I was at the rally in Newcastle you've
just been covering yeah and the state of
fear and alarm amongst Britain's Muslims
about the atmosphere that we have in the
country caused by the kind of terrorism
that you've rightly been covering but
also the very ill-conceived idea that
ordinary Muslims should be held
responsible for acts of terrorism
carried out by a few that's just not
acceptable causing an alarm in my
community yeah how I was going to say
how much of an issue is that for you in
that constituency for the election
because clearly there is a a huge
question mark about what to do to
prevent the radicalization of many
youths in
Britain yes uh uh we we do have a
problem of extremism and some of that
extremism actually bursts out as
terrorism the point is not just to
condemn it but to sort it to do
something about it and what we're doing
is the opposite of what we should be
doing instead of linking arms with the
Muslim Community in Britain and tackling
this extremism we're branding Muslims as
extremists almost as a default position
uh Muslims are asked to apologize for
their faith in a way that a Christian
terrorist in Norway for example Anders
braik uh would never have been asked to
no Christian in Norway was held
responsible for the actions of a
Christian who murdered tens scores of
school children uh in Norway it's this
double standard that people are very
very angry about so we're trying to
bring people together not drive them
further apart and I'm afraid that some
of the coverage and much of the rhetoric
from the political class is dividing our
people rather than uniting them