Such wickedness
Armed police called to the scene near the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, London, shot and injured two suspects. Woolwich and Greenwich MP Nick Raynsford said both were in a serious condition in hospital. One witness, identified as James, said he and his partner saw two black men attack the young man with kitchen knives like he was “a piece of meat”. “They were hacking at this poor guy, literally,” he told LBC. “They were hacking at him, chopping him, cutting him.
Fighting back tears, he added: “These two guys were crazed. They were just animals. “They dragged him from the pavement and dumped his body in the middle of the road and left his body there.” He said that after the “horrendous” attack, the two men, in their 20s, just stood around, waving knives and a gun, even asking people nearby to take pictures of them “as if they wanted to be on TV or something”. “They were oblivious to anything, they were more worried about having their photo taken, running up and down the road,” he said. “They had no intention of running off or leaving or anything.
The supposition in Britain is that the perpetrators are Muslim and that their act was religiously motivated. If so, Islamic leaders across the civilized world need to denounce it in no uncertain terms. Silence is acceptance. And silence in the face of evil is itself evil.
I hope one and all will pray for this guy’s family and friends. I suspect they will need all the help they can get- especially of the divine sort.