After Attacks on Muslims, Many Ask: Where Is the Outpouring?

[yallerdawg]

A good reason not to call this "Islamic" terrorism.

Source: The New York Times, by Anne Barnard

In recent days, jihadists killed 41 people at Istanbul’s bustling, shiny airport; 22 at a cafe in Bangladesh; and at least 250 celebrating the final days of Ramadan in Baghdad. Then the Islamic State attacked, again, with bombings in three cities in Saudi Arabia.

By Tuesday, Michel Kilo, a Syrian dissident, was leaning wearily over his coffee at a Left Bank cafe, wondering: Where was the global outrage? Where was the outpouring that came after the same terrorist groups unleashed horror in Brussels and here in Paris? In a supposedly globalized world, do nonwhites, non-Christians and non-Westerners count as fully human?

“All this crazy violence has a goal,” Mr. Kilo, who is Christian, said: to create a backlash against Muslims, divide societies and “make Sunnis feel that no matter what happens, they don’t have any other option.”

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One of the primary goals of the Islamic State and other radical Islamist groups is to drive a wedge between Sunni Muslims and the wider world, to fuel alienation as a recruiting tool. And when that world appears to show less empathy for the victims of attacks in Muslim nations, who have borne the brunt of the Islamic State’s massacres and predatory rule, it seems to prove their point.

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Read it all at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/06/world/europe/muslims-baghdad-dhaka-istanbul-terror.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region

[tonyt53]

1. Damned good question.

[yallerdawg]

2. It's so very different a response.

How do they "recruit" in our countries?

Kareem Rahaman
?@dynamyk
More deaths in Iraq in the last week than Paris and Orlando combined but nobody is changing their profile pics, building colours, etc.

https://twitter.com/dynamyk/status/750305042578759680