Are we creating ‘Muslim ghettos’ in Britain?

SEVERAL things struck me in Trevor Phillips’s study on UK Muslims’ attitudes and the creation of Muslim ‘ghettos’. As anyone who has studied terrorism knows, its perpetrators can’t function effectively without a nurturing community to hide in. I suspect millions of us already knew what he has now published: we’re just prohibited from saying it. I see no ambition among our governing classes even to recognise this threat, let alone act to reverse it — and this is the disgrace of our generation.

COLIN LANGSTON, Cheltenham. AS A very senior citizen and a very British male who has done his bit for our country in keeping it safe from the attempts by people of other countries to overthrow us, I’m worried that we have now allowed persons into our great country, to be safe from others, who aren’t satisfied with the benefits afforded to them by our governments and the British people. They now want to change our laws to Sharia law. I say to them: this is Britain and you must follow our laws or go back to a country that has Sharia law. R. LONG, address supplied. TREVOR PHILLIPS’S shock at the attitudes of Muslims to the legalisation of homosexual marriage and gender equality seems to assume everyone in Britain is obliged to agree with his views and those of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). Disagreement with law or policies is a basic British right and British Muslims, or any other group, are fully entitled to disagree with equality laws. People in Britain are obliged to obey the law but aren’t obliged to agree with it and are entitled peacefully to dissent from laws and agitate to change them. The idea that there is a set of values mediated by the EHRC with which everyone in Britain should agree is a totally un-British one.

NEIL ADDISON (barrister), Liverpool.