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| Britain |
| Boomer families disinvited from service |
| 2005-09-10 |
| RELATIVES of the 7 July London bombers will definitely not be invited to the national remembrance service for the victims, the government announced last night. A spokeswoman for the Department for Culture which is co-organising the event on 1 November said: "The service is intended to provide comfort to the grieving families and friends of the victims. There is no truth in recent coverage which alleges that the families of the London bombers should be invited to the service, or that this was ever going to be the case." It had been suggested the families of the four bombers who carried out the 7 July atrocities which claimed the lives of 52 people would be invited to attend the event. But the government confirmed the relatives of the bombers would not be on the guest list for the service at St Paul's Cathedral. The spokeswoman said the order of service and the guests were a matter for the Cathedral's Dean and Chapter and the DCMS. She said it would be "inappropriate" to invite the families of the bombers to the event. "We fully understand the anguish of the families of the bombers, but it would be wholly inappropriate to invite them to this service." She added that the service would be a chance to celebrate the capital's multicultural society. "It also will be an opportunity to be an affirmation of London as one of the world's great cities and an affirmation of our multicultural and multi-faith society," she said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 The sad thing is that victim families will have to listen to an imam reading some koranic verse and claiming that islam is a religion of peace I hope their "multi-cultural" experience leaves this out. This is just as bad as having the families of the bombers present, almost like their representatives. |
| Posted by: Jan 2005-09-10 22:37 |
| #6 OO2983: ArchDruid of Wales = Robyn Lewis Archbishop of Canterbury (aka ap Aneuri) = Rowan Williams Williams accepted an honorary druidship (Druid of the Welsh Gorsedd of Bards). I think he was an idiot for doing so, and like a good laugh at his expense, but he isn't the archdruid. |
| Posted by: James 2005-09-10 19:07 |
| #5 The sad thing is that victim families will have to listen to an imam reading some koranic verse and claiming that islam is a religion of peace. Insult added to injury. |
| Posted by: john 2005-09-10 18:19 |
| #4 Not to mention the Archbiship of Canterbury and at least one other prominant Church of England bishop. The Archbiship is, IIRC, also the archdruid of Wales, which rather puts things into perspective. |
| Posted by: Omerens Omaigum2983 2005-09-10 17:49 |
| #3 'Moose, Red Ken himself said they should be invited. Communist tone-deaf wanker that he is. (I think it was posted here yesterday, or maybe on LGF.) |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2005-09-10 17:40 |
| #2 Who suggested? C'mon, tell us. Or did they just suck that out of their thumb? |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-09-10 13:37 |
| #1 Don't worry, Red Ken will invite them to come with him. And I hope the people already in the Cathedral when he arrives tear him limb from limb. In a wholly multicultural way, of course. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2005-09-10 12:52 |