7/7 London 8/7/2005

Anybody who inflicts pain, suffering and death on anybody else does not deserve to be a human being. They exclude themselves from the freedom and peace loving people. They live on the edge, in the extremes, where violence, pain and death reside, a living hell of anger, hatred and revenge.

What you sow, so you reap. This applies also to the leaders of nations who go to war on false pretences and rain down death and destruction on innocent and guilty alike. To live and endure Baghdad in March 2003 was a nightmare experience experience, many times more horrific than what was visited on London yesterday. Some of the perpretators of these London outrages were probably recruited from people who empathised with the people who lived through the carnage of Iraq. Violence begets violence.

We can resist the extremists by uniting in dignity and courage, love and understanding, Muslims and Christians, British and Iraquis, and the rest of us, standing together as human beings.

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