Thursday’s twin bomb blasts were the deadliest in the capital since 1990, when the civil war in Lebanon ended, but the country has always been a terror target, with 14 bombings between July 2013 and June 2014 that killed nearly 100.
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THE Muslim community in Harrow are “praying for peace” after the horrific attacks in Paris and Lebanon.
Lebanon has detained seven Syrians and two Lebanese for their alleged involvement in plotting terrorist attacks, including the two bombings that killed 43 and wounded more than 200 people in Beirut last Thursday, The Associated Press reports.
The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the bombings, the worst attack to hit the Lebanese capital in years. The heroics of one fearless man Adel Termos, who had witnessed the first bomb go off, jumped into action. It took place in Beirut – the city that many of my ancestors called home, and where I now also live and work, as a foreign correspondent.
“The numbers tally up in the Middle East too”. Instead, we should be focused on educating those who were unaware of the attacks, which will be significantly more productive than blaming those who don’t grieve for those nations we hear less about. U.S. President Barack Obama and “other world leaders” are in Turkey for a summit meeting today to discuss the attacks.
“This is a humanitarian thing, the same terrorism that kills Lebanese people, Iraqis and Syrians, killed the French”, Daoud said.
Not everyone is as forgiving of American media, however.
Joey Ayoub is a Lebanese graduate student and a regular contributor to the Global Voices website.
Nasrallah condemned the Paris attacks, saying the region which was reeling under the “earthquake of Daesh [ISIS] barbarity” felt more than any others the pain the French people were now experiencing. We dont get a safe button on Facebook.
US President Barack Obama condemned the Paris attacks as a “crime against humanity”.
At Bustle, writer Pamela J. Hobart suggests thatpeople dispense empathy via a system of concentric circles.
Although, there was outrage among a few people, others believed it was due to the ongoing conflict in areas around Lebanon and the rarity of such incidents in Paris that led to the one-sided flood of support. Do Lebanese lives matter less than the lives of those living in Paris?
The choice of the neighborhoods 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 ISIL described in a communiqué as the coming “storm”.
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It threwWestern media’s reporting into sharp relief, with strong criticism leveled at what a few saw as hugely uneven coverage of the two assaults.
