Don’t throw stones if you live in a glass house

With the entire world inundated by incidences of spontaneous terrorist attacks, it does feel as though humanity is presently housed in fragile glass. No country seems immune to these sorts of attacks that shatter the peace and are intended to create feelings of fear and despondency.

For many Kenyans, the first encounter with terrorism in conscious memory was during the events of August 7, 1998. This was when the American Embassy in Nairobi was bombed by militants from Al Qaeda, a group at war with the United States. Then, Kenyans who were injured, or lost their lives, were caught in the crossfire of a war that had little to do with them.