In Lebanon, at least 41 people were killed in two suicide bombings in the capital of Beirut on Thursday. However, when she was asked if she would flee Paris as soon as the border closure is lifted, she replied in a shaken but determined tone, “No. No way”.
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The two incidents are being seen as evidence the Islamic State group is activating sleeper cells, emphasizing “disruptive terror attacks” and marking an operational shift in its strategy, said Harleen Gambhir of the Institute for the Study of War in Washington. “‘We” don’t get a safe button on Facebook.
Angelina is one of the most influential and powerful personalities in the world; everything she does becomes newsworthy and she uses her fame and fortune to support a few of the most forgotten and denied people in the world. “Not having Lebanese coworkers or eating Kenyan food doesn’t make those victims’ lives matter any less, but it does place those faraway events lower down the empathy list given your particular, limited frame of reference”.
The Red Cross said at least 239 people were wounded, several in critical condition, in the blasts that hit a busy shopping street in Burj al-Barajneh, a neighbourhood where the Shiite Hezbollah movement allied to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is popular.
He added, “More than 45% of Syrian territory – that is, 80,000 square kilometers [roughly 31,000 square miles] – is now considered safe, which is more than eight times the size of Lebanon”. It is a outcome of many wars, fear of secularism, strongarm dictators, overthrown tyrants, power vacuums, colonialism, and foreign interests.
“I understand Paris is a beloved and familiar space for a lot of people, but it troubled me that #Beirut, a city my father grew up in, had received so little attention after the horrific bombings two days earlier”, she said in the caption posted alongside the poem.
A common argument is that many people may not show solidarity to Lebanon because we identify it as a Muslim nation.
USA president Barack Obama condemned the Paris attacks as a “crime against humanity”. Many of us have been criticized for overlaying our Facebook profile with the French flag, but this isn’t the time for political discussion.
When my people died, no country bothered to light up its landmarks in the colors of their flag.
Pakistani writer Bina Shah said the “safety check” feature had been used after an natural disaster in Pakistan last month and the feature was one way the company was exploring to insert its utility further into its users’ lives.
“I think there is certainly a correlation between lashing out like this and if things more broadly aren’t looking so good for the group”, Winter said.
Lebanese officials say nine people have been arrested in last week’s Beirut bombings that killed 44 people.
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“The choice of the neighbourhoods where most attacks occurred, an ethnically diverse area in eastern Paris increasingly populated by young professionals, seemed created to send the message that tolerance would be no protection against what IS described in a communiqu as the coming “storm”.
