Even if you only are a casual purveyor of news, you must have noticed the vast difference –
Between ubiquitous coverage of the Muslim terrorist attack on Brussels a week ago and the embarrassingly brief response to the more horrendous Muslim dismembering of Pakistani Christians on Easter Sunday evening in Lahore.
Media went berserk over Brussels.
They scarcely noticed Lahore, treating it as a footnote to Belgium even though:
- Two and a half times as many people were slaughtered in Pakistan – 71 to 28.
- More children were killed in Pakistan (29) than all of the people in Brussels.
I don’t know why there was a gaping disparity in coverage. It affected us, though.
American anger over Pakistan hardly compared to the fury over Brussels. Our compassion for Lahore victims was and is invisible.
I have a hunch why our empathy retreated.
Dark-skinned Pakistanis are the wrong color for sympathy. We believe virtually all victims in Belgium were born of the correct color.
Have you even heard of anyone upset by the Pakistani bombing? I haven’t, either.
God knows President Obama, who refuses to let terrorist attacks ruin his good day, has not lost sleep pondering the execution of supposedly fellow Christians.
In a world of instant media, the White House took a typically awkward 24 hours to acknowledge that the Muslim terrorists – who never strike randomly — targeted specific Christian families celebrating Easter.
As a media exclamation point:
The liberal Los Angeles Times buried the Lahore story far faster than the victims were buried.
