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I will miss Tony Blair.

Brilliant

"The odd thing about the conversation is that I could tell it was the first time he had even heard the alternative argument."

Blair couldn't even convince his own people of that.

This is part of a bigger picture, in which a considerable part of media and public opinion continues to blame us for causing the extremism.

I was stopped by someone the other week who said it was not surprising there was so much terrorism in the world when we invaded their countries (meaning Afghanistan and Iraq). No wonder Muslims felt angry.

When he had finished, I said to him: tell me exactly what they feel angry about. We remove two utterly brutal and dictatorial regimes; we replace them with a United Nations-supervised democratic process and the Muslims in both countries get the chance to vote, which incidentally they take in very large numbers. And the only reason it is difficult still is because other Muslims are using terrorism to try to destroy the fledgling democracy and, in doing so, are killing fellow Muslims.

What’s more, British troops are risking their lives trying to prevent the killing. Why should anyone feel angry about us? Why aren’t they angry about the people doing the killing? The odd thing about the conversation is that I could tell it was the first time he had even heard the alternative argument.

This extremism can be defeated. But it will be defeated only by recognising that we have not created it; it cannot be negotiated with; pandering to its sense of grievance will only encourage it; and only by confronting it, the methods and the ideas, will we win.

I might go further by saying that our support for governments that they, themselves wants to replace is in part why their jihad against us.

But then again, such people never did really need an excuse for their actions.

I feel if Muslims comes from other countries to a western country and they can't assimilate into our culture, then they should leave or better still, not even come here in the first place.

If they leave their own countries because they have so messed up their own, I think they need to live with that fact and not come here trying to change ours.