To whom concerned. I am considerably worried that the UK media continues to churn out news reports and other documentary/current affairs programs that whip up misunderstanding against the Muslim community worldwide and in the UK. The average nonMuslim UK citizen has almost zero understanding of Islam and the wider Islamic world. The dangerous equation is being made that Islam = terrorism. Heaven forbid that those who call themselves 'Muslim' should launch any attack in the UK. I fear that it would tear our society apart and set the nonMuslim community againg decent Muslims in our country. The way that the media is stirring up senseless hatred(esp. the tabloids) is causing me much distress. It reminds me of the blind propaganda that the Nazis pumped out against Jews in Europe. We had the situation then that our people were attacked in the streets, our women abused, bearded Jews attacked by Nazi mobs and forced to shave, worse still, innocent people killed and our synagogues burned down, and finally we were sent to the death camps of Auschwitz and others in Eastern Europe. I feel strongly for our Muslim brothers when I hear of the attacks they have suffered, from ignorant individuals and of mosques being firebombed. Insh'Allah may we all receive Heaven's blessing and protection. However, should the worst happen, I will not stand by and tolerate any of my Muslim brothers being abused. We come from the same family with Abraham Abinu as our joint ancestor. We both believe in Allah and our religions have so much in common. I am surprised how much the Shariah is similar to the Jewish Halakhah. At the end of the day, despite our differences over the Middle East, we stand together. You have my support.

If i live in an arabic nation am I free to practice my religious beliefs ,is kashmir written as amuslim area,is any one place on earth deemed to be occupied by only muslims,are the western nations wrong all the time .Do the muslim people possess all the answers to all the problems ,should we all convert and follow islam.I don,t hate but ,I can see the future of hate coming ,no movies ,no entertainment ,no beer,it all goes against the way of life in the western nations,I,d like to know why a muslim would want to live in anation such as britain,if they are the scum of the earth surely you would not want to be associated.Buddism however is tolerant and accepts a person for the person not his religion.If you can prove a 100 percent that kashmir belongs to the muslim you should have that land but I suspect you have no concrete evidence as in the case of bin laden ,so you are equally to blame for the trouble ,war etc in the world today

After reading many of the press releases of your org. I have come to the conclusion that your org. is determined to make the problems of their birth world a part of their new world.As an American and a Christian. I object to the lack of loyalty to the country you are living in.To the insistence that we all fight for your religious rights as you seek to impose your morals and values onto all the rest of the population that you live in. Although you have every right to tell your own people what to think,how to act,what to watch,see, you need to learn more about living in a free society.The majority of the people in a free society do not feel it to be there duty to impose their thoughts upon other. Since your org. feels that it is the religious beliefs not the ethnic needs that are most important, you must recognize that your religious beliefs that all Christians are infidels(insult)and disbelievers puts us at a great disadvantage especially since we are not welcome in your religion.

As to the Middle East countries and war and famine. We try to not get involved in any of your internal problems hoping that the morals and values of your religion will overcome any evil. But the cry that all the countries in the Middle East are impoverished because of the US is a total cop out of your own responsibilities. The US and many other countries have been sending in food to these areas for years and years. and yet your own religion will not help there own people.

US and other countries went into your country and found oil,and then gave it back to you so that there would not be a lack in the economic abilities of these Middle East countries, not to mention the billions of dollars in oil that we buy from them. Yet we are still responsible, why??? This very rich evil Ben Laden does not help his own, the rich people,kings,etc. will not feed their own.And yet it is our Fault. Have we not tried to help? When they ask for money as Pakistan did, do we not give it? And like the rest of the US people they are charged interest, We did not make them borrow it! And yes we all pay higher interest then do they! Why do the Middle East countries Ask for help from the US or other Free countries. When we give help we are condemned and attacked and treated with hate. Why does this religion insist that we are against Muslims? We allow you to educate here,we allow you to teach Islam in our primary schools,We allow you to live here to get away from persecution, We have never asked you to stop your religious practices even while your very QA ran insists that Christians should never be allowed to rule over themselves for they are not capable. So please explain why we are expected to just except this.

As to the Attack on Afghanistan,They will not negotiate,They will not Stop Killing Us,They did declare War On the USA. If you have another answer then we should just ignore them as we have in the past many times. What would that be. Why did your org. not help us to negotiate. could it possible be that you are in the UK because of them and others like them? It seems you want us to fix everything like the problems in Palestine. But if we did fix it you would not like the answer and would not except it because we are Christian. They pulled us into this problem to get what? This country is Barely 200 years old,in what history of the Middle East could we have been involved in? We are not the Crusaders,nor the Colonialists, We have no part in the History that you all fight for nor do most of us even know what you all fight for. The insistence that we suffer with fear and insecurity from west to east and north to south is preposterous. Why??? we have not made these leaders nor have we stopped the people from changing things.This is caused by the idea that negotiation will change all problems, it will not. Hundreds of countries have had the people rise up and take over their own countries because of bad leaders. Why does the Middle East countries who are all Islam in religion expect the infidels to solve their problems?

And now that we have been drawn into this problem. we know there is no way to win,as we will be blamed for all and any problems anyway. So we may as well do it our way. Which is probably the way no one will like. We should have never been sucked into this,it was not our problems, but now that we are here I suggest everyone duck!!!!

It may be that the reasons the Muslim Council advocates as the causes of mass terrorism are valid, but I get the feeling that even if these were resolved, people like Bin Laden would still attack western societies. I think that a root cause not spoken by the MCB is the inability of Muslims and their countries to adapt their faith to modernity. It is no coincidence that Bin Laden and his organisation is so closely tied to the Taleban, a Khmer Rouge type government. They just seem to be the extreme end of an attitude that seems all too common. I don't dislike Islam. I never have. But I do think that living on past glories of what Islam achieved in its early days is as pointless as Britain living off imperial memories. There is a need to look to the future. It means a need for organisations like the MCB to promote/explain more actively than it does right now, concepts like democracy. It is really not good enough to blame the West entirely for supporting these ghastly dictatorships, when there seems to be a genuine lack of understanding at a common philosophical level of what a plural society means in practice. I would also love to see greater engagement in other areas like science, rather than trying to reach interfaith harmony only. I think that the MCB is in a good position to help with this. My regards and best wishes.

I was horrified to read some of the hateful, racist, deeply inhumane emails you have received from my so-called fellow countrymen. All I can say is that they do not speak for me, and they do not speak for anyone I know. I am ashamed that they can call themselves english - they bring shame to our country. I have been privileged to have travelled quite widely in the Muslim world - in south-east Asia, in north Africa, in Egypt and in Palestine - to have visited mosques there and met many practising and devout Muslims. And without exception, they have treated me with great hospitality and kindness. I am sure that I share with you deep misgivings, to say the least, at the British government's involvement in military action in Afghanistan. I wish you well in your efforts to maintain good relations between British Muslims and the rest of the population of these islands, and I pray with you that the horrific violence of September 11, and of the days since, will be replaced by compassion and understanding - inshallah.... May god bless your work,