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I was at the rally in Newcastle you've

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just been covering yeah and the state of

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fear and alarm amongst Britain's Muslims

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about the atmosphere that we have in the

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country caused by the kind of terrorism

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that you've rightly been covering but

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also the very ill-conceived idea that

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ordinary Muslims should be held

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responsible for acts of terrorism

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carried out by a few that's just not

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acceptable causing an alarm in my

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community yeah how I was going to say

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how much of an issue is that for you in

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that constituency for the election

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because clearly there is a a huge

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question mark about what to do to

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prevent the radicalization of many

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youths in

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Britain yes uh uh we we do have a

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problem of extremism and some of that

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extremism actually bursts out as

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terrorism the point is not just to

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condemn it but to sort it to do

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something about it and what we're doing

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is the opposite of what we should be

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doing instead of linking arms with the

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Muslim Community in Britain and tackling

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this extremism we're branding Muslims as

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extremists almost as a default position

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uh Muslims are asked to apologize for

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their faith in a way that a Christian

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terrorist in Norway for example Anders

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braik uh would never have been asked to

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no Christian in Norway was held

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responsible for the actions of a

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Christian who murdered tens scores of

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school children uh in Norway it's this

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double standard that people are very

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very angry about so we're trying to

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bring people together not drive them

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further apart and I'm afraid that some

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of the coverage and much of the rhetoric

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from the political class is dividing our

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people rather than uniting them