""The Islamists quote the Koran in their own justification incessantly.""

This is where the inaccuracies build upon each other into one massive misconception.

The Islamists do not quote the Q'ran. Most of the British ones, in all probability, have neither the deire nor the ability to read it.

What they quote are the slanted interpretations of carefully cherry picked passages, by sundry trouble making Islamist preachers whose objective is to produce the kind of action we saw in woolwich.

If they had read the book for themselves, they would know under precisely what conditions of persecution those actions were to be taken.

Just as, in the bible, some quite horrendous actions are mandated, which no Christian who has read the whole book for himself would advocate as general rules to be obeyed in the modern world.

However, there are some so-called Christians who have been radicalised in the same way as these Muslim youths.

Compare the Japanese, currently the most polite and law abiding people, who are enthralled by scenes of natural beauty, with the Japanese of seventy years ago and their treatment of prisoners of war and conquered peoples.

Human beings can be turned, so easily, into ravening beasts by charismatic community leaders with an agenda to destroy some group which they hate.

We have such people in the USA, Britain, Iran, Syria, yes and Israel and every other country on the planet.

Don T.