Ake, I don't know which (if any) British Asian community you know, but it was not representative.

I DO happen to know a bit about Islam, having a flat in Bosnia and a Palestinian Arab partner who was brought up as a muslim. To me you remarks in this thread sound ill-informed, insular and suggestive of a blinkered world view. Overwhelmingly both in the UK and around the rest of the world, muslims will have been horrified and disgusted by the Woolwich killing; much more so, in fact, than I am myself.

My own reaction has been little more than a shrug. Yes, an unarmed man has been brutally slaughtered without any hint of justification. But in all honesty, so what? We now discover that three of the four Americans killed by drones since 2009 were untargeted innocents. If we apply that ratio to all the civilians killed by US drones, we may assume the US has killed many hundreds of innocent people in its misguided and counter-productive efforts at extrajudicial execution. These murders may be done remotely rather than at close range with meat cleavers, but the mess on the ground can be just as bad. Yet according to polls, most Americans are comfortable with this.

So however sickened we may be by the Woolwich slaughter, we should retain some sense of perspective.