The world is becoming immunized to the horrors of terrorism
If what occurred in Nice, France, on Thursday was a one-of-kind event, I’m certain the world’s response would be dramatically more powerful and intense. Who rents a truck with the intended purpose of driving it into a crowd of people celebrating a national holiday, with the intended purpose of running over and maiming as many as possible? Unfortunately, the world is becoming immunized to these horrors.
However unfashionable it is to bring up the ancient codes of chivalry in these micro-aggressed and progressive times, there remains in all minds that have not been reduced to captious putty, the idea of even self-proclaimed “warriors” killing women and children — innocent, defenceless and not at all complicit in the world’s woes — should shake us to the core. The act goes against all codes of honour in conflict and — regardless of how often it is breached — what has severed as a taboo in wars and conflicts throughout all history. Paris, London, Boston, Madrid, New York, Orlando, Jerusalem — it will soon be easier to name the cities not attacked than those that have been: always with the same markers, the screeching calls of Allah Akbar, and then — with a gun, bomb, pressure cooker or truck — they kill, wound and traumatize as many innocents as possible.
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Rex Murphy: The world is becoming immunized to the horrors of terrorism | National Post
If what occurred in Nice, France, on Thursday was a one-of-kind event, I’m certain the world’s response would be dramatically more powerful and intense. Who rents a truck with the intended purpose of driving it into a crowd of people celebrating a national holiday, with the intended purpose of running over and maiming as many as possible? Unfortunately, the world is becoming immunized to these horrors.
However unfashionable it is to bring up the ancient codes of chivalry in these micro-aggressed and progressive times, there remains in all minds that have not been reduced to captious putty, the idea of even self-proclaimed “warriors” killing women and children — innocent, defenceless and not at all complicit in the world’s woes — should shake us to the core. The act goes against all codes of honour in conflict and — regardless of how often it is breached — what has severed as a taboo in wars and conflicts throughout all history. Paris, London, Boston, Madrid, New York, Orlando, Jerusalem — it will soon be easier to name the cities not attacked than those that have been: always with the same markers, the screeching calls of Allah Akbar, and then — with a gun, bomb, pressure cooker or truck — they kill, wound and traumatize as many innocents as possible.
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Rex Murphy: The world is becoming immunized to the horrors of terrorism | National Post