Addressing Terrorism

The recent events in Paris demonstrate again that contemporary terrorism remains a global threat.

Tourists visit the site of Eiffel Tower which remained closed on the first of three days of national mourning in Paris on Nov. 15, 2015. Thousands of French troops deployed around Paris on Sunday and tourist sites stood shuttered in one of the most visited cities on earth while investigators questioned the relatives of a suspected suicide bomber involved in the country's deadliest violence since World War II. AP Photo/Amr Nabil

The recent events in Paris demonstrate again that contemporary terrorism remains a global threat. The deliberate slaughter of 130 innocent victims there is at least providing indications of becoming the catalyst that will effectively unite enough world governments to defeat “Daesh” (also known as Islamic State, or ISIS).

Purporting bizarrely to act in the name of Sunni Muslims, ISIS has in the few years since it emerged accumulated a horrific record of violence.

In Iraq alone, according to a U.N. report, the ISIS conflict killed almost 15,000 civilians and wounded 30,000 others during an 18-month period. More than 2.8 million Iraqis are today displaced within their country, including 1.3 million children. Some ISIS violence across Iraq appears to amount to crimes against humanity and probably genocide.

Nobody is immune to terrorists, who use every opportunity to attack their deemed enemies throughout the world.