Re: This morning
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, July 9, 2005, 19:40 |
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On Friday, July 8, 2005, at 10:54 , Joe wrote:
> Ray Brown wrote:
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>> Quite what the perpetrators hoped to achieve I do not begin to
>> understand.
>> On the website of the hitherto unknown group that is now claiming
>> responsibility, it talks about fear & panic being caused in London and
>> the south-east of England. That is all baloney.
>>
>> I live in the south-east of England. There is no fear or panic where I
>> am.
>> Rather a closer sense of community and a determination to carry on.
>
>
> Totally. People are angry, but afraid? Well, if they are, I haven't
> seen it. I'm personally simply disgusted that anyone, anyone at all,
> could even think of doing this to people.
Exactly - if the perpetrators intended to cause fear & panic on a wide
scale, they have spectacularly failed.
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On Friday, July 8, 2005, at 10:01 , tomhchappell wrote:
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> I didn't want to fill up the list with "me too" posts,
> but I also feel, like Jeffrey Henning and others,
> sympathy for the British (both victims, survivors, and others),
> over the attacks.
Thank you.
> The Home Secretary's remark that "from what I've learned of Islam,
> anyone who claims to be Muslim and also professes to be a terrorist
> is sadly mistaken" resonated with me.
>
> London's underground is every bit as cosmopolitan as the Twin Towers
> and the police and firefighter companies in 2001 were.
So is London's over-ground - it simply is a very cosmopolitan &
multi-ethnic city (and all the richer for being so IMHO).
> These people were not only innocent; many were Arab and/or Muslim.
Yes, there are certainly innocent Muslims among the dead. And the Muslim
Council of Great Britain was quick to condemn the bombings.
If the perpetrators had hoped to stir up wide-spread ethnic conflict, then
they have also singularly failed to so - and long may they fail!
Ray
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