I remember when the London Bombings happened, a friend of mine got on a bus a few days later. Looking at her you would presume she is Muslim, even though in fact she is mixed race. She had just finished work and was on her way to the gym. She had her gym bag with her. Not a suspect looking bag or anything. She said she got so many odd looks off people, and she had no idea why. People were looking at her suspiciously, and watching her every move. She really didn't have a clue why. It was only afterwards, when she thought about it, she realised what it was about. People were suspicious of her, and her bag, and what she had in it. She fully understood, and wasn't offended at all. She even commented that in the same situation, she might of done the same thing. People were scared, and paranoid, and worried about their safety. So fair play to them.

The same thing as happened again. Two young Muslim men were kicked off a flight here, because other passengers feared they were suicide bombers. They had flown to Malaga for the day from Manchester, to check out a place they were going to on holiday later in the year. They were chatting to each other in Urdu. Six travellers refused to board, and in the end they were asked to leave by the captain. The passengers were suspicious because they had only visited the place for the day. They were quizzed and released without charge. And why did they go through all this? Well that's because of the paranoid state the world is in at the moment, and it would seem that Muslims are getting the raw end of the deal.

Just because we are scared, and we have suffered, does that mean we now have the right to judge people on the way they look, and the colour of their skin? Every Muslim we now see, are we to be scared of, and wonder in the back of our minds if they are a suicide bomber? We can't live our lives that way, it isn't fair to anyone. Lots of Muslims are just as worried as the rest of us, they are in the same position we are, and they don't need situations like that happening to them. That isn't going to do anyone any favours. More and more Muslims are turning to extreme measures to get their points heard, and situations like that are only gong to give them even more ammunition against us. Just because of what's happened, that doesn't give us the right to be racist.