Tony Blair Says Beheading of Lee Rigby PROVES “There Is a Problem Within Islam”

Islamist Michael Adebolajo butchered a British soldier in a Woolwich street in May.
Michael Adebolajo

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair wrote in the Mail today that the beheading of British soldier Lee Rigby proves “There is a problem within Islam.”
The Daily Mail reported:

Tony Blair today makes his most powerful political intervention since leaving Downing Street by launching an outspoken attack on ‘the problem within Islam’.

The former Prime Minister addresses the shocking killing of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich by going further than he – or any front-rank British politician – has gone before over the issue of Muslim radicalism.

Writing in today’s Mail on Sunday, he departs from the usual argument that Islam is a peaceful religion that should not be tainted by the actions of a few extremists.

Instead, Mr Blair urges governments to ‘be honest’ and admit that the problem is more widespread.

‘There is a problem within Islam – from the adherents of an ideology which is a strain within Islam,’ he writes.

‘We have to put it on the table and be honest about it. Of course there are Christian extremists and Jewish, Buddhist and Hindu ones. But I am afraid this strain is not the province of a few extremists. It has at its heart a view about religion and about the interaction between religion and politics that is not compatible with pluralistic, liberal, open-minded societies.’

Don’t tell Obama. He still thinks the Fort Hood massacre was workplace violence.

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