The Islamic State (IS), also known as the ISIS and ISIL, has taken responsibility for the horrendous terrorist attacks on Paris that murdered 129 innocent people and injured hundreds more. The criminal act has been rightly condemned by world's leader, ranging from President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron, toPresident Hassan Rouhani of Iran and even Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah. The attacks have rightly outraged ordinary people everywhere. There is a feeling of solidarity with the people of France everywhere, and there should be. But, the solidarity and sympathy appear to be selective.

The day before the Paris attacks, the IS took responsibility for carrying out another horrendous terrorist bombing, this time in the Shiite neighborhood of Beirut that killed at least 43 people and wounded hundreds.

The day before the Beirut attacks suicide bombing by the IS killed at least 26 people in Baghdad. From August through November the IS carried out a series of other terrorist attacks in Baghdad. The August attacks murdered killed at least 80 people; The September attacks killed at least 13 people, while the October bombing took the lives of at least 24 innocent people. Thus, 143 Iraqis have lost their lives at the hands of the IS over the past three months.

What has been the world's, and in particular' the West's reaction to the carnage in Beirut and Baghdad? Nothing; no sympathy with the Lebanese and Iraqi people was expressed. No message of solidarity was sent, and no demonstrations or gatherings took place outside Lebanon's and Iraq's diplomatic missions anywhere in the Western world. The world was silent, as it has been about similar terrorist attacks over the past few months have killed a large number of innocent Muslims around the world.

Why is it that Western governments and people said almost nothing about the IS crimes in Iraq, Lebanon, and elsewhere in the Islamic world, which has in fact been happening on a regular basis for over two years now, while expect everyone to condemn the Paris attack, and in fact hold that as a measure of how strongly anti-terrorism is a nation and its people? Muslim people everywhere condemned the Paris attacks using the strongest language. Will Christians and Jews condemn the Beirut and Baghdad attacks? Do not hold your breath; it will not be coming. The double standards of the West and the Christians and Jews, and their selective grief and outrage, cannot be more glaring.