Julian Bond

Director of the Christian Muslim Forum since its launch in 2006

Despite being a society made up of waves of immigration from the Romans onwards we still have a problem with immigrants. As 'island people' we have a strong, but precarious, identity. We feel under threat from a tiny Muslim population.

Jon Yates

Co-founder and Strategy Director of The Challenge Network

The UK has a segregation problem. When we open our eyes we can see it. We see it when we visit our schools, we see it when we walk round our neighbourhoods, we see it when we look at our friends. By age, income and race - our country divides every morning and every evening.

Xavier Toby

Using my thought box to produce mind gems. Comedy, writing, opinion, sometimes politics

My slight bogan part aside, I really am the classic middle class, well-educated white male. I mean, there's no point me playing the lottery. By being born in a first world country to white middle class parents, I've already won first division. Big time.

Tam Hussein

Writer and journalist

Richard Wright died on 28 November 1960. The Afro-American writer paved the way for future writers like James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison and prepared the ground for the civil rights movement. Both his memoirs Black Boy and Native Son were instant bestsellers and changed the literary scene in the US over night.

Aaron Kiely

National Black Students' Officer, National Union of Students

As I was finishing secondary school, I remember numerous discussions in my home about how we would be able to fund going to college and being a full-time student. Luckily, we found out that we qualified for the EMA scheme. My family lived from week to week, and that £30 was totally significant and at times helped pay electric, gas and for other essentials.

Navjot Singh

China based freelance journalist, author, and photographer

'Asia' is formed of 48 countries, and extends right the way from Saudi Arabia to East Timor covering 30% of the earth's land (44,597,000 km2). Of course, within this area you have parts of the Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, and South-East Asia.

Dr Rebecca Fraser

Lecturer in American history and culture, University of East Anglia

The many events and discussions that have taken place around the UK during Black History Month, which draws to a close next week, have given us the op...

Dr Rupa Huq

Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Kingston University and former Deputy Mayoress of the London Borough of Ealing

From a position of nigh-invisibility, for about 5 minutes in the 90s to be Asian was almost cool. I think as Citizen Khan has reminded us, we've come back down to earth since then, some would say with a bump that still resounds.

Tez Ilyas

Stand-up Comedian, Actor, Writer

Islam doesn't have a history of satire and Muslims don't take ridicule of our religion lightly. However, it seems that Muslims today measure their faith by how angry they get when offended.

Mehdi Hasan

Political director of The Huffington Post UK

The imprisonment of this Christian child isn't only about Pakistan or Pakistanis. Those of us who claim to be members of a global Muslim ummah cannot be silent when such flagrant human-rights abuses are committed in the name of Islam and in the world's second-biggest Muslim-majority nation.

Jon Ashworth

Labour MP for Leicester South and an Opposition Whip

Over 3000 Muslim athletes competed in the Olympics earlier this summer and at the same time it was Ramadan. Like thousands of my constituents in Leicester, many of those athletes will have observed the fast.

Peter McGuire

Journalist and Irish Folklore lecturer

The racism was straight out of the traps when Ireland's Olympic boxing heroes won silver and gold in London. It was disheartening, predictable, and widely supported.

Mehdi Hasan

Political director of The Huffington Post UK

Words have consequences. Your recklessly inaccurate, inflammatory and irresponsible column only indulges the Islamophobic fantasies of the UK's violent, far-right crazies - and encourages them to make their vile threats. Frankly, you should be ashamed of yourself.

John Mann

Member of Parliament for Bassetlaw

Now that the dust has long since settled from the Euro 2012 championships it is perhaps a chance to review the successes and failures of the tournament, not on the field but rather in terms of tackling the incidents of racism and antisemitism which I had been forecasting for many months.

Paul Hobson

Journalist and sports fan

Could this be, as Gordon Taylor suggests, a watershed moment in the FA's Respect campaign? And, preposterous as it sounds, I think John Terry could play a part.

Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

Environment writer, Guardian, Earth Insight; Director, Institute for Policy Research & Development

Over a decade after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington - and seven years after the London bombings - questions about Islam, Muslims and their place in the wider Western world continue to foment strong debate.