London

[matilda36]

Just found out about the bombing in London. Thankfully seems that all my friends are shaken but ok. I am quite shaken myself. I know the area hit quite well. I worked there. There were the tube lines I used, that my colleagues and friends use. I remember checking the security levels with an eye and not really taking them seriously. I remember complaining about the absence of trash bins in the tube (taken all away after an IRA bombing years ago). I remember talking to our security officer, my friend David, who was formerly in the police and discussing Business recovery plans with him and joking about the seriousness of his approach to terrorist treats. Well, the joke is reality now. The town that I called home for 7 years has been hurt. Deeply. I love London. Images of the amazing patience and composure of London commuters, me included, keep flashing in front of my eyes. I remember reading about London winning the Olympic bid this morning and thinking that the transport system wasn't up to it.
I rang my dad. He was very nice. He told me that he is here for me.
I am crying like a baby while writing this, so I'll simply say one thing:

This world needs more love.

Comments

[moonshayde.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

I just heard about this act this morning. I am nearly in tears. It hurts me to see this type of thing happen over and over again, no matter what the country. It hits home a lot harder when it's close by, or at some place you used to be, or if you have friends there. 9/11 affected me deeply, even if I wasn't in the city at the time. I have friends in the UK. I know people that travel London. It just shakes you to the core.

This is just awful. Something has to be done to try to change things.

All my best.

[matilda36.livejournal.com]

Where is the line between good and evil? Even after New york, even after Madrid, I always thought that behind the obvious wrong of terrorism, muslims had some rightful reasons to complain. But now, all that I can think of is that somebody i know or even myself, could have been on these trains. I used regurlarly the 59 bus for nearly two years. Some of these people were muslims themselves, or, like me, willing to talk and agree on some of the issues with islamic fundamentalists. But now, I do not see them anymore like muslims, or people with some rightful complaints. I see them like cold blood killers without a justification to their name.
You are probably right. Nothing like things happening close to you to shake your mental wankage. There are times when trying to understand is useless, you have to go with your heart. And my heart is agreeing with George Bush in this moment. Should I get worried?

[moonshayde.livejournal.com]

If we knew that fine line, then we would have fewer problems in this world.

I can’t give you the answers that you’re looking for. All I can tell you is that in 2001, I was experiencing the same anguish and pain. I had friends in New York at the time and while they’re okay, they will never be the same having seen the atrocities that they saw. For those of us that had been in New York and couldn’t fathom buildings that we had seen everyday or gone to visit completely were gone. We couldn’t understand why people could be so callous as to wipe out so many innocent, ordinary people, just going to work trying to make it in this world. We couldn’t fathom that people would kill innocents from various countries and children as well.

And then they did it again in Spain.

I believe the key is to make one solid distinction. The people doing these things aren’t true Muslims. True Muslims have complaints and seek diplomacy, protest, and change like anyone else. True Muslims can be fundamentalist, and still believe in protecting the innocent. Not these people. These people will use religion as their mask, as something to justify the means to an end. People like this are everywhere, using the title Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Hindu. They take valid issues, twist them, and use violence for the sake of violence. You can’t negotiate with them. They don’t represent the true believers, the people whose name they are mutilating.

Is this a harsh statement? Maybe. I am not advocating denying these people their human rights, like some people in my country. But they aren’t fighting fair. They are killing innocents just because they can.

Don’t be concerned whether you agree with Bush or not. Just feel what you need to feel. Give yourself time to mourn. Give yourself time to cry over what happened, and how close this had hit you. Months from now, when you’ve started to heal, you’ll be able to place it in perspective.

[matilda36.livejournal.com]

I believe the key is to make one solid distinction. The people doing these things aren’t true Muslims. True Muslims have complaints and seek diplomacy, protest, and change like anyone else. True Muslims can be fundamentalist, and still believe in protecting the innocent. Not these people. These people will use religion as their mask, as something to justify the means to an end. People like this are everywhere, using the title Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Hindu. They take valid issues, twist them, and use violence for the sake of violence. You can’t negotiate with them. They don’t represent the true believers, the people whose name they are mutilating.
Is this a harsh statement? Maybe. I am not advocating denying these people their human rights, like some people in my country. But they aren’t fighting fair. They are killing innocents just because they can.

I completely agree with you on this one. I remember talking with a psychiatrist about anger and the right way to express it some time ago. He said that the anger needs to be appropriate to the offense.
Killing innocents because they can like they do offends all of us: those touched, even in passing like me, their victims, the families of their victims and even the true believers. I know that somewhere in the Uk, some innocent shopkeeper will pay for them tonight, for the simple fact that they are the same religion of these killers.

I am still very emotional about it all, so anything I say would sound confusing, but one thing I know: that they will not terrorise me. Because if they do, they win.

BTW, thanks a lot for the support, you are wonderful. Hope all your English friends are ok.

[moonshayde.livejournal.com]

Just remember, if you need to vent, or to talk, you can. Sometimes that makes all the difference.