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In recent days, jihadists have killed more than 300 people in Turkey, Bangladesh, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, and many Westerners have responded with relative indifference.
In recent days, jihadists killed 41 people at Istanbul’s bustling, shiny airport; 22 at a cafe in Bangladesh; and at least 250 celebrating the final days of Ramadan in Baghdad. Then the Islamic State attacked, again, with bombings in three cities in Saudi Arabia.
By Tuesday, Michel Kilo, a Syrian dissident, was leaning wearily over his coffee at a Left Bank cafe, wondering: Where was the global outrage? Where was the outpouring that came after the same terrorist groups unleashed horror in Brussels and here in Paris? In a supposedly globalized world, do nonwhites, non-Christians and non-Westerners count as fully human?
“All this crazy violence has a goal,” Mr. Kilo, who is Christian, said: to create a backlash against Muslims, divide societies and “make Sunnis feel that no matter what happens, they don’t have any other option.”
This is not the first time that the West seems to have shrugged off massacres in predominantly Muslim countries. But the relative indifference after so many deaths caused by the very groups that have plagued the West is more than a matter of hurt feelings.
One of the primary goals of the Islamic State and other radical Islamist groups is to drive a wedge between Sunni Muslims and the wider world, to fuel alienation as a recruiting tool. And when that world appears to show less empathy for the victims of attacks in Muslim nations, who have borne the brunt of the Islamic State’s massacres and predatory rule, it seems to prove their point.
“Why isn’t #PrayForIraq trending?” Razan Hasan of Baghdad posted on Twitter. “Oh yeah no one cares about us.”
Hira Saeed of Ottawa asked on Twitter why Facebook had not activated its Safety Check feature after recent attacks as it did for Brussels, Paris and Orlando, Fla., and why social media had not been similarly filled with the flags of Turkey, Bangladesh and Iraq. “The hypocrisy is the western world is strong,” she wrote.
We need answers from the candidates on how they would deal with a deadly conflict in one of the Middle East’s poorest countries. We’re not getting them
We still do not know the exact toll from Thursday’s Plasco Building collapse, but no photo tells the story better than this one. The people of Tehran have experienced a tremendously painful loss, and no words can express their grief, but those lost were heroes, they sacrificed themselves to save others, and I hope that can bring a small level of comfort to those mourning. Today, the divides between Iran and the United States are a little smaller as we stand in solidarity with the people of Tehran. Bless the victims, the heroes, and all those touched by this tragedy.
Teenager Nenous Thabit has been making immaculate statues that resemble some of the most precious Assyrian artifacts that ISIS destroyed.
“They waged a war on art and culture, so I decided to fight them with art,”
A teenager of Assyrian descent has begun making sculptures and artwork of ancient Assyrian artifacts that were destroyed by ISIS. Greatly connected to his ancestral roots, the young man is dedicated to letting the world know about Assyrian history and culture.
It is hard to explain what is happening in Aleppo, it is difficult to comprehend and understand, it is difficult to get accurate information, but this is what is clear - Aleppo is burning. The city has been the epicentre of a largely ignored humanitarian crisis that was sparked by the Syrian Civil War in 2012, and has raged ever since. Over 400,000 people have been killed during the war, many of which were civilians, and tens of thousands of which were children. Only a fraction of the city’s population remains, those who did not flee, were either killed, or have fought for survival until this moment. Yesterday, the battle of Aleppo reportedly ended, Russia stopped bombing and Syria called a truce with rebels, but this morning, fierce fighting has resumed. While both sides claim the moral high ground, the toll it has taken on innocent civilians is undeniable. I don’t know what the answer is, I don’t know what we can do to stop the violence, but I do know it must end. I stand with the children of Aleppo, the innocents, the victims of a war that they did not want. I stand with the people who have lost it all but remain hopeful. I am not a religious man, so maybe ‘pray’ isn’t the right word, but I pray for peace for the children of Aleppo, and the children of Syria as a whole.
A Red Cross worker has pictured another Syrian girl (pictured) in a refugee camp in Jordan who became scared and raised her arms to surrender after mistaking his camera for a weapon.
Mohamed, 27, was fleeing from Syria on a boat with 50 other people when he woke up one morning to find the boat's engine had fallen off, leaving him and his fellow migrants helplessly adrift at sea. Mohamed, however, was carrying a pair of iPhones he planned to pawn, and when he unwrapped one he realized he had a signal — and a chance to save their lives.
“We learned today that Stephen Harper intervened personally to stop the arrival of Syrian refugees,” Mulcair said at a campaign stop in Toronto, where he also reminded his audience about the stunning September images of lifeless, three-year-old refugee Alan Kurdi.
“(Harper) had already done that before he appeared before us to emote, talking about his own family after seeing the body of that little child on that beach in Turkey.
“That is abject behaviour on the part of a Canadian prime minister.”
Tom Mulcair, NDP Leader Political showdown over Syrian refugees re-emerges on campaign trail (via allthecanadianpolitics)
Of those stuck in limbo, nearly 2,000 had been identified by the United Nations as being amongst the most vulnerable — and whose applications had been put on hold for at least several weeks by the Prime Minister’s Office in the spring.
Canada’s Immigration department had accumulated a backlog of nearly 7,500 applications from Syrian refugees by the time three-year-old Alan Kurdi’s lifeless body washed up on a Turkish beach at the beginning of September, the Citizen has learned.
Of those stuck in limbo, nearly 2,000 had been identified by the United Nations as being amongst the most vulnerable — and whose applications had been put on hold for at least several weeks by the Prime Minister’s Office in the spring.
The government did not respond to questions about why there was such a backlog, or how many files remain unprocessed today. But some are concerned it may be related to the government’s desire to prioritize some groups of Syrian refugees over others.
The refugee crisis emerged on the election campaign trail again Friday, after a CTV report said the Prime Minister’s Office had gone through refugee applicant files to make sure Christians and other minority groups were given priority to come to Canada.
The report alleged the Conservatives had prioritized groups with large communities already in Canada in the hopes of swaying those populations to vote for the party in the election. The report also alleged the PMO had pushed Citizenship and Immigration Canada to exclude Sunni and Shia Muslims.
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Some feared the backlog could be intentional. Figures obtained by the Citizen show between January and August, nearly 90 per cent of the 600 privately sponsored Syrians – those not referred by the UN and brought in by groups other than the government – were vulnerable religious or ethnic minorities.
In contrast, only about 20 — or six per cent — of the 350 referred by the UN and admitted into Canada fit that description. That’s because the UNHCR has resisted the government’s desire to prioritize ethnic and religious minorities. Its policy is to help the most vulnerable, no matter their religion or ethnic background.
Under fire in early September over the slow rate by which Syrian refugees were arriving, the government said it would take action to move things faster.
Canadian Council for Refugees executive director Janet Dench wondered how many Syrians who don’t fit the government’s preference when it comes to religion, ethnicity or some other category have been stuck in the queue.
“How much of it is also because some of these refugees do not meet Canada’s preferred profiles of people for resettlement and are being punished by being put at the back of the queue and made to wait?” she asked.
“And are they basically hostages that are being held in order to pass a message to the UNHCR to try to force the UNHCR to comply with Canada’s preferred profiles of people for resettlement?”
At a campaign event in Montreal, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair said the Conservatives were playing “a dangerous game,” and “intervening to make sure the neediest on Earth, those Syrian refugees, would not make it to Canada.”
Speaking in Toronto, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau expressed anger at the suggestions that PMO staff were poring through applicants’ files “to try to find out which families would be suitable for a photo-op for the prime minister’s re-election campaign. That’s disgusting.”
The ongoing surge of refugees into Europe from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and other war-ravaged countries presents a striking demographic contrast: hundreds of thousands of predominantly young people trying to get into a region where the population is older than in almost any other place on earth.
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