MARIA Williams’ Bank holiday Monday article “We cannot give in to the cycle of hatred” is absolutely right.

Hatred generates only more hatred, though I have to agree that the killing of Lee Rigby was truly abhorrent and that the majority of us are indeed inclined to remain silent and allow the agenda to be hijacked by the loud mouths and sick minds of extremists on both sides of the Islamists or Fascist regimes.
I would however, like to point out that the spokesman for the Muslim Public Affairs Committee, Asghar Bukheic, is now saying what I have wanted to hear the Muslim leadership say for very many years and that is that they want to talk to the democratic British authorities with a view to achieving a peaceful solution to what once seemed like an insurmountable looming problem.
Walt Jackson
Llantrisant Usk