When the young men that bombed London last July were found to be predominantly British-born, it raised the terrifying prospect that a generation of disengaged young people willing to take lives was emerging.
That the bombers lived in quiet towns such as Aylesbury and Dewsbury as well as inner-city Leeds showed that no corner of England was immune from fundamentalist views. The threat sparked much debate about what could be done to prevent further atrocities. This debate in turn spawned a series of youth work projects that aimed to foster better relations between people from different faiths, many of whom lived just a street apart yet led totally separate lives.
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