suprises are for birthdays
I am not surprised to be informed that the 7/7 murderers were British and suicidal. In imagining the logistics of the situation, it did seem to me that the latter aspect was highly probably. From what I have read, it is within keeping of the twisted extremist beliefs that suicide is an very appropriate means to meeting their goals because it not only kills the people they have decide to have a religious-themed struggle with, in their minds, suicide delivers them to a higher place in their religious strata.
Their British identity is something I think I actually assumed. There is no surprise here for me because as I understand it, the Islamic extremists that promote this sort of violence are a morphic, flexible and at times self-creating group that does not fit national or ethnic boundries. We want to profile these people using familiar and fixed terms such as Syrian or Shi-ite, but if we fall into this trap I believe we lose sight of the truth of what is happening. It seems to me that we can profile causes and the personality types that latch on to the movement. For a very informative opinion, do read yesterday's Observer blog by Jason Burke, a sharp writer on this area(see observer link in column). If what I am opining bears a small similarity to the truth (aside from the obvious well what does truth mean), then I think the consequences are that the situation is intensely more frightening than the reserve and stoicism that Londoners are showing can bear.
I too mentally say screw you when I jump on a tube to go to work; at times I have thought vengeful thoughts toward the perpetrators and their colleagues that still scheme to cause more murder towards myself and my friends and neighbours. But with increased "security incidents" on the trains and tubes, and controlled explosions near me in the City and in Luton (there are probably others), controlling ones nerves is difficult. And my last thought is, I really wish the media and or police would be clear what the heck a controlled explosions is and what its significance is.
Their British identity is something I think I actually assumed. There is no surprise here for me because as I understand it, the Islamic extremists that promote this sort of violence are a morphic, flexible and at times self-creating group that does not fit national or ethnic boundries. We want to profile these people using familiar and fixed terms such as Syrian or Shi-ite, but if we fall into this trap I believe we lose sight of the truth of what is happening. It seems to me that we can profile causes and the personality types that latch on to the movement. For a very informative opinion, do read yesterday's Observer blog by Jason Burke, a sharp writer on this area(see observer link in column). If what I am opining bears a small similarity to the truth (aside from the obvious well what does truth mean), then I think the consequences are that the situation is intensely more frightening than the reserve and stoicism that Londoners are showing can bear.
I too mentally say screw you when I jump on a tube to go to work; at times I have thought vengeful thoughts toward the perpetrators and their colleagues that still scheme to cause more murder towards myself and my friends and neighbours. But with increased "security incidents" on the trains and tubes, and controlled explosions near me in the City and in Luton (there are probably others), controlling ones nerves is difficult. And my last thought is, I really wish the media and or police would be clear what the heck a controlled explosions is and what its significance is.
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