* I think I must be chokin’ on something… this from the same empty suit who claims “I read the Koran, the Islamic manual for permanent warfare against unbelievers, every day…”
Empty suit on the Discovery Channel…
*Â Muhammad cartoons editor: There’s a problem with Muslims in Europe
Tony BLiar: “It is time to wrench ourselves out of a state of denial. There is one major factor in common. In each conflict there are those…who argue that they are fighting in the true name of Islam.”
Tony Blair is still dogmatically convinced that the Islamic jihadists are hijacking and twisting the true, peaceful Islam, and he shows no awareness of the classic theological and legal teachings that they can and do draw upon to justify their actions and make recruits among their fellow Muslims, but what he says here about the need to combat the ideology, and the ideological kinship among disparate jihad groups, is spot on.
Not that there aren’t other major problems with what he says here — see below.
“Tony Blair calls on world to wage war on militant Islam,” by Ruth Gledhill for the Times Online, April 23 (thanks to Jihad Watch):
[…] In an address last night to a forum on religion and politics in Chicago, Mr Blair said that the world today faced a struggle posed by “an extreme and misguided form of Islam”, which threatened the majority of Muslims as well as non-Muslims.“Our job is simple: it is to support and partner those Muslims who believe deeply in Islam but also who believe in peaceful co-existence, in taking on and defeating the extremists who don’t.” […]
* Cool, Tony! Muslims who believe in peaceful coexistence with unbelievers? Show me yours, I’ll show you mine. Deal?
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