All quiet on the ‘Walthamstan’ front

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‘Once upon a time, I went to bed in our dull outer London suburb and woke up to find myself on “the frontline of the War on Terror”. One week after those arrests of British-born Muslims, here is the shock news from Walthamstow. There is no noticeably increased tension on the streets, no Islamophobic pogroms are in progress, and Muslim riots have not broken out….’

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