Blair's Delusional Megalomania

If there was ever any doubt that for Blair the "War on Terror" is a euphemism for a Crusade against, he has dispelled it. Blair:

"we have to empower moderate, mainstream Islam to defeat reactionary Islam."

A comment that is not dissimilar to Pope Urban II call for Christians:

"to destroy that vile race from the lands of our friends".

Then of course the friends were Byzantine Christians and the vile race was Muslims. Just who Blair's moderates are is unclear, but his reactionaries are Urban II vile race: Muslims.

Blair calls Hizbullah an example of "reactionary Islam", he identifies mainstream Shia Islam and Sunni Islam as "reactionary". He says:

"We posed a threat not to their activities simply: but to their values, to the roots of their existence."

Yet even the Herald Tribune concedes that Arab street is behind Hizbullah. In fact, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Hizbullah were even recently feted in Al-Azhar and the most influential Sunni Scholar:

"the chairman of the World Union of Moslem Clerics, Dr. Yusuf Kardawi issued a statement in which he called on Jihad in Lebanon and Palestine employing oneself, money, speech and writing; and condemned all methods of failure, frustration and criticism."

The committee head of Jabhat al-Amal al-Islami, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, Mr. Ibrahim Al-Keelani said,

"I call on the Arab rulers as I call on the nations to be with the resistance and jihad and support Hizbullah and Hamas".

Thus Blair's defintion of Islamic extremism is in fact mainstream Islam. Blair is calling for the defeat of a religion of over 1.5 Billion; this surely has to be regarded as delusional megalomania.