Al-Mada, Iraq, Originally posted in Arabic on June 26
From France to Tunisia and Kuwait, this weekend has seen several terror attacks that took the lives of many innocent civilians. These attacks join the horrible events that take place daily in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Yemen. We tend to overlook and forget those all too often. Terrorism doesn’t distinguish between blood and blood, nor does it respects places of worship. Bombs go off in mosques and churches, in hotel resorts, schools, and factories.
The recent attacks reaffirm the notion that terrorism has no state. No single country is safe from terrorism. What we are witnessing today is a global war aimed at all peoples, one that requires an intercontinental alliance to combat.
About 80 years ago, the world experienced a change in mindset, as it realized it must fight Nazism. Just like the Allies came together then, the world today must join hands in the fight against the terrorism epidemic. The notion of national sovereignty will be required to undergo some readjustment. International and national borders must be altered in order to defeat humanity’s common enemy.
We Iraqis are often blamed for not being able to defeat the Islamic State on our own. But the grim reality is that no single country ever could. Only if we change our way of thinking and our willingness to fight together, will we succeed in defeating terrorism. – Udnan Hussein