Let's work from your definitions.Your starter for 10...

No,actually in different ways it was both,Things tend to be grey rather than black and white in so many cases,same as with religions and"aggressive" cultures.

I never said Islam doesn't need reform. I'm pointing out the irony of an ideology and opinion that seems to be more and more popular nowadays and exposing the hypocrisy of it when something like this happens from the same community. The reason I pick out someone like Tommy Robinson is because he seems to be growing quite a following nowadays and my response is directed to people who blame the whole of Islam for terrorism and all Muslims for not stopping the scumbags committing these atrocities, which is a subtle way of blaming all Muslims indirectly, it's as outrageous as making a link between those who call for change and those who call for extremism. I'm just sick and tired of being called a "terrorist sympathiser" because I refuse to tar an entire group of people with the same criticism just because some arsehole decided to express his faith in a perverse way. Especially when I went to school with many of these people, played football on the playground with them, went to their house for dinner etc etc. You'd be right to say that I don't wanna offend them, not for the sake of political correctness or any of that nonsense but for the sake of me personally knowing them as decent people and are now being used as an easy target for people to promote beliefs that they clearly hold regardless of atrocities. Thoughtlessly creating divisions in society does nothing but fuel this fire, I couldn't care less if people make out that's me "making an excuse for it", it's just a "statement of fact" to coin a phrase I keep hearing repeated. I agree that times are looking increasingly worrying at the moment, as it stands i really can't see an end in sight.

We're the Arthur over ere!

I don't know of a person who blames the whole of Islam for terrorism or all Muslims for terrorism.

A person who does that isn't being fair. There are problems within mainstream socially conservative Islam which feeds into extremism and it needs reform and we both agree on that...Regardless the social conservatism in Islam isn't the whole of Islam anyway..I don't know of anyone sensible who wants to ban a religion itself.

The reality is that most socially conservative Muslims aren't going to support murder, they might have unacceptable views but there's a rather major step before people do murder....that is only ever the tip of the spear.

I agree with you that if you know a person and think they are a decent person then you shouldn't treat them differently because they don't have a connection to extremists.

To use an example...I support Palace...those idiots at the barrier who scream insults at opposition players don't represent me. I do agree with action being taken against them to stop their behaviour...whatever works basically.

Those on watch lists....those who our security services have deemed a problem are those we need to take action on....That's independent of a religion actually even though we know it's mainly going to be Islamic.

I believe we need action on them....As for Islam itself I believe we need to support the reformers...So we probably agree more than we disagree.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

The whole 'empire' good or bad is very reductionist.

If you had to answer that you'd say 'bad but understandable for its time.'

If you didn't have an empire you would just be eaten up or beaten up by another one. The realities of the playground have never changed...People just dress better and use more intelligent language as they get older.

We live with the legacies of empires of course and their form has chosen and adapted but they exist on in a sense.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Too many unknowns there to answer directly. Was he stabbed because he was a Muslim, or because he was a rival supporter who happened to be a Muslim, or just randomly targeted?

What was the motivation and ultimate intent of the perp?

If he was targeted as a Muslim, it's an Islamophobic attack. If the intent was to spread fear amongst a wider group, yes it's a terror attack.