Been reading the whole thread.
Well done to all you bakers, what a lovely thing to do. The only way to beat the haters is to prove that the vast majority of us do not hate anyone according to thier colour or creed. We are all people, the same good points and bad points no matter what religion, colour or where we live.
As for the doomsayers - of course there are terrorist cells, of course there are some mosques who will be funded and are radicalising young men, we cannot change that individually unless we know something we can report to the authorities. Terrorism comes in all shapes and sizes and its not confined to Muslims either. It is a world problem, nowhere is safe from it which is a tragedy but its true.
Terrorists do not care who they kill or hurt, they dont care that there would be people of their own country, colour or faith in among the people they are targetting, they dont care about anyone other than their own ideals.
BUT this is not a thread about those people, this is a thread about love and compassion for our neighbours, fellow human beings, who are just as horrified as we are at all the violent events and tragedies of the past couple of months.
Cake isnt going to solve world problems but as we have already seen, one small gesture leads to another and another and if we all had the chance to do one small gesture to let someone know we do not hate them just because of what someone else did, think how many people we could touch to let them know we are all part of this big world, our towns and cities, our local communities.
Lets face it, the majority of Muslims are not going around killing people, they just want to live in peace like the rest of us but because of what some extremists are doing they become the easy targets for cowardly ignorant bigots, many who are just as brainwashed by media, internet and white supremasist crap as any Isis member.