Opinion: The unfathomable horror of terror in Turkey
To the editor: How are we to understand terrorists who search for Paradise in the slaughtering of unarmed people, terrorists who exalt the violence of their own deaths? (Re “How the attack in Turkey unfolded,” June 30)
Is there no future dream of marriage, education or career in their imaginings and yearnings? Do they never think of the blessing of having their own family and children?
Indeed, how can people become so glamored by a cause that they go forth in all their crusader armor and manage to slaughter innocent civilians, while leaving all possibility of a normal life behind.
Jacqueline Kerr, Los Feliz
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To the editor: This week, three people opened fire and subsequently blew themselves up at Turkey’s Ataturk Airport.
Many were killed and hundreds injured. It appears that ISIS is responsible for this attack.
My thoughts and sincerest prayers are with all individuals affected by this terrible and senseless atrocity. These acts show the perversity of terrorists in that they were committed in a majority Muslim country during the holy month of Ramadan.
Ramadan is a time when Muslims are exhorted to avoid arguing with one another, let alone mass murder innocents in the name of a vile, twisted ideology.
This shows Islam is not at war with the West — the majority of victims of terrorism and radical violence committed in the name of Islam are Muslims themselves.
All of us, Muslim or non-Muslim, Western or not, must stand up and condemn this evil, twisted ideology.
Madeel Abdullah, Newtown Square, Penn.
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