Thanks for providing information on the current world situation. I wish it were otherwise and I am still not 100% sure but I tend to agree with MCB position on military action in Afghanistan. I think that all faiths and all nations have failed the Afghan people and maybe those nations that have done the most to help should have done a lot more long before now. Do you think that anything positive will come out of the current crisis - if so I hope that MCB will consider publishing its views on this and how this can be achieved.

As Salaamu Alaikum, I have read most of the emails on this site and as a Muslim, I am appalled by some of the most ignorant and racist comments that I have ever come across, from people who claim to be human. Clearly they should practice what they preach before spewing their hatred against Muslims in exactly the same way that Nazis did against Jews. I very much hope that these people are not representative of the British and American public at large. But I am also heartened by most of the comments which seem to be supportive. I pray to Allah to give us all the strength, patience and knowledge to see us - and especially the people of Afghanistan who are suffering through American and British attacks on them - safely through this man-made crisis. I pray that Allah gives all of mankind the strength, patience and knowledge which says that justice is the solution. Not blind revenge revenge. Just as those innocents in America did not deserve to die, neither do those innocents in Afghanistan deserve to die through our bombs and through starvation because of us. Not in our names.

Your concern for the innocent people of Afghanistan is to be commended and I am sure that few reasonable people would want to see poor Afghan women and children killed or maimed as a result of the US / British air strikes. However, the Taliban an Bin Laden must be destroyed and indeed terrorist organisations such as the Hizbullah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, all of which support the Taliban and anti-western assaults must be crushed. Countries such as Pakistan, Syria, Iraq and Sudan must know that their support of terrorists will cost them dearly. This is a make or break time for Muslim -English relations.Your blind support for Palestinian suicide bombers and other muslim extremists has been tempered since the 11th of September but I fear your recent actions have been tactical only, and that your true beliefs are a threat to British society, culture and way of life.

Why are you lot so convinced we are \'out to get you\'. Many Muslims were killed in the September 11th attacks, something you seem to forget. Personally, as an Englishman, I don\'t care whether someone is black, white, sky-blue pink with yellow dots, male female gay or straight.......you want to be part of our great Country....then INTEGRATE......you are the people who have the problem!!!!!

As a socialist I have no time for either organised religion or global capitalism. To me, the pan-Islamism of bin Laden and the free market, imperialist capitalism of the US are equally as nauseous. If bin Laden is such as hero to many muslims why hasnt he used his wealth to benefit the poor of Afghanistan rather than fund terror groups? As for Bush and Blair, this propagandist nonsense about fighting for the women of Afghanistan! Yeah right! If they really cared one jot, why hadn't they bothered about helping them during the last 5 years of Taliban rule?

To me it appears that the WTC and Pentagon attacks have been timely excuse for the US to exert its economic power in South Asia through military action. US oil reserves are running low and it no longer wants to be overdependent on Saudi oil, not now that domestic opposition to the US-backed Saudi regime is gaining ground. Isn't it a coincidence how Afghanistan and its neighbours to the north have large untapped oil reserves?As for bin Laden, who really swallows all that fundamentalist nonsense. He goes on about how he wants US troops out of Saudi. If the Saudi royal family does fall who stands to gain most? Think on it.