This morning, a stark interpretation by the Daily Mail over David Cameron’s speech was plastered all over the paper. “PM: UK Muslims helping Jihadis” belittled every inch of the positive representation Muslims received in one single sentence.

No other community should be allowed to put up with such a dangerous, sweeping generalisation.

Speaking at the security conference in the Slovakian capital Bratislava today, Cameron accused Muslims of “quietly condoning” the violence ISIS offers and claimed the reason ISIS is so ‘potent’ is because it is given ‘credence’. By who, God knows.

What Cameron doesn’t know is that poll after poll carried out by the reputable Pew Global Research Centre shows that virtually all Muslims reject ISIS's view of their faith.

Islamic Terrorist groups are deeply unpopular within the UK and the accusation that Muslims “give weight” to such groups causes me and many others to simply reply in disbelief. First immigrants and now Muslims, making scapegoats is a popular favourite with the Tories.

Cameron and his scare-mongering supporters all insinuate quite blatantly that British Muslims are helping and advocating mass-looting and genocides across Iraq, Syria and Libya, despite almost all victims being Muslim, a fact which is too often overlooked.

In my opinion, such statements only play to the extremist’s agenda.

Extremist groups take advantage over the fact that British Muslims feel marginalised and treated as the ‘dangerous other’.

Then, by way of manipulation, the youngsters soon find their ‘identity’ to be a vision pretty alien to Islamic tradition.

These traditions are fundamentalist groups harking back to an idealised Islamic past that never actually existed.

There is no question that ISIS is a murderous ideology. It is one of the most despicable political forces on earth today.

We Muslims aren’t “quietly condoning”, we are not “giving credence”, we have condemned time and time again, clearly shown by the ‘Not In My Name’ campaign from Muslims against ISIS.

What more is expected of us if the country we aim to positively support refuses and stigmatises us? We’ll be expected to permanently hold up condemnation billboards.

Our Prime Minister is quick to say, “the blame game is wrong – and it is dangerous” but redirecting all fault to the individual is as silly as counter-productive.

He adds that authorities do play their part in stopping extremism but are “not responsible for the fact that people want to go and fight”.

Rather, Cameron and his supporters suggest that there is a “blame the west” mentality which causes radicalisation.

This allegedly is there to relieve radicalised Muslims of all blame, they argue, stripping them of their individual choices.

With Cameron’s claims to fight the “cause not the symptoms”, you can’t help but wonder the cause of the resentment radicalised Muslims have.

Is it our alleged anger at democracy (which is wholly incorrect) or is it the persistent shutting out of our community fuelled by institutionalised racism? The likely answer is known by all.

Of course, we need to challenge and confront perverse ideologies. But that means working in partnership with Muslim organisations and communities not concocting collective blame.

That does nothing but play into the hands of extremism. And yes, there are a number of factors driving radicalisation, but we should examine all of them with equal amounts of scrutiny, including factors within our control, such as western foreign policy and support for dictatorships.

Surely, you’ve got to look at the bigger picture. I fear, though, that currently, we are doing exactly what our opponents want us to do by driving divisions within the community.