Reply #23: Do you really know anything about radical Islam?

[Imajika]

Blair is trying to confront radical Islam, which was long ago something that needed to be done, without stigmatizing all Muslims.

He is trying to make the point that the terrorist enemy is just the small percentage of Islamists, not the vast majority of Muslims.

Radical Islam was spreading at a dangerous rate and attacking Western and un-Islamic targets long before the Iraq war. 9-11 happened before the Iraq war.

You can't just blame everything on Blair or Bush. Lots of terrorist attacks occured under Clinton and previous American Presidents. You can't, in the twisted manner some do, excuse Islamic terrorism because you don't like Western economic and foriegn policy. Targeting innocent civilians in subways in London and office buildings in NY is never acceptable.

Perhaps you should look around at the horror being perpetrated by Islamic extremists in plenty of other places in the world. Muslim fanatics are not slaughtering and beheading Bhuddist monks and school teachers in Southern Thailand because of anything that Blair, Bush or Israel is doing. Islamic extremists aren't robbing women of human dignity and rights we all take for granted in towns and villages in Indonesia because of anything Blair, Bush or Israel is doing. Same situation in Africa.

Islamic fanaticism is a major problem, and this growing fundamentalist element represents a serious terrorist threat in Europe, Asia, Africa and elsewhere. Stop trying to excuse it by blaming the activity of murderous fanatics on Tony Blair. It's just a silly, foolish, ignorant thing to do.