Receiving the news of the blasts halfway across the world, in the comfort of your one's own home, (or at a BTN camp, as some of my JPA friends are) one cant help to feel detached from that shocking and terrible event.

But a terror attack such as that and its repercussions, taking innocent lives as it did, can not and must not be ignored. The attack will indeed affect us, as civilised people firstly and as citizens of a muslim country. The world at large has not yet forgotten Sept 11 and the unrestrained accusations that came along with it.

My prayer goes out to the innocent victims and the folk of london, especially to our seniors studying there right now.

May God's grace be with you.

For us, particularly those bound for UK, only time will tell how deeply the turn of events will affect our future.