(GEORGE CURRY MEDIA)—Who are these people?
That’s always my first thought when humanity has been again shaken by another act of terror somewhere around the globe: Who are these individuals and groups who think that killing innocent people is an-forgive the use of this word-effective way to wage war, or just make a point, about this or that ideology they claim to hold or this or that personal grievance?
I’ve contemplated that awful mystery ever since growing up during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s led me to wonder why human beings could be so cruel to other human beings.
It was easy then to be overwhelmed by those examples of the worst human beings can do. And so it is now, when it often seems as if the world – in Brussels; in Grand Bassam, the Ivory Coast; in Paris; in Istanbul, Turkey; in Iskandariya, Iraq; in Lahore, Pakistan; in Colorado Springs, Colorado; in San Bernardino, California – is awash in the blood of innocent lives taken simply for terror’s sake.
I confess I tried during this last round of terror attacks to not read the brief obituaries of the victims — to avoid thinking of the devastating human toll. I tried to focus on just the “hard stuff” of government officials’ reconstruction of the conspiracy and the hunt for the killers and others in the terrorist network.
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