A silver lining to a terrible cloud

Thre are very few words to express the true horror of the terrible murder in Woolwich. A brave man, who was loved and respected by his family and comrades, who had risked his life for his country in Helmand province, was hacked down in the streets near his home in Britain.

A two year old boy has been left without a father.

There can be no justification for this senseless and brutal murder. Certainly not in the name opf Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful, or in the name of the religion of Islam, which means "Peace."

If there is a single bright side to this awful act, it is in the response: by the brave cub scout leader who, as the PM put it, spoke for all of us when she confonted one of the attackers, and in the fact that the airwaves in the aftermath of the attack were full of as many repudiations from Imams and other representatives of Islam as they were of condemnation from anyone else. And that the unreserved rejection of this attack by spokesmen for Muslim believers was as clear, forthright, strongly-worded and explicit as as any reasonable person could possibly wish.

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