To some extent it’s a vicious circle, however: groups of young asians (usually) get racially abused (when they might previously have classed themselves as perfectly British — born and bred here — but have been racially abused simply because of their skin colour).

Many then reject that society, walk down the path of religious fundamentalism and some become so polarised that they are prepared to hurt and kill others in the name of that belief. In turn, this makes more people distrustful of that ethnic group, which makes the situation worse… and so on.

It’s not a problem that can be solved by any one ethnic group: simply because it isn’t people from only one group who are acting in a manner that provokes hate (but nor is it everyone from any single group!).

It’s something that we all need to work on: we need to tackle those preaching hate (of whatever variety) head on, and challenge it. Only by doing that can we end the cycle of violence.

Well, that’s what I think anyway.

I’ve got an interesting book to read soon - the autobiography of a British Asian who became a jihadist (?) and then later rejected those teachings - it’s called “The Islamist”. I’ll write something up about it when I’ve finished - it’d be interesting to see how someone who’s actually gone down that path and come back again feels about it.

Gun culture and the murdering of innocent children (Rhys Jones as a specific example) makes be ashamed to be English.

General lack of respect for others and the world around you (litter, dog mess, petty vandalism) p***es me off no end and makes me ashamed to share the same country with these people.

Politicians do not make me proud. Less and less to the stand for the values of this country. the spend more time winning votes than actually doing stuff to improve our society.