NOVANEWS
Dear Editor,
Here is a prime example of Western media’s double standards and bias when covering the victims of terror abroad. You do not have to look beyond the shooting of Malala Yousafzia and Diana Ershied.
Malala was the 15-year-old Pakistani girl who was shot with one bullet to the head by a Taliban terrorist when she was coming back from school. Everyone including approximately every world leader condemned that terrorist attack. Malala got to meet the Queen at Buckingham Palace and the U.S. President at the White House. She also received a Nobel peace prize, 10 other high-profile awards, a lot of world media attention, and tons of honorary degrees. She was shot on October 2012, whereas Diana was shot on October 2015.
Meanwhile, when a 17-year-old Palestinian girl Diana was killed by a member of the terrorist Israeli Defense Forces who riddled her body with 8-10 bullets as she was on her way to school last October at an Israeli checkpoint in Hebron, Palestine. Israel held her remains for two weeks denying her proper Islamic burial which takes place within 24 hours following death. 250,000 people attended her funeral. Diana was also a schoolgirl like Malala, but condemnation from world leaders was zero. Media coverage was zero. There was also No ‘Je suis Diana’ for her – only for Parisians.
Mahmoud El-Yousseph
