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[rain_gryphon]

What a disgusting display of savagery in Manchester :( The Australian has an excellent editorial.

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[bunny_plush]

Indeed disgusting >:o(

BTW- your link wouldn't work for me- first uBlock Origin filters stopped it, and then when I went to the newspaper itself it wanted me to pay-per-view. I've read a lot on this this morning, though, on various other sites.

[rain_gryphon]

It was a short, absolutely heartbreaking essay about going to your first concert with your friends, without your parents, and how special and grown-up it makes you feel, and how that's now ruined forever for all those girls and boys.

[moonhare]

*sigh* yeah, got it. I thought of my own kids when this happened, of what would they have had to deal with having their childhoods end so abruptly with such a heinous act.

[loganberrybunny]

You might be interested in Haras Rafiq's (of the Quilliam Foundation) piece in the Telegraph. Not sure of its payall status, especially outside the UK, but I' imagine you can get at this somehow:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/24/platitudes-no-longer-enough-muslims-must-hold-community-religious/

[rain_gryphon]

I quite agree with him, yes.

[gremy.livejournal.com]

It's sad that people sometimes do horrible things just for shits and giggles.

[allaboutweather.livejournal.com]

^ Agreed. :(

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the link!

[xolo.livejournal.com]

I thought it a very moving essay. Quite apart from the people who were injured or killed, so many kids now are going to associate this singer that they loved with horror.