It is an agonising moment to be a British Muslim. This has been
their worst nightmare come true: British-born young men from
families that were well established in this country carrying out
a suicide bomb attack. From what we know of their lives, one was
at university, another might have had a small child, another's
father had a fish and chip business; they didn't live in ghettos
but in ethnically mixed suburbs - the like of which surround
many UK towns. In other words, they were unexceptional; until
July 7, they seemed to illustrate, with thousands of other
Muslims, Britain's pragmatic multiculturalism.  But the actions
of these men have thrown British Muslims into the biggest crisis
of their community's history. It makes of the 7/7 atrocities a
completely different narrative to those of Madrid or New York:
our enemy is in our midst. It puts the British model of
multiculturalism - until now the source of quiet admiration
across Europe - under unprecedented scrutiny. Its hallmark - a
kind of British indiffere