When Muslims commit acts of terror, it is standard operating procedure for some authority or other to assure the populace that “this has nothing to do with Islam.” This is said so frequently as to induce a boy-who-cried-wolf reaction in anyone with an ounce of contrariness. Nowadays, if there’s a fender bender on the next block or a glitch in our computer, we automatically assume that it probably has something to do with Islam. So it’s refreshing to finally hear a world leader (in this case, a former world leader) admit that global Islamic terror actually does have something to do with Islam.
In a keynote address in April at Bloomberg Headquarters in London, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair described radical Islam as the single biggest threat facing the world today. He went on to criticize Western commentators who “go to extraordinary lengths” to avoid linking terrorism with Islam. “It is bizarre,” he said, “to ignore the fact that the principal actors in all situations express themselves through the medium of religious identity.”
Although Blair suggested that radical Islamic ideology “distorts and warps Islam’s true message,” he nevertheless emphasized that this extremist movement is based in religious belief. He added that we in the West can gain a better understanding of the Islamist ideology by remembering “the experience of revolutionary communism and fascism.” His main message? The “defeating of this ideology” should be at the top of the global agenda. In short, Blair is calling for ideological warfare against “Islamism” (his term for radical Islam).
During the Second World War and during the Cold War that followed, we didn’t hesitate to engage in ideological warfare first with Nazism, and then with communism. It was considered perfectly legitimate to go after the ideas which lay at the base of these totalitarian systems as a way of weakening belief in them. And we didn’t particularly worry about who might take offense. But what if the ideology that threatens you comes wrapped in the cloak of religion? Blair calls for the defeat of the “Islamist” ideology, but how can you engage in ideological warfare if criticism of the enemy ideology is off-limits?
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Ever see a muslim militant with his head blown of within the US?I cant wait to see.
People like Tony Blair cannot really even tell the difference between radical and moderate islam because they judge it by moslems who will lie to them about islam and fund it with their zakat. And then they won't pick up their texts and read it nor bother to read history instead of islamic propaganda. People like Tony Blair also hasn't been a very big help to curb the stealth jihad in his own country, let alone being a voice that reaches the world press.
And we let the moslems escape after WWII. Not one of them had to pay for their war crimes especially one like al Husseini and who knows how many others in the SS Mountain Divisions that Husseini helped to create. They were written out of history because I didn't learn about them until after 9/11 but that was also due to the internet.
"This has nothing to do with.."...Islam???? Well, they should read the little book called the Koran. On the nature side of things, though, the Muzzie's are just as bad. The average IQ of a Muslims is closely correlated to that of post-Katrina New Orleans, which is to say that it is lower than Lassie during a mentrual cycle.
Just do what we do. Exterminate them like the cockroaches they are!
Ronald, great post! True, every word! When the fight for GOD-COUNTRY-FAMILLY starts? Muslims and illegals will be our main targets. Islam is th work of the devil! And he is doing a good job at deceiving the whole world! Just as our Bible, the true word of God, says the devil will do! Time is short! We have to get ready. For the fight here. And the times ahead. The devil has so many working for him! Jareer Abeed is their main leader and helper here! And he lives in our Whitehouse!
I have tried to get people to see what islam really is! If a person say they are muslim? Know that they will kill you if you stand up for the ONE TRUE GOD! The God of the Bible! Get a copy of the crap book, koran. Read and see what they really belive. You will not believe what they are told to do! I ended up useing my copy of the koran, in the HOUSE OUT BACK! Built a legal one when we started building our cabin. And put it where my shop would be built. Hate to have to go into cabin when working on prep things. Best use for it!
The average American family has 1.8 children while the MuSLIMe's whelp 8.? something breaded like rats will make them the majority by 2050. I won't see the coming debacle but my grand children will and I can only hope they have plenty of powder and automatic weapons.
The creepy EPA and the Erlic's of this country have singed our extinction papers.
AMERICA SHOULD HAVE TAKEN "ISLAMIC LAW" SERIOUSLY THE MOMENT WE STUPIDLY ELECTED AN ILLEGAL ALIEN KENYAN BORN MARXIST MUSLIM COMMUNIST INTO THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT! IT IS PRACTICALLY TOO LATE NOW!
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