In recent years a network of politically motivated special interests has emerged that is determined to stigmatise and marginalise Muslims in all areas of American public life.

As the belief has grown that dissent by politically active Muslims has not just been stigmatised, but criminalised, many Muslims have melted away from the antiwar movement.

Lindsey German says politics and media have some responsibility, not for the killings themselves, but for the culture which has demonised Muslims and created an atmosphere of hatred.

Norwegian Aslak Sira Myhre says we need to use the atrocity in his country to strike a blow at the intolerance, racism and hatred that is growing throughout Europe.

Hardly had the shooting finished and the world's media had already decided, the culprits were Muslims, and within hours President Obama was using the atrocity to justify his "war on terror".

How do we define extremism or extremist views? Under prime minister David Cameron's definition, he is no less an extremist than the Muslim organisations he is trying to demonise.

An anti-Islamophobia freedom train to Paris was one of the proposals for action agreed at a conference, in London on 21 May 2011, aiming to confront anti-Muslim hatred in Britain and Europe.

As the economic crisis drags on, and as Britain, France and Italy lead the third military assault on a Muslim country in ten years, the poison of Islamophobia is in danger of spreading.

I would rather go to prison than take off the face veil, says Kenza Drider. Are they going to put a woman in prison because of a scrap of material? It's ridiculous.

David Cameron's scapegoating of Islamists and multiculturalism for the backlash from US and British wars risks fuelling violence on the streets, writes Seumas Milne.

Under the pernicious influence of Michael Gove and other neoconservatives, the Prime Minister is singing from a tired and discredited hymn sheet. The timing of Cameron's speech is awful. It comes on a day on which the far-right English Defence League is marching in Luton.

An anti-Muslim network, from Tea Party activists in the US to the European far right, unites right-wing ultra-Zionists, Christian evangelicals, and racist British soccer hooligans.

Writer Henning Mankell says: Wasn't this exactly what we expected? The desperate and furious attacking the West that for so long had humiliated Muslim countries.

BBC story "Schools told 'no swimming in Ramadan' for Muslim pupils" recycled a long discredited 3-year old article in the rabidly Islamophobic Daily Express.