Terror attacks - Minority acts

IN recent days, at least 77 people died in just two terrorist attacks in distant and not so distant cities.

On Tuesday, 44 people died at Ataturk Airport in Istanbul and yesterday at least 37 people, mostly recent police graduates, died in a Taliban suicide attack in Kabul. Many, many more were seriously injured in these attacks.

Both atrocities were carried out by religious extremists who have shown, for over many years of terrorism and lethal fanaticism, a scant disregard for anything we imagine as the constraints of civilisation.