بريطانيا: توني بلير يهاجم الأصولية الإسلامية

هاجم "توني بلير" - رئيس الوزراء البريطاني السابق - الأصولية الإسلامية أثناء لقائه مع شبكة "بي بي سي" البريطانية؛ قائلاً: إن الأصولية الإسلامية أكبر خطر يهدد العالم.

وتعليقًا على تأكيد المذيع أن الإسلاميين في "الشيشان" و"العراق" و"أفغانستان" و"كشمير" و"فلسطين" يقومون بنشاطاتهم لمواجهة الاحتلال، أكد "توني بلير" أن الغرب قد تبنى سياسات لمواجهة الإسلاميين، الذين وصفهم بأنهم أوغاد ورجعيون وذوو مظاهر متخلفة.

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Radical Islam is world's greatest threat - Tony Blair

Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has described radical Islam as the greatest threat facing the world today.

He made the remark in a BBC interview marking the publication of his memoirs.

Mr Blair said radical Islamists believed that whatever was done in the name of their cause was justified - including the use of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.

Mr Blair, who led Britain into war in Afghanistan and Iraq, denied that his own policies had fuelled radicalism.

Asked about the argument that Chechens, Kashmiris, Palestinians, Iraqis and Afghans were resisting foreign occupation, he said Western polices were designed to confront radical Islamists because they were "regressive, wicked and backward-looking".

The aim of al-Qaeda in Iraq was "not to get American troops out of Baghdad [but] to destabilise a government the people of Iraq have voted for", he told the BBC's Owen Bennett Jones in a World Service interview.