Tony Blair: Extremist religion will be the defining battle of the 21st Century - Telegraph

Tony Blair: Extremist religion will be the defining battle of the 21st Century - Telegraph

Tony Blair: Extremist religion will be the defining battle of the 21st
Century

The
former prime minister says it is time governments around the world produced a
'global strategy' to deal with acts of terrorism motivated by religion

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tony-blair/10597820/Tony-Blair-Extremist-religion-will-be-the-defining-battle-of-the-21st-Century.html

David Cameron has said that he is
being lobbied by Tony Blair on behalf of unknown clients.  Photo: Andrew Crowley

By Georgia Graham, Political Correspondent

1:46PM GMT 26 Jan 2014

Religious
extremism has become biggest source of conflict around the world and could be
the defining battle of the 21st century, Tony Blair has said.



Referring
to conflicts in the Arab world from Syria to Egypt as well as those in Nigeria
and the Philippines Mr Blair said: “There is one thing self-evidently in
common: the acts of terrorism are perpetrated by people motivated by an abuse
of religion. Is is a perversion of faith.



While
the 20th century had been defined by political ideology Mr Blair said the
battles of this century would be fought in the name of religion.



Writing in
The Observer Mr Blair said it was time Governments around the
world recognised the "clear common theme" in all recent conflicts and
“produce a global strategy to deal with it.”



He
said: “But there is no doubt that those who commit the violence often do so by
reference to their faith and the sectarian nature of the conflict is a
sectarianism based on religion. There is no doubt either that this phenomenon
is growing, not abating.”

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The
former Prime Minister who led Britain in to the Iraq conflict in 2003 appears
to suggest that previous aspirations to export operations focused too much on
exporting political objectives rather than dealing with the issue of religion.



However
sources close to Mr Blair told The Observer it was in no way admitting mistakes
over past interventions including invading Iraq.



Mr
Blair said: “The purpose should be to chance the policy of governments; to
start to treat this issue of religious extremism as an issue that is about
religion as well as politics, to go to the roots of where a false view of
religion is being promulgated and to make it a major item on the agenda of world
leader to combine effectively to combat it.



“This
is a struggle that is just beginning.”



Mr
Blair’s words came after the week after a bar worker attempted to perform a
citizen’s arrest on Mr Blair while he was eating with his family at a
restaurant in East London. Twiggy Garcia said he was making the arrest because
he believed Mr Blair was a “war criminal” who had launched an “unprovoked war
against Iraq.”



Mr
Blair refused to leave and instead began talking about Syria, asking why Mr
Garcia was not more concerned about the current conflict.

COMMENT:

Having gone through the article, I find
an indirect accusation directed towards a particular religion. To state the
fact that this Person is a National Liar who took the country on pure lies to
the war and got many sons of the soil killed and millions of innocent Iraqis
killed .

I fail to understand why this mentally
imbalanced person’s articles are published in Internationally reputed print medias
knowing full well he is a liar  and committed
treachery with the nation.

He has no right to bring in religion
in intentional evil motivated plan to kill a particular religious people as
terrorists while these politicians take the lone terrorist’s female in their
lap and kiss their ass and all over their body and also enjoy them in bed.

 And Blair is the person who had been enjoying the for almost a decade such
gifts from Israel government while this terrorists friend Israel government
carried out a genocide of innocent Palestinians under his supervision.  While the fact remain he made no comment against
it.

We people of the World Community of Nations
are bewildered and shocked to find that even USA had their criminal President GW
Bush at least with a warrant of arrest against him for committal of genocide. But
the well reputed country  of  Justice system totally disregarded the
International law and tried to save Tony Blair a genocide criminal and a national
traitor. The question is why the country wants to save him?