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Tony Blair calls radical Islam world's biggest threat | Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has warned that radical Islam is the greatest threat that the world is facing today. According to him, radical Islamists believe
that whatever is done in the name of their cause, including the use of chemical,
biological or nuclear weapons, is justified. "After 11 September, rightly or wrongly,
I felt the calculus of risk had changed. There is the most enormous threat from
the combination of this radical extreme movement and the fact that, if they could,
they would use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. You can't take a risk
with that happening," the BBC quoted Blair, as saying. Blair, who led Britain
into war in Afghanistan and Iraq , denied that his own policies had fuelled radicalism.
Talking about Chechens, Kashmiris, Palestinians, Iraqis and Afghans, who resisted
foreign occupation, he said Western polices were designed to confront radical
Islamists because they were "regressive, wicked and backward-looking". The former
Prime Minister, who is now an international envoy to the Middle East for the international
Quartet, also called Iran one of the biggest state sponsors of radical Islam,
and needs to be prevented by any means from developing a nuclear weapon. "We need
to give a message to Iran that is very clear - that they cannot have nuclear weapons
capability, and we will stop them," he added. |
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