... The day after we won the Olympic bid came the terrorist attacks in London. These murders were carried out by British-born suicide bombers who had lived and been brought up in this country, who had received all its many advantages and yet who ultimately took their own lives and the lives of the wholly innocent, in the name of an ideology alien to everything this country stands for. Everything the Olympic bid symbolised was everything they hated. Their emphasis was not on shared values but separate ones, values based on a warped distortion of the faith of Islam. This ideology is not, of course, confined to Britain. It is a global phenomenon, long in the making and taking a long time to unmake. However, it has thrown into sharp relief, the nature of what we have called, with approval, "multicultural Britain". We like our diversity. But how do we react when that "difference" leads to separation and alienation from the values that define what we hold in common? For the first time in a generation there is an unease, an anxiety, even at points a resentment that our very openness, our willingness to welcome difference, our pride in being home to many cultures, is being used against us; abused, indeed, in order to harm us...

The complete speech by Blair can be found at...

 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=G0I42K5ZVUAOBQFIQMFSFGGAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2006/12/08/ublair208.xml