Two problems here. Muslims say one thing internally and quite the opposite to an external audience. Another is a Muslim is the brother of another Muslim. Never forget that. The umma takes precedence over country. That is why people are fearful of the Muslim in Cameron's shadow cabinet.

Akbar, Cambridge, UK

People forget that Islam has been doing this for centuries - long before Bush, the USA, oil & Israel were even inventedl

Phil, Preston,

"I hope Mr. Brown doesn't be a puppet for the US, as was Mr. Blair."
-J. Stephenson, Liverpool

It always amazes me how you British people try to absolve yourselves and your govt. of any fault in starting the Iraq war. Don't you guys know that it was Mr. Blair who had been urging the US to invade Iraq way back when Clinton was still President (after Saddam evicted inspectors in 98).Clinton opted for an 80-day bombardment of Baghdad instead.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending Bush at all; he should indeed receive most of the blame. But Blair had wanted to invade Iraq long before Bush took power. So to call him a "puppet" just isn't right and wrongly places all the blame on the US.

Solo, Columbus, OH/ USA

There is anger felt by those who have experienced or witnessed the endless stream of raids in Bradford, Leeds and London For the moment that anger is limited to a few in each community but there is the ever increasing refrain that “enough is enough”. The Muslim community has been criminalised and marginalised. It lives in fear and breeds an anger borne of frustration. At the very least those in power need to acknowledge that mistakes have been made and apologise for them. If not, then serious consideration is being given by some in these communities to withdrawing their co-operation until change is achieved.

Dr. K. Zaman, Bradford, UK

It is high ntime that the usual mantra 'Islam means peace and it does not support terrorism' is silenced by clear quotes from the Koran supporting killing of nonbeleivers. Throughout its history, islam is a war mongering creed. One has to see the destruction they brought to India for nearly 900 years.
The political correctness not to annoy muslims prevents politicians and journalists from saying this.

P. Bhatt, Glasgow, Scotland

Not British? I recently read a report which says that the Tax Office receives 200,000 calls a year snitching in on named individuals. How much in touch with the reality of ordinary everyday British life is one of our most senior security advisors?

david bradley, east kilbride, scotland

Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller should make such comments in camera while she works for MI5. I fail to see what benefit we derive from publishing such thoughts in a periodical.....it is so obvious that it doesn't need to be widely disseminated, simply acted upon discreetly. Are we cursed with rank amateurs at all levels ?

TomTom, Leeds, England

Seems like a good way for true-believing double-agents infiltrate the West's security as much as the other way round

Jim K, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

It's time people listened to Hassan Butt, who has made us aware of the causes of terrorism, which is the ideology itself.

Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller's ideas could end up backfiring and encouraging terror.

The majority of the Muslim community know nothing about terror plots, so would have nothing to report. The people who know are those who encourage and preach the violent aspect of Islam, and would never impart their knowledge to any outsider.

N. Simon, London, UK

That's the price of providing safe haven to those wanted people in the UK. There are arab clerics living safely in UK despite their governments wants to catch them but UK will not return them to their countries of origin. They would not be able to preach that kind hattered at home!

R.Ashraf, Copenhagen, Denmark

Someone should point out to Mr. Monty Gosse who claims to be in Mumbai , India.. that Hindus haven't been involved in Jihad.. a very Muslim concept.. or maybe he should add Christians, Jews, Buddhists to his "whatever" category?

Amol, leiden, Netherlands

A script straight from the carry on films.

"And who's going to spy on the spies"?

AliG, London, UK

Tolerance and accommodation to point of Britain's own suicide. That's the professional left's strategy for the UK. Get used to the Islamic Republic of New Britain.

Thank goodness the Blair/Brown Project was not in power in 1939. We'd all be speaking German.

Pierre Stone, Fulham, England.

It would be something of a puzzle if we did not already have 'networks' of muslims involved in intelligence gathering. One can only assume that this public recommendation is simply part of a plan to cultivate uncertainty and a sense of vulnerability within terrorist groups.

As to the MI5 map of terror networks, surely even the police could have drawn that one up themselves. Simply map the densest clustering of muslims and assume a fixed percentage of extremism.

Mike Poulsen, Reading, Berkshire

It's not surprising that in their usual zeal to be ultra politically correct, the police authorities have not made any effort to build up a network.- that would be consistent with the apparent lack of concern to this threat over the past few years. Our Government apparently just hopes that the problem will somehow go away of its own accord. Sorry, Mr Brown and Co- the real world doesn't work that way.

Doug, Glasgow,

Don't talk rot.
Iraq may be the current excuse but it is not the real reason.
The real reason is 1400 years old; Fight the unbeliever until the whole world submits to Allah.
Never forget that.

EW, England,

Why recruit Muslim spies when Muslims don't cause terrorism - the PM says so. He also said there is no war on terrorism. Who are the spies going to spy on - terrorists who don't exist, Muslims who don't commit terrorism? I have never seen so much stupidity and confusion in my life. This government is utterly incoherent, they have the intelligence of a five year old.

Christopher Holland, Canberra, Australia

For Labour and the Marxoid Left to speak of tackling Islamic extremism in Britain is ridiculous. The left, led by New Labour, generated the problem through a deliberate policy of mass-immigration into Britain over a period of almost 50 years. The effort has intensified since New Labour came to power in 1997. The purpose of this effort was to produce the 'multi-cultural' society so beloved of Marxists.

In order to feed this absurd project, the left are now importing almost 1/2million people per year into Britain, largely islamic people from the Asia and the Middle-East. The more alien and incompatible these people are from a cultural and ethnic standpoint, the more the Left relish the idea of importing them in large numbers into our country.

Asking Gordon Brown and his Marxist allies to sort out the connected problems of terrorism and immigration, is rather like asking your local mafia boss to sort out your crime problem. New Labour are the cause of the problem.

anthony, Kendal, Cumbria

Rob from Liverpool, how boring and miserable your opinion is! Which country deals more justly than Britain today in foreign countries?

Alex, Aberystwyth, UK

Muslim spies or just spies who can pass as Muslims? Of course, maybe she's just giving out a spot of disinformation, making the terrorists think that we don't have such spies to conceal that we do have them already. Hey, who can you trust in such a business .... Maybe just let them all get on with their games.

PS. Have the sub-ed who wrote the headline read the article properly, the suggestion isn't from the new security chief, it's from a former one.

E Burgess, Slough,

It is probably not surprising when the state effectively brands a community as criminal that others will not take advantage of it. It is, perhaps, inevitable that having set the agenda from the top many parts of society will follow and the media will reflect that move. Few people will not have noticed the nature of the vilification contained in certain parts of the national press when reporting allegations against Muslims. Invariably the word “Muslim” would be followed by “fundamentalist”. Arrests would be reported with the salacious verve normally set aside for Hollywood celebrities. Threatened action against the media in such cases would be met by the stock defence that such reporting was necessarily “in the public interest” as if there were some fifth column that needed to be exposed. The fact is that such reporting has two chilling effects. Firstly, it overplays the fear required to subjugate society into accepting ever more extreme restrictions on all our liberties

Adam, London, UK

I understood this sort of mesage was supposted to be secret,,

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MI 5, MI 6

Surely more information is learned by keeping operations like this secret and just getting on with it.

Nicholas Iles, Oswestry, United Kingdom

Of course!!!

Should have been implemented a long time ago

ed, L´don, UK

The root being injustice?? Are you out of your mind? Open your eyes....lots of injustice happens around the world. Have you ever given a thought to the injustice perpetrated against non-Muslims in Muslim dominated countries and why Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, Animists, atheists aren't blowing up mosques around the world?? Jihad is jihad, the excuses will never stop. To an Islamist, there is injustice as long as all the world is not under Islamic law...are you willing to let them succeed or not? That is the only question you should ask.

S. Anderson, Raleigh, NC, USA

Six years after 911, and now the former head comes up with the brain wave of recruiting muslim spies, what was she doing while she was in office!

Uche George, London, UK

Sir,
Incredible, I cannot believe that two years after 7/7 our SS have not recruited Muslims to spy on the troublesome minority. On the other hand, I don't suppose that the professional terrorists are so indiscreet that they keep their "fellow" co-religionists informed. I have some sympathy for our law-abiding Muslim citizens, I would not expect them to keep the company of these fanatics. I for one am wary that we are being misled by the Walter Mittyesque sensationalist terror-entrepreneurs such as Ed Hussain and Hassan Butt. I fear that they are leading us down an all too easy blind alley, diverting our resources going after red herrings, such as disenfranchised vocal hotheads, who talk the talk, but don't walk the walk.

SC, London, United Kingdom

Did it really take a former head of security to come up with that idea ? I thought this was the standard approach ... this would explain the state of our "Intelligence" , or lack of it . It seems we stopped doing the basics some time ago .

Benzo, Nr Chelmsford,

Unfortunately, we Muslims too must step up and do our part. It is unfathomable for those fortunate to live abroad to be so ungrateful of the opportunity to escape the poverty and lack of opportunity at home. This ingratitude, whether through carrying out terrorist attacks or not passing on information to authorities, will doom any chance of successful integration of expat populations. Muslims must take an active part in policing and censoring our own.

Ali Khan, Karachi, Pakistan

Lateral thinking would suggest looking at the situation as if in 15 years hence we had lost, and how much we had given away to our British way of life in attempting piecemeal solutions.
A few months old and we have already given away snitching.
This 'Have your say' needs to be reviewed every year.

Gut Liam, Hertford, England

Amazing, she has just twigged, I would have thought that there was a network of spies from all other countries. Surely she has not been secure in thinking that the Boys from Oxbridge are going to keep us safe.

Dave Madley, Alicante, Spain

There's something bizarre about immigrants, whether 1st generation or British-born deciding to cause mayhem in their host country, while natives, at least, in part, feel guilty about inner city life and deprivation. Whether these malcontents are Muslim or Hindu or whatever, the very minimum level of threat against them should be deportation, preferably to Saudi Arabia, where they can practise their "religion" without benefit of British civil liberties.

Monty Gosse, Mumbai, India

You mean to say MI6 and the SIS haven't been recruiting Moslem spies? Wow, the UK has really lost its knack....

Gerry Watts, Hobart, Australia

That should be easy. All we have to do is to encrease immigration. Demografics will do the rest.

Fabio C, London, UK

It never ceases to amaze me the paradoxical society we live in where we are constantly reminded how racially tolerant we should be and at the same time bombarded with articles which firmly place Islam and terrorism side-by-side.

Now it seems we should keep a beedy eye on our Muslim neighbours because they are all potential terrorists! Is this what they call integration? Sounds more like segregation to me...!

Rod Munch, Northampton, UK

Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller might have left the security services but clearly she hasn't left politics.

D. Stanley, Gourge, France

we need to deal with the root of terrorism, which is the fact that we deal with injustice in other people's lands. if britain dealt justly & with peace in foreign lands, we wouldn't face these situations today. running after oil with different excuses makes our own country insecure from such activities.

Rob, Liverpool, UK

We, the people of britain, need to put pressure on the Prime Minister, & the govt to bring our soldiers fron foreign countries. & the only solution to ensure our people are safe, is that we ensure the safety of others in foreign lands. I hope Mr. Brown doesn't be a puppet for the US, as was Mr. Blair.

J. Stephenson, Liverpool, UK