Beslan-type monsters found nearer home
The monsters who inflicted such unspeakable cruelty on those children and their parents were no different from those who butchered the people of Omagh, Enniskillen and many other places in this country.
In our new age simplicity we justify and ensure future atrocities by equating the lives of the killers with those of their victims and fail to recognise the sheer evil that manifests itself in such people.
The truth is that 10,000 terrorists capable of slaughtering innocent children are not worth the life of even one child. As we reward terrorists with seats at the negotiating table we also embrace the culture of death that they represent.
We grieve for the children of Beslan. Should we not also grieve for the 7,000 Irish children slaughtered in British abortion clinics last year?
In a moral sense, is the terrorist who guns down a Russian child any different from a doctor who sticks a syringe filled with poison into the body of a live but unborn child in its mother’s womb?
A world that has discarded its moral compass need not be surprised that tiny children are in the frontline of the assault by the monsters of Muslim fundamentalism on the entire civilised world.
John F Murray
Garrylucas
Kinsale
Co Cork
