Wishes of safety to our friends in UK.

Thankyou for the respectful topic change and my respects and humble thoughts to those affected by todays terrible events.

 

oldengineer: My words are the same.

 

Yes thanks for the thoughts, bad times here.

 

I don't even know what to say in moments like this. Just hope all of our friends and their families are ok.

 

paulo is a london'er anyone spoken to him today?

 

Yes, I feel the same.......

May God bless and keep the affected close.

 

Yeah, he posted to say he's fine (but busy).

 

It was only a matter of time before the UK got hit - the statement saying they're going to bomb muslim community centres has got a few people where I work on edge because we work at such a centre and it's reasonably well known too (visits from MP's and royalty). If it happens to get blown up whilst I'm in there then there is proof that when shit hits the fan for me it hits hard hehe. What's strange though is the bombers claim the bombings are for jihad, yet jihad is to better one's self and their community by helping them, not killing them. Jihad is also to fight only in self defence, but clearly these attacks were not part of any battle. As to their claims of killings of muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan being wrong, those guys were firing guns at people who would only shoot them if they fired 1st, so it's not really self defence at all - added to that according to Abel any muslim who dies in battle but does not fight all their sins are forgiven, so why they shoot first is beyond me or maybe I'm missing something/don't fully understand Islam. Oh well ...

 

No, you got the general gist right, it's just when people need a reason for fucking others over, religion is an easy choice.

 

Nice thought. I can only agree with oldengineer. Sad that things like this have to happen in a world like this...

 

deepest sympathies for all of England. Senseless lost lives:smt009 We will stand with you just as you have us since 9/11.

 

No words for this, but I am happy it wasn't much worse in terms of death toll as I initially thought.

 

I'm glad to hear that thus far nobody here was hurt, but I'm terribly saddened to hear of the numbers behind the deaths and injuries, even if they are smaller than we had feared.

Elvis Costello said it best, I think - "What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?"

 

My sympathies go out to the victims. I hope everyone here is okay.

 

I remove my proverbial hat and bow to England's flag today.

My thoughts and sympathies are with our british brothers.

 

There's not much I can say after what's already been said Let's hope this is the last of the attacks.

Yakumo

 

I cant belive this would happen over there, my sympathie goes out to them and hope they will recover soon.

 

Well today has been relatively quiet in the bad news front. Ive only been out to mac donalds and where i live just about 15mins by tube away from the incidents was packed. Everyone was out, shopping and eating.

Not normally this busy at this time of the week. So it seems people are still out and about. Stopped by the tube station and heard that one of the stations from yesterday was again closed due to a suspect package. Dint stop the at least 10 or so that i watched get in the tube in the 2mins i was at the station.

Taking the tube tomorrow to go see my gf hope everything will be well!

Paulo

 

Here's to a better week for our UK friends.