Blair campaigns against 'poisonous misinterpretation' of Islam

[emad]

Blair campaigns against 'poisonous misinterpretation' of Islam
By Andrew Grice, Political Editor
Published: 14 July 2005

Tony Blair has announced a major campaign to stop British Muslims being lured into extremism and terrorism in an attempt to prevent a repeat of the London bombings.

The Prime Minister has called a Downing Street summit next Tuesday at which ministers, opposition parties and Muslim community leaders will discuss how moderates can win the hearts and minds of Muslims - particularly young people.

Mr Blair told the Commons that the aim was to combat the "perverted and poisonous misinterpretation" of Islam behind last week's attacks and to "pull up this evil ideology by its roots". He said: "In the end, this can only be taken on and defeated by the community itself."

The move came as further details emerged of the plot carried out by the suicide bombers responsible for Thursday's atrocities. A bath filled with explosives was found at the house in Leeds that was the "operational base" for the four bombers. In a separate development, anti-terrorist officers were also hunting for a fifth member of the terror gang thought to be on the run.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article299088.ece

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[emad]

2. Or "poisonous misinterpretation of democracy"?

Everything Poodle has done since 9/11 and the collapse of Enron is a smokescreen for his complicity with Bushco to pervert the course of justice and crush the rule of law.

[Voltaire99]

3. Blair's moralizing has no credibility

Who wants lectures on "evil" from a mass murderer?

[pennylane100]

4. Well the killing of 128,000 Iraqi people

by British and American armies certainly did nothing to help his cause.