artbrooks. "And as a result of this attack by 19 psychopaths, some equally psychotic individuals in the US decided that we should be at war with an entire religion."

Amen to that. Only a lunatic would want to condone the callous brutality of 9/11. But here in Britain, a whole anti-Muslim resistance movement has grown up under the name of the English Defence League. They claim to be non-racist, non-political and non-violent, but in reality they are a very ugly mixture of skinhead racists, fascists and thugs. I am deeply saddened and deeply worried to find that a similar breed of tunnel visioned monomaniac exists on the far side of the pond. Bearing in mind that the world witnessed a similar religious persecution in Nazi Germany, I wonder at the inability of mankind to learn from its own mistakes.

Kent Davis. I can accept that the western powers and those responsible for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan don't regard themselves as at war with the whole of Islam. But you can take it from me that the nutters I've just described most certainly are.