Boston Marathon

Firstly, I'd like to send my prayers out to all of those affected by the horrible, sickening crisis that is the explosion of the Boston Marathon.

There are many issues that have come to my attention this evening; firstly starting with how anybody could be so alarmingly cruel minded to the extent of violently sabotaging a charity marathon for a previous mass shooting in a school in Newtown. Although there is currently no confirmed source of proof leading to the explanation that the explosions were the deliberate actions of a terrorist organisation, ball bearings have been found which leads researchers to believe that they are shrapnel, a type of bomb, which adds to the suspicion that the explosion was deliberate.

We should be looking out for each other in unity, comforting each other through natural disasters such as earthquakes or the inevitable natural death of those we love and so on - not inflicting yet more pain upon each other.

What has also particularly grinded my gears tonight is that, as aforementioned, there is yet no confirmed source of the culprits, if any, of the explosion however I have seen many ignorant opinions claiming that Arabs and Muslims are behind the entire "attack". Is this what we have come to, as a society? We have been successfully fed by the syringe of the media, who conveniently only cover the cases of Muslim supremacy and not the unknowingly common supremacists of Christianity, Judaism and many more.

Also, how come it is the case that nobody is ever interested in world affairs until they become widely recognised and discussed? Half of the oblivious Tweeters and Facebook-ers have most probably never even read an entire newspaper before however they're extremely fast to jump on the band wagon as soon as it is a trending topic.

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