Boko Haram controls about 20,000 square miles of territory - an area the size of Belgium http://t.co/jFSuYkzkXl pic.twitter.com/KatU9eA21T

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) January 11, 2015

US media outlets continue to ignore the whole situation, from the massacre of a reported 2,000 people at the hands of Boko Haram to the fact that the terror group now controls territory the size of Belgium. This isn’t some overhyped threat like the so-called Muslim wave sweeping over Europe where the perception that Muslims make up 30% of the population in France when it’s no more than 8%. Other countries see similar overestimations of Muslims as a percentage of the population.

Or that 98% of the terror attacks across Europe are non-Islamic terrorism derived.

We’re talking about an Islamic terror group that now controls a territory the size of Belgium. That’s a threat on par with ISIL in Syria/Iraq or the Taliban/AQ in Afghanistan/Pakistan. They are a huge regional threat, and one that may set its eyes beyond central Africa.

And yet, US media outlets can barely find the space to report on this.

NYT? No mention on website’s front page. FoxNews? Nothing. NBC News? 1 mention (below the fold in the investigations section). WSJ has a reference to Islamists in Nigeria, but doesn’t mention Boko Haram unless you click through - again below the fold).

CNN has a link, just below the fold.