Danger of demonising Muslims fleeing war

It is very worrying to see blatant fear-mongering and misinformation about people who are fleeing from war in your letters page.

Frank Giles claims that refugees have views that are incompatible with Europe’s value system, and John McGrath claims that Muslims embrace a doctrine that denies freedom of conscience and freedom of speech (both last Friday).

Denis Moloney (on Saturday) uses the fact that small numbers of people have gone from Europe to fight in Syria to question the likelihood of Muslims integrating and sharing the values of European society.