Bringing it Home
Community-based approaches to counter-terrorism
Winning hearts and minds in the next 24 hours critical
at 2:05pm on Thursday, 10th August 2006Yesterday we hosted a speech by the Home Secretary, who called for greater partnership in tackling terrorism. 24 hours later, his words have a new relevance.
I have just written an article for the Guardian arguing that John Reid now needs to put those words into practice. You can read it here.
In 24 hours time Muslims will gather for Friday prayers, when they will digest what has happened and what it could mean for them. The government and police need to ensure talk of partnership doesn't get swept to one side in the heat of the moment. They have a small window of opportunity to show they really ARE serious about it and that the lessons of Forest Gate have been learned.
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