The Henry Nowak murder in the UK has raised a lot of important issues and one of them is:
why in a secular country are people of any religion allowed to carry ceremonial blades like the Sikh kirpan?
It hardly matters the length of the blade or what it is made of.
A six inch blade made of stiff plastic could easily kill someone.
It is a mystery why in today's UK with so many stabbings and knife crimes that anyone - whether they are Sikhs, Scotsmen or Freemasons - is allowed to carry a bladed weapon.
If it wasn't for this case, many in the UK would not realise that it is in fact legal to carry a kirpan - it's just not legal to use it illegally!
Apparently Nowak was not murdered with a kirpan but with another 'bigger' knife.
But that hardly matters - he could just as easily have been murdered with the kirpan so it's quite right that Harriet Harman and others are calling for the carrying of ceremonial weapons to be banned.
Oh and by the way:
On Thursday, Daniel Frost, 44, of Southampton, pleaded guilty to violent disorder and possessing a dog lead with a metal carabiner as an offensive weapon following the protests.