I feel sympathy for the British - the US government is appeasing Muslim groups faster than you can say "Allahu Akbar". We will be paying Muslims not to attack us soon, which is also known as a jizya. What is happening to Western civilization?

Adam Schwartz, Spring, USA

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last..."

Winston Churchill

Philip, London, England

And they say our government officials are insane? Oh, wait, they are. I love the the term "nutters".

Who said the revolution will not be televised?

Bruce, Berkley, Mi - USA

"Muslim groups get £70m to tackle extremism"

Reminds me of "Germans get Sudetenland to stop expansionism." Maybe one of you history buffs could remind me of how that worked out... like the UK government, I seem to have forgotten!

David, Silver Spring, USA/Maryland

Yeah, a, Good Luck with that.

PS Desmond, it was Lenin.

Ray McKenna, Boston, MA

What is happening to England?

Erik, Stockholm, Swden

Comments such as these are very disturbing:

"What a totoal, utter waste of our money"
"This is definitely discrimation against other religions"
"Treating any group as a special group is wrong"
"Give them this money and they'll buy explosives"
"This country is run by idiots"

It's not if our government arn't going to keep a close eye on how this money is spent.

Please calm down. The British government are not stupid. After all Britain had at one stage ruled 3/4 of the world. Essentially what they're doing is *fighting terrorism* from a different angle. How can people criticize a government for fighting terrorism? The cost of this operation is probably less then a few cruise missiles used in Iraq/Afghanistan. We can't go wrong... i think it's a smart move.

Mohammed, London, UK

This government has more money than sense -
another loony donation from the Socialists of taxpayers hard earned cash to worthless causes, £70,000,000 pounds sterling, to appease our Muslim " brothers"--- make them pay for their own entry to our country, we didn't ask them to come. My pension, which I paid for over 1949 - 1994 and isn't worth a light, diminishes year on year. Any raise is taken back by Council tax.
I have nothing against anybody or any creed. Just don't ask me to pay their bills. How about shelling out for a few Christian brothers, sisters et al or is that talking rascist?

Brian seals, Scarborough, UK

This is typical of this sorry excuse for a government. I thought they had an obligation to protect the citizens,but instead,they close hospitals,old peoples homes and special needs schools.

The health service is at breaking point,theres a shortage of housing,school places,and public amenities are under tremendous strain......and our marvellous government decide to give a 7th century religious/political ideology,that has no place in a modern democracy, £70.000.000.

Seriously,you could'nt make it up.

infidel, essex, ENGLAND

We keep hoping that there will be some form of reformation within Islam. This will not happen as it did with Christians and Luther. Luther encouraged ordinary people to read the Bible rather than listen to the pope. The trouble with Islam is those reading the Koran are killing us. The Koran is full of death and destruction for the non-believer and all about building separate apartheid lives for the true Muslim. But I cannot get my head around the government giving money to any religion, yet if anything the money should be used to spread Christianity (love they neighbour) and free us from the total madness of Islam.

Tim, liverpool, UK

Incredible, this just beggars belief. I could understand if the Police had been given the money to tackle extremism but to give it to a Muslim group seems foolhardy to the extreme.

We need a general election, this government is selling us down the swanny at every turn.

Paul Moreland, Manchester, England

Surely Saudi Arabia should pay instead. The so-called Communities Secretary should have a word with the Saudi King while he is in town. Or, better still, Broon should syphen off some
Saudi money being paid to run their schools here. Why is it that the women in the Nu-Labour ``government'' are so consistently incompetent?

D.P.Barber, Hamburg, Germany

This sorry shower of a government are absolutely mad. Further waste of taxpayers' money.

Wen, Oxfordshire, England,

Cherie Blair quite rightly attacks the denial of equal rights to woman, on any grounds. Gordon Brown welcomes the leader of a most mysongynistic nation, Saudi Arabia, ( I don't buy the argument that any replacement would make it worse, that's the same point used against liberating deep southern slaves)
Is this some kind of divide and rule ploy?
What about those poor souls deluded into wearing niquabs?
Ms. Blears, you betray your country, fellow women and most of all humanity. Charletan.

Lois Crofton, Worthington, Leicestershire

If there's £70 million for "tackling extremism" in the Muslim community, I'm pretty sure the government could find the money to start paying for the cost of security at Jewish schools, synagogues and other community centres which is currently paid for by the Jewish community itself. It is precisely because of Muslim extremism that the Jewish community has been forced to increase its own security so drastically. That the government fails to provide for the security of its own citizens, while at the same time dolling out millions to others in the name of "tackling" this problem is utterly unacceptable.

Jeremy, London,

Why exactly does it cost money for the 'silent majority' to speak out?

Eugene, Chester, England

couldn't agree more, absolute nutters, where will the money be spent, how will it be monitored and managed - what a joke.

These are simply cynical vote grapping stunts

Mark, Newport Pagnell, ENGLAND!!!!!

"ungoverned spaces" another inevitable detrimental consequence of multiculturalism. The country with the most "ungoverned spaces" is the most multicultrual place on earth: the USA; the best governed countries are the most homogeneous. But we'll copy the US, allowing these areas to increase in size and number and, as in the US we will endeavour to persuade the immigrants to govern themselves and, as in the US, they won't do it as their loyalty is first and foremost to their own people.

Of course the media has played its part. By not covering the disaster of US multiculturalism they have allowed the British people to be hoodwinked into accepting this insane and most destructive of doctrines.

Eugene, Chester, England

A total waste of money, our Labour government is into oblivion world of fantasy. What we need is urgent measurable integration schemes to give new settlers and disfranchised young members of ethnic minority groups, opportunities to settle and integrate successfully. But Labour is not listening; instead the government is spending tax payers’ money on Humpty Dumpty scheme.

H.Marph, London,

How about using this 70 million pounds to change British foreign policy and educate Brtiish people about Islamic culture? Respect has to be mutual and I don't see much respect forthcoming from British people.

It is one thing to scream about bombings, women's rights, gay rights and many other things that Islam treats differently from the West, but this only leads to more fear and suspicion. The majority of Muslims know that killing innocent people is strictly forbidden in the authentic Qur'an and it is something that the Prophet would not condone.

If we all took the time to try and understand Islam, perhaps we wouldn't be so eager to homogenise disparate groups, and assume they are all the same. Are we fundamentlaists to?

I would sincerely like to see a measured and intelligent approach to this, as I would many other issues, by British people and by the British government, because at the moment, we still have our heads stuck up our imperial proverbial

Jennifer Hynes, Plymouth, England

And just how is the spending of the 70M to be monitored?

Money down the drain although Labour will say they have spent money on a problem and thus the problem must be rectified.

My guess is that the money will not be spent on what it is intended for and may even end up funding the very activities it was designed to counter.

Justin, Hong Kong,

This Goverment is mad. The Goverment funds used is our money and I'm sure there is a better use for it - hospitals perhaps might be a much better option.

Janet, Essex, UK

WHAT ????????

Are they mad ??????

What about the people that got maimed in London ? what do they get ?

Give them this money and they'll buy explosives with it. They already fleece the cash out of the lottery.

God give us strength. This country is run by idiots. Weve held the olive branch out time and time again. What next ?? !!!

Dave, Swindon,

maybe if the government did not support extremist foreign policy decisions then the response from those that view the outcome in explicit detail on satellite tv channels would not fel the need to become radicalised against those that they perceive as the perpetrators of deceits, lies and indiscrimminate abuse and killing on a massive scale.

one million dead iraqis and the continued oppression of palestinians whilst israel commits human rights abuses and our continued support for these actions cannot be conducive to having faith in government or for that matter the media which supports these atrocities.

having researched terrorist attacks across the planet, using the usa government statistics - terrorist attacks are at the same level as pre 2001 and today as then the majority are not muslim inspired or islamist.

in the last 5 years post 2001 approximately 50 americans per year are victims - the majority aimed at military.

17500 brits have been victims of fatal road accidents.

wendy mann, glasgow,

Absolutely great idea, thank you Ms Blears. It's about time our government gave the silent majority a voice.

Mohammed, London, UK

Who was it who said that the West would sell the rope to hang itself?..

Desmond Taylor, Houston, USA Tx

Treating any group as a special group is wrong, disaffected muslims will see this as confirmation the disinformation they receive from foreign-trained imams and others must be at least partially justified. It is wrong in principle.
This governmenmn has time and time again shown itself institutionally incompetent in the management of tax payers funds. Here's a prediction in a couple of years time the startling news will be how this money was wasted on 'consultancy' fees and expenses for deliverying nothing but whatever the government want sto hear and backing up whatever it is spinning at the time

Glen, Manchester, England

Oh my gosh - whatever will this deluded Government come up with next? Bonkers, just plain bonkers...

Phillip Anderton, Poole, England

This is definitely discrimation against other religions but this Government is soi short sight and newspeak that they think only of their warped and perverse views and not of the genreal good nor indeed anyones 'good' but their own.

rogerio pankaldi, bimringham, uk

What a totoal, utter waste of our money. IThis makes my blood boil. We have hungry and poorly educated children in this country and we are wasting our money on something like this.

It will have no affect at all . The Musilm community has carved out a particular niche for itself in this country that is above and beyond what it deserves. They don't integrate and think our society is corrupt and sick. I really wonder why they are here at all.

Stephen Edwards, Wokingham, UK