British Muslims, gathered in mosques around the country for Friday prayers - prayers in which they remembered the victims of the bombings, but at the same time expressed fear of an anti-Muslim backlash against them.

"I am very worried, as are many Muslims, I think from my country," said one Muslim worshiper. "They are worried and they are feeling insecurity after these incidents".

"I suppose I've got mixed feelings about it," said another man. "Probably some feel that this sort of thing happens in Muslim countries all the day and everyday. People live with the same sort of thing continuously and so some people probably feel quite differently about it."

Member of Parliament George Galloway - a staunch opponent of the war in Iraq, says the London bombs should not be taken out context.

"We cannot separate it from the backdrop against which it is set, which is one in which Mr Blair and Mr Bush have vastly increased the number of people in the world who hate us and made them hate us more intensely than they did before."

British Prime Minister Tony Blair said that while the London bombs were redolent of the way Al Qaida operates, they should not be blamed on Islam.

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Muslim worshipers in London. (EuroNews)