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.