Tony Blair today launched a passionate defence of Islam as a religion of “moderation and modernity”, as he announced a £1m government fund to aid teaching of the religion and train UK imams.
Yep, this from the man who said that Islam was ahead of its time in regard to the treatment of women! Does he realise what he's actually saying? I'm not sure whether he's simply pandering to Muslims or if he has somehow convinced himself that, contrary to all the evidence, what he's saying is true. Could he really be so detached from reality?
He said the voices of "calm" Islam had been hijacked by extremists, who were no more representative of the true faith than Christians in the Middle Ages who used torture to convert people to their faith.
And he praised a book called The Muslim Jesus as highlighting where the two religions overlapped.
A book that documents the Islamic concept of Jesus not as a Christian prophet but as an Islamic one. Muslims believe that Jesus or Isa as they know him was an Islamic prophet and was definitely not the son of God- and nor did he rise from the dead. In short, Islam at once claims possession of Jesus and denies completely the validity of Christianity itself. Some overlap. I guess Tony didn't get this memo. Or have the initiative enough to do the most basic research into the topic.
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Having a used car salesman personality means he has to say things like he believes in them. i believe that he tells himself this statement is fact, regardless of the evidence and then he mentally accepts it as fact.
That is why sincerity oozes from his every pore. People see that and believe him even when the facts they know are also in conflict. Many great con men have had this ability apparently as well as messiah like leaders. Blair isn't even the first to do this.
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