Human kindness revealed in Manchester
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Last night thousands of people in Manchester and across the country pulled together to help those in need, and that is the message we should take from the atrocious act.
In the wake of terror attacks, like the one perpetrated in Manchester last night it is easy to give in to hate and fear. People have been injured and even died at the hands of a single individual, and at this early stage, the only reason we know for the attack is just that. To spread terror and fear across the population.
As always with these attacks there will be calls to ban immigration, to crack down on non-white Christians in the UK and even more extreme sanctions, but that is not the way to beat terrorism. The only way to beat terror is to prove it doesn’t work. Look to the hope.
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Last night we saw hundreds of examples of people banding together to support those in need, working closer together than ever before. Within minutes of the explosions people in Manchester were taking to Twitter offering to take in victims and those stranded by the closure of the train station. This is human kindness at it’s best. People actually opening their homes to complete strangers to offer help.
There are also stories of Taxi drivers refusing to accept fares, and even members of the public volunteering their own cars as temporary taxis to help transport those stranded.
Literally thousands of people are constantly circulating images of those missing across social media to help reunite loved ones, and more volunteers walking the streets of Manchester and physically searching hospitals and hotels.
This is the most important message to take from any terror attack. Terrorism doesn’t work. Terrorism just brings us ALL closer together. The hashtag StandTogether is currently one of the highest trending on Twitter and rightly so. Humanity must never bow down to fear, we must stand strong and unite, prove that positive actions are the best way to remedy any attack on us. In this particular event the person responsible is already dead, so a witch hunt will just be counter productive. Let the legacy of those injured and killed in Manchester be one of peace and unity.
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