Support for the propaganda of Islamic State stretches “deep into parts of Muslim societies”, Tony Blair has said as he warned of terror attacks on a larger scale than the shootings and bombings in Paris last month unless the group and its ideology are defeated.
In a speech in Washington, in which he praised British MPs for the “important” decision to extend RAF airstrikes against Isis targets from Iraq to Syria, the former prime minister warned that “a belief in innate hostility between Islam and the west” is not the preserve of a few.
“Those who believe in concepts of the caliphate and the apocalypse – so much part of Daesh [Isis] propaganda – stretch deep into parts of Muslim societies,” Blair said. “A belief in innate hostility between Islam and the west is not the preserve of the few.” [The Guardian] Read more
