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Attacks on mosques and Muslim community centres in the past fortnight have been the ugliest and most dramatic responses to the murder on a Woolwich street of Drummer Lee Rigby.听

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For some people, they鈥檝e also provided just the latest illustration of a truth they deem self-evident - that a multi-cultural Britain is a more divided Britain and a more dangerous one.听

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Is that true?听 听Is multiculturalism an experiment that鈥檚 failed?听听 Whatever the experience in other places, was the hope of pulling it off here always a forlorn one?听听 And what鈥檚 at stake for those who fear the complete subversion of traditional beliefs.听

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Joining Roy Jenkins are Dr. Usama Hasan, Senior Researcher at the Quilliam Foundation, the world鈥檚 first counter-extremism think tank; Michael Nazir-Ali, former Bishop of Rochester, who听 has both a Christian and a Muslim family background and has written extensively of his fears radical Islam; and the Rev. Aled Edwards, who among other things is Secretary of the Interfaith Council of Wales and Chair of the Welsh Migration Partnership.