DAVID Cameron was wrong to suggest that Muslims "quietly condone" acts of terrorism, according to Bolton South East MP Yasmin Qureshi.

Ms Qureshi said she is tired of having to apologise for atrocities carried out by Islamic terrorists, saying white people are never called on to apologise for atrocities carried out by white people.

She was speaking after nine black people were killed in a racist attack in church by a white man in Charleston, South Carolina.

In a speech in Slovakia, the prime minister said too many British Muslims quietly condone terrorism and urged families to speak out against the "poisonous ideology" of fanatics who persuade young people to join up.

In an interview with Radio 4's World at One, however, Ms Qureshi said the prime minister was confusing religious conservatism with support for extremism.

She said: "To suggest that somehow you may have conservative views, and that allows you to go and actually kill people, is wrong.

"To make the comparison he has done the way he has done, it is not only unhelpful but actually wrong.

"I live in Bolton, and I have what you would call an overtly religious community, where there are ladies who wear the full veil, and a lot of gentlemen that go to the mosque.

"But if you were to suggest to them that just because they practice their religion in that way, that, in any form, they support, condone or agree with what is happening with Isil, then they are completely wrong.

"I speak to my constituents, who are very religious, and whenever these incidents happen they shake their heads in disgust and they actually say that our religion is being maligned."

The MP, who was re-elected in last month's elections with a majority of nearly 11,000, said she disagreed with people calling on Muslims to apologise for the actions or extremists, when white people were not asked to do the same following the shooting on Wednesday.

She added: "I am Muslim myself and frankly I am just getting really tired of having to apologise.

"In Charleston you had a white man who went and killed nine black people in a church.

"I don't hear anybody saying that the whole of the white population has to apologise for the action of one white man."