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Interestingly, Western protests and media coverage are conspicuously absent in response to the Syrian violence—mirroring a pattern seen in domestic issues, where violence within marginalized communities often elicits little attention unless it involves specific groups or narratives. The silence extends to the sectarian violence in Syria, which has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, including civilians and combatants. Nearly three-quarters of a million people have been killed in the Syrian civil war, with ISIS responsible for nearly 100,000 deaths across Iraq and Syria.