Tony Blair has said religion needs to be put "in its proper place in politics" in order to defeat terrorists who "fight without hesitation, kill without mercy and die without regret".
Speaking from outside the United Nations' headquarters in New York, the former prime minister and current peace envoy to the Middle East said Islamist ideology had created an enemy that was "insidious and venomous, but also difficult to beat".
And he called for the "basic long-term problem of extremism based on a perversion of religion" to be confronted following the Westgate mall massacre in Kenya, deadly attacks on Christians in Pakistan and the conflagrations in the Middle East. [The Huffington Post UK/PA] Read more
