DEAR editor,
I am intrigued at Margaret Phelps' emphatic statement (letters, November 26) that on the day after the 7/7 atrocities in London that not a single Muslim woman boarded the bus that goes through Grangetown from Penarth for fear of possible reprisals.
How does she know of this previously unreported incident?
As this throwaway statement is central to the points that she is making in her letter I really feel that she should verify its authenticity if it is not to be discarded into the waste bin of twitter-speak.
My own recollection of the days after 7/7 is that a lot of people were nervous about using public transport, Muslims as well as the rest of the population, but that we carried on with our lives pretty much as normal. There was not the rise in racially aggravated attacks that the bombers and, I suspect, some right-wingers were hoping for.
The bombers failed in their futile attempt to create racial tensions but I am appalled at Ken Livingstone's statement that the bombers had made the ultimate sacrifice with their lives, as though what they did was somehow heroic. This really is beneath contempt.
Ian Symonds
Pen-y-Turnpike Road
Dinas Powys
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