Tony Blair: West is Asleep on Islamic Extremism
ICC Note
Islamic radicalism in the reason for the growing persecution of Christians around the world. The influence of Muslim radicals is also growing in the West.
07/27/2012 UK (The Christian Institute)-Western democracies need to wake up to the threat of Islamic extremism, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said.
He said that even after 9/11, he underestimated the power of the extremists, and he thinks their power has grown since then.
Radical Muslims seek “supremacy not coexistence’’, Mr Blair said, and he fears that “The West is asleep on this issue’’, even though it is the biggest challenge.
Motives
He thinks there is a need to tackle the underlying motives of extremist Muslims, not just their violent methods.
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Tony Blair said the anti-religion movement stirred up by people like Richard Dawkins is not the answer.
Extremists
He said that extreme atheists “require religious fundamentalists’’ to make their argument for them, and “We must push back against aggressive secularism”.
A Bill to tackle the problem of Sharia courts operating in this country has been introduced to the House of Lords by Baroness Cox.
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