What a Wonderful World
It’s not a song, but this something equally worth thinking about. In the last 24 hours:
20 people were killed by a car bomb in Iraq
13 people were killed, and over 40 injured, in a bomb blast in a vegetable market in Sri Lanka
12 Kurdish rebels and 2 Turkish soldiers were killed in a clash in south-east Turkey
2 shoppers were killed, and 7 were injured, in a bomb blast in Iraq
2 bystanders were killed, and 23 wounded, in a bomb blast in Iraq
2 policemen and 1 civilian were killed in a bomb blast in Baghdad, Iraq
3 government employees were hunted down and killed by gunmen in Baghdad, Iraq
5 more US soldiers in Iraq were killed
12 killed, 32 injured in a traffic accident in central China
1 pro-democracy protester was killed in Nepal
6 insurgents were killed in Afghanistan
1 person was killed in a bomb blast in Macedonia
13 people were killed in a rebel attack in Sudan
1 aid worker in Somalia was killed
55 people were killed and more than 100 injured in Pakistan
1 person was killed in a grenade blast at North-Caucasus counter-terrorism centre
6 people were killed and some 300 others injured in a rampage in Bangladesh
2 Palestinians were killed in Gaza Strip
6 people were killed and 2 others injured in India
There are many more. Hundreds of people were killed in road accidents yesterday. Many people were murdered in cities all over the world. Every 3 seconds, someone dies from the effects of living in absolute poverty. According to statistics kept by Voice of the Martyrs in Bartlesville, Okla., over the past two decades, an average of 400 Christians have been killed in Islamic states every day.
What a wonderful world.
