Steve H. asked:

I have been looking around, and I see a lot of bloggers are barely acknowledging the London attack. I wonder why. Is it that they don't care, or is it a more healthy reason? Is it that we have become so used to Muslim violence, we no longer break stride when it happens?

(Not directed at Steve, personally...)

I don't blog about most of what I talk about with friends. I don't blog about what I pray about, and the London victims and their families were definitely topic #1 for a while. I don't blog about things that have already been adequately covered unless I either have something original to add, or feel I just have to write something about it.

Let's be serious: It's a terrible tragedy. If it were one of my friends, or a relative, my world would be turned upside-down in a moment. And I would hate to experience such a thing firsthand -- to lose an eye, and/or an arm, or most my face. The pictures of the victims make me squirm, and my heart goes out to the survivors and the survived-bys.

Forty or so innocent lives were tragically snuffed out. Forty personalities of nearly infinite value to those who loved them. Forty stories ended in the middle of a mundane commute. Yet just hours before, one hundred innocent victims were slaughtered in Darfur. Why don't we pledge to do anything in our power to help them, as we did with the UK? Where is their press?

If it's odd that we go on as usual after London, then what of the slow-motion genocide which is Darfur? Are African lives worth less than British ones?