The Compassion Revolution

The saddest thing about alle these terror attacks, maybe even sadder than all the suffering caused, is you get used to them. The second saddest thing though, is that everyone seems to forget what a terror attack really is. A terror attack is not just some random act of violence committed by some crazy Muslim, because – you know – that is what crazy Muslims do. Terrorism is the use of “indiscriminate violence […] in order to achieve a political, religious or ideological aim” (thank you Wikipedia ), in this case the aim being stopping us from fighting ISIS. It is very important to remember this, for two reasons. First of all, if we forget to mention this, we feed the idea that crazy Muslims commit random acts of violence, because that is just what they do (thank you Western media for your objectivity). Second, and most important, is that, although everyone is ready to condemn the terror attacks themselves, nobody seems to be questioning our involvement in the Syrian and Iraqi civil w