""Don, yes, the best answer is to break the cycle of hatred but that is far from simple.""

One thing is certain! It won't be brought about by retaliation. The answer is to initiate an open dialogue between our disparate communities and hammer out a way, not to integrate, but to exist side by side with the culturally different.

Integration into a totally different cultural and religious system is an impossibility, as should be obvious to the meanest intellect.

Multiculturalism hasn't worked because those who tried to implement it don't know what it is.

It isn't enough to pay lip service to the idea, without showing the respect and tolerance which alone makes the minority feel at home, welcome and part of the community.

The young people of ethnic minorities are more readily radicalised when they are treated with suspicion and distrust.

And since the 1950s they have been so treated.

It is past time to change that, which should start at primary schools and continue throughout education.

Don T.