Carr calls for more attention to Lebanon

President Barack Obama noted that “this was an attack not just on Paris… not just on the people of France, but… on all of humanity and the universal values that we share”.

Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi urged Lebanese factions on Sunday to get rid of the obstacles hampering the election of a president, as he extended condolences over the victims of the Bourj al-Barajneh and Paris bombings that left several dead, the National News Agency said.

The sails of the Sydney Opera House are illuminated in the colours of the French flag.

However, the features are raising an eyebrow to those wondering why they were not rolled out following Beirut’s bombings on Thursday, during which at least 43 people were killed and another 239 were wounded.

Death toll for major terrorist incidents in 2015 with suspected or confirmed ISIS involvement.

According to local media reports, Termos threw himself at the bomber, which caused the explosion to detonate earlier than the attacker had planned.

Islamophobia is so rampant in our country that a great majority of the Muslim community and its supporters came out on Facebook and Twitter after these attacks by the Islamic State on Friday to encourage their followers not to associate the Islamic State with Islam. More than ever, we should be realizing the petrifying realities of those who live and breathe this terror.

The latest deadly attacks by ISIS on Paris are drawing millions of mourners from around the world, but a few say it is overshadowing other ISIS attacks worthy of global attention.

Angelina is one of the most influential and powerful personalities in the world; everything she does becomes newsworthy and she uses her fame and fortune to support a few of the most forgotten and denied people in the world.

“This is a humanitarian thing, the same terrorism that kills Lebanese people, Iraqis and Syrians, killed the French”, Daoud said.

Indian blogger Karuna Ezara Parikh’s poem, asking people to remember Beirut and other scenes of attacks, went viral. “Not having Lebanese coworkers or eating Kenyan food doesn’t make those victims’ lives matter any less, but it does place those faraway events lower down the empathy list given your particular, limited frame of reference”. An attack such as this isn’t an opportunity to take others down and introduce a greater amount of hate.

However, criticism of Facebook was far from universal, Al Jazeera spoke to Lebanese journalist Doja Daoud, who said that the “safety check” function would not have been as useful in Beirut as it was in Paris.

While others have noted that while Facebook has enabled users to quickly add a patriotic wash of red, white and blue to their profile pictures, the same has not happened for the Lebanese flag. We need to take a second to think about what is going on throughout the world.