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I’m so sick of people treating this attack in Istanbul like it happened in the middle of a war zone, it didn’t. It happened in a modern city, in an educated, beautiful, open-minded city. I am sick of people treating Istanbul, and Turkey in general as a place where this is normal and using that as an excuse not to care, it’s not right. What makes the people of Turkey any different? Religion? All I see is people writing off this attack and ignoring it because they refuse to believe that the so-called “Islamic” State would attack Muslim people during Ramadan. They want to believe they only attack western Europeans. They don’t, they have killed more Muslims than people of any other religion. Please stop ignoring that these terrorists are not representative of Islam. Terror has no religion. The place where an attack occurs does not make the lives lost any less relevant. Stop ignoring Istanbul, send your love and prayers because they need it. Pray for Turkey.