What sort of world is this?

Like all you other grans I was horrified to hear that the suicide bomber was only a child - probably brainwashed by his "brave mentors" into believing what he was doing was god's work. What can we grans do to help - evil is prevailing while good people are doing nothing.

IYou could not have put it betterLullyDully I too, despair of the world and for the future of our grandchildren and their children. But , as they say, there is always Hope.

They are not even worshiping different Gods. If you believe there is only one God He/She is just being worshipped differently. If there is a God He/ She must be in despair.

All this fighting over the centuries. Really not about Him/ Her but about greed, spite, land and power. People.will never change as I believed as a youngster and their brutality is never ending. I find the news sickening and feel helpless.

The whole thing is evil. Why must people fight all the time. I mean what the heck if someone else likes to worship something different from another person, or has a different coloured skin. I just think live and let live, but what a stupid thing for me to say. There will never be peace in the world as long as Human Beings exist

Using children as weapons or deliberately targeting them is beyond evil.

Anya my thoughts are unrepeatable

I wonder if he even knew what was going to happen. There was a picture today of a toddler killed by a land mine and I see the brother of the little Syrian boy has died from his injuries. The people behind all this will only see it as collateral damage, and probably not even that.

Isn't it strange these "men" don't carry out these deeds themselves and, I would guess, don't send their own children - just other peoples.

And our thoughts on those 'brave' men who conned him into doing their dirty work?

Same as it has always been. I am not sure whether that remark is realism or cynicism.

I can imagine that the poor little soul was utterly terrified. Even though he might have believed he was going to heaven, he was leaving everything he knew and loved.

I remember reading about an archeological find of children's bodies used in religious sacrifice . A great honour in South America. But it was discovered that they poo-d themselves in fear. How barbaric. At least you can say that that was long ago and different understanding, but there are no excuses for this now.