#WeAreLahore
(#No.HashtagSolidarityIsOnlyForNicePlacesThatGetAttacked)
Be that as it may, they were wearing colorful scarves, so…
… carpet-bomb’em! Right, conservatives?
Are all the Republicans in Congress going to cut short their trips and return to Washington? Or are leaders only required to do that when a Western European country is attacked?
No. But they’ll continue to justify discrimination against gays by claiming Christianity is “under attack worldwide.” And so it goes.
One of the unfortunate byproducts of the current climate of world affairs is that the heavy preponderance of terrorist attacks in the Third World get short shrift amongst western media, while attacks against so called First World targets get blanket, relentless, in depth, coverage.
I doubt that the Third World is totally oblivious to this profound discrepancy, or the difference in level of caring that it reflects. It seems unlikely that it does anything to mitigate the resentment that so many in the Third World feel about the West, but rather contributes greatly to fertilizing the soil in which terrorist attitudes and activity have bred so virulently.
It is ironically true that the Muslim world has suffered far more from terrorism than the West, but unfortunately the West screams far more loudly, and that tends to diminish our ability to even acknowledge, let alone mitigate the pain felt in the Third World.
We might not be the primary instigators of that pain, but it would be in our best interest to both acknowledge and attempt to mitigate that pain as much as possible.
It was seemingly an attack against Christians, so it’ll definitely get more play than a Muslim on Muslim attack.
As Matt points out, it helps gin up the “Christians are under attack meme” by the same people who talk about banning all Muslims and internment camps. I don’t think they appreciate the irony.
That lot thinks irony is what one does when the washery is finished.
Why are they targeting Christians on Easter? What is their purpose? Is it ethnic cleansing? General disruption of government?
OK, I read up. From Huffington:
"Taliban faction Jamaat-ul-Ahrar claimed responsibility for the attack.
“The target was Christians,” a spokesman for the faction, Ehsanullah Ehsan, said. “We want to send this message to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif that we have entered Lahore.”"
I guess my question stands, what are these guys looking for so much that they’re willing to blow themselves up?
Nice!
If a united America can stop terrorists, and I believe it can, how much more effective would a united world be?
Conservatives need to have faith.
I guess my question stands, what are these guys looking for so much that they’re willing to blow themselves up?
It’s hard for any sane person to know, but my guess would be that they’re seeking an end to their lifelong perception of themselves as hopeless shits.