No! No! No!
You are backtracking!
Where are your words defending Western Civilization, the Magna Carta and the Rights of Man?
Quick! Somebody give that PM an emergency spinal transplant. Margaret Thatcher would be a suitable donor.
What a boot licking jackass! He's obviously never read the damned book so why would he open his stupid mouth to sing it's praises? Sheesh! Idiot.
I used to not believe them reports of UFOs abducting people and sending in duplicates of real people, but now . . . . .
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Buy lots of guns and ammunition. You'll be be needing it.
yeeeeeech!
That not being possible,as I live in not so snowy Canada, I could recommend a book for Tony. It is THE RIVER WAR(The reconquest of the Sudan). Published 1898. The author was one Winston S.Churchill. He was 24 years old. He was at the great charge at Omdurman and the defeat of Islamic forces. Churchill's homily on the nature of Islam has been often repeated. I can only repeat in my un-educated way, from Shakespeare.
This above all to thine own self be true. Then it must follow as night follows day, that thou canst not be false to any man.
Tony, dear chap, In 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain complimented "Herr Hitler". Look where that got him.
While I couldn't stand Tony Blair during the Clinton years, (as someone said Blair was Bill Clinton in a better suit) I admired his support of President Bush in the war on terror. Based on this posting I guess it's time to go back to my original assessment of the Prime Minister !!!
Hold on......here is some more from the lengthy article in "Foreign Affairs", which picks up immediately following the bit you posted:
But by the early twentieth century, after the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Enlightenment had swept over the Western world, the Muslim and Arab world was uncertain, insecure, and on the defensive. Some Muslim countries, such as Turkey, made a muscular move toward secularism. Others found themselves caught up in colonization, nascent nationalism, political oppression, and religious radicalism. Muslims began to see the sorry state of Muslim countries as symptomatic of the sorry state of Islam. Political radicals became religious radicals and vice versa.
Those in power tried to accommodate this Islamic radicalism by incorporating some of its leaders and some of its ideology. The result was nearly always disastrous. Religious radicalism was made respectable and political radicalism suppressed, and so in the minds of many, the two came together to represent the need for change. They began to think that the way to restore the confidence and stability of Islam was through a combination of religious extremism and populist politics, with the enemies becoming "the West" and those Islamic leaders who cooperated with it.
This extremism may have started with religious doctrine and thought. But soon, in offshoots of the Muslim Brotherhood, supported by Wahhabi extremists and disseminated in some of the madrasahs of the Middle East and Asia, an ideology was born and exported around the world.
On 9/11, 3,000 people were murdered. But this terrorism did not begin on the streets of New York. Many more had already died, not just in acts of terrorism against Western interests but in political insurrection and turmoil around the world. Its victims are to be found in the recent history of many lands: India, Indonesia, Kenya, Libya, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and countless more. More than 100,000 died in Algeria. In Chechnya and Kashmir, political causes that could have been resolved became brutally incapable of resolution under the pressure of terrorism. Today, in 30 or 40 countries, terrorists are plotting action loosely linked with this ideology. Although the active cadres of terrorists are relatively small, they exploit a far wider sense of alienation in the Arab and Muslim world.
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http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070101faessay86106/tony-blair/a-battle-for-global-values.html
(7 pages to this complete piece)
Sounds like the Saudis have put a nice sum into Blair's Swiss bank account.
Has he really read the thing? I did and I certainly didn't get the same message he got.
"a Jew will hide behind a rock or tree, and the rock and the tree will say: Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!
"Progressive", Mr Blair? Do you mean like how Hermann Goering was more progressive than Heinrich Himmler?
Someone please quote the great Churchill lines attacking Islam.
Blair just made my Dhimmi Politician List.
While Blair may have exercised a little CYA after his initial comments, I believe in academic circles, where Latin is tossed about to impress drunk friends, the technical term for Blair's statement is "Lodo Del Crappo".
Time to get with reality...
http://www.amazon.com/Politically-Incorrect-Guide-Islam-Crusades/dp/0895260131/sr=8-1/qid=1167283271/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-3454183-0277654?ie=UTF8&s=books
"Zarmeena's children and the family of Zarmeena's husband were present in the stadium and all of her children were crying loudly for their mother. Several minutes before the execution, her husband's family announced to the Taliban that they forgave Zarmeena. But the Taliban said that it was impossible to stop the execution because they had already announced it to thousands of people. Islamic law allows the family to forgive the killer but the Taliban did not pay any attention to the law."
"To me, the most remarkable thing about the Koran is how progressive it is."
Whaaaaat? Either he is being blackmailed, someone in the family is kidnapped and held for ransom by Muslims, he feels the urge of kissing ass, he went mad or he became a Muslim.
Anyone any other suggestions?
Progressive? Please. This religion is set in the 7th century. I am so sick and tired of this PC BS..
Who does he think he is??? Prince Charles?