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In the United Kingdom, there are Religious Education classes in public and I think the majority of public schools. However, due to the lack of mosques and Islamic knowledge as a whole around the United Kingdom, it is hard. For example, my previous school in the United Kingdom got a bollocking for Religious Education - but only because there is a rundown church nearby. I believe the nearest mosque would be in Greater Manchester.

Islam has taken a massive bashing here. The bomber above is a crude example. The media tends to use the word, "Islamic terrorist" or "terrorist" - when terrorists could easily be more generalised without religion. We don't say, for example, "Christian Somali war" or "Muslim Iraqi uprising".

The fear of Islam here is rather mind-boggling - although I am lucky to be at Imperial College where there are quite a lot of Muslims.

To me, if this has to be countered, it has to start in schools and early childhood - but the teaching of zero and more "Eastern" texts is not the way to go. The history of zero will bore students and the quality of texts should not be compromised. Sure, study foreign texts - as long as the meaning is kept "unbastardised" and as long as it does not override quality.

London is in danger of not being able to cope with Islamophobia - and unless you are here, you cannot see it. I actually feel safer amongst Muslims because they are a minority like me. That, unfortunately, says a lot of things.*