Kind Regards

That the "last few weeks and days have been fraught with tragedies and dangers. I am sure you are fully aware of the concerns of the Prime Minister and the Police Authorities"
Does not the MCB consider the last few years, decades even as tragedies. Without a doubt the events of Madrid are prohibited by Islam. But what does Allah SWT say about the killing of Muslim blood? This is something which has been given the highest sanctity in Islam. The Prophet SAW Said "the blood of the believer is more valuable to me than the Ka'ba and its surroundings"
Your letter continues, " I am sure you are already discharging your Islaimc duty in helping preserve the peace of the nation and protecting the community from falling into trap or provocation"
Exactly how is the peace of the nation preserved and how is the Muslim community protected from falling into trap and provocation? The nation, any nation, as stated in numerous evidences from the Quran and Sunnah can never be under peace without the Islamic system of ruling. And protecting the Muslim communities from traps? Surely the duty upon EVERY muslim, not just imams, is to propogate and infuse the Muslims' minds with the correct and pure Islamic culture, and at the same time identify with the Muslims exactly where the corruption and disasters exists for the Muslims. And that is the corrupt Western values and political systems that exist in Britain, which are marketed to the Islamic World. It follows from here that whosoever encourages to adopt these corrupt Western Values and the integration within such, are indeed themselves party to the provocation and the entrapping of the Muslim communities. The Islamic duty is thus CLEAR, that Muslims must engage in intelligent discourse and demonstrate that Islam as an Ideology and political system is a clear and comprehensive to the corrupt capitalist ideology in the West, rather than encouraging the Imams and other 'community leaders' to play a part in the compromising stance of trying to build intellectual and cultural bridges with two ENTIRELY conflicting ways of life. The MCB has obviously not understood itself the role and duty of the Muslim itself, and indeed its own role in Muslim life in Britain.
With reference to the following point in the letter "....some, however, continue to associate Islam with terrorism...." Surely your better effort would have been to actually identify those who are responsible for making such an association. The party responsible are clear. The Western governments have attempted to identify certain 'fringe' elements as terrorists, not because they have been responsible for such actions, but rather they have engaged in certain intellectual and political debate with the West about various policies, domestic or foreign. Certain muslim factions and 'leaders' have adopted the same view. Which is, that any elements that are seen to rock the boat and question the staus quo, inviting the Muslims to such debate, are actually terrorists themselves. So Muslims who call for the outright rejection of the Western Capitalist Values and Western way of life, those who refuse to integrate into the British society are regarded as religious extremists who harbour religious hatred and encourage terrorism. This is the view the Western Governments have. Indeed, this is the view that the MCB alludes to having themselves having read the letter.
As far as the verse of the Quran which was quoted in the letter "He who killed a person, UNLESS it be a person guilty of manslaughter or spreading chaos in the land.........." Does the MCB consider the actions of the Western Governments as being Noble efforts? Or have the various Governemnts in the West been responsible of spreading that Chaos. Remembering that the idea of chaos and peace and not as defined by the Minds of the Western politicians but rather defined by Allah SWT.
The end of result of this letter that you distributed serves no other than the British agenda, which is to integrate the Muslims into the Western society. This agenda could obviously not be fulfilled through intellectual and political discussion to convince the Muslims, young or old, about the value of integration. Now we see the British Government adopting a new strategy of enforcing their agenda through policy change. Your letter seems to be nothing short ofg encouraging and supporting that stance.
The British Government is, through its various styles and routes, encouraging the Muslims to create state of fear amongst their own brothers. What is unfortunate is that MCB has, through this letter, played party to this incitement against the Muslims by encouraging the Imams and 'community leaders' to spy and silence and voice or opinion which opposes the prevailing attitudes and agendas within the British political circles.
The correct way forward, is to encourage debate between the Imams and community leaders and their communities at large. The correct way forward is engage the Muslims in the correct agenda and discussion. The correct agenda is not to integrate and lose all sight of the Islamic values, but to proliferate the correct Islamic views, political or otherwise, so that the Muslims can demonstrate the superiority of Islam over ALL other ways of life. And at the same time have the correct thoughts and sentiments that will keep them steadfast against all adversity.
That is what you should be enscouraging, not what your letter actually does. You duty as an Islamic organisation is to remain true to your covenant with Allah SWT and propogate the truth, and not the corrupt agenda of the british or its disastrous intellectual ideas or its devious political plans.This spying that you encouraged in the letter does nothing but to encourage the already existant fear that exists amongst the Muslims about expressing the true belief and way of life.
I pray that you take advice from this letter and would hope that with the greatest sincerity your position changes on the subject of the role of Muslims in Britain. The Muslims in the West are confused enough, without further misguidance being delivered during the Friday sermons. I have only commented on the first few paragraphs of your letter, but in fact the whole letter is fraught with similar dangers and disasters