Pratical course of action needed

WITH respect to the recent events in Manchester, I feel that it is not at all possible for us to enter into that world of complete and utter devastation felt on the part of those that have lost those so close to them: life which has become a meaningless void.

No amount of consolation will repair the damage. My thoughts and feelings go out to them but at heart I am left myself pained by my own existence when such meaningless atrocities take place.

However in time to come questions will be asked of the various authorities. For instance, the amount of protection afforded on the evening in proportion to the profit made.

Indeed I have the feeling it fell well short of the mark. How many security persons, for instance, were employed in the foyer?

Secondly, I’m sure that virtually every true Muslim in Britain would share my condemnation of such indiscriminate bombing and carnage.

However the practical course of action I would wish to see implemented is one I’ve already spoken of when invited to take part in the Any Answers programme on BBC Radio 4.

This concerns, not a criticism of a teaching emanating from the mosques, but rather an addition.

That is a total and categorical condemnation that teaches that in the event of any afterlife, these perpetrators most certainly have no reward in terms of paradise or any other, rather they are condemned to hell for all eternity.

These heinous crimes are most certainly carried out by those adhering to some pathologically distorted form of Islam which hurt the true Muslim as much as it does the public at large. David Abbott Stoke Golding