I'm sorry but I have to ask, did the FAA guy really say that?
I am paraphrasing slightly and converting a 2 minute conversation into a sound bite, but yes, that was his stated opinion.
I would like to give him the benefit of the doubt and think that he was testing me in a cunning way to see where my sympathies lay. But I don't really think so. He was very concerned that there were so many muslims in the UK and when was I going to move abroad, because surely it can't be safe.
He was a Gulf War veteran and I guess he had decided that because his enemy were Muslims, then Muslims were his enemy. Who knows.