America to blame for mess in the east

When Tony Blair sided with George W Bush over Iraq, it rightly angered the entire Muslim community in Britain.

Fact: The war in Iraq (as a large number of British Muslims pointed out at the time) is a farce in which greed seems the only reason.

The people of Iraq hold strong ties, through religion, with Muslims from Britain or anywhere else.

Without even trying to get a sense of how bad it is in Iraq, imagine what even Muslims of this country are going through especially with their religion being criticised by people who know little about it.

Personally, I know very little myself but through experience and from what I've seen of Muslims (in real life not just on the television), I see a religion that is strongly upheld through generations.

Muslims seem to be extremely family-orientated, they tend to be organised in life and very supportive of even the most distant of relatives.

How can anyone even try to demonise those values, yes they probably believe they are better than those outside the faith but what faith doesn't?

America is the evil in all this and Britain helps with that evil.

We used to be a country of values; that's gone.

People need to stop watching telly where they can create their own "goodies" and "baddies" and start paying these honest and disciplined Muslims the respect they deserve as well as sympathy for their "brothers" in Iraq who are getting innocently murdered for unjustified reasons.

R Rawlings, Wellington