Mr Hussain everyone knows that islam is a complete way of lfe, therefore your intelectual ranting isn't going to change that. Its quite clear that you are mis-informing the non-muslim audience and at the same time creating a fear divide. The hatred you are spreading against muslim organisations and islam is quite horific. Carry on the good work for the BNP.

Moammed, Rotherham,

We are endlessly being told by so-called 'moderate' Muslims, that Islam is a peaceful religion and those carrying out terrorist attacks in its name do not represent the vast bulk of Muslims in this country. Well, it's time that they nailed their colours to the mast and made it clear whose side they are really on. Since Islamic imams are not averse to involving themselves in politics and giving directions to their follower regarding their behaviour, it is time that they issued a religious edict that it is the duty of all peaceful, true Muslims, to report to the authorities any suspicions they have about individuals or organisations that have extremist tendencies. No amount of claims to peaceful intentions towards their host country will carry any weight until the show by actions, not just words, that their first loyalty is the Britain and not the extremists within their religious groups.

Bob Finbow, Haverhill, England

Today, senior Church of England bishops have declared that the recent floods are ‘God’s judgment on the immorality and greed of modern society’.
In an earlier statement al-Qaeda, talking about the bombing of Western society, claimed that people who frequent West End nightclubs ‘deserve the judgement of God’.

Well, at least the Islamists and the Christians are on the same side for once.

Mike Ayres, Bodmin, Cornwall

Excellent comparison between the MCB/terrorism and Sinn Fein/the IRA. It is exactly the same, although its not only the MCB - the Times reported over 10,000 so called mainstream Muslims have "sympathy" for Al Qaeda. That parallels the Irish community support for the IRA, largely the basis for their existence. And there are Koranic-ideological, worldwide reasons for this. You cannot analyse this problem without referring to Islamic-Koranic ideology, tracing all the way back to the supremacist warring of Mohammed. The acceptable face of Islam is arguably a dilution of what it is at its core, both historically and culturally.

"Matters are made worse when ordinary Muslims who notice signs of extremism in family members and friends find that there is no mechanism for tackling it before it develops into terrorism"

They can phone the police if they suspect dangerous criminality, which is what it is, and their failure to do so is a further problem. It does not mean the police don't exist.

Joe, Manchester,

This article echoes the concerns of Ray Honeyford, forcibly "retired" from his head teacher role in Bradford more than twenty years ago. His crime was to doubt whether the children in his school were best served by the connivance of the educational authorities in such practices as the withdrawal of children from school for months at a time in order to go ''home" to Pakistan.
The policy of multiculturalism is intellectually cowardly and lazy; it has created the "two nations" described by Ed Hussain and is ingrained in the "politically correct" thinking of civil servants. Only yesterday the Chief Constable of Glasgow threatened that anyone retaliating against the Muslim community as a result of the Glasgow airport attack would be rigorously pursued and prosecuted. He omitted to make the same threat toward those who planned and supported the attack. Terrorism is not new to Britain; what is new is the abject failure of politicians over many years to recognise and address the root causes.

Tony G, Harrogate, UK

The US press has often said that the UK has legal tools available that the US does not because of Constitutional protections, and yet while there have been plans to return terrorism to our shores, to date they have been unsuccessful, while our European allies have suffered repeated attacks.
This is a reality, while (if the press corp in both the US and EU are to be believed) President Bush is the worst Leader in the history of all mankind? Perhaps not?

Pete, Longview , USA

Sir,
I think that we should be quite wary of being misled by terror-entrepreneurs, and potentially ethnically-biased think-tanks with hidden funding. We should depend upon our independent minded intelligence services, who are the most effective organs of state, working with our "eyes and ears" in the communities involved, who are without any obvious political or pecuniary motives.

SC, London, United Kingdom

Sorry, but you seem to feed the extremist viewpoint.

Rumor in the States is that you refuse to teach the history of the Holocaust (in some areas, at least) because it offends some Muslims. This is done after years of celebrating Christmas and Easter in schools, in spite of the Jewish population. Common wisdom was that you were a Christian nation. True. The Jewish people accepted it and managed to live their Jewish life within the confines of the Christian nation. Never did they ask you to forget history. They did ask that some tests not be given on certain days or that options were needed.

reza santorini, Chicago, IL

I have read and re-read your article.As an academic on present "terrorism" I feel your approach is more theory than practice.

Consider educating the world population at nursery level!

chay devsi, london,

As a respectful non-Mulsim woman, I visited with delight and wonder a number of Muslim countries including Iran as I travelled through the Middle East several years ago. I encountered politeness, courtesy, hospitality and often peaceful dedication to Islam - so much that I was impressed. Those impressions remain with me - and that is why I am confused and upset about the matter of whats going on with Islam, its followers and terrorism right now here in Britain. This country ( UK) also offers a welcome, hospitality and tolerance to many many different races and cultures but receive terrorists in return. Ed Hussain explains to me that this Wahhabi-Islamist ideology is a combination of extreme politics and religious misinformation - that works its evil like the brainwashing that takes place in a "cult", and that perhaps the understood approaches and experience of debriefing members of destructive religious cults isTHE way forward. Has Ed Hussain got a point - is anyone listening?

Liz , Cambridgeshire, Britain UK