( AFP/GETTY IMAGES )The images of the aftermath of the Manchester attack have been devastating: families stricken with grief for children lost, a country’s sense of safety and security shattered. As Canadians, we are able to mourn the lives lost in Manchester last Monday because our media shows us their faces and tells us their stories — an attention hardly ever accorded to those living under the daily terror of the war on terror initiated by the United States. Article Continued BelowWe profile the casualties of Muslim terror in Europe and North America in heart-rending, humanizing detail — their ages, their ambitions, their loved ones — but do not even bother to keep track of the total number of Muslim civilians dead in the name of fighting terror. Western victims of terror are grieved as individual, irreplaceable fatalities; Muslim victims of the war on terror aren’t even recorded as an accurate statistic. Mainstream Canadian media coverage and commentaries artificially disconnect acts of non-state terrorism from this broader context of the brutalities of state counterterrorism.

Source: thestar June 01, 2017 09:56 UTC