When a friend told me past midnight to check the news about Paris, I had no idea that I would be looking at a map of a city I love, delineating locations undergoing terrorist attacks simultaneously. I zoomed in on that map closer; one of the locations was right to where I had stayed when I was there in 2013, down that same boulevard.
The more I read, the higher the number of fatalities went. It was horrible; it was dehumanizing; it was utterly and irrevocably hopeless: 2015 was ending the way it started – with terrorists attacks occuring in Lebanon and France almost at the same time, in the same context of demented creatures spreading hate and fear and death wherever they went.
I woke up this morning to two broken cities. My friends in Paris who only yesterday were asking what was happening in Beirut were now on the opposite side of the line. Both our capitals were broken and scarred, old news to us perhaps but foreign territory to them.
Today, 128 innocent civilians in Paris are no longer with us. Yesterday, 45 innocent civilians in Beirut were no longer with us. The death tolls keep rising, but we never seem to learn.
Amid the chaos and tragedy of it all, one nagging thought wouldn’t leave my head. It’s the same thought that echoes inside my skull at every single one of these events, which are becoming sadly very recurrent: we don’t really matter.
When my people were blown to pieces on the streets of Beirut on November 12th, the headlines read: explosion in Hezbollah stronghold, as if delineating the political background of a heavily urban area somehow placed the terrorism in context.
When my people died on the streets of Beirut on November 12th, world leaders did not rise in condemnation. There were no statements expressing sympathy with the Lebanese people. There was no global outrage that innocent people whose only fault was being somewhere at the wrong place and time should never have to go that way or that their families should never be broken that way or that someone’s sect or political background should never be a hyphen before feeling horrified at how their corpses burned on cement. Obama did not issue a statement about how their death was a crime against humanity; after all what is humanity but a subjective term delineating the worth of the human being meant by it?
What happened instead was an American senator wannabe proclaiming how happy he was that my people died, that my country’s capital was being shattered, that innocents were losing their lives and that the casualties included people of all kinds of kinds.
When my people died, no country bothered to lit up its landmarks in the colors of their flag. Even Facebook didn’t bother with making sure my people were marked safe, trivial as it may be. So here’s your Facebook safety check: we’ve, as of now, survived all of Beirut’s terrorist attacks.
When my people died, they did not send the world in mourning. Their death was but an irrelevant fleck along the international news cycle, something that happens in those parts of the world.
And you know what, I’m fine with all of it. Over the past year or so, I’ve come to terms with being one of those whose lives don’t matter. I’ve come to accept it and live with it.
Expect the next few days to exhibit yet another rise of Islamophobia around the world. Expect pieces about how extremism has no religion and about how the members of ISIS are not true Muslims, and they sure are not, because no person with any inkling of morality would do such things. ISIS plans for Islamophobic backlashes so it can use the backlash to point its hellish finger and tell any susceptible mind that listens: look, they hate you.
And few are those who are able to rise above.
Expect the next few days to have Europe try and cope with a growing popular backlash against the refugees flowing into its lands, pointing its fingers at them and accusing them of causing the night of November 13th in Paris. If only Europe knew, though, that the night of November 13 in Paris has been every single night of the life of those refugees for the past two years. But sleepless nights only matter when your country can get the whole world to light up in its flag color.
The more horrifying part of the reaction to the Paris terrorist attacks, however, is that some Arabs and Lebanese were more saddened by what was taking place there than what took place yesterday or the day before in their own backyards. Even among my people, there is a sense that we are not as important, that our lives are not as worthy and that, even as little as it may be, we do not deserve to have our dead collectively mourned and prayed for.
It makes sense, perhaps, in the grand sense of a Lebanese population that’s more likely to visit Paris than Dahyeh to care more about the former than about the latter, but many of the people I know who are utterly devastated by the Parisian mayhem couldn’t give a rat’s ass about what took place at a location 15 minutes away from where they lived, to people they probably encountered one day as they walked down familiar streets.
We can ask for the world to think Beirut is as important as Paris, or for Facebook to add a “safety check” button for us to use daily, or for people to care about us. But the truth of the matter is, we are a people that doesn’t care about itself to begin. We call it habituation, but it’s really not. We call it the new normal, but if this normality then let it go to hell.
In the world that doesn’t care about Arab lives, Arabs lead the front lines.
A Separate State of Mind | A Blog by Elie Fares 
My condolences to your people. You are 100% right. Each single life matter, doesn’t matter what nationality it is from. Media and the narrow vision from the governments and the people sometime hurts our world more than a terrorist group, simply because it allows these groups and attacks, choosen when they matter and when they not.
My prays and my condolences to your people.
LikeLike
It is a terrible evil what happened in Beriut. But as you said in this article, ISIS and other terrorist organizations will commit atrocities in the name of Allah, and then expect a backlash of Islamaphobia. SO RISE AGIANST THEM AND TAKE YOUR RELIGION AND IDENTITY BACK!!!!!!!!! The west doesn’t see he Arab world standing up against ISIS and terrorism. They idley stand by and watch it take over their communities. STAND UP AND FIGHT THE TERRORISM!!!!!!!
LikeLike
Yes that’s what im talking about! It’s not that the white man is saying your lives don’t matter it’s your own people saying that! Do something about it, Muslims need to do something about IS in their own countries before jumping down anytime else’s throats that they don’t care! Yes these things do happen in the middle east. That is a sad way of life over there. White man has not created that…..so yeah when it comes to France we’ll make a bigger deal about it.
LikeLike
White man is not the only cause but behind of many: http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/from-pol-pot-to-isis-anything-that-flies-on-everything-that-moves/
LikeLike
Are you an idiot??
DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY ISLAMIST GROUPS ARE FIGHTING ISIS IN SYRIA?
READ THE F NEWS.
LikeLike
and these islamist groups fighting ISIS may well be as bad as ISIS (if not worse) but they just have different ideologies.
LikeLike
100000 Muslims have died over the past 2 years fighting Isis , so when you say stand up and take your land back , well there it is… Then you say , well those Muslims have hidden agendas and I say… Nothing
Because nothing I say will help you see the light unfortunately.
LikeLike
WRONG! Arab world ARE standing up against ISIS, that is why vast majority of ISIS victims are Muslims.
LikeLike
Pingback: The one where I don’t #PrayforParis | The Great Affair
Thank you for your insightful comments. It summarizes many of my thoughts and experiences in this regard and put into words what I could not! #finallyfeelingunderstood
LikeLike
How dare you, when western lives are killed trying to help your Arab countries you dare to say we don’t care. When European countries are taking in those millions of Arab refugees, giving food health and homes, while your own Arab countries are refusing to take other Arabs. And you acuse us of Islamaphobia when your medevil sky god is the cause of all this suffering. We have just been bombed, and rather than condem Isis you want to attack the victims for not giving you enough media coverage! SERIOUSLY! Get over yourself,
LikeLike
Help? Did they help when they bombed Irak to pieces and gave fuel to the rising of more terrorgroups base on lies. Did they help when Afghanistan was blown UP or with the droneattacks om innocent civilians inn Pakistan andre Jemen? Did they help in Libya when they left the country a total mess. Yes the west helps itself securing the recources in the middleeast for themselves.
LikeLike
FYI – Arab countries are taking in refugees. Lebanon (the size of Devon and Cornwall) have taken in 2 million plus refugees from Syria. Saudi (yea dreadful place, I know!) has also taken a huge influx, to name but a few Arab countries. Refugees coming into Europe are trying to reach relatives and friends. The root cause of all this suffering is nought to do with this ‘sky god,’ and all to do with many years of western intervention in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine. It’s all about oil and natural minerals. You only need to google these countries and see for your self what natural riches they have. Isis is sadly, is a horrible consequence of all western invasion. ISIS and have murdered 200,000 muslims,. Isis are constantly slated by ‘muslims’ but our western, corporate/zio controlled media will not publish this as is the case of which countries take in refugees.
LikeLike
Blame their leaders for being too stupid to not exploit their own resources. This is a cutthroat world so if you can’t stomach it, stay home little boy
LikeLike
The western world had no business interfering with the affairs of foreign countries in the first place. However they did – they created the tragedies that take place today all over the world and the least they could do is take in the people running away from those horrific wars. And while we mourn the death of the people in Paris the wars do not stop and people keep on dying. And your own Islamophobia shows your own ignorance. I would suggest that you go and educate yourself before commenting.
LikeLike
@stewartgxyz, how about you stop being ignorant and get your face out of your ass and actually listen to what the writer was saying. Lebanon was bombed a day before Paris was even touched and we were not given the support that Paris was given. You guys all ignore that Lebanon and Syria are a country where there are innocent lives whether they are christian or muslim. Yes Paris was bombed and it was a horrible thing and people were supporting them but where was everyone when Lebanon was bombed, there was no social media movement for us.
LikeLike
”while your own Arab countries are refusing to take other Arabs” . Tell me which country have the most Syrian refugees? LEBANON and it is an Arab country. Think twice before writing. Islam is not ISIS.
LikeLike
@StewartGxyz, we will leave your countries when you will leave our countries.
LikeLike
The only reason we are in your countries is you aren’t in control. Your nations are run by corrupt and evil savages that seek to spread fear, hate and destruction for the Apocalypse. Your leaders have sold you out, putting you in harms way for their own greed
LikeLike
oh please, i supose you are from SAD, your country put their nose where they shouldnt all the time, you created those refugees…the writter of the text is 100% right, sadly some nations are more important than others, a few days ago hundreds of students were massacred in Kenya, no one cares, there is no profile pictures on facebook in the colors of Kenyan flags.My country lowerd its flags to half-mast, although NATO bombarded it and people of france did not symphatize with inocent victims of my people.I realy feel sad for those people who died there, but every life is worth in any country not just from the ritch west.
LikeLike
and you know why ? because your LEADERS want to control all the oil in the world and guess what? 77% of oil reservoirs happen to be in the middle east. do you know what happened to a saudi king faicail in 1973 who refused to be the us little puppy by cutting off oil supplies and depriving the west from oil ? he was killed. do you know what happened to iranian prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh when he tried to nationalize iranian oil ? the us and the uk were not happy so they prepared a putsh against him which led to the actual iranian government which the west is always complaining about whereas they were a huge part in creating it. do you why know there is a civil war in iraq? it’s because the us attacked the country in 2003 because there was inexistant “destruction arms”, but then years later the us says ohh attacking iraq was a mistake,sorry!, and what’s the point in saying that after killing thousands of iraqi children! do you know why there was a civil war in lebanon for 15 years? it’s because israel was so disturbed by the lebaneese model that they wanted to destroy the country. and the list can go on for forever. so if you think that the west is doing good “leadership” in our arab and muslim coutries you are living in a big illusion it’s time for you to stop watching CNN my dear and it is time for you to see that YOUR LEADERS WHO ARE IN CONTROL because they are “civilized” need to mind their own business deal with their own shit and give us some peace.
LikeLike
“And you acuse us of Islamaphobia when your medevil sky god is the cause of all this suffering.”
……………please tell me this is a joke
LikeLike
As small a gesture as it may be, please know that the majority of people despise the way our western media portrays world events, and despises the way our governments act in return. I am British, living in Germany and we just want the bombs to stop, the hate to end, and above all the need for revenge to be forgotten. We feel sadness and regret whenever something happens in the middle east or elsewhere and lives are lost. For the attacks in Paris, we do not believe that the refugees are to blame, and will not stop helping them. We also know that drone strikes in ‘retaliation’ are a cause, not a solution. We can do nothing to stop them, we have no voice, our leaders do not listen. They are too invested in war.
I would love to connect with other people, regardless of where they are in the world, regardless of religion or belief, who are just trying to live their lives and love their neighbour – if you feel the same then feel free to connect and share opinions because I believe the West NEEDS to understand more about the opinions and lives of everyday people in African, Arabic and other countries around the world – people who don’t fuel this conflict, and just worry about their family, their jobs, their homes etc – because their are millions of us across the world in that boat, without investment in hate. x
LikeLike
Very well said!
LikeLiked by 2 people
Exactly how I feel here in Canada. I want want to open my arms to all, I just wish the violence and misunderstanding would stop.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Beautiful. Agreed.
The hideous, knee-jerk, bigoted, ignorant, anti-Arab morons are in the (VERY LOUD) minority.
That does not mean, however, that westerners view the attacks as equal, and there are many reasons for that.
For one:
The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor, was BUILT BY GUSTAVE EIFFEL, and dedicated on October 28, 1886. IT WAS A GIFT to the United States from THE PEOPLE OF FRANCE.
For another:
I hope this, and all my other posts on the issue may help explain what some are feeling is an unfair lack of focus on Beirut, versus Paris. Please scroll my page. There is a great more to think about here than a presumed lack of concern for arab lives that many are feeling is the sole factor. For the VAST MAJORITY of people I know, such a predjudice is not a factor at all.
When gun deaths, and massacres happen here in the USA, as they so often do, and almost SOLELY committed by natural born American Citizens, we think: “Another day in America. Our culture breeds this. It is our own fault. No, NOT all of us, but the terrorists among us in the form of the NRA, politicians, gun nuts, crazies who want to impress Jodie Foster, or think John Lennon is “a phony,” and, of course, all the people who lack reading comprehension when it comes to the 2d ammendment.
The rest of the world AGREES with that assessment. *I* agree with it, as much as I feel a victim of it, and fight to effect change.
So, during the increasing number of attacks on Paris by foreign militants, versus REPEATED coups, assasinations, attacks, bombings, and so forth by warring factions within a wartorn nation, it is NOT, for lack of sympathy for all the people who suffer horribly every day, but it is a certain acceptance that, that’s “another day in Lebanon.”
Moreover:
Many of us, worldwide, know and love Paris, and France. That is completely deserved adoration, as is all your sorrow and sympathy for the horrifying attacks.
Anyone who suggests otherwise is not making sense.
Lebanon is visited by c. 1.1 million foreign tourists annually.
France, on the other hand, is visited by c. 84.7 million foreign tourists annually, making it the MOST POPULAR TOURIST DESTINATION IN THE WORLD.
The Eiffel Tower is THE MOST VISITED paid-entry monument IN THE WORLD.
What people are trying to say is that OTHER horrible attacks happened in places we, as westerners, simply do not have the same cultural attachment to, or even much knowledge of, culturally, geographically, artistically, etc.
I think ALL THE WORLD would be best served by sharing more about the wonders of their cultures than by trying to make anyone question their attachment to the undeniable glory of Paris; of France.
FOR EXAMPLE:
Here’s a bit about the beauty of Beirut & Lebanon (before Thursday’s attacks).
“On an early Sunday morning, waiting for the second M.E.A flight to Paris, thinking about Lebanon, about the positive things we don’t see and the negative feedbacks we stipulate on a daily basis.
We have a wonderful treasure, that needs a bit of attention. Its 8 a.m, the plane doors close, i grab my laptop, close my eyes and think about the things i would miss about Lebanon and 21 reasons came to my mind that make Lebanon, the most beautiful country in the world:”
http://www.beirutnightlife.com/lifestyle/cultural/21-reasons-why-lebanon-is-the-most-beautiful-country-in-the-world/
LikeLike
Great piece. My thoughts exactly. I wrote a piece on the disingenuity in most of the profile picture changes and facebook prayers. https://danumedawatte.wordpress.com/2015/11/15/facebook-prayers-and-empathy-filters/
LikeLike
I have been moved and deeply affected by your writing. It saddens me that such things are happening and my heart goes out sincerely to the people of Beirut.
It’s so frustrating, that many many people like myself, a working -white- mother, who tries to live an honest and good life, are presumed to not care.
It is only because the majority of the general public are not aware of such events, because the ‘powers that be’ along with western news reporting and media, filter and manipulate what information is give to the general public.
The terrorists and the media, between them both, are turning decent kind and normal people upon each other, in particular making Muslim families feel uncared for and victimised.
It makes no difference to me (most people would think the same way I’m sure) as to the colour or religion of a person. Most people do care and most people are deeply upset by these events; but if they didn’t know about Beirut because of the lack of information given in the daily news, then it is not just our societies, but the media that should be changed.
Some of us do care about Arab lives, as they are human lives too.
My Christian prayers go out to all the victims, their families and their loved ones.
LikeLike
What can we do to help Beirut? Is there a specific organisation we can send money to to help fund medical, food, water, etc. costs?
LikeLike
My friend, what you write is unfortunately true. But all that I can say is that people will not respect you unless you respect yourself. Unless people like you write about it, point it out on various platforms majority will not listen. Mostly people are ignorant. Colouring the monuments in any country’s flag is just a marketing gimmick. I don’t think people even care for the fallen Parisians.
LikeLike
Pingback: what is there to say | Memory Sandwich
All lives do matter. And I hear what you are saying.
In defense of the Western world, let me say this: as a tourist destination, Paris beats Beirut many times over. Millions more people can relate to something happening in Paris because they have visited there.
While our news is biased and politicized, it is also true that bombings don’t occur every month or so in Paris like they do in the Middle East. Reporting on bombings/suicides in the Middle East is like reporting on gun deaths in the US. It’s just too many. It’s not news anymore.
I would like to think that perhaps what is happening via social media is that the average person can now be informed better and can now organize responses/support at the grass roots level. All of us have trusted politicians and our governments, and yes, “God,” to solve these problems for us. But the politicians are more interested in oil, power, money and control and God — well, that’s another story.
It is up to us, the little people, whose lives do matter more than political games, to stand up to these few zealots with twisted minds. To let them know we will not fall into their depraved, barbaric way of thinking. And I’m not talking about just ISIS. I’m talking about the Western military machine, too. We the little people have to stand up and say NO MORE BOMBS, No MORE GUNS. No more eye for an eye. Quit sending our kids to these wars. Quit spreading the hate.
LikeLike
Reblogged this on The Cookie Jar.
LikeLike
@Anupam Kumar, I care about those dead Parisians. It don’t think that in 2015 simple people like you and me, that live a normal life and strive to evolve and progress, should die because of some religious fanatics. As for the article, what do you expect when your Islamic laws, from the Qu’ran paragraph 9:29, state that non-Muslims should die, just because we don’t cherish your precious Allah? I mean… of course, it’s a sad fact that people died (arabs, french, etc.), because no life should be considered less or more precious than another, but since they throw fanatic threats like that… and even try and pursue them, then they deserve their fate. If you Arabs want to join the rest of the world, if you want to be respected and accepted you must leave your fanatic beliefs, your craving for killing in the name of Allah, your incredible selfishness and be more humble, and more towards life and respect for life, no matter what ! I don’t say that the rest of the world is perfect, because it is not of course, but at least we don’t kill people in the name of God.
LikeLike
Some comment
LikeLike
…. Yeah sure…Specially the “arab world” doesn’t care for Beirut (I also don’t see Arabs countries’ condolences for Beirut or Syrian people as they have refused refugees to enter their countries….. Or…. For Most of the victims of terrorists attacks in Arab countries and Africa are people with different religion than Islam….And God forbid the Arab “world” to empathize with Israeli victims of terrorism ….
YES truly an indifferent world …and evil MEDIA….
And the narrow scope of criticism pointing fingers from your blog.
It’s not a race in popularity … BOTH attacks at the same time by the same enemy… And here you are… Antagonizing again Europe vs Middle East bra bla instead of looking beyond it and invite people to join the battle against the true enemy: INTOLERANCE.
So stop posting against Empathic reactions and spreading HATE
LikeLike
Pingback: The World This Week: Terror in Beirut, Baghdad and Paris - Fair Observer
I care. No idea how to help other than hating hate, but I care.
LikeLike
Pingback: Analysis: Just as innocent - comparing Beirut and Paris - AlJazeeratoday.co.uk
Pingback: From Beirut, This Is Paris: In A World That Doesn't Care About Arab Lives - LiberalVoiceLiberalVoice — Your source for everything about liberals and progressives! — News and tweets about everything liberals and progressives
As a white agnostic American woman, I want you and anyone reading this to know that I stand in solidarity with you. I stand with you even if my government does not. And there are many people I know from a similar demographic who do as well. Not enough, it is true, but more than the bought-and-paid-for media would lead others to believe.
LikeLike
Offcourse I find it awfull when innocent people are suffering or were killed regardless of their religion or in which country they live. But I think it’s natural that you are more emotional involved when it’s close to you. That’s the same as for example when somebody you know very well is sick or a aquintance is sick then you are also more emotional involved with someone you know very well.
LikeLike
Pingback: From Beirut, This Is Paris: In A World That Doesn't Care About Arab Lives - Democratsnewz
Pingback: Analysis: Just as innocent - comparing Beirut and Paris - Business Website
Pingback: Analysis: Just as innocent – comparing Beirut and Paris | On Your Step
Pingback: From Beirut, This Is Paris: In A World That Doesn’t Care About Arab Lives | News Feed
I agree, it doesnt happen in Paris everyday thats why every single one is outraged. Bombings in your countries are nothing new. They are part of your culture so get over it
LikeLike
Bombings in our country is nothing new, so let them murder more innocent men, women and children and us be fine with it? Lovely humanity you have there.
Would it be okay if I told you to get over mass shootings of school children in the US because well, it’s part of their culture and they’ve had many of those already, and would they stop whining already please?
You obviously missed the whole point of the post. No wonder, you have no empathy or humanity.
LikeLike
Pingback: From Beirut, This Is Paris: In A World That Doesn't Care About Arab Lives - AltoSky - AltoSky
I am British and white. Your first photo has much impact. I have posted it onto my Facebook and shared it. I hope you don’t mind. Also, I think you should share it with as many people and sites as you possibly can. It takes time to change people’s attitudes, but your article contributes to this change. Do not become too despairing, though. Many people are thoughtless, not cruel, and need a nudge or two to raise their awareness of their behaviour.
LikeLike
Pingback: Analysis: Just as innocent – comparing Beirut and Paris | TimeOutPk
Yes the world absolutely cares more when it’s a combination of happening in the west + happening in predominantly white (whether by outside appearance or in reality) spaces. The media focuses nonstop on the event and that also increases exposure and the amount of sympathy people easily have available for victims in the spaces I mentioned above. This was easy to see in April after the shootings that happened around the same time in Kenya (a college) and France (newspaper). Everyone was jumping on the Je Suis Charlie train and there was almost nothing for Kenyan victims. People, companies also want to do what others are doing.
Anyway, I learnt my lesson then. You learn over and over that people reserve sympathy and understanding for certain types of people (this even leads to some having less sympathy and understanding for their own people! It’s the saddest thing ever)! Then they’ll jump through SO MANY HOOPS to justify their thinking. Whatever, I’ve given up on hoping for anything different, sorry.
LikeLike
Hi,
Thank you for writing this. It was insightful to how media portrays different news in the media. I would have to say that I care about Arab lives lost, not only Arab but Egypt, African, everywhere in the world that has lost lives due to terrorism/wars. But the truth is that people only know about news through various forms of media. For me, I only knew about Paris attacks through numerous postings on FB. And how I knew about bombings in Beirut was also through the same social media. So my friends do care, they care enough to share articles and various posts commending the heroic efforts of Adel Thomas and also on the thoughtless killing of Arabs in mosques. I would have to say though, in light of everything, it is our lives that do not matter. Not particularly Arabs only, but Parisians, Americans, Syrians, every nationality that has been affected by terrorism. Why do I say that? Because ISIS is killing everyone that does not agree with their cause, it seems that ISIS thinks our lives do not matter. None of us is ever safe, except for ISIS, because I don’t think they kill each other, do they? The real enemy is ISIS, and we all should bond together to fight ISIS together because it’s either them or us.
LikeLike
Pingback: From Beirut, This Is Paris: In A World That Doesn’t Care About Arab Lives | USA News Today
Pingback: Analysis: Just as innocent - comparing Beirut and Paris -RocketNews
You want to know why the same reaction isn’t given by the US? It’s because the US doesn’t have the same relationship with Lebanon that it has with France:
– doesn’t deploy troops with the US as France does.
– doesn’t share financial burdens with the US as France does.
– doesn’t share intelligence as deeply with the US as France does.
– doesn’t enjoy a rich political history with the US (France helped the US be born, US bailed out France in WWI and WWII, Cold War).
– doesn’t share a common rich cultural history with US as France does.
– has Hezbollah as a political party, which US considers a terrorist organization.
– publicly stated it will be the last country to sign a peace treaty with US’ largest ally in the region (guess who?)
Pro-tip: your country can stop being friendly with Syria and Hezbollah and Iran, and actually engage the US from a position of trust. I’ll leave Israel alone.
Providing a place where the US feels it won’t lose hundreds of Marines in a terrorist bombing attack might go a long way, too. Remember 1983? We tried to provide a stability and security to your country and shed blood in the hundreds for it. Any sympathy from you there?
And you wonder why it’s different? Really?
LikeLike
There’s always a bigger victim.
LikeLike
Reblogged this on Iran Unveiled.
LikeLike
I care about not only “your people” but about all people everywhere. All the killing must end to be replaced by talks and negotiations. All the killing has benefitted no one and caused immeasurable harm. It is very confusing to “outsiders” as to what is taking place. Sunnis kill Shiites, Shiites kill Sunnis. ISIS kills Sunnis, Shiites, Christians and everyone else. WAHABISTS are not understood in the West. The only thing all Muslim groups agree on is that they wish to kill/eradicate all Israelis. The deaths of INNOCENTS FURTHERS NO CAUSE. Shiites cheer when they kill anyone anywhere. Sunnis cheer when they kill anyone anywhere. ISIS celebrates every murderous event they perpetrate. ALL MUSLIM GROUPS CELEBRATE ANY ISRAELI DEATHS THEY CAN CLAIM TO HAVE CAUSED. My heart goes out to the families of the victims in Beirut and Paris. What would you have us feel, say, do about thus situation? I live in the USA. I am elderly. I very much want the killing to stop.
LikeLike
Pingback: What could I write? | Scott's Scribbles
I guess there’s some truth in your article. I must say I’m a frenchman, I went in Lebanon twice a few years ago, and loved it and it’s people. But during my two stays, in which I tried to visit the many major places of the country, north to south, coast to moutain, I was surprized to hear my friends, which are well-educated people, speaking more languages than I can, telling me that they never went to the places I visited in those three weeks. My friend from Trablous didn’t know Sour, my Beyrouthins friend had never gone to see the splendor of Baalbek. I presumed that was some sequels of the not so late civil war…
Though, I think the targets of 2015’s attacks are meaningfull for those unbelievers barbarians. I mean, except fot real tactical purpose, for which I know they are doing the same in Syria, or Irak or Lybia, they are only attacking countries and cities significant for their cultural and intellectual traditions and freedom: Lebanon and especially Beyrouth, Tunisia (and the museum showing the pre-islamic culture, by the way a lebanese-born one), and France, which was not so long ago (I fear we’re not anymore) the reference for many arabic-speaking leaders, authors and scientists. And that too, should be clear amongst lebanese (or tunisian) people, and emphasized by other nations.
LikeLike
It’s not that westerners don’t care! Media represent only small parts of what really goes on. In our media we hear very little about muslims who speak out against terrorism, and likely your media tell you little about how shocked and worried and concerned normal people in the west are about what happens in much of the arab world. It seems as if lack of empathy, mistrust and stereotypes are promoted. Maybe that should be our worry. To keep believing in the good will of ordinary people. Because believe me, there are those. And they weep for Beiruth, for Syria, for Kenya and all those other places where ordinary life is taken from ordinary people.
LikeLike
You DO matter! And I stand with you in my heart and prayers! I am an American! But we are ALL humans and your lives matter, your feelings, your hopes and dreams and your fears. I feel the same way you do, I feel the world chooses who the masses feel for and who they blame. I am here to tell you, I will flying your countries flag on my Facebook page, and my family stands beside you and your people in our hearts. Blessings to you.
LikeLike
I feel you ❤
LikeLike
This is so true and so heartbreaking. Please remember there are an awful lot of people who feel and still strive to get this point across on social media and as global citizens feel all humans are precious and equal
LikeLike
People from Paris thank you and share your tears about french and lebanese victims alike. We hope to live the same life and our ennemies are now the same. I don’t pray but my thought is with you now, since the eighties and until we can share the same peace from Paris to Beirut, Sour and Baalbek.
LikeLike
The reason Beirut is not the same is that France is the West in that it’s similar to America, Canada etc. Lebanon is a mess with Iran’s creation of Hezbollah causing havoc just to undermine Israel. Any group which seeks, whether actively or compliantly, the destruction of another race deserves no sympathy. In France its savages killing and hurting the complete innocent while Lebanon is one side striking another. In Lebanon its just another day.
LikeLike
Pingback: The bombings in Beirut vs France | Iran Unveiled
Alas! Muslim blood is like a cheap liquid now, what matters is the west blood
LikeLike
Alas! Muslim blood is like a cheap liquid now, but not the western blood, as it is the most sacred thing in this F hypocrite world.
LikeLike
When your own people value each other then come and talk to me. Muslims kill more Muslims than anyone else
LikeLike
i am supposed to be french but you’re right, fuck that, let’s all be from earth.
love.
LikeLike