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Iman trolley, far as I know, but yes I agree, it is nice to see that

I bet you've read 'tis....is all too familiar am afraid(and we is off topic... ..much as our mods are wonderful.....etc,etc!!!)

I feel sorry for my muslim friends because on the news all over, the media keep mentioning "Islamic Extremist Terrorists". Why can't they just used the term "Terrorist" or "Extremist" or "Al-Qaeda Terrorist" (if they must an adjective to the term)? I personally think that the use of the word "Islamic" is a bit unnecessary. Do they call the IRA terrorists as "Catholic extremists", or "hindu extremist" (referring to the civil war in India)? I can't remember anyone does.

Although I'm not that religious myself : I do believe that no religion in this world does teach its followers to be "extremist". Is there any?

I might be cynical but you mention Islam with terrorism if you want the public to associate arabs as crazed terrorists.

I found a good website that has more info should anyone be interested.

http://signs-of-the-times.org/signs/signs20050707.htm

and Turks, Pakistani's, Somalians, Indonesians, etc etc... By sheer co-incidence 4 of my exes (Turkish,Kurdish,Arabic,Turkish-again) are Muslim and you just can't pigeon-hole people.One was so religious that we dated for a year and planned to marry but we never even kissed bcz he was afraid it would put 'bad thoughts into his head' one had to be slapped for being too forward too quickly... It's all down to the inividual and people really can't be pigeon-holed. I totally feel for the normal Muslims that have got this poo done 'in their name' when it's got bog all to do with them or what they believe but they take the blame for other evil people Good website M!

sorry Bunny don't have internet at home, that's what work is for

managed to get home okay from Charing Cross and journey in today was pretty quiet

Glad to hear it DH. I feel proud to be British and a Londoner today, to be honest - we're stoical and resilient, we take it on the chin and we totter on regardless.

Being from and living in London, yesterday gave me a real reality check. I know things like this are happening all over the world on a daily basis, innocent people getting murdered, but its not until its on your own doorstep, it hits you hard how fragile life can be at times like this

My sympathies go out to ALL the family and friends of those people who died in yesterdays horrific attack, its truly heartbreaking

Because those that carried out this atrocity did it because they have a warped view of Islam.

Intelligent people can tell the difference between peace loving muslims, whether they be conservative in the way they practise their faith or secular, & those muslims who hold extremist views.

The IRA are/were gangsters masquerading as Irish 'freedom' fighters. The fact that a few of them attend/attended Catholic mass means nothing to intelligent people.

I couldn't avoid London. I live here.

The problem is not all people are intelligent. That's the reason why peace loving muslims got killed and terrorised after the 9/11 in US. And part of the reason why such stigma persists is because the media insensitivity of keep using the word ISLAMIC (one American who killed a Muslim actually did admit it, while waiting for his deatch sentence!) . (Thank God, BBC has omitted the use of 'Islamic')

It's good that many intelligent people know that ONLY a few of the IRA terrorists have attended Catholic mass. But how many intelligent people really do realise that 95% of Al-Qaeda terrorits had never attended Muslim Service, and couldn't read Quran/Hadiths either? If there're many intelligent people know this, then they would instantly know that the use of word 'Islamic' is totally irrelevent. How can one be Islamic if he/she never attend Muslim Service (which is compulsary once a week!) and couldn't even read Quran/Hadiths?