No need for new definitions in law to protect Muslims - Yorkshire Post Letters

Whether it is called anti-Muslim hostility or Islamophobia, the government seem determined to push this through to protect Muslims. I try to keep abreast of the news in our country but I appear to have missed everything about Muslims having to employ security guards to protect them whilst they pray or having to teach their children how to react if their schools are attacked by extremists of other religions who want to eradicate them from the face of the Earth, or even not to dress in clothes showing their religious faith in case it offends people who oppose them.

As we all know, members of another religion suffer and live in fear of this every day. Should some form of protection against anti-Semitism not then be the main priority for our government to focus on.

After all their main role is to treat us all as equals with the same levels of respect and safety. But there is no need for new definitions or laws, they are already in place, they just need to be used correctly and without favour.

I have great sympathy for the country’s decent Muslim majority who are good people who just want to get on with their lives. I have worked and been friends with many Muslims as well as other faiths over the years and found them to be fine honest people.

However, I don’t believe there is much that governments can do to stop extreme fundamentalism. The Muslims are going to have to work hard to control this themselves, how exactly I’m not sure but maybe calling out and ostracising extremists, barring them from places of worship and informing the authorities about them.