As a famous saying goes: "One person dies and 1 million cry, 1 million die and no one cries." This is sadly the current situation in the world today. As millions die, no one raises their voices. But when two people die, keeping in mind that in their case, religious ethics and values were ridiculed, millions poured onto the streets, marching for what we call democracy and "freedom of speech." Yes, acts of terrorism cannot be justified, but does freedom of speech include making a mockery one's religion, morals and values? Where do we draw the line between "freedom of speech" and "disrespecting values and ethics?" I believe we need a wider perspective of what is going on in the world.In Palestine, between July 8 and Aug. 27, 2014, Operation Protective Edge was carried out by the Zionist government of Israel. It said that it was carrying out "operations against terrorists," although casualty statistics prove otherwise. The Washington Post reported on Aug. 29, 2014 that 2,100 civilians were killed in Palestine. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that 2,104 Palestinian civilians were killed, 495 being children and another 253 women. The U.N. OCHA reported that seven out of 10 of the casualties were civilians. Israel rejected these claims and attempted to justify the attacks, saying that they provided "knock on the roof warnings," these being non-explosive bombs dropped on civilian locations, as a warning that an airstrike will take place soon and evacuation must take place immediately. However, eyewitness claims recorded by the OCHA prove that just one minute after these warnings were issued, airstrikes immediately took place, which explains why the statistics revealed so many Palestinian civilian casualties.Currently, it is estimated that approximately 1.8 million people live in Gaza, which is equivalent to about 4,505 people per square kilometer. At the moment, 475,000 civilians currently live at emergency shelters. Education has been brought to a standstill, with 244 schools and various other educational institutions having been shot at by Israeli fighter jets - the majority being destroyed while some survived, although greatly damaged. In terms of houses, 17,200 were destroyed, which makes an average of 86,000 people left homeless as the result of just one operation.Africa shares the same destiny as Palestine and other oppressed regions, as tribal and civil wars rage across the continent. Africa is the second-largest continent in the world both in terms of population and land mass. In an opening session of a high-level meeting on refugees in Africa, Antonio Guterres, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHRC) said: "[Africa has] more than three million refugees, 12.5 million internally displaced and some 700,000 stateless people. The continent represents the largest challenge for the UNHCR in terms of capacity and financial requirements."The Central African conflict displaced more than 2.5 million people just in the first six months of 2014 alone. Guterres continued: "In the absence of the political will and foresight required for effective prevention, all that the international community can do is to react to new crises, lament the suffering they cause and try to come up with higher and higher amounts of money to cover the resulting costs." A political will that sympathizes with Charlie Hebdo, but not with 12.5 million internally-displaced people and 200,000 displaced children in Central Africa is not worthy of Western leaders. According to the News Republic, 15 percent of Central Africans are Muslims who have lived in relative harmony with the Christian majority for the past 54 years. There is no reliable data available from the region, but street lynchings have become so common that they have "ceased to become news." Conditions in Bangui, Central Africa's capital city, are said to currently compete with those of Damascus. U.N Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon mentioned the word "desperate" would "be an understatement." Likewise, the situation in Syria does not put a smile on anyone's face. The current grim conflict will be entering its fourth year in 2015. With recent statistics, every minute three Syrians become refugees. The refugee crisis is taking a further toll, as 2.5 million civilians have sought refuge outside of Syria according to the U.N. In 2013, 1.5 million civilians fled their country, which equals 4,110 people per day, according to The Washington Post. Syria's neighbors are struggling to cope with the pressure of the current conflict as refugee numbers have skyrocketed in Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries. Every two minutes, eight children are forced to flee their homes. According to UNICEF, the number of displaced children tripled in 2014 from 920,000 to three million. In this case, UNICEF has warned of a "lost generation," a term that we may have heard of in relation to native Australians. UNICEF continues to announce that Syria is on the brink of a "lost generation," due to the daily struggle of finding food and accessing health care and psychological support.Furthermore, the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, an opposition group that tracks the death toll in Syria, has made it known that within Syria more than 146,000 people have lost their lives. Furthermore, the current death toll has averaged more than 170 per day. Loveday Morris, a correspondent for The Post declared that "the United Nations has given up counting [civilian lives lost]" as "the war dead in just three years [according to 2014 statistics] is in line with the number estimated killed in 15 years of civil war in Lebanon."The satirical French magazine, Charlie Hebdo, came under the spotlight with the attack it suffered a few weeks ago. One main question that was raised was why it was attacked. Charlie Hebdo is known to publish cartoons both satirical and controversial. In 2011, it published a cartoon mocking the Prophet Muhammad. In 2012, it took its attack on religious values even further, publishing nude caricatures of the Islamic prophet. The intentions of Charlie Hebdo had been made clear two years prior, as Stephane Charbonnier from the French magazine said: "We have to carry on until Islam has been rendered as banal as Catholicism."On the morning of Jan. 7 2015, two terrorists armed with rifles stormed the head office of Charlie Hebdo and killed 11 people and wounded another 11. News headlines flashed the word "Islamist" in front of the word terrorist. I have purposefully not used the word "Islamist" here, as terrorism does not possess any religion. If a Christian committed a terrorist attack, would he or she become a "Christianist" terrorist, or would a person of the Jewish faith become a "Jewist" terrorist? Anders Breivik, the psychotic killer in Norway was of the Christian faith, but was only labeled "mentally insane," yet two people supposedly dropping their identification cards at the crime scene are immediately labeled "Islamists." And the question then arises, why is Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, who is responsible for the killing of 2,100 civilians, as previously stated here not labeled a "terrorist"? Do international institutions and media possess double standards?Following the attack, on Jan. 11, 2015, approximately 2 million people, including 40 world leaders, held a national rally of unity in Paris under the slogan "I am Charlie." As I have put forth previously, terrorism does not have any religion. Muslims cannot be blamed for what happened in Paris, neither can Jews be blamed for the slaughtering of 2,100 civilians in Palestine within 2014 alone, nor can all Christians be blamed for the "lost generation" in Australia, and the killing of millions during the crusades centuries ago. We, as the world population, cannot only become "Charlie" or "Jimmy." A rally of unity should take place in support of all those who are oppressed around the world, no matter where or at what time. Followers of all religions will always be made to "break each other" by the world's elite. Though if we only become "Charlie" and not "Palestine," "Syria" or "East Turkestan," we will be labeled "two faced," and face a problem of conscience for the rest of our lives and have the blood of millions on our hands. As the famous Aesop's fable goes: "All of us, the great and the small, have need of each other."