Dear Baroness Warsi,

You talk about

the patronising, superficial way faith is discussed in certain quarters, including the media

I understand your irritation. Pretty much everything, including religion/faith and atheism, science and technology, culture and politics, is discussed in patronising, superficial ways every day of the year in certain quarters. When this is directed against a subject you care about, it can sting.

Luckily, you are gifted with a prestigious public platform to combat this tendency, nay plague, at least with regard to faith. Even though I am not as deeply attached to faith as you are, I am certain your fine efforts will set an example to all others who engage in public discourse, and lead to a deeper and more sympathetic dialogue between the various individuals and factions that currently resort to straw-man attacks and mudslinging when engaging each other in public.

Islamophobia has “passed the dinner-table test” and is seen by many as normal and uncontroversial

Oh, sod off.