Sorry, Ms T. It's simply an observation. After years living and working in the East End (I used to live on the "Murder Mile"), I'm well aware of the social and religious breakdown of the community. However, I'll reiterate, I have lived and worked in the area for a long time. It was a general observation by my colleagues and work contacts in the area that the general level of criminality goes down during Ramadam. The boys (and it is almost always boys) are elsewhile occupied during that time of the year. They are expected by their families to be in, doing family things and attending to their religious duties during that period. Ramadam was always a good time to make sure assignments got finished, you could guarantee they would be at home and sometimes a bit bored of talking to Aunty and Uncle so they would relieve the boredom by doing a bit of schoolwork.
I noticed that there was a little trouble around Bethnal Green, but in no way as much as you would expect. I was making the observation that, in order to gain the critical mass for a full scale riot to kick off, you would need the contribution of the lads who you would otherwise expect to be out skulking around the street corners wolf whilsting and shouting insults at me as I cycled home from work.
It's one of those rare occasions (very difficult for an athiest like me to admit to) when religion appears to have been a force for good.