132 victims. The worst terrorist attack in Europe after the 11 massacre in March 2004 at Atocha station in Madrid, which counted 191 well. The civilized, democratic, enlightened and cultured world is shocked ...
In warm blood, few will be able to share but allow a comparison. The quarter of a million victims of the Syrian civil war - actively fed by the Gulf monarchies, the United States, European countries (including France) and other NATO colleagues such as Turkey - divided by the 1700 days since the first clashes (15 March 2011) gives 147 deaths per day. It is a horrible but not cynical calculation. It is an operation that serves to make people understand how much the abomination put in place the other day last night has only touched on the average that one lives daily in Syria from 5 years.
Are we therefore sure of being better than the extremists we so much despise?
Of course, those bastards who perform certain atrocities (just go to YouTube and write "Syria 18 +" to watch some of the most nefarious actions in history) must be exterminated.
But remember that if we can ignore other massacres by looking away and pretending nothing, we are no better than them.
When do we react? The moment they approach and hit fellow citizens, maybe gods Christians?
L'islamicità of ISIS militants is equivalent to the degree of Christianity Western "crusaders" in their propaganda.
No one in the West believes that the war against the self-styled Islamic State is a "crusade", if it is therefore impossible because we are instead so convinced that the enemies are "the Muslims"?
Why is their faith?
And we can really consider ourselves Christians?
The basic problem is that we will crush the men in black, however, at the moment when the last enemy will be killed, we will believe that a sacred justice has prevailed. But if we continue to delude ourselves that the blood of a Syrian or an Iraqi (but also Afghan, Nigerian, Libyan, Filipino, Nepalese, ...) is less red than ours we have already failed: we are and will only be hypocrites.
We remember when simultaneously with the massacre of Charlie Hebdo, besides the 20 people in France, were 2000 killed in Nigeria? Did anyone show up for them?
The echo of the killing of a Westerner, if before it was more important than 100 Africans, now is worth 2000 Syrians. Tomorrow?
We are better than ISIS if we do not decide to look evil in the eye - starting with a mirror - and fighting injustice without awe always, anywhere and anyway?
Let us say yes and proceed as we have done so far: by looking. Otherwise we would really risk a new war, but not against a single "state", a world one.
