At least 22 people were killed and 59 people were injured, many of whom were minors, by a terrorist bomb that was detonated at an Ariana Grande concert last evening in Manchester.
The attack happened in Manchester Arena. An attacker detonated a suicide bomb believed to be packed with nails and bolts as shrapnel just as the concert was letting out.
Shortly after it was declared as a terrorist attack, Twitter troll @AntMcfc_ decided it would be an appropriate time to crack a homophobic “joke” about the whole thing:
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When people accused @AntMcfc_ of being homophobic and, frankly, downright awful, he responded:
That’s when Twitter stepped in. @AntMcfc_’s tweets were deleted and his account suspended.
Meanwhile, Grande tweeted:
broken.
from the bottom of my heart, i am so so sorry. i don't have words.— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) May 23, 2017
Other celebrities also shared their sorrows and condolences:
MY PRAYERS GO OUT TO PPL OF MANCHESTER…HAD SPECIAL TIMES THERE FROM YOUTH & BEYOND
— Cher (@cher) May 22, 2017
This story is so sad and so scary. Sending all my love to Manchester.
— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) May 23, 2017
Sending love to the U.K., @ArianaGrande and all of her supporters who were caught up in this awful attack. Heartbreaking.
— John Legend (@johnlegend) May 23, 2017
every musician feels sick & responsible tonight—shows should be safe for you. truly a worst nightmare. sending love to manchester & ari
— Lorde (@lorde) May 23, 2017
And Prime Minister Theresa May thanked emergency service workers as well as those who opened their homes to victims.
“These are the things that represent the spirit of Manchester,” she said. “It will never be broken.”
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Hussain-TheCanadian
My condolences to the victims, their families, and blessings to the souls of those who died; this is our fight against terrorism and extremism, be it Daesh/Al-Qaeda or whomever, we, as people of the world, will not be afraid of them.
Juanjo
Well said sir, well said.
Xzamilloh
And this will keep happening again and again… a political Islamist attack, meaningless platitudes, virtue signaling, change a profile picture, forget and move on, rinse and repeat.
Xzamilloh
How depraved do you have to be to go after children and teenagers and gay fans of a little pop star? This goes beyond the pale and is just some truly despicable bile of crap that I don’t want to see whitewashed into something else to downplay what is really the root of all of this. And now we have ISIS supposedly taking control in an area of the Philippines. Bombing all of the Middle East to kingdom come won’t work and has only created MORE terror, appeasing radicals that wish to eradicate the West hasn’t work… why still give credence to bigots, xenophobes and Islamic apologists? Where are the middle grounders???
Mo Bro
These radicals are driven by one thing: Their belief that their actions against non-Muslims will be rewarded by their twisted god once they reach Jannah (Islamic heaven), so the bottom line is this: Islamic leaders need to step up and declare that terrorism will NOT be rewarded in the afterlife, and that instead it shall be rewarded with Jahannam (Islamic hell). I don’t know if that would help to change their minds or not, but I do know that no amount of warfare will.
And for the love of pete, western liberals need to stop defending sharia law in the name of multiculturalism. They’re only making us easier targets.
batesmotel
Yeah, it will never stop. Islamic terrorists are under the delusion that they are literally doing a justice. That’s their perspective. The rest of us see senseless killing.
Mick406
Islam is not a religion, it is a political ideology at best. No ‘just God’ would want ‘his’ religion to kill people. Yeah, I know all about the Inquisition and deaths that occurred in Medieval times, but the world is no longer in the Dark Ages. People should know better today.
It is time for the whole SANE part of the world to lead a crusade to exterminate this ‘religion of peace’. No sensible person could read the Koran or listen to those insidious messages inside the Mosques and know they were following a lifestyle that would lead to any kind of Heaven. Where are their hearts? And above all, where are their BRAINS?!!! They live in poverty and filth and hate the Western world because we have things and they don’t. Can’t they see why? You have to do something else other than be ‘religious’ all day and do nothing. You have to WORK. I have no pity for the starving Muslims. If you are that ignorant, then you SHOULD starve and be miserable.
All the Muslims who are not terrorists that sit back and say nothing about this are just as guilty. They are either silently supporting the carnage, or they are actively hiding and protecting the evil ones. Islam is the most sickening disease to ever come upon the face of the Earth.
mhoffman953
Well said. I’m afraid it’ll be late when most people actually realize this.
It seems like every 3 weeks there is a terror attack in a “westernized” country but those countries will still sit back and keep with their open-door policy on immigration or their politically correct culture of being afraid to offend those who practice Islam.
batesmotel
And there are still people out there even after this latest attack who refuse to profile and are telling people you can’t denounce an entire group because of a few bad ones. It’s that mentality that will continue to help expand islamic terrorism.
shirleyfirley
Aaaaand queerty gives him the attention anyway.
silveroracle
Sending love to the people of Manchester.
Be strong. X