Tuesday, 29 March 2016

Lahore

Let's pause for a moment to remember Lahore. On Easter Day, a branch of the Taliban sent a suicide bomber to a playground because it was known to be a popular place for Christian families to gather on the afternoon of Easter Sunday. It wasn't just frequented by Christians - Muslims were there too - but the time and place were chosen to target Christians. At least seventy people were killed and about two hundred injured, some of them very seriously. As you'd expect from an explosion in a playground, there was a high proportion of children among the dead and injured.

As soon as the news got out, queues (lines) began to form outside the hospitals, queues of people volunteering to give blood. They weren't interested in who followed which faith, just in doing what they could to help and save lives. Yes, the giving of their own blood for whoever needed it. Muslim blood in Christian veins, Christian blood in Muslim veins.

This is not what the haters intended.

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