just to shed some light on your 'assumptions' birdie, i am not a muslim woman, i am english, i respect peoples religions and i try to learn what i can about them. I have a lot of muslim friends, who are lovely people and should not be judged just becoz they are muslim, stereo typical/.ignorant people like yourself dont like respecting people and their religions, just becoz you and i dont have any religious beliefs, i dont see why it gives us the right to discriminate against other people beliefs. i only look at the positive things becoz thats all i know about islam, i dont read in to it as much as i you do, r u muslim? u seem to know more about islam than me.....assuming that im muslim, even if i was i wouldnt be ashamed of it, but i dont belong to islam. i think from what i have seen muslims are well disciplined people and thats alot more than i can say about the british. birdie your a fine example!!!!!