[WillowTheWhisp]

Jimmi I get nervous walking past groups of youths of any description. I know in most cases it is probably unfounded but perhaps it's because they are taller, stronger and noisier than me I find them intimidating. I don't think I could have been as brave as you and I admire you for that.

West Ender, it's good to hear about something of which someone has personal experience as you describe. At times we have held up Saudi Arabia as an example in situations such as the way they deal with criminals when pointing out how we seem to fail with our "punishments" in this country. Perhaps not such a good example to us after all.

However, how many muslims in this country come from Saudi Arabia?

If we are looking for the opposite side of the coin to Islam in Britain wouldn't it make more sense to look for Christianity in Pakistan? It isn't outlawed there and there are Pakistani born Christians. I'm not sure how many and I don't have any details but I just wanted to even up the picture of Christianity in muslim countries a bit before we are in danger of starting to demand a ban on Islam in Britain.

Having said that, I am in total agreement that all militants of whatever persuasion who incite violence against the host country be booted out PDQ. This must be the only country on earth which feeds the hand that bites it.