Blair Declares War on Islam

Tony Blair has officially declared war on Islam

"The point is this. This is war, but of a completely unconventional kind."

"It is in part a struggle between what I will call reactionary Islam and moderate, mainstream Islam. But its implications go far wider. We are fighting a war, but not just against terrorism but about how the world should govern itself in the early 21st century, about global values."

"In fact, these acts of terrorism were not isolated incidents. They were part of a growing movement. A movement that believed Muslims had departed from their proper faith, were being taken over by Western culture, were being governed treacherously by Muslims complicit in this takeover, whereas the true way to recover not just the true faith, but Muslim confidence and self esteem, was to take on the West and all its works."

"We committed ourselves to supporting moderate, mainstream Islam. In almost pristine form, the battles in Iraq or Afghanistan became battles between the majority of Muslims in either country who wanted democracy and the minority who realise that this rings the death-knell of their ideology."

"But we then have to empower moderate, mainstream Islam to defeat reactionary Islam."

"Long before then, we want moderate, mainstream Islam to triumph over reactionary Islam."


Read the entire Declaration of War