The recent killing of a journalist has once again brought to the fore the ‘problems of radicalisation’ within young British Muslims.

Journalists and commentators are busy trying to find how this affects young British Muslims in the UK and looking for the perfect sound bite from so-called ‘community leaders’.

But is there any point? Let us completely honest about this - many young British Muslims either do not truly care about crimes committed in other countries or simply do not have want to share their thoughts with anyone.

The killing of the journalist was indeed barbaric and completely against the teachings of Islam. But barring this what in essence can young British Muslims say?

It is unexplainable. It is like asking a young white person what he thinks of a priest who abuses kids in a church. Or asking someone else why an individual would want to gun people down because of their race.

They wouldn’t know what to say.

The problem is we have a list of commentators who want to find out some reason why an allegedly British born person would travel to another country to kill an innocent person. Even worse, a professional who was at least trying to report on the killing of other Muslims.

This is not to say British Muslims are a-political. But if you live here you are unlikely to be able to explain the actions of a gang of masked murderous thugs.

The fact is, this whole process is as shocking and disturbing as it is to anyone else. It should not affect you more because you are a Muslim. The death should not be treated any less because the victim was not a Muslim.

British Muslims would have more in common with the victim than the perpetrators. Sharing a religion leans little.

But this is not the answer we want. We want an explanation. We want our leaders here to be able to say this is exactly why this happened and this is what we are going to go about it.

In the coming days we will have more hard-hitting statements as to how Britain is a breeding ground for these crazy young Muslims who are intent on beheading people.

But the fact remains is there any point asking a British Muslim about radicalisation? Are they really going to be able to give you the answers you want?

Or maybe they simply won't give us the answers we want to hear.