As an RE taecher in a state school I am dismayed and sickened by the amount of hate mail you have received. I would just like to say that my department at school are so supportive of Muslims throughout the world.

We are teaching that the sanctity of life is as important to Muslims as it is to any other religion and at open evening next month where parents and prospective year 7s visit the school we will have one of our display boards dedicated to the MCB's statement on the bombing of the WTC.

There is support out there. Peace to all of us

Reading through the e-mails received by the MCB, I am sickened and ashamed by my own countrymen.

I firstly apologise for living the fantasy that race hate is a small, over publicised problem. In this part of the country we all, of varied race, religion and nationality work and live together with little disharmony. So perhaps I may be pardoned for believing that the rest of the country should be able to do the same.

Secondly, I apologise for the hate filled rantings of what, I sincerely wish, are a vocal minority. Do they not realise that the venom and darkness that they have released, ironically, mirrors that inside the hearts of the perpetrators of the carnage in America? Can they not see that a fanatic is a fanatic, irrespective of his race or religion? Just as much carnage and terror has been wreaked in the name of Christianity: do they feel a part of that? Or, like our Muslim brothers in the U.K., are they remote from, and horrified by it?

Thirdly, I apologise for the manner in which they find it so easy to misrepresent the Koran. If any of them had actually taken the time to read it they may have discovered some of the beauty that is Islam. (And indeed have realised that they, Christians far from the teachings of Jesus, are the very reason why Mohammed was sent!) But then, if they had taken the time to read their own teachings, they would have realised that all they claim to be 'bad' in the Koran is also contained, in some form, in the Bible. (And indeed, that what they have done here is unfitting those who claim allegiance to Christ.) In their misrepresentation they fail to comprehend that ANY book can be misrepresented, in any number of ways, by those willing to pervert its content to their own ends. Ironic, indeed, that the misrepresentation of the Koran that justifies the hate expressed here is probably not dissimilar to that used by the terrorists themselves.

And finally I apologise to all, on behalf of all who find it easier to hate, ridicule and condemn than to love, understand and accept. In doing so I offer a prayer that, somehow, at the end of whatever is in motion right now, the world can pull together: in love, compassion and trust.

I'd just like to offer a few words of support for you guys, and hope that you don't think that the stupid reactions in attacking mosques etc of a few imbeciles of dimished intelligence are representative of the majority of people in the UK. Certainly no-one at the place I work is remotely anti-Islamic in terms of thinking that British Moslems would support Bin Laden or others of similar persusion.

Things are not helped by the wild words emitted by a few self-proclaimed mujahedeen, but I guess there are people like that everywhere. And the ones who shout the most are not the ones to worry about!

I am a white resident of Kings cross concerned about possible attacks on my Muslim neighbours and those that may be happening already. I want to find a way to reassure my neighbours that they have my support and find a way to reach out and create a community response. Can you send this message of support on to those who live in my area and to the Muslim community in general and if there are local or London wide initiatives/meetings/protests to show that our communities as a whole stand together against racism please let me know.