Last week the world was left reeling after two gunmen entered the premises of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and opened fire in an act of terror, killing 11.  But hold on, no time to retweet the latest story we’ve got another tragedy on our hands that needs your attention.  Over in Nigeria ‘too many bodies to count’ lie dead and discarded as a result of an Islamic extremist attack, and only days later two child suicide bombers launched an attack on an open-air market in Potiskum killing and injuring even more innocent bystanders.

Two horrific and unjustified acts of terror in their own right.  But what amazed me, beyond the utterly harrowing nature of these atrocities, were peoples’ reactions, or rather, transitions from one event to the next. Continue reading →