The killing of aid worker Alan Henning by Islamic State 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’.

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

It is inexplicable. 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 volunteer who was on his fourth aid mission to Syria.

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 means 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 do about it.

In the coming days and weeks 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?