Whilst I do accept the vast majority of your people are law abiding and contribute a lot to this country, I feel rather annoyed about the concept of Muslims as a harrassed community. The West has gone out of its way to embrace many religions. A process that is largely one way. How many Church of England or Catholic churches are there in Arab countries ?. Verrrrry Few. Here almost every large town or city has a mosque, synagogue and churches of every denomination.

Unfortunately, whilst people still think along the lines of the now dead Dr. Kalim Siddiqui who I and other moderates saw as a prime example of evil the country will not accept a blanket apology. It is not enough to just to condemn terrorism, it has not worked in Northern Ireland. One has to out them and deport them, even people who were born here who sympathise with the horrendous slaughter should be exiled to Afghanistan.

They may learn to like living in the 13th Century. I was appalled to see rabid mongrels shouting in glee at the deaths of thousands. Those in Jerusalem, Libya .. etc. will never be ashamed though as they have no concept of humanity. Rather like those in Northern Ireland who are using children as a tool to express their misguided beliefs.

Many of us do feel sad when we hear about the deaths of Palestinians and Israeli's as we do for the sad spectacle we have in Northern Ireland. But our patience has been tried too much by the slaughter in New York and Washington DC as well as in Pennsylvania. I do not understand your faith, I freely admit, does it embrace the concept of Jihad and if so is it a holy war ? If so, then how can you plead innocence ?. PLEASE ANSWER THIS as I am struggling to understand how any war can be holy. The crusades certainly weren't they may have started off with that intention but greed soon took over.

It was interesting to see the Afghan leader on Television so soon after the attack, I believe he now sees the error he has made in harbouring people like Bin Laden. The unfortunate fact for his people is that they will no doubt suffer horribly as the Americans can not afford to let this go unpunished.

I am an atheist and have been for may years as I believe the worst thing about God / Allah is the people who claim to represent their Lord. This is not hate mail, as I write I am too angry to let a stream of abuse out. I want to understand. I just want to know whether the largely decent Muslim population are prepared to end assistance to terrorists. I fear that U.S. reprisal will be large and dramatic and I hope that the Muslim people understand the anger that is going around now will only be quenched by force majeure. If you grab the dragon's tail don't be surprised when he turns round and burns you.

Hi, I felt compelled to email owing to reports of racist and abusive emails that have apparently been sent to you.
Firstly, I would like to thank you for showing incredible courage throughout what is a tragic time for world events, and particularly for families and friends involved in the incidents in the USA.

It is as sad to see that we live in a society where some people have closed minds, people who consider everyone from a religious or social group to be the same and consider escalating violence (in the physical or verbal sense) as a solution.

The UK is has a much better mix of peoples and understandings than the US, and we shouldn't let events there tarnish the high level of social understanding we have here.

I wish you and all British Muslim residents peace and hope that we can continue to raise understanding of each other, rather than create unnecessary divides through the motives of extreme minorities of any race.

I was greatly saddened yesterday to hear on Radio 4 that your organisation has been receiving hate-mail in the aftermath of the attacks in the US. I don't think I am the only non-Muslim who would like to express my concern and support for the British Muslim community at this time. My thoughts are especially with those who fear for relatives and friends in countries that may suffer in retaliation. I could not agree more with your statement that "Terror on this scale must not be compounded by knee-jerk reactions that would make victims of other innocent peoples of the world".

After watching an interview with one of your members on BBC news yesterday, during which he remarked that many Muslims felt worried about threats and that your site had received hate messages, I am writing to add voice to the disgust at the small minded people who have tainted an entire religous community with the acts of a few.

I count, on Government forms at least, as part of Britian's majority in religion, colour and probably lifestyle, but I'm not blind to the fact we live in a world in which people are still ignornant of other races and religions. I'm just so disappointed and upset that at a time like this people have turned on their neighbour for no good reason. I would have hoped that after years of coming to terms with IRA attacks we wouldn't be so quick to condem a community for what we know to be acts of indivduals, and acts that community deplore.

I have a friend who went back home to Pakistan recently to visit relatives. I fear for her out there and I fear for her when she comes back. I pray the acts of the bigoted are equally acts of a few.