The popular press has never really been able to paint the small collection of academics, minor aristocracy and football-obsessed billionaires who are how the general public sees the Russian community in Britain into an identifiable enemy, such as they have been attempting to do with Muslims, Sikhs in the 1960s, Czech Roma a few years ago, Poles last year and Romanians and Bulgarians at the moment.

What if the people suspected with poisoning Litvinenko had been Muslims? I don't mean here the government in Chechnya, of course. I imagine the tabloids would very quickly start to look even more like Der Stürmer or Jyllands Posten than they do at the moment.

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