#prayforhumanity

All my thoughts are prayers go out to those affected in Paris.
Going through my timeline on various social media, I've seen mixed responses to the monstrous attack that happened yesterday. Most-if not all- people have changed their profile picture, showing they stand behind Paris. This makes my heart swell a little; maybe not all humanity is lost.
However, over the last couple of years,we've witnessed an unfortunate amount of terrorist attacks , and in most cases, the victims did not receive nearly enough support.
Do you remember the 2014 attack on the Peshawar school? 141 killed. 132 of them were children. We dismissed it pretty fast, assuming atrocities like this to be the norm in somewhere like Pakistan. But did you know that during this attack, masked murderers poured fuel over a teacher's head and made ten year olds watch as she was burned to the stake? This is not the norm.
More recently, hardly any media coverage was given to the families of the 282 victims of the Lebanon attack, where corpses were found scattered all over the streets. Do these lives not matter?
At least 19 were killed in Baghdad, attending a funeral on Friday. A funeral.
And what about the numerous cowardly attacks that go on in Syria every day? Why do we only recognise the absolute horror of them when they hit close to home?
Why did we not change our profile pictures when these unjust tragedies happened? Why did countries worldwide only light up their buildings when terrorism hit France? No one life holds any greater importance than another.
So, of course I am praying for Paris, but I am also praying for Pakistan, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and wherever else terrorists have struck.
The second thing I noticed as I scrolled through Facebook and Twitter was the incomprehensible amount of Muslims actively saying they condemn what happened in Paris, and that they are not terrorists. This goes unsaid.
It's sickening to think that every time something awful happens in the world, the majority of the time, Muslims are at the backlash of it. Why should they have to keep defending themselves if they're innocent?
As much as Fox News would hate to admit, not all Muslims are terrorists and not all terrorists are Muslims.
That's all there really is to it.