'ITV: One suspect may have worked at Heathrow Airport'.
Many, many South Asians who were born, went to school and live in and around West London have jobs at Heathrow (five terminals yo, that's a lot of jobs). One can only imagine how they are feeling right now, afterall, in this climate of fear, people are increasingly becoming less trusting of each other. So, not only are South Asian men (who may not even be Muslim to start of with, but hey, who is asking? Certainy not the people attacking them) increasingly feeling under suspicion from the rest of the community because of the actions of a few; those who work in Heathrow Airport are now probably in fear of their job security. I am sure they certainly don't feel comfortable right now.
Meanwhile the politicians are trying to get as much political capital out of it. And its not like people around the world aren't skeptical about what happened this week. Read this, for example http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=8/12/2006&Cat=2&Num=017
It feels like we're in a 'Superman' film or something. It's bad enough when you can't trust your politicians to tell us the truth, but when so many people actually suspect that their politicians are cooking up something serious up for political gain - you know we're in deep doo doo.
Many, many South Asians who were born, went to school and live in and around West London have jobs at Heathrow (five terminals yo, that's a lot of jobs). One can only imagine how they are feeling right now, afterall, in this climate of fear, people are increasingly becoming less trusting of each other. So, not only are South Asian men (who may not even be Muslim to start of with, but hey, who is asking? Certainy not the people attacking them) increasingly feeling under suspicion from the rest of the community because of the actions of a few; those who work in Heathrow Airport are now probably in fear of their job security. I am sure they certainly don't feel comfortable right now.
Meanwhile the politicians are trying to get as much political capital out of it. And its not like people around the world aren't skeptical about what happened this week. Read this, for example http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=8/12/2006&Cat=2&Num=017
It feels like we're in a 'Superman' film or something. It's bad enough when you can't trust your politicians to tell us the truth, but when so many people actually suspect that their politicians are cooking up something serious up for political gain - you know we're in deep doo doo.
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