Blair: Radical Islam Is A 'Global Problem'

Tony Blair has told Sky News that radical Islam is a "global problem" that will take a generation to defeat.

Speaking to Sky's Adam Boulton from New York, the former prime minister said defeating the forces of radical Islam will need a "global response".

"I think President Obama is doing absolutely the right thing in assembling the broadest alliance against Isis," Mr Blair said, referring to Islamic State militants.

"(But) even if we deal with this Isis group, you've got a plethora of these types of groups, not just in the Middle East but in North Africa and elsewhere in the world.

"Looking at this broader issue of radical Islam ... this is a global problem.

"It requires a global response and it's going to take a generation - not one president or one prime minister - to defeat it."

http://news.sky.com/story/1339886/blair-radical-islam-is-a-global-problem


Mr Blair helped cause this problem. Had there been no illegal Iraq invasion, a group like IS would never have popped up.

http://news.sky.com/story/1339886/blair-radical-islam-is-a-global-problem


Mr Blair helped cause this problem. Had there been no illegal Iraq invasion, a group like IS would never have popped up.

I love how he said this statement as though he never had to do anything with the 'radicalisation of islam'. Agreed, the response/reaction ISIS is giving is independent to the actions taken 'against them'.
This was a problem caused by America that got out of hand..They funded Al Qaeda to begin with and couldn't keep them on a leash then whaddaya know? there's now Boko Haram, Al shabab, Houthis etc
He needs to eff off with such claims and actually do something…

Nonsense. The Labour party love extremist Islam and have been appeasing them for years. Don't let this Labour pillock fool you, he's happy for Jihadi's to reside in the UK as long as they vote Labour.

Oil money talks

Agreed. He knew he had a significant part to play in it too. It's irresponsible of him not to have tried to make up for it by extending peaceful relations and so forth before things ever got out of hand.

Yes I don't understand it, Blair is right about Islamists, so why did his government decide Britain wasn't vibrant enough and then import millions of Muslims into Britain?

There is a difference between Islamists and Islam, I know it suits your agenda to say otherwise, and I know there is clearly a problem between political and religious Islam (Indeed they may not be quite so seperate) but there are 2 billion Muslims, and how many are terrorists? Less than ten thousand? Maybe i'm being naive and there is many more, but it's still not a great amount (comparatively).

I'm all for taking out radical extremists but PLEASE can we not arm people who'll turn around a few years later and start another war.

If america could join in with their own troops, that'd be much better. Leave us out of it though, we have no interest

Yes, we have had evidence of this happening in the past but don't you think the whole world needs to unite against this threat?

The statistics indicate there are around 1.6b Muslims around the world. The exact number of terrorists is unknown. What is known is that the numbers are enough to do immense damage to the inhabitants of the world as we have seen.

If the world sits back and does nothing then their numbers will increase and then what? These people want to kill everyone who doesn't agree with their view of Islam. Muslims who do not agree have already in their thousands been killed.

Millions upon millions of people have been misplaced in the middle east and are refugees in neighbouring lands, who are ill equipped to cope with them without international aid and help.

Women have been taken captive and sold as slaves (who on earth are buying these women????) and men and children are being killed in their masses as this band sweep across their lands, violating villages and towns in their wake.

Its obvious these 'not a great amount' can do a lot of damage.