Manchester

It is a sad, sad day.....when I see 'that look' in a person's eye when I reply to their question ' that's an unusual surname, where is your husband from? '. Yes he is a Muslim and he,his family and friends are absolutely against all that is going on and find it all utterly deplorable as we all do.

 

In addition to my last post may I just say......the fear I have for my 3 sons....young men.....20/30 yrs old.......with THAT surname...living in London. Please let them carry on with living their lives as the good ,kind beings they have been brought up to be, don't tar everybody with the same brush.

 

Very true @ARMANDII and as far as I am aware they have never had to explain the origin of their surname....but as a parents that doesn't ease our fear of someone succumbing to their wrongly perceived suspicions and ......well I don't want to go there.

 

@fat controller ....you have brought tears to my eyes.....thank you for such a kind and sincere post. It means a lot to me , may our 'boys' be surrounded by people like you throughout their lives.

 

We've poked a hornet nest with a stick, when we sure have taken it out straght away

 

This is just so so so sad, I have actually cried three times over this , I cannot possibly understand why another human would do this, why would you blow yourself up? Why would you kill others? What does that actually prove? How could you go out to purposely kill other people? There are so many questions....obviously these people are radicalised & brain washed, but no amount of brainwashing would make to do such a terrible act.

One of my friends sons was caught up in this, thankfully he was not hurt but is suffering terribly from shock, my friend & his wife are in bits, the what ifs & maybes are haunting them, the knock on effect is just awful.

Just imagine how frightening this would have been, imagine standing outside the arena waiting to fetch your child & hearing the bang, the screaming, seeing the terror, how will these innocent people get over this? Imagine being in there with your children, imagine loosing them & not knowing if they are ok, It's all just awful, so sad & so very wrong.

On a positive note (it's always important in every situation to find a positive) I just want to say.....I'm very proud, proud to be British, proud of how people are coming together to support each other & help each other. Proud that our NHS is so wonderful, proud because off duty doctors, nurses & surgeons rushed into work to support their collegues & helped the injured. Proud that the average man on the street opened his/her doors to the frightened & injured, the hotels who took people in & gave them a bed for the night & didn't charge not forgetting the taxi drivers who gave people free taxi's home....this is what makes Great Britain so great, these b@st@rds won't win.....end of rant!

 

I don't normally comment on atrocities but this is as bad as I have ever seen.
I was emotional when I heard as most people were.
It is kind of ironical that there may have been Muslims killed or friends of Muslims at this event.
There we're certainly Muslim doctors ,nurses and police involved in lifesaving and attending the the injured.
Muslims have already raised thousands of pounds to help .
You may say what has that got to do with anything ,well I think it does I feel for those innocents and people like the lovely Muslim girl who served us with curtains at John Lewis at the weekend ,she has to live with this constant stareing and pointing.
We do live in a troubled world.
As regards carry on as normal ,well I am ,but I haven't lost a family member.

 

@roders I too feel for the innocent muslims & I hate the fact that some of them will now live in fear, I'm hopeful that the majority of people here in the U.K. No matter what religious beliefs they do or don't have will have enough sense to know that the majority of muslims just want to live a quiet life as many of us do, there will of course be a small amount of idiots who will cause trouble....under the circumstances I hope the police will come down on those few like a ton of bricks!

 

One thing is for certain, if we DON`t carry on as normal, then the sick b******* have won.

 

Looking at what is actually happening now then, suggests to me the sickos have won.
Nothing is looking normal to me, even the news programmes have only one topic, wonderful publicity for ISIS or anyone thinking of joining.

I still say the one thing everyone misses is the fact that everyone, of this lot, is known to the security services.
Presumably they can't touch them until they do something illegal?

So we can now put this one in prison?

Oh no, we cant as he is in lots of little bits and he has taken a lot of others with him, but we thought he might do something like this.

What the hell is the point of intelligence if you dont act on it until it's too late.

Everyone know to the security services should be either locked up or deported.

 

This has only further strengthened the bond between the various communities and made us more resolute to defeat terrorism.

I think our intelligence services overall do a good job - I'm sure they've prevented far more threats than are reported in the media.

You can't lock someone up for holding a particular belief - we simply don't have enough intelligence people to keep a 24 hour tag on every 'suspect'.

I'm not particularly comfortable with armed police or the involvement of our military - but sadly, needs must.