h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Yes, pity the whole world.

I still haven't heard substantiated proof that it should be muslims who did this - remember they said the same about the Oklahoma Bombing? And Tim McVeigh was sure no muslim!

I don't think I've ever been as afraid in my adult life - notwithstanding certain traffic incidents - as I was when I heard and saw this dreadful thing!

I usually make long, complex entries, but right now, words fail me.

I wonder what will happen the next couple days...

I am shocked that a very reasonable pleasant Australian woman (who is a very sweet person I always thought) said to me just a minute ago, that she thought 'Dubya' should prevent future trouble by "wiping out all Arab countries- just wiping them right off the face of the earth, no hesitation". I am horrified! I *like* Diane and can't believe she would say such a thing. You are right, there is no proof Muslims were responsible! My son, Jimmy, has a cynical theory that"it's all about the money" as that Swedish(?) woman sang in her song about two years ago...Jimmy says it's a coincidence that it happened *right* after China joined the WTO... I leave it to him and his social studies teacher to work out the theory, but I am sorry that people (the FBI for one) are going to act on not enough evidence and decide on prejudice. The Americans were saying *right* after it (07:00 NZ time) that they thought it was all down to Osama Bin Laden...

Maybe it is him... maybe it osn't...

But I strongly oppose the mobs of angry people i the US - and outside - who take their anger out on innocent people whose only crime is to be muslim.
When 2-300 people wreck a mosque in revenge of the WTA-massacre, they really aren't much better than the hijackers. If there had been fatalities, they wouldn't have been ANY better.

Well, that's just my opinion presently.

-Kimoto

Oh, I have heard nothing about that - it's shocking! I have heard of a group in Texas, firing on an 'Islamic Centre' and people here in NZ making obscene phone calls to such places, and spitting on schoolchildren. I cannot understand such hate!

Oh, I can understand hate, but I cannot understand that people can react this way - let the hate control them and absorb them.

Taking out ones hate on innocents is exactly what the hijackers did.

I'm still somewhat scared. You?

-Kimoto