hysteria pic.twitter.com/a681LGp4yR

— Doug Saunders (@DougSaunders) January 9, 2015

Or, perhaps a few statistics:

Less Than 2 Percent Of Terrorist Attacks In The E.U. Are Religiously Motivated. http://t.co/NAuKUyYXNn

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 9, 2015

And if you’re listening closely, just substitute Jew for Muslim in all those calls for banning Muslims from entering the country because the acts of a handful are indicative of the intent of all (and that’s the most limited kind of rhetoric streaming from the right, which also includes expulsion and flat out genocide). Even in France, where anti-Semitism is rampant, the fact is that most people - of all religions - just want to live in peace, and there are those who want to deny everyone that opportunity. They happen to include Islamist extremists who do not speak for all Muslims.

So, while attention is focused on Paris and the search for the Charlie Hebdo killers, there’s Muslims living in fear of Boko Haram rampaging across northeastern Nigeria, where reports of slaughter continue. That terror group is now threatening Camaroon as well, and Niger has now refused to assist Nigeria in retaking the area around Baga. Reports continue circulating that 2,000 or more people were killed by Boko Haram since the start of the year there, and that at least 20,000 people have been displaced. Some drowned attempting to flee across Lake Chad.

Yet, the silence and lack of media reports and access means that this horrific attack isn’t getting anywhere near the press coverage of the attacks in Paris.