The identity vacuum
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1541358,00.html
Britain should follow the US approach to citizenship, which emphasises
not only diversity but the ties that bind
Jonathan Freedland
Wednesday August 3, 2005
The Guardian
This has been the summer of fear, the season in which our worst
nightmares have come true. Take those devoted to bringing racial
harmony to this country. Every argument they spent years beating back
has suddenly gained new life.
It was long a racist trope that Muslims, even those born here, could
not be trusted, that they represented a potentially lethal fifth
column. On July 7 that viewpoint was handed lurid "proof": four
British-born Muslims ready to kill as many British civilians as they
could.
Jonathan Freedland
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/dae1106a5d34b02a
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