Yes, because it's a popularity contest. Give us attention! Attention will bring the dead back! Attention will heal wounds! 130 dead and 350 wounded in Paris, the attack had many more casualties, it was better planned, it happened in a city in Europe where attacks like that aren't common, etc., etc. Why would the West care as much about a terrorist attack that didn't take place in West, that had less casualties, and a place that has been a warzone for ages?
Don't think you read the article...
'In fact, while Beirut was once synonymous with violence, when it went through a grinding civil war a generation ago, it has not had a bombing this deadly since that conflict ended in 1990.
(A reminder of the muddled perceptions came last week, when Jeb Bush, the Republican presidential candidate, declared that “if you’re a Christian, increasingly in Lebanon, or Iraq or Syria, you’re gonna be beheaded.” That was news to Lebanon’s Christians, who hold significant political power.)'
Lebanon is not exactly a war zone.
It's nothing to do with a popularity contest. But these people are in the same situation as those in the West. In fact far worse as it's right on their doorstep.
And for those who complain about Muslim countries not taking on refugees:
'There are a million Syrians in Lebanon, a country of four million; some have become desperate enough to contemplate joining the accelerating flow of those taking smugglers’ boats to Europe.'
