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Update: 7 people killed in terror attack at London Bridge and Borough Market

Police say seven people are dead and more than 40 are injured after a terror attack Saturday on London Bridge and at Borough Market, BBC reported. Three suspects were also shot and killed, police said. Read more (6/4/17 10 AM)

Trump uses out-of-context quote to berate London Mayor Sadiq Khan following terrorist attack

Trump went after London Mayor Sadiq Khan in a Sunday morning tweet, saying "At least seven dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and mayor of London says there is 'no reason to be alarmed!'"

The president also tweeted "we must stop being politically correct and get down to the business of security for our people."

However, Trump's take on Khan's statement is wildly out of context.

In a press conference, Khan said, "Londoners will see an increased police presence today [Sunday] and over the course of the next few days. No reason to be alarmed." Read more (6/4/17 10 AM)

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IMPORTANT: AVOID LONDON BRIDGE & BOROUGH MARKET

MET POLICE & BBC CONFIRMED TWO SEPARATE MAJOR INCIDENTS

NUMBER OF CASUALTIES AFTER STABBINGS & VEHICLE ATTACK ON LONDON BRIDGE AND ARMED POLICE RESPONDING TO SHOOTINGS NEAR BOROUGH MARKET

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A concert is a place where everything is left at the door. A moment shared between fan and artist, as their favourite songs swirls in the air. A place where the songs that saved you and protected you for years, are finally worth it. You've made it. To destroy someone's safe place, and leave uncertainty in its path. To take an adulthood, a family of a child, a life. To break the hearts of millions. To mentally scare more. A concert is a safe place, we can't let that be no more. The fear, the terror. It's part of their game. Don't let them win, let your favourite songs continue to protect you again.

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Now is REALLY NOT the time for people who have no experience of life outside the USA to be commentating on the ONGOING situation in London.

I have already seen comments about how your average London civilian is unarmed, with no way to defend against an attack like this. The underlying message being, 'you guys are vulnerable and defenceless without guns'. If guns were as freely available in Europe as they are in some American states, this situation would have been much worse. The police, who are trained, have guns for use only in exceptional circumstances, like tonight. Guns have no place in our day-to-day life, which is what this evening was before it all went to shit. It's a culture difference. Please save your slightly irrelevant observations until after the perpetrators have been caught and the wounded tended to ✌✌✌

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Hope you are safe and well!

((OOC: I am! Thank you, sweet anon. I hope all you Brits out there are safe and sound after what happened today. The thing to remember is “constant vigilance!”, but don’t let the worry stop you from doing the things you want to do. Don’t give anyone that satisfaction. Love to you all.

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If I am murdered, know this

If I am murdered, know I saw it coming. I suspected it, feared it, obsessed over it even. Never had the privilege of being oblivious and carefree. Sure, I could assume it’ll never be me, but my demographics don’t allow for such folly. I can’t sit here as a woman, a black woman, a black Muslim woman and never consider that I may find my way into someone’s crosshairs. Macabre, I know, but denying it wouldn’t make it any better. So know I was vigilant and aware, and that still wasn’t enough. Know I discussed it with friends, to buy a gun or not. “I’d have to keep it away from my kids. Would it even be worth it if I have to keep it so far away and locked up? Could I even get to it in time?“ These are the things we discuss. And pepper spray, we talk about that too. (FYI, it’s better to buy foam than traditional liquid. Foam won’t blow back into your face. A friend taught me that last night.) These are the things we discuss.

If I am murdered, know the person who did it couldn’t see me. Could only see hate and fear of his (or her) own weakness. Certainly, he wouldn’t know that I’m really funny and super chill. Wouldn’t know that I have a husband who adores me and kids who need my everything. Wouldn't know that between the two of us, I’m not the one who is the threat. All he’d know was that I’m one of “them,” different and therefore deserving of death.

If I am murdered, know that I never became numb. Every murder before mine was painful and real. Nabra Hassanen could have been my niece, Charleena Lyles could have been my sister, those killed and injured in the Finsbury Park Mosque attack could have been my friends. It’s never just a sad story. They’re all real, all of them: Ricky John Best, Taliesin Myrddin Namkai Meche, Azzeddine Soufiane, Mamadou Tanou Barry, Ibrahima Barry, Abdelkrim Hassane, Khaled Belkacemi, Aboubaker Thabti, Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd, Susie Jackson, Ethel Lee Lance, Depayne Middleton-Doctor, Clementa C. Pinckney, Tywanza Sanders, Daniel Simmons, Sharonda Coleman, Myra Thompson, Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, Rekia Boyd, Katherine Johnston, Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha, Razan Abu-Salha, Korryn Gaines, Sandra Bland, Mohamedtaha Omar, Adam Mekki, Muhannad Tairab, Ben Keita, the 49 killed at Pulse Night Club, Walter Scott, Tamir Rice, Sean Bell, Aiyana Jones, Eric Garner, and… and… and. I could never list them all. What a shame that I could never list them all.

If I am murdered, know that I didn’t let fear stop me. Cautious but undeterred, I walked this earth like I owned it (because I do). I walked this earth like I have great, great, great grands who took lashes for my freedom, who sneaked and planned and disobeyed and ran and risked and died for my freedom. I walked this earth like I owe something to those who lie beneath it. And most importantly, I walked this earth like I believe in the protection and qadr (decree) of Allah (swt). So as long as I am able, as long as I am alive and have no hashtags associated with my name, I will laugh and love, push and pursue, smile and sing as though my spirit is immortal.

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I am not afraid.

And I won’t be afraid the next time I cross Westminster Bridge again. And I won’t be afraid when I walk through the lobby of the London concert hall I’ll be going to in the next few weeks. And I won’t be afraid when I go through London Bridge every week to get to work.

Most importantly I won’t change my view that Muslims are always welcome in this country. This country belongs to them just as much as it belongs to everyone living here who just wants to live a normal life without violence. England is OUR country. All of us together.

The minuscule amount of people that carry out these attacks are NOT Muslim, a true Muslim would NEVER do what they did. These attackers aren’t even human anymore, they’re just brainwashed terrorists. Don’t ever call them Muslims. They are terrorists, nothing more. They do not represent an entire group of 1.8 Billion people.

More than ever now we need to show our Muslim brothers and sisters that we stand together with them against violence. Dividing people against Muslims and causing more radicalisation is EXACTLY what these terrorist groups want. And it’s working. And it will continue to work for as long as people attack Muslims for crimes they have never committed and never will.

Want to know what you can do to help? Treat Muslims with kindness. Treat them like human beings. Don’t turn your anger onto those who don’t deserve it. Don’t be the idiots that create more problems by calling the Muslim person they saw at their local bus stop a cunt. Those idiots let us down, they let us all down and they help terrorism win.

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