This whole boko ish

So today while I was in church, I was thinking about the whole boko haram problem in Nigeria. I remember when it just started,  I was in my final year and I took to my Facebook page insulting and berating the cowards. For a while it was cool and we all thought we had heard the last of the boko haramites as I have come to call them. But then the attacks started all over again and a lot more aggressively this time. Slowly but gradually we all found ourselves believing that every Muslim was a boko haramite and most of us started hating them. The killings have not stopped and the hate keeps spreading, this people don't have any value for human life so its very easy to take theirs and that of the 'infidels' as we are called.
Anyway analyzing boko haram or our hatred for them is not the aim of this post. After one of their usual attacks I remember going into one of my usual tirades, stating how if I wouldn't be held criminally liable I would kill each and everyone of the boko haramites, stating how they should made to suffer before death and so on.
In the middle of my ranting, my mother said something that made a lot of sense to me. She said that Islam was only in its 1433 year, the church had also undergone a violent stage. This made a lot of sense, the church underwent a violent stage in which it waged war against people that were not accepting of Christianity, e.g of these violent outbursts include, the Spanish conquests, the crusaders, the dark ages, puritanism e.t.c. The catholic church has since apologized for these acts of violence. What am trying to say in essence is that the church in its primitive years went about things the same way and then by its own self realized the evil of its ways, changed and apologized for them. I am not trying to justify what these people are doing now or something, all I am saying is that until they accept that what they are doing is wrong, there's no amount of dialogue or war that can stop.I am not suggesting that we wait for them to realize this, am just saying that they would keep going till they realize it themselves.
Someone once said, you don't know the value of peace till you experience war, maybe its time we take the war to them. I am not asking you to go out with your arms to go fight them, what am saying is protect yourselves and your family. Lets work together, christians and muslims and together we can fight this evil that is slowly killing our brothers and sisters.