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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

What happened in Paris was tragic, and yet a day before, ISIS had struck another city, but not in Europe.

Beirut mourns its dead; weathers comparisons to Paris

(CNN)As buildings lit up in the colors of the French flag, and the 129 people killed in Paris on Friday filled headlines, many people in Beirut felt the West -- and its news media -- had forsaken them.

A day before the French attacks, two suicide bombers had killed 43 people and wounded 239 more in the Lebanese capital in an ISIS-propagated murder.

The explosions detonated within 150 meters (490 feet) and five minutes of each other in the Bourj al-Barajneh district in southern Beirut on Thursday, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said.

But on Friday, Western cameras turned away, focusing intently on France.


And these folks didnt even rate a footnote here, on these boards.

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

What happened in Paris was tragic, and yet a day before, ISIS had struck another city, but not in Europe.

Beirut mourns its dead; weathers comparisons to Paris

(CNN)As buildings lit up in the colors of the French flag, and the 129 people killed in Paris on Friday filled headlines, many people in Beirut felt the West -- and its news media -- had forsaken them.

A day before the French attacks, two suicide bombers had killed 43 people and wounded 239 more in the Lebanese capital in an ISIS-propagated murder.

The explosions detonated within 150 meters (490 feet) and five minutes of each other in the Bourj al-Barajneh district in southern Beirut on Thursday, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said.

But on Friday, Western cameras turned away, focusing intently on France.


And these folks didnt even rate a footnote here, on these boards.

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

When there’s a mass shooting in the United States, the right insists that no one use the phrase conservatives don’t want to hear (“gun control”). But when there’s deadly terrorism, the right insists that everyone use the phrase conservatives do want to hear (“Islamic terrorism”).

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/after-paris-republicans-renew-bitter-fight-over-semantics

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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

FR

I have a few thoughts/theories about the different reactions to Paris and Beirut:

-- Sad to say, Beirut has endured strife and violence for as long as I can remember, so we're numb to its sorrows. An attack of this sort in Paris, on the other hand, was a huge shock.

-- At least in my circle of friends and family, people felt a personal connection to Paris. We'd visited there, studied there, worked there, lived there, dreamed of visiting, and so forth. On my Facebook feed, I was struck by the number of folks who knew someone in Paris at the time of the attacks and feared for their loved ones' safety. I was also jolted, looking at a map of the attacks, by how the killers had struck places I'd been to myself.

-- Paris and the U.S. have a long, if sometimes thorny, shared history. We probably couldn't have battled Britain during the Revolution without French aid, and one of our most iconic emblems--the Statue of Liberty--was a gift from France.

-- The City of Lights has, I think, a special place in the world's (or maybe just Westerners') hearts. I know I'm not alone in thinking of it almost as the capital of civilization itself. A famous saying, variously attributed to both Franklin and Jefferson, says "Every man has two countries: France and his own." So the Paris massacre was an assault on the world's heart/soul in many eyes.

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

When there’s a mass shooting in the United States, the right insists that no one use the phrase conservatives don’t want to hear (“gun control”). But when there’s deadly terrorism, the right insists that everyone use the phrase conservatives do want to hear (“Islamic terrorism”).

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/after-paris-republicans-renew-bitter-fight-over-semantics

Well they are Islamic terrotists, a perverted form of Islam to be sure, but that is what they are.

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

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ORIGINAL: BamaD

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

When there’s a mass shooting in the United States, the right insists that no one use the phrase conservatives don’t want to hear (“gun control”). But when there’s deadly terrorism, the right insists that everyone use the phrase conservatives do want to hear (“Islamic terrorism”).

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/after-paris-republicans-renew-bitter-fight-over-semantics

Well they are Islamic terrotists, a perverted form of Islam to be sure, but that is what they are.

you didnt read the link did you, lol

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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

FR

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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle

Nor is the Beirut atrocity the only one to miss out:

In north west Kenya, 147 Garissa University students were massacred by Al-Shabab militants. Al-Shabab is a Somalian Al Quada affiliate, which is at war with Kenya after Kenya took military action against the group. Previously this group was responsible for the Westgate Shopping Mall atrocity in 2013 in which some 70 odd shoppers were mown down, and numerous atrocities in its Somalian base.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-32169080

It seems Africa is even less sexy than Beirut.

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ORIGINAL: BamaD

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

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ORIGINAL: BamaD

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

When there’s a mass shooting in the United States, the right insists that no one use the phrase conservatives don’t want to hear (“gun control”). But when there’s deadly terrorism, the right insists that everyone use the phrase conservatives do want to hear (“Islamic terrorism”).

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/after-paris-republicans-renew-bitter-fight-over-semantics

Well they are Islamic terrotists, a perverted form of Islam to be sure, but that is what they are.

you didnt read the link did you, lol

As a source, I rank Madow right up there with Bozo the Clown

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961
And these folks didnt even rate a footnote here, on these boards.