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When I learned about the tradgedy in London, after I felt for the friends and family touched, I worried about any backlash. I worried about the BNP smelling opportunity.

I have said before that I was impressed with Tony Blair's speach, and how he acknowledged the need to solve the problems at their root causes (e.g. fixing poverty) as we can't kill our "enemies" as fast as we are creating them right now.

One of my worries comes from the comparison of the IRA a few decades ago. Throughout the IRA bombings, I think the people really understood that the IRA terrorists were not indicative of the Irish people. Why did we think that? Chances are a lot of us had a lot of contact with an irishman. They were married into our families. They were friends on the rugby field and at work. We were all integrated.

The problem we have now, is that IN GENERAL the muslim community isn't as integrated. You always fear what you don't know. So, this is why I worried that people would be hearing "islamic terrorists" and putting 2 + 2 together to make 5 (all muslims == belive in the cause).

We need to all get talking. I was so glad to see a church and a mosque get their congregations to meet up north. Once we meet and understand eachother we will realise that we are all just humans, who want the best for our families and lives.

When the IRA was in action, you didn't hear people calling it them "christian fundamentalist terrorists" did you?