LONDON (AP)- Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday that his government would begin consultation on new anti-terrorism legislation in the next few weeks, following last week”s bombings in London.

Addressing the House of Commons, Blair also pledged dialogue with Britain”s Muslim community to help tackle a &#34perverted and poisonous misinterpretation of the religion of Islam.&#34

He said the government would also look urgently at how to strengthen the process for excluding from the United Kingdom those who incite hatred, and make it easier to deport such people.

&#34This is not an isolated criminal act we are dealing with,&#34 said Blair, as new evidence suggested last week”s attacks in London were carried out by four suicide bombers, including at least three Britons of Pakistani descent.

&#34It is an extreme and evil ideology whose roots lie in a perverted and poisonous misinterpretation of the religion of Islam…We will seek to debate the right way forward in combatting this evil within the Muslim community with Muslim leaders and it is our intention to begin this process immediately.&#34

&#34In the end this can only be taken on and defeated by the community itself, but we all can help and facilitate,&#34 added Blair, who met Wednesday with British Muslim lawmakers.

&#34We are talking to other nations, Muslim and non-Muslim, about how to mobilize internationally the moderate and true voice of Islam. Round the world such action is taking place, though we need to see how it can be better coordinated, publicized and driven through.&#34

Blair told the House that 50 people injured in the attack were still hospitalized, including 12 in intensive care. Blair”s official spokesman said there had been much more contact between the government and Muslim communities since the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United States.

&#34Do we need to change gear? The answer to that is yes,&#34 he said, briefing reporters on condition of anonymity, because he is a civil servant.

Mohammed Sarwar, a lawmaker in Blair”s governing Labour Party, said Britain”s Muslim community was &#34in deep shock&#34. &#34We are deeply shocked that these are homegrown bombers, and the vast majority of the Muslim community condemn these barbaric attacks,&#34 he said. &#34We told the prime minister that the community will be hoping to extend full co-operation to find the mastermind behind these attacks.&#34 Shahid Malik, also a Labour lawmaker, said in the past people had been prepared to tolerate rhetoric from radical preachers, but there was now an appetite to counter them. &#34Condemning alone however is probably insufficient, what I”m saying is we need to go beyond that. We need also to confront,&#34 he said.

Analysts believe a clutch of fundamentalist Islamic preachers across Britain have helped radicalize pockets of disaffected Muslim youth. &#34This is a small group of extremists, not one that can be ignored because of the danger they pose but neither should it define Muslims in Britain who are overwhelmingly law abiding, decent members of our society and we condemn any attacks against them unreservedly,&#34 he said.