Terror Attack at Manchester Arena

Last night the world was glued to their television as they watched the horror unfold before them. The attack of a suicide bomber at the Manchester Arena. A packed arena filled with young children and their parents to attend the Ariana Grande concert. Since tickets for these events go on sale long before they are to take place and you can find out online just how many seats are available, he had all the information he needed to know he was about to attack a packed house. It didn’t matter to him this house was filled with children.

There are reports of an arrest being made by the Manchester Police Department of a 23 year old man in connection with the bombing on Monday evening. There are also reports that they now believe they know the name of the man who carried out that attack. Knowing who he is isn’t what matters but knowing he did this for his so called religious belief is what matters. The world needs to ban together to rid us of this garbage.

One man, one piece of trash, detonated a homemade explosive device only minutes after Ariana Grande finished her performance. It was approximately 10:30 PM in Manchester at the time when this homemade bomb filled with nuts and bolts was detonated sending thousands young fans and their families running and screaming for help. Many were separated from their group and some are still missing.

Ariana Grande, the 23 year old singer from America, was led to safety. She took to twitter saying:

             broken. from the bottom of my heart, i am so so sorry. I don’t have words.

After witnessing this horror the singer has suspended her world tour indefinitely. No one can blame her as reports came in she was in hysterics after the bombing and inconsolable. I can only imagine how hard this is for her. There were many fans there she had personally met before. Sources say she is not concerned with her shows at this time and we can all understand the emotional stress she must be under. In my opinion along with our prayers for the victims of this horrible attack we should all be adding this young performer, Ariana Grande, to our prayers and well wishes. Give her some space so she too can heal.

Unfortunately last night’s attack has left many children and young adults among the dead and unfortunately missing since some are believed to have been pulled away from their group as the chaos began. Parents have been desperately searching for their missing loved ones throughout the night. There are images all over social media asking for help if you have seen their loved ones.

As the names start to come in of the victims from last night the first one I saw this morning was a young girl, only 18 years old, from Whittle-le-Woods in Lancashire. Georgina Callander was a college student and a huge fan of Ariana’s. She had the honor or meeting her idol back in 2015 and posted a picture of herself and Ariana on her Instagram account back then. Saving that moment for her forever in her history. My prayers go out to Georgina’s family and friends.

As I watched the news a short while ago the image of this cute little eight year old girl came across the screen, Saffie Rose Roussos who was the second victim to be confirmed dead. Saffie was attending the performance last night with her mother Lisa and her sister Ashlee Bromwich. When the attack took place Saffie was separated from them. Both her mother Lisa and her sister Ashlee are being treated for shrapnel injuries. I pray for their quick recovery from their injuries but I am afraid there are not enough prayers to heal their hearts for the life they lost.

Many of the people who were injured last night are being treated for life-threatening conditions in eight different hospitals across Manchester so I am sure parents and loved ones have been going from place to place in hopes of finding those who are missing from last night. There are reports there are twelve victims under the age of 16. This attack was on our children and cannot be over looked.

I commend the first responders for the amazing work they did keeping everyone calm and attending to those who were in need of help. I also commend the people of Manchester for their out pouring of help to those in need. From people opening their homes to the concert-goers, to hotels near the venue taking in children to keep them safe until they can be reunited with their families, to taxi drivers offering people free rides home, and to all the volunteers who are ready to give blood and help in any way they can. This community pulled together and did what they had to do to help people they didn’t even know.

As we all know this investigation is far from over. The police have a lot of evidence to go over and will have to track the attacker’s movements in order to find out if there are any others involved. This morning Prime Minister Theresa May said the bomber had chosen the time and place of his attack deliberately to cause “Maximum carnage and to kill and injure indiscriminately.” This was a well thought out attack, he knew when and where to be at that point and time to do the most damage and he gave no thought to how young his victims were.

My heart breaks as the images of these young people who had so much to give, so much to look forward to in life, had their hopes, dreams, and lives ripped from them and for what? To spread fear among us trying to keep us living with fear in our hearts, so much so we will fear standing up against them. Obviously they don’t understand human nature. You attack our children we will fight back, defend and protect our own. It is time for all nations to ban together and unite with one thought in mind, rid this world of any and all Radical Islamic terrorist.

The Islamic State has clearly declared an all-out war against all nations and they do not care if they hurt our children yet when President Trump was a candidate and promised to “quickly and decisively bomb the hell out of ISIS” many people were up in arms because of the children who could be put in harm’s way. As we can see they do not care about our children, they do not care who they hurt, who they kill, they only care about spreading fear and dread. We cannot allow this to continue to go on.

Today, while in Bethlehem, President Trump spoke about the attack last night at the concert in Manchester. He offered his condolences to the victims and their families and called these attackers “evil losers in life.” He called for “all civilized nations” to unite against terrorism and “obliterate this evil ideology.” This is the message President Trump has been delivering across the Middle East this week. To unite against terrorism and to put our differences aside and work together to rid this world of this evil.

This trip is so much more important than the media is making it out to be. President Trump is on his own World Peace Tour to bring countries together, to set aside their differences and to stand together in unity so peace will prevail and evil will fail. In his speech before leaving for Rome and the Vatican President Trump talked about the possibility of a peace deal between Israel and Palestine.   He met with the leaders of these two countries and believes they are ready to talk about bringing peace between their countries. A long awaited peace and if that happens defeating ISIS is just around the corner and that is what ISIS does not want and probably why they once again attacked innocent people to prove they are still a power to be reckoned with.

Well, like so many of us have been saying since January 20^th, 2017, there’s a new sheriff it town and he doesn’t back down. President Trump will be talking to NATO and G7 partners in Europe later this week about anti-terrorism. So I ask all Americans to let’s give this man a chance and stop all the bickering because as we can see, there is work to be done and he has set his sights on getting it done.

President Trump has a tough job ahead of him but we shouldn’t make it any harder for him to accomplish with protests and riots and screaming about conspiracy theories. Instead we need to stand beside him and the leaders of our allies in this fight against terrorism. Those children who were killed last night, all those injured were out enjoying family time. Innocent and unaware of the horrors that were about to take place. The world needs to be able to stand together in order to fight this evil and drive it away. I understand not everyone is so sure going to war with ISIS is the answer but we need to protect our children and this may be the only way to do so but along with this we need prayer. So I ask all my prayer warriors to please take the time every day to pray for a positive outcome to all of this horror and for the Lord to watch over all countries and protect them from the horrors of ISIS because if not there will come a day when we are fighting this fight on American Soil defending the rights and freedoms we hold so dear once more.

I pray to the Lord to please take these victims of last night’s attack, wrap these angels in your arms and let them know they are loved. Please help those who have been injured to heal quickly and please help Ariana Grande through all of this, Amen.

May God Bless America and May he watch over all our allies as we battle ISIS to bring peace to the world.