Greater Manchester Police were forced to make a formal apology earlier this week after carrying out a realistic training exercise designed to protect its citizens against the threat of terrorist attack. Now before you read any further just pause and ask yourself where the threat of terrorist attack is likely to come from. Yes, I know, silly question, the answer is more than obvious. Though not to some, evidently.

During the exercise the role-playing terrorist shouted out “Allahu Akbar”, as those real-life deranged fanatics tend to do before they open fire indiscriminately and blow themselves up, killing all around them.

According to Dr Erinma Bell, described as a “Peace Activist” the police were guilty of unfair stereotyping since, as she said, a terrorist could come from any group. True, a terrorist could come from any group but from where does the average person in the street think a terrorist attack is most likely to come?

As this blog has said before, not all Muslims are terrorists; of course they’re not. That would be a ludicrous and grossly unfair thing to say but nobody can deny that, at the present time, the majority of terrorists are Muslims.

If we cannot, or refuse to, identify our potential enemies we make it a lot harder to eventually defeat them. Our hard-pressed (and no-doubt demoralised) police and security forces need all the help they can get in keeping us all safe. Making their training exercises as realistic as possible with no detail spared is an obvious priority and no more than common sense. Political correctness and liberal sensibilities should have nothing to do with it.