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We grew up with ‘you may eat or drink anything at Shia friends place but not water’ not that it stopped us gulping jugs after cricket or football!
After losing my wife in a suicide attack on 05/10/2009 & starting my ‘Say No to Terrorism’ crusade & sharing survivors stories
We grew up with ‘you may eat or drink anything at Shia friends place but not water’ not that it stopped us gulping jugs after cricket or football!
After losing my wife in a suicide attack on 05/10/2009 & starting my ‘Say No to Terrorism’ crusade & sharing survivors stories
https://twitter.com/haiyabokhari/status/1306849546027380736
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we thought of Terrorism as bombs, suicide hits & the sort, Sectarian violence was another genre!
A couple of years back I met a Shia lady whose husband & son were targeted
My response was, that’s sectarianism not terrorism, her reply changed my perspective
we thought of Terrorism as bombs, suicide hits & the sort, Sectarian violence was another genre!
A couple of years back I met a Shia lady whose husband & son were targeted
My response was, that’s sectarianism not terrorism, her reply changed my perspective
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terrorists want “to destroy the public's sense of security in the places most familiar to them” & put fear of what next, in their minds
She said, do you know what it feels like to live in fear for the life of your remaining children?
terrorists want “to destroy the public's sense of security in the places most familiar to them” & put fear of what next, in their minds
She said, do you know what it feels like to live in fear for the life of your remaining children?
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I do worry about attacks & wait for my loved ones to return home safely, the ‘fear’ has lessened, & I do not ask this question any longer
However every time I meet her I see it in her eyes!
If this does not make you sit up & think, I Salute your Insensitivity
I do worry about attacks & wait for my loved ones to return home safely, the ‘fear’ has lessened, & I do not ask this question any longer
However every time I meet her I see it in her eyes!
If this does not make you sit up & think, I Salute your Insensitivity
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