Terror attacks in France and Tunisia/now

I believe the beheading was a result of the explosion. Just saying.

Horrible all round.

I have heard differently jingle.

I heard the decapitated head was found on a fence with an Islamic flag nearby and they are saying it was an act of terrorism.

It is awful listening to holiday families speaking to the news stations whilst locked in their rooms. You would be terrified for yourself but if you have children with you it must be even more terrifying.

Now reporting 27 murdered.

I can't write what I truly feel!

DD2 and her family are due to go to Morocco this summer. I now it's a different part of North Africa but is anywhere safe?

I hope they cancel.

Just awful, for both cases.We would not consider going on holiday to any Muslim country now.

For many years now, since the Bali bombings that killed so many Australians, I have been certain that I would never go to a Muslim country on holiday. This Tunisian atrocity makes me even more certain.

It is terrible that innocent holiday makers were slaughtered for no reason whatsoever except some sort of hatred of Westerners like us.

After it is all over, Tunisia may well pay a huge price, as tourism could be seriously affected. Thus the innocent will suffer again.

Ramadan has just begun - I would have thought this would be a period of peace, but the opposite is happening.

I never thought the world would go like this. How can we understand it all? Since 2001, the news headlines have been like the beginning of a dystopian science fiction, futuristic novel.

Except it is for real.

Appalling news, I can't find the words to express what I feel, very, very shocking

I think what is equally if not more worrying is the weak almost dysfunctional politicians in continental europe who bicker and squabble while the rest of the world goes up in flames one way or another. The fact that there seems nobody in this group who comes across as a leader with any backbone is acutely disturbing. Heaven only knows what the future holds, but it doesn't look good.

And THIS

O.M. goodness, this is just too shocking, words fail me,I don't know what to say.

That's really frightening.
From a personal point of view, our eldest and his family have just returned to UK from Kuwait for the summer. They live there, and I've visited twice. The Kuwaitis are very moderate generous people, not given to violence.

the attack in France was perpetrated by a guy from our local town- father of 3 children

I'm with you roses. Wild horses wouldn't drag me to any of those countries. How dreadful granjura.

The hotel in Sousse is one my late do and I stayed at in 1968. It was lovely and peaceful then.

Ramadan - going without food all day makes people more irritable, not more peaceful.

One of the reports I read commented that because it was Ramadan, there would be fewer Muslim people on the beach, only foreign holiday makers.

Tunisia has been troubled for a while, 22 people killed in March and in 2013. I see a Belgian airline has halted flights, hope that doesn't mean those there can not leave.

DD and family stayed in that hotel three years ago I'll be phoning her tomorrow so hopefully they'll have decided against going to Morocco. We've had three incidents today but who knows if that's it??

Absolutely heartbreaking news! They are now saying 30 British are dead but some poor people still not identified!

I know that my GD1 is going tomorrow for a week in Turkey with her BF and I am sure the beach resorts there will be vulnerable. Fingers firmly crossed. What more can I do?

Galen That was in the days of President Habib Bourguiba and is one more example of the stability that comes with tyranny – perhaps tyranny in the ancient Roman sense as he was, at least quite a lot of the time, much more forward thinking than many other Arab leaders. Nevertheless he was a heavily authoritative president and Tunisia was a highly controlled one-party state for a long time. Tunisia seems to be another case of when it falls apart, it really falls apart.

I really do worry for the futures of my children and dear grandchildren. It is too dreadful for words.

Me too Mishap

And some people wonder why fundamentalism is a dangerous thing?