Summary

David Cameron’s Speech on Radicalization, Islamic Extremism, and the Failure of State Multiculturalism begins with some remarks on terrorism and terrorist attacks. Cameron points out that terrorism should not be connected only to a particular ethnic and religious group. He draws attention to the fact that Europe faces terrorism from within, from people with a distorted interpretation of Islam. 

Cameron then makes a clear difference between Islam and Islamic extremism, condemning the latter. He remarks that people on the hard right and the soft left tend to confuse the two terms. While the right tends to condemn Islam altogether and fuel Islamophobia, the left tends to draw attention to issues such as foreign policy or poverty, ignoring that terrorists are sometimes middle-class citizens in the UK and Europe. Cameron points out that even if all the issues about poverty and foreign policy in the Middle East would be solved, terrorism would still exist, as it is deeply rooted in an extremist ideology. 

Cameron then talks about young men who have trouble finding their identity. On the one hand, they do not identify with the traditional Islam practiced by their parents. On the other hand, they have...