Boko Haram sends 10-year-old girls to blow themselves up and massacres hundreds each week. To wipe out terror we must relate equally to all victims.
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Presidents, prime ministers and foreign ministers from over 50 nations marched Sunday arm in arm in the streets of Paris in solidarity with the 17 French citizens and police officers killed in the wave of terror that hit the country last week.
Under the slogan: #Je suis Charlie (I am Charlie)," which blossomed spontaneously on Twitter after the attack on offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine last Wednesday, and became one of the most popular hash tags in the history of the social network – an estimated 3.7 million people went out to demonstrate in France, as well as in many other cities around the world.
At about the same time, two girls blew themselves up in the market in Potiskum, a city of some 200,000 in northeast Nigeria, killing at least five people. And not a single world leader published a response or condemnation.
These girls – like another one, 10 years old, who detonated an explosive belt two days ago and killed at least 19 people in the same region, as well as other girls and women who have also blown themselves up in a similar way in recent months in the northern part of Nigeria ־ were sent to their deaths by the Boko Haram terror organization, which kidnapped them from their homes.
Pretty much. 10 years ago most people (polls in numerous western countries) agreed that the cartoons shouldn't have been published, although some said they had the right to do so. It was predicted a religious war would incur, and here we are.
Because they keep it within their own country. Radical terrorists terrorize cities all over the world such as New York and Paris. Therefore, it's on a much larger scale and involves more people on both sides. For example, if an American was killed in Nigeria then there would be more attention drawn to it or if they targeted a single group or group of people and demonstrate it by giving an individual of that group. It's just the way it is. Unfortunately.
Terrorists attacks happen so frequently there, people can't go out and rally every-time. Plus most of the killings are random and doesn't have the symbolic factor of the French ones unfortunately.
Because it's Africa. Sub Sharan Africa to be exact. So no one cares what happens there unless there's a disease or something. How long does it take other events to get to the west so they can fear monger people.
A) France is a first world country, which Americans, Britons, etc can relate to. Freedom of speech is a major tenet in almost all western democracies. People are more awake now than ever to the importance of freedom.
B) the killings in Africa seem largely senseless and ore largely in relatable to populations that don't largely see themselves in their shoes. It's all about empathy levels. Boko is like "aw how sad" while Charlie Hebdo is like "that could be me."
C) this isn't some competition
D) there was plenty of outrage over Twitter and tumblr for a few months, but the government there did little to combat the issue and little news was made. Support will only last so long without a ground game
What would be the solution? The involvement of America/Europe?. Do you want another Iraq/Syria disaster?
We can mourn for days the killed people but that would that make any difference?. These terrorists will never be stopped unless they have their heads bombed.
The government should be able protect their own people against local terrorism.
