As a young person who tries to keep up with the news, I am having trouble understanding why there are only a few articles on the terrorist attacks in Beirut, Lebanon. Both Paris and Beirut attacks were in the middle of the public. Both attacks included triple-digit casualties. And both attacks were executed by the terrorist group ISIS.
If you haven’t heard about the attack in Beirut, it included two suicide bombers that were detonated by an open-air market. The casualties include 43 dead, and 239 injured. My problem is that it seems like there have been two tragedies in one weekend, but one of these tragedies is not seen as equal to the other. To me I see a little bit of racism in the fact that most people in the Paris attacks were white, but most people in the Beirut attacks were Arabic. I feel that we should publicize both tragedies because both are equally horrible. If the media doesn’t see that then it is clearly being either a puppet on strings or just out-right racist.
Micah Palmaffy
Everett
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