is not every week that English
football supporters sing the Marseillaise
when a French team is playing England, nor every week that British prime ministers and home secretaries break into French, but then it is not every week that 129
people are murdured in Paris by Muslim fanatics.
But that was only one of a spate of
recent Islamist attacks across a number of countries. In Beirut, ISIS said it
carried out two suicide bombings that killed 40 people. In Nigeria, more than
40 people died in bombings by Boko Haram, which killed more than 6,640 in 2014, making it the world’s deadliest terror organisation.
In Mali, 20 people perished in an
attack on a hotel claimed by two Islamist groups, one affiliated to al-Qaeda,
while ISIS claims it brought down the Russian airliner that crashed in Sinai on
October 31 with the loss of 224 people.
Just today, suicide bombers,
suspected to be from Boko Haram, claimed another four victims in Cameroon. It is not only the dead and injured of Paris that we
need to remember.
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