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People watch the World Cup final at a restaurant in Kampala, Uganda, moments before two terrorist bombs exploded, killing nearly 80 people.
Just a generation ago, mass-casualty terrorist attacks were rare — so much so that a bombing that took the lives of a few dozen people was guaranteed to be front-page news. Nowadays, sadly, we’ve become inured to such slaughters — especially in the case of attacks that take place in the developing world, such as the bombing that killed nearly 80 people in Kampala, Uganda, on Sunday. Following the numbing effect of 9/11 and the countless atrocities that have taken place in its wake, stories about Muslims slaughtering scores of innocent civilians to fulfill some YouTube-peddled apocalyptic notion of God’s will have become just another part of the normal weekly news cycle.
But it is not normal, of course: The deliberate extermination of human life as part of a religious program is a hideous and pathological affront to the values of all life-loving human societies — including moderate Muslim societies. And we must never allow ourselves to forget that, no matter how often this same sickening plot line plays itself out. We must never lose the ability to be shocked at such inhuman crimes.
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Heather Reisman
The time has come to use our individual and collective voices to support the besieged women of Iran
...we are way beyond shouting when it comes to Iran's policies and leadership.
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