August 3 2005: Paul Gilroy and Herman Ouseley debate the current crisis

I only came across the following link today:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1539049,00.html

I like the line from Gilroy:

"We need to know what varieties of injury promote the absurd belief
among young British people that an austere, political Islam can be a
viable vehicle for their hopes for an improved world."

I also liked the sentence -

"The British history, which our generation helped reshape, now offers
valuable lessons about how to get along convivially in a multicultural
polity."

It made me think of Lewisham  and Southall in the 1970s.