this should be in the London Asplode thread

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stiff upper lip old boy- pip pip
I am glad people remeber that London did indeed put up with repeted IRA actics, but no one took their anger out on Nuns or people wearing crosses. Let just hope the Britsih can remain as calm as they have been and not start up attacks on the Muslim community. After 9/11 400 people were attacked in this country just because they were Muslim.

It is actually fascinating to see the comparisons in how this is being reported to the international community. The death toll reported by the BBC stands at 20, with numbers for the people on the bus not included, but it seems to world media is much more sensationalist. The news now is mainly informing people of what they should be doing and what should they do if they cant get home. I few years back I was working on Oxford st (Londons busiest retil street)when a pub was bombed a few streets away. A few of us who had first aid training went to help out and although the scene was horrific, the over whelming feeling I was left with was how great the emergency services were. Unfortunately we live in a world where if you live in a city you are a target, the question is how you deal with it when it happens. If a positive lesson can be learned from this tragedy, then I hope it is that my country can show the world a human, reasoned response. However we do have a war Prime Minister and to be quite frank, I am shitting myself over just what this might lead us into.