MPACUK are telling you about taking action, because it does not really affect you. Not directly, not enough and not now! That was me. And then I completed my education and moved away from my family, away from the Muslim community I had known all my life. I now find myself in a place where I am the only Muslim. Things I took for granted like a halal butchers at my doorstop now means I have to trek to another city. Not a single mosque in site. A place where its easy to forget you're a Muslim. Yet I find myself more aware than ever. I am a Muslim. In a place where there are no Muslims (that I am aware of) I find I now represent Islam to these people. A scary concept for someone like me! I find myself working with people from all over the world. Wealthy privileged backgrounds, unlike my own. I find myself arguing about political issues relating to Muslims. Never have I had to justify why Israel have no right to slaughter innocent Palestinians, why America has their own agenda and so on...I have never had to because I did not know of any zionists. Sure they were out there, but they were far away. Only now I find myself surrounded by them. I find these people are not just the power moguls I had heard about, some are normal people doing normal jobs. I find myself getting angry at peoples logic, or lack