2015 World Terrorism
"Acknowledging that Africans, and indeed Russians too face bigger risks than we do also wouldn't fit in with the dominant neoconservative narrative of a "clash of civilizations" between radical Islamists, and "the civilized West," with the latter of course including Israel, the state at the front of the battle. We in the West must be seen as the prime targets of the terrorists, even though we've been backing the same people in Syria and turned a blind eye when they murdered civilians there. It's our values and our way of life which is threatened and [supposedly] no one else's"
FULL ARTICLE: Terrorism in Africa: A Bigger threat than Europe but Much Less Coverage
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