MtheGM, I don't think anyone really discounts the real and present threat from terrorism. But the wider issues around the demonisation of the entire Muslim world have implications for the future of the UK and racial harmony.

The terrorists and extremists need to be condemned. They need to be marginalised, especially by their own communities. But to lump the entire Muslim population of Britain in with the extremists and fundamentalists does enormous harm. It is divisive and unhelpful. And, rather worryingly (as I have said earlier in the thread) people who are suspicious of/feel threatened by the presence of "the other" in their midst are using isolated acts of extremism to justify their bigotry. This needs to be addressed if the multicultural society we live in is ever going to work.