[jaguar]

I'm not going to reply to noodle's comments because they make me very, very angry and it's been a stressful enough couple of days as it is. A number of friends were caught in the tubes when this happened and everyone is still kind of in shock, everyone feels very unsafe in in the inner city which is essentially where I live (back in london now). Amazingly parts of the underground are working, busses are running as normal and trains are running as normal, massive props to the authorities on getting things back to normal so quickly.

I spoke at some length of a friend of mine that acted as part of the legal team defending some of the guys in the Ricin Plot case that collapsed over here. He had a few interesting things to say.
1: There is a big fear of a huge crackdown of some sort on the Muslim community, there have already been many, many arrests.
2: The majority of those guys will be completely innocent but the hurt and anger that will come from their harsh treatment while they are arrested will do nothing to help relations.
3: One of their ex-clients or friend thereof as a thank-you warned them to stay off the tube. He has since been arrested.

These attacks were highly indiscriminate, they probably hit as many devout Muslims as Christians or anyone else. The feel at the moment is these guys were 'home grown', brits radicalised at home rather than imported terrorists. If this is a war it's a war of ideas, not faith or nationality and it can't be won like one of those wars. It can only be defeated by defeating those ideas, you can't do that with bombs.