Good evening friends.
What a unnerving past couple of days this has been. Over the weekend I kept abreast of the news to a level I have not done since 9/11. Glued to CNN kind of thing.
The terror group ISIS has much more of a reach than the experts had anticipated. ISIS has been seriously underestimated.
This is an attack on mankind. Its not a Muslim thing. These extremists are killing more Muslims than any other kind of people. If people are not on their side they want them dead, period. That includes Christians, Muslims, Jews, the Western Civilization and so on and so on.
About 24 hours before the Paris Attacks, two suicide bombers killed 43 innocent civilians in Beirut Lebanon. Their worst bombing attack since 1990. Also on Thursday, In Baghdad, Iraq, a suicide bomber killed 26 civilians.
A Lebanese Doctor was quoted in the NY Times today and it saddened me. Here’s the quote; “When my people died, no country bothered to light up its landmarks in the colors of their flag,” Elie Fares, a Lebanese doctor, wrote on his blog. “When my people died, they did not send the world into mourning. Their death was but an irrelevant fleck along the international news cycle, something that happens in THOSE parts of the world.”
Sammy & Family prays for all victims of ISIS and other terror organizations. This is a global problem and we are all in this together. Its easy to get desensitized when we hear about this kind of violence in the Middle East every week. But despite mainstream media’s overlook of the two ISIS attacks on Thursday, those victims were part of families that were torn apart by senseless violence. And They are Not desensitized to that. They lost loved ones like the people in Paris, to people who have zero regard for life. They don’t even regard their own lives, that’s why they’re willing to blow themselves up in the first place.
Four Million Syrian refugees fled Syria since this conflict started two ago. So many lives are at stake, with no where to go. I don’t know what these countries will do. Will they accept some of them ? Will they deny them shelter and safety? Most of these refugees are innocent people, the problem is if a few extremists slip through the cracks, look at the damage they can do.
Its not an easy decision. Do we put National Security first, or do we put the humanitarian struggles first ? Is there a middle option to give reprieve to both sides of the fence ? The world is in a very tough spot. A few of the attackers in Paris were from France. That makes this a much tougher kind of war. It’s hard to identify the enemy.
ISIS takes no prisoners and does not care what your background is, either you’re with them, or we’re all targets.
No lives will go in vain, no pain will go unnoticed. Amen. Scott Smith for Sammy & Family.
