re: #174 ObserverArt

I might tweet it, but if the media wanted to report on it, they would. They have access to the same info (and then some).

I don’t think I’m preaching to the choir. I wasn’t aware of the numbers—were you?

I get what you mean in the sense that most people here are aware that the primary victims are of terrorism are Muslims, but I think it’s good for everyone to be reminded of just how many lives are brutally, intentionally snuffed out each week as we sit here in comfort gabbing on our computers. Real lives, different from ours in some ways, yet not different at all in others, like 6-year-old Yaqeen who lived in Baghdad:

A grandfather’s grief on the bloodiest day Baghdad has seen in months

“We looked for her after the blast, but we couldn’t find her anywhere,” said Hussein Ali, Yaqeen’s grandfather, as he showed a creased picture of a little girl wearing dark blue leotards over white stockings. “She had gone to buy biscuits or something from the market.”

Around him, the men of the family sat on the sidewalk, their demeanor lethargic and eyes red from grief.

“We were going to go register her for school,” Ali said, his voice a steady monotone.

A moment passed before one man broke down and began to sob. Others soon joined in. […]

http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-iraq-car-bombing-20160511-story.html

Six. Years. Old. She didn’t live to see her first day of school…
*smh*