All of this is being stirred up on purpose. Nobody suggested there would be riots or problems until the BBC did a news report suggesting that it MIGHT - only might - eventually happen. A Muslim leader said he'd had no indication of anything like that. Another community leader said the same, but the 'riots' theme was still palyed out in the newspiece. No support for the idea at all, just a conjecture.

This is a game our goverment is creating to make a gulf between us and Muslims, do not fall for it. I understand that posters here are unhappy, that they have issues. But don't let this get out of hand. Don't play the game.

I live in Bristol, which has a massive Muslim community. Any signs of unrest there? Any changes in day to day feeling in our community? Any posters about political meetings or angry graffiti on walls? Protests? Fights? Bit of scuffle outside a pub or two? A scowl even from the Muslim family who run the shop at the end of my street??? Not a bit of it. Life goes on and nothing has changed.

But we're being made to think that things are changing, quickly and dangerously and that Islam is the 'danger within'. Please, think, see all of this for what it is. Manipulation. The only way to fight what's happening is to withhold belief in what you read and see on TV.

MelT