Misplaced moralising in a multipolar world


AL-JAZEERA columnist Belen Fernandez wrote an article arguing that the intense outpouring of grief and emotion at the burning of the cathedral of Notre Dame – an inanimate object – was “misplaced”, compared to the suffering of tens or hundreds of thousands of human beings around the world.

As examples, she raises the cases of Yemen, the Gaza strip, and very briefly the cases of refugees from Africa and Central America.

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