David Cameron has raised concerns about religious segregation in Britain. In a speech on tackling extremism, the Prime Minister said that Britain was a “multi-racial, multi-faith democracy” and a “beacon to the world”. No one should be demonised, he said; moderate Muslims also hated the “sick world view” of extremists. But he said that segregation was a problem and that, “It cannot be right, for example, that people can grow up and go to school and hardly ever come into meaningful contact with people from other backgrounds and faiths. That doesn’t foster a sense of shared belonging and understanding – it can drive people apart.” He went on to talk about faith schools, saying he had no wish to dismantle them. “Many faith schools achieve excellent results and I’m the first to support the great education they provide,” he said. “Today I visited King David’s School, a Jewish school here in Birmingham where the majority of children are from faith backgrounds. I chose one for my own children. But it is right to look again more broadly at how we can move away from segregated schooling in our most divided communities.”