Could someone explain why my deciding not to be identified makes me a troll, and could you explain what a troll is? If I manufactured some spurious alias would that make a difference? Is the problem that you consider me to be some kind of fifth columnist?
As I said I have sung and campaigned for a multi-cultural and integrated Britain for many years, and now I am having serious problems with what is going on in the world and in Britain, as are others who have shared my hopes. My parents generation fought racial genocide and bigotry and handed us a better world. At the moment religion seems to be screwing it up on both sides of the divide. I'm beginning to lose faith in the good sense of the British people and I can see the fundamental and confrontational attitudes being taken leading to the rise of the extreme Right, a nightmare I've dreaded for most of my life.
I'm not trying to raise the temperature, I'm asking for a reasoned response to what is, in my opinion, inflamatory and illegal demonstrations clearly against the law of the land, being allowed to continue without police action.
I remember well the beginnings of this when the Sikh community in Birmingham were allowed to close a Theatre production through threats against the safety of the audience and the theatre building. As a musical forum we are surely concerned more than most with freedom of speech, and though I don't condone the puerile cartoons, I am deeply conccerned that placards such as the ones I quoted can be freely carried on the streets of London.