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I've got a simple question this morning. Is public Muslim prayer compatible with British culture?

And is the Prime Minister sucking up to British Muslims? Who better to ask than Talk's

international editor enjoying the relative safety of London this morning. Hi, Isabel. Good morning.

It's great to see you. First of all, what do you make of Nigel Farage's intervention here

suggesting that such public displays of prayer should be banned? Well, I don't like banning things,

and I know that he doesn't like banning things either.

It's very un-conservative with a small C.

We're liberals in that sense instinctively.

But I'm afraid things have gone so far in the UK now that I'm ready to contemplating

banning a whole catalogue of behaviours and activities

that once upon a time I would have thought that we would hold absolutely dear and unstoppable.

So certain types of public protests I've had enough of.

I think many people in the country have had enough of aggressive public protests dominated by the waving of foreign flags and horrible symbols.

And as for this public praying thing, I mean, what a pity to be, have arrived at the place where we've arrived at, where people

praying is perceived as an act of aggression. And I'm afraid I think it is an act of aggression.

We don't see, as many of your callers and contributors have pointed out this morning.

We don't see other religions doing this.

I don't, my own view is that praying is a very private thing. Of course, in Christianity,

and in fact, in all religions, collective worship is a thing, but collective worship is done

within certain sacred settings, namely churches, namely mosques. And it's done in that

kind of private and very special way. I don't really believe in performative praying. Were those

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