Are Innocent Russian Lives Less Important Than French Or German Ones?

[Khandro]

After the recent French and German Islamist terrorist attacks, both the Brandenburg Gate and the Eiffel Tower were quickly illuminated by the respected colours of the victims, so far, though I have heard the usual condolences, I have seen no such display of solidarity for those victims in St Petersburg.

[-Talbot-]

Your attitude re Russians or your attitude?


LOL LOL

[emmie]

The man suspected of killing 14 people by bombing a St Petersburg train was a native of Kyrgyzstan who obtained Russian citizenship, the Central Asian country's security service has said.

Forty-nine people were injured in the explosion between two underground stations on Monday afternoon.

Kyrgyz officials named the suspect as Akbarzhon Jalilov, an ethnic Uzbek born in Osh in 1995.

[Khandro]

PP I fail to see the logic of you 9:20 post.
The Russians do not ever illuminate the Kremlin after terrorist attacks in other countries, - neither do I but it doesn't mean I don't care - but the French and Germans do, but don't do it when Russian people are murdered in a similar manner.
ergo; they don't value Russian lives as they do each others.

[naomi24]

Khandro, perhaps it's because Russia isn't perceived as 'one of us'. Just a thought.

[RandyMarsh]

Berlin and Russia have a complicated history don't they?

[emmie]

they are going to have three days of mourning..

[anotheoldgit]

The Russians certainly lit up the Brandenburg Gate back in 1945

http://refotografie.pytalhost.at/pics/brandenburger-tor-heute.jpg

[TWR]

What's your truthful opinion of Muslims?

[Khandro]

TWR; Wrong thread.

[TWR]

I don't think so.

[anotheoldgit]

The latest thoughts of 'our' Katie.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4379394/KATIE-HOPKINS-Don-t-liberals-care-Russian-victims.html

[jim360]

I had intended to stay silent on this but what with Katie Hopkins' latest ill-informed rant it seems appropriate to explain why I said nothing. For a few hours on Monday I felt that there was a good chance that a friend of mine, who lives and studies in St. Petersburg, was caught up in this. As it happens, she was not -- but she might well have been -- in her own words, "Luckily, I ... stayed at home. Otherwise, that very time I would have been right there."

I would have cared anyway of course -- but being personally caught up in it was a horrifying prospect that I was really faced with.

But as it happens I wasn't, and as it happens Katie Hopkins is still wrong. If she bothered to look she'd have found plenty of attention given to the disaster. But of course we'd care more visibly about something that happens on *our* streets, or on countries nearer to us. Proximity makes these attacks that much more scary. I expect that having visited Russia, having stayed in St. Petersburg for a week, it made this attack matter to me in a way that it wouldn't have had the same took place in Novgorod.

But don't mistake that for not caring, Katie (or anyone else for that matter).

[Samjenko]

It wasn't just the BBC that brought shame on themselves, aog, reading that.

[ichkeria]

Snap, jim

What a truly extraordinary article by this woman. Talk about using a terrorist incident to fuel one's warped, bitter view of the world.

[Khandro]

jim; I'm glad your friend wasn't caught up in this terrorist attack, but knowing someone there doesn't really have a lot of bearing on it, I like many others, know people in Berlin, Nice, Paris and London, in fact, many of the casualties in all these attacks are not from the place where it happened, so everyone is in danger wherever they are, which is the whole idea of terrorism.
Also the OP question isn't about coverage, there was plenty of that, it was about showing outward signs of solidarity by the illumination of national monuments, as happened in other cases, which I believe has been very lately corrected due to many complaints and questions (I like to believe this thread included).

[mikey4444]

I might have known that frightful woman was behind this !

[jim360]

It was Katie Hopkins' piece in particular that brought me out of the shadows, so to speak. The implication that silence indicates lack of caring is uncalled-for and deserved to be challenged.