Under one flag
SIR – In Sky TV’S midnight news on Monday, while a reporter was discussing Islamophobia and the potential for the rise of the far Right, the camera focused on a nearby fluttering Union flag.
This sort of television is highly divisive and will only add to tensions in the Muslim community and give its members a feeling that they can never truly be British.
The Union flag is there to represent all of us and we must never allow the far Right to purloin it or give religious minority groups and immigrants the impression that it does not represent them. Ted Shorter
Tonbridge, Kent
SIR – Your headline yesterday was “Terror suspect ‘turned against Muslims’ after London attack.”
Extremists have been praying for an upsurge in violence between the two groups. The situation must be cooled down as a matter of urgency.
The imams must do their bit. Don Roberts
Prenton, Wirral
SIR – Your photograph (June 20) of Theresa May talking to residents who lived near Finsbury Park mosque included a Sikh, a Muslim, a Jew and a Christian.
The local people were clearly listening intently.
Please publish more pictures of this apparent harmony and less of the Left-wing “rent-a-crowd”. Dave Alsop
Gloucester, Gloucestershire
SIR – My wife and I are Christians. We were recently invited by a local mosque to attend a community iftar
– the breaking of the Ramadan fast. The event was attended by around 200 people of all faiths and none. The welcome was extremely warm.
We heard talks by two imams and stayed for prayers afterwards. However, everything was in Arabic.
The Catholics abandoned Mass in Latin alone many years ago. Why don’t the Muslims do likewise and use the vernacular?
At least then we would know that their prayers are the same as Christian prayers. This surely would lead to more unity. Duncan Rayner
Sunningdale, Berkshire
SIR – Yesterday’s Comment article by Qari Asim, “This is one of the best countries to be a Muslim”, made me wonder if there are any Muslim countries that are best for Christians. Max Bowker
Reading, Berkshire