The perpetrators of the terrorist attack on London on 7 July 2005 were all home grown British Muslims, who felt it was justified to kill 52 innocent people and injure another 700, London was quick to get "back to business" but the healing process has still not even begun.
Why in a country were Muslims are given more freedoms than in any other Western country or Islamic state, which permits women to wear head scarves, mosques to be built, Muslim schools to operate, are British Muslims brought to the point they bomb and kill other British people?
There were no calls for a mass internment of Muslims, but London dismissed the actions of a group of misguided men and moved on, but we have still not understood or accepted the threat posed by Islamic extremists to our society. Even amongst so called "mainstream Muslims" there is a fear that extremist Islamic groups will somehow attack them if they are seen as being too "establishment".
The United Kingdom is a liberal democracy that tolerates and allows most people the freedom and liberty to express their views, however misguided that is, but we must not allow our tolerance to be abused and allow another atrocity like 7/7 to take place. It is incumbent on the Muslim community to police its own people and report to the authorities, groups or individuals who maybe contemplating acts like 7/7. We must never see again the scenes of blood from innocent Londoners, who became victims of a crazed group who believed it was their destiny to commit this heinous and cowardly act.
May all the 52 lives lost on 7 July 2005 rest in peace. We will never forget.
The names of those lost:
James Adams Lee Harris and Samantha Badham Lee Baisden Ania Brandt Michael Stanley Brewster Philip Beer Ciaran Cassidy Rachelle Chung For Yuen Benedetta Ciaccia Elizabeth Daplyn Jonathan Downey Richard Ellery Anthony Fatayi Williams David Foulkes Arthur Frederick Karolina Gluck Jamie Gordon Richard Gray Ganze Gunoral Giles Hart Marie Hartley Miriam Hyman Ojara Ikeagwu Shahara Islam Neetu Jain Emily Jenkins Adrian Johnson Helen Jones Susan Levy Sam Ly Shelley Marie Mather Mike Matsushita James Mayes Colin Morley Behnaz Mozakka Anne Moffat Jennifer Nicholson Anat Rosenberg Mihaela Otto Shyanuja Parathasangary Philip Russell Atique Sharifi Ihab Slimane Christian Small Fiona Stevenson Monika Suchocka Carrie Taylor Mala Trivedi Laura Webb William Wise Gladys Wyndowa
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