PETE Winstanley's claim that immigrants are "subject to the same laws as the rest of us" is a statement of the obvious (HAS, Aug 10). This glosses over the point that many immigrants are reluctant to abide by our laws (forced marriages, honour killings and threatening to kill authors who attack Islam).

More insidious was the Muslim and Hindu support for the "Religious Hatred" Bill, which would have curtailed traditional British free speech, and which was defeated by only one vote in Parliament.

Regarding Mr Winstanley's claim that the only routes to monoculturalism are ethnic cleansing and forced assimilation, I predicted that the advocates of multiculturalism would not understand the third route which I set out (HAS, Aug 6), so I'll explain again.

Seven centuries ago, this country had three languages, French, Latin and Anglo-Saxon (an example of multiculturalism). To simplify communication, generations of Brits reduced this to one language: English.

And compromising free speech so as to cater for Muslim and Hindu sensibilities is another example.

Extend this process worldwide, and we'll end up with what I called a "boring pan-world monoculture".

Ralph Musgrave, Durham PETE Winstanley (HAS, Aug 10) claims that in order to obtain peace and social harmony within a multicultural society we, the indigenous population, must accept cultural diversity, implying that trying to force ethnic minorities to abandon their cultural traditions will be harmful and detrimental to the stability and wellbeing of our society.

Personally, I find the wearing of the burka, female circumcision, forced arranged marriages, honour killings and the parts of Islamic law that allow people to be stoned to death, beheaded, or have their limbs amputated divisive and extremely detrimental to British culture.

If Mr Winstanley says that "multiculturalism amounts to nothing more than the acceptance of cultural diversity" then, by proxy, he is also suggesting that we allow many of these practices to happen in Britain all in the name of cultural diversity and to appease the minority groups.

It was Winston Churchill who once said: "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."

Carl Whelpdale, Spennymoor