JEFF Adams ludicrously wrote to argue that Muslims are putting together a series of sinister parallel institutions in the UK with the intention of replacing the legal and social system here.

I pointed out that his list of institutions were not what he claimed. I also speculated that it was the daily flood of Islamophobic media nonsense that caused his unhinged beliefs. I gave a number of examples.

Mr Adams implies I was referring to figments of media imagination. No, I wrote they were fabrications. Much of our media either makes up stories or highly distorts reality to scapegoat Muslims. Tiny numbers of Muslims are drawn to violent Jihadist groups. They are regularly condemned by the huge majority of Muslims and their organisations.

Mr Adams is overwrought on the subject of what women choose to wear; it takes a particular mindset to see the collapse of civilisation in a head scarf, so I won’t comment further on that.

What about his reference to the Al-Madineh Free School? Had Mr Adams had the energy to go beyond the Daily Mail’s view of the issue and looked at OFSTED’s October 2013 report he would have found this: “….Pupils’ spiritual and moral development is well supported in and out of school. Islamic studies contribute well to promoting pupils’ understanding of the similarities between different religions. Inspectors saw no evidence during the inspection of boys and girls being treated unequally.”

And: “In class, younger pupils work well together in mixed-gender groups much of the time. Older pupils are seated with boys on one side of the class and girls on the other.”

OFSTED also reported on woeful teaching and management in a “dysfunctional” school. The findings were yet another indictment of the Government’s free school programme but that’s another story.

Mr Adams could have told us about OFSTED on the Durham Free School, founded on Christian values, where Governors appointed staff on their religious credentials, where “some students hold discriminatory views of other people who have different faiths, values or beliefs from themselves”. And bullying was rife.

Or the boys school in Birmingham, famous for its cadet force, where a female teacher was seriously sexually assaulted.

I think a sense of perspective could work wonders for Mr Adams’ health.

PETER SMITH Woodside Avenue Swindon