Look, all religions are evil, and Boko Haram and ISIS are cunts - but these "Islamists" are as much the enemy of less extreme Muslims as they are of the rest of the world. The conflation of this sort of Islamism with Islam in general makes dealing with this sort of Islamism much harder. Having said that it does seem to me that there is a lot wrong with Sharia law - as far as I know what it is - in general (some bits are good, like the attitude to interest) and in the way that even moderate Islam treats women as second-class. But one cannot begin to hope that moderate Islam will come to fit more comfortably with the world if one merely assumes that Boko Haram illuminates moderate Islam.