Manchester Arena Incident

sunseeker I really don't think it would help. Terrorists have little respect for "ordinary" Muslims.

Andyf - I am so pleased that your DGD is safe and well - what a dreadful experience for them.

So sad, unbelievable,my heart goes out to Manchester, and all those involved in this tragedy.RIP

I'm a Mancunian, devastated at this terrible incident, but so proud of my fellow Mancunians

It’s so disappointing yet sadly predictable to see reports of a mindless, indiscriminate backlash from certain individuals against Moslems in response to this latest outrage committed by a small number of evil extremists. Our Security Services have had considerable success in recent years in uncovering and neutralizing numerous potential terrorist attacks on the UK mainland, based on detailed intelligence. Do these anti-Moslem idiots seriously believe that such intelligence has been gathered by infiltrating a Christian, blonde, blue-eyed, Anglo-Saxon Daniel Craig 007 lookalike into ISIS, Al Khaida, or other extremist group, all done at phenomenal personal risk of an agonising, protracted death if discovered? Probably.. because they are deeply ignorant. The Moslem Council of Great Britain has immediately and unconditionally condemned the atrocity, and expressed the hope that the guilty parties will receive appropriate punishment “both in this life and the next”. The terrorists are aiming to generate both division and hatred through these barbaric acts. We must resist these aims at all costs, and remain united across all races and creeds within our multi-cultural society, determined to continue to live our daily lives, enjoying those personal freedoms which were so hard-won over the years. We shall overcome…

I am just back from Manchester. I went to visit Ruby in Manchester Royal Infirmary.
Piccadilly station was operating exactly as normal, no visible increased police presence, the workers and visitors were carrying on as normal. It was so reassuring to see.

ethelwulf - indeed so. And the message that normal peace-loving Muslims want nothing of this needs to be put across loud and clear (I would say more loudly and more clearly); or the "idiots" will take away the message that they want to and the situation will never change at all. People will become more polarised. It is a desperate situation.

As with 9/11, 7/7, other European atrocities, and now Manchester, I can never work out how within less than 24 hours the authorities can name names.

Genuinely perplexed.

See the perpetrator has been named. I hope the powers that be can do all they can to let him pass quickly into obscurity. We need to remember those who suffer and those who help......not the one who committed this atrocity.

In this case, I can't understand how US media sources (CBS and NBC) have been ahead of the BBC. Last night, they were reporting (correctly) that there were about 20 fatalities, while the BBC was claiming that the police had confirmed nothing. Today, they named the murderer before the BBC did.

Yet, annsixty, Covent Garden had a bit extra police presense today, I was made anxious.

I was feeling a bit sorry for myself this week, but horrible events like really make you get things into prospective don't they? .

I gave my DGD (who has been off school poorly this week) an extra cuddle and thought "to hell with work and tidying the house". My DGD's love to go to concerts and I can't imagine what those poor families are going through.

I totally agree with you HildaW.

sarahellenwhitney: 'These people' are the people who will distort religion to suit their fanatical beliefs and attempt to justify what they do.I could not agree more with what you have said, and this could have applied to so many factions who have killed innocent people - like the Christian crusaders who slashed people to ribbons and carried out atrocities in the name of the 'Prince of Peace'. It has been stated that so many of the bombers are drug takers, and disaffected dregs of society who probably see a 'glorious' death as a triumph - but they surely have rejected the real truth of their religion.

In many cases they are isolated loners who turn to this distorted worldview to justify their murderous actions. We should take the oxygen of publicity away from them.

..watch you tube.Tony Walsh.poet.manchester vigil. northern spirit abounds ❤❤

I watched it on the news farview he summed up us northeners and how we feel.

He did indeed annsixty. So good to see that you visited ruby lady on this sad day. I hadn't known she was a patient at MRI, a wonderful hospital.

The news coverage confirms that the emergency services and local Manchester people responded instantly and well to this awful terrorist attack. It's clear from the media coverage that the vast majority of people are determined not to allow this to cause division amongst our diverse city. Such young children massacred or exposed to horrors we can't begin to imagine.

It's the start of the festival season so parents and grandparents have good cause to be anxious. I know my teenage DGCs are all set to go to a few.

Such a horrible day of sadness and feeling helpless

I am horrified by this. My heart goes out to the families who are bereaved, and also to the ones who have not been able to find loved ones. And so many people hurt, some of them with life threatening injuries. Most of the children who have been on tv.seem to be very shocked, very quiet and looking so sad. It was heartwarming to read how lots of people came forward to help in all sorts of ways. Some friends of my son who have cars have gone down to Manchester to help bring people from the north east back home, and it is being organised properly by the police.
I was however shocked to be told by a friend that a lad who works with them was stuck in Manchester, and couldn't get to work this morning is going to have disciplinary action taken when he gets back. Nice firm to work for!

..my DIL is a practice nurse..a co-worker was absent from work today..badly injured.in hospital..her young daughter too is also in hospital with shrapnel and bolts in her thighs..her best friend...of many years died in her arms....that is the reality of last nights horrific attack on innocent people.....

farview That's awful. My heart goes out to all of you.

From the conversation with my daughter today, I picked up what had been going on. My daughter wasn't involved, but she was so distressed about her friend, who had treated people at MRI as a doctor in A&E. My daughter was seriously concerned that her friend is going to need counselling.

It occurred to me that doctors in Syria face this every day. What a sad and horrible world!

deeply choked and do not accept about what happened in Manchester or any where in the world.
I have one dream and i believe one day it will come true {when people having the wright understand of religion. speaking in general.}

It is so distressing to think that there are folk who still do not know were their children are - although it seems that one has been found in a hospital with serious injuries. So sad.

There is also at least one young girl who has been unable to contact her parents Luckygirl. In one of my local schools her in Yorkshire, five out of seven have returned leaving two in hospital, one being operated on this afternoon. The effects will ripple out to affect so many people.

Unfortunately they have found Olivia whose mother was so distressed from not knowing, at her interview yesterday....