This is a truly awful day for any Briton, I have family and friends in London. My deepest sympathy goes out to all those effected by todays events. As a frequent train user to and from London (including the stations and streets where todays events took place) it just shows how time can be so very cruel, a second here or there could have made todays events very different for some of the families involved. Had todays events taken place a week or so earlier I could have been a name in a paper. The sad fact is the world just isn't a safe place anymore with or without acts like this, it is unfortunate that innocent people of all races and religions get caught up in other people's power plays. History shows this has always been the case and I'm sure it will continue to be.
Although of little comfort, and I don't mean this to sound calous, today could have been a lot worse in terms of fatalities. Bombs seen in America, Spain, Africa have been suicide or precision attacks where someone has used their judgment to cause maximum casualties. If we leave the bus bomb out of the equation (we don't know whether that went off as planned or accidentally, was it meant for another train?) the others went off while the trains were either in tunnels or on relatively quiet sections of track. If one had gone off in the main terminal at King's X or Victoria, or even a place like Trafalgar Square the number of fatalities could easily have been in the 100's for each site. Although Islamic millitant groups have supposedly claimed responsibility for the attacks this has none of the self sacrificing martyr overtones previous attacks have had; this was a case of outright murder, committed by cowards who didn't even believe enough in what they were doing to show themselves.
As a country, but also a united free world, we must take this as yet another warning. The sad thing is there is no reason for this to stop because the people that commit these acts have no clear demands. 9/11 was not a response to a specific American act. It is sad that an ancient and beautiful religion such as Islam continues to be blackened by people who murder in its name even though there own religious leaders condemn the action. Even if we take no 'eye for an eye' (which I don't think would be the right response) action I feel it is only a question of time before something like this happens in a country again, what do you do about it? These people don't want to talk. They won't listen to there own people or even the true nature of their own holy writings as taught by their religious leaders.
Holy wars are nothing new but technology and communication have reached such a level that even a single person can reap terrible carnage if he so chooses. I'm not a religious person, I've never known where to place my trust or what to put my faith in. I've suffered from depression my whole life and events such as this serve only to reinforce my deminishing view of humanity as a whole. Have we really come to the point where we can hate each other so much we make it our lifes work to force our ideology upon others or destroy the things others strive to build. The world won't change because everyone feels their way is right, while people think like that they will never see that their actions serve only to perpetutate and accentuate the hate and desperation in others
I'm only young but I genuinely fear for what the furure holds.
Although of little comfort, and I don't mean this to sound calous, today could have been a lot worse in terms of fatalities. Bombs seen in America, Spain, Africa have been suicide or precision attacks where someone has used their judgment to cause maximum casualties. If we leave the bus bomb out of the equation (we don't know whether that went off as planned or accidentally, was it meant for another train?) the others went off while the trains were either in tunnels or on relatively quiet sections of track. If one had gone off in the main terminal at King's X or Victoria, or even a place like Trafalgar Square the number of fatalities could easily have been in the 100's for each site. Although Islamic millitant groups have supposedly claimed responsibility for the attacks this has none of the self sacrificing martyr overtones previous attacks have had; this was a case of outright murder, committed by cowards who didn't even believe enough in what they were doing to show themselves.
As a country, but also a united free world, we must take this as yet another warning. The sad thing is there is no reason for this to stop because the people that commit these acts have no clear demands. 9/11 was not a response to a specific American act. It is sad that an ancient and beautiful religion such as Islam continues to be blackened by people who murder in its name even though there own religious leaders condemn the action. Even if we take no 'eye for an eye' (which I don't think would be the right response) action I feel it is only a question of time before something like this happens in a country again, what do you do about it? These people don't want to talk. They won't listen to there own people or even the true nature of their own holy writings as taught by their religious leaders.
Holy wars are nothing new but technology and communication have reached such a level that even a single person can reap terrible carnage if he so chooses. I'm not a religious person, I've never known where to place my trust or what to put my faith in. I've suffered from depression my whole life and events such as this serve only to reinforce my deminishing view of humanity as a whole. Have we really come to the point where we can hate each other so much we make it our lifes work to force our ideology upon others or destroy the things others strive to build. The world won't change because everyone feels their way is right, while people think like that they will never see that their actions serve only to perpetutate and accentuate the hate and desperation in others
I'm only young but I genuinely fear for what the furure holds.
