Again the foreigners will fear coming to Manila and the economy will be negatively affected. Just when the Philippine Peso was at P44.00 to the US dollar at the time of the blast. The OFW’s myopic view of this being a bad thing would have been easily refuted had the economy not been hit badly by this incident. I personally have no knowledge of what exactly caused the blast, as police said it was not LPG.

This morning, it was reported on the AM band that it was the Rajah Sulaiman Movement who claimed responsibility for the blast. The general theory is that the blast was some sort of publicity-generating stunt to get funding. A week after Eid al-Fitr is celebrated, the extremists are back to work. You can’t blame me for being paranoid, after all, it was another Moslem extremist group who did the Rizal Day bombing. I tried not to be paranoid when I’m around a Moslem but the actions of these terrorists groups bring shame to their group and further encourages prejudice. I am victim to these wrongful sentiments as I do not want to be labeled and called names. All the more seething, my anger against these bandits, with convoluted ideas about Islam, grew as I think about the whole thing being one grand audition to the Al-Qaida for some money to buy more guns to kill innocent people.

To hell with them all.

My deepest condolences go to Lawson employee Carlo Cruz, who’s wife was one of those who did not survive the blast. You are in our prayers. May you find the strength to weather this tragedy.

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