Horror in China

An act of deliberate barbarism was perpetrated by Muslim separatists who slaughtered innocent Han Chinese yesterday at a train station in Kunming in the Yunnan province. The attackers did not target police or military but vulnerable travelers who were laden with luggage and had little means to protect themselves from the organized terrorist assault with knives. Twenty-nine people were butchered and one hundred and forty-three were wounded in the massacre. Just as in the Boko Haram murders in Nigeria, the civilized world must rally to support lawful authority in putting down this barbarism and the fanaticism behind it. Where are the voices of Muslim religious authorities condemning this criminal act, calling the perpetrators a blight on the Islamic faith, and demanding that attacks being carried out in the name of their religion cease?