'an eye for an eye will only make the whole fucking world go blind' - Mahatma Gandhi .... ....

the voice of sanity in a world gone mad


In an extraordinarily hard-eyed attempt to face facts,
Tony Blair has told his bloodied and grieving people that security measures alone cannot protect them from attacks

because “all the surveillance in the world’’ cannot stop someone from going on a bus to blow up innocent people.

Barely 48 hours after bomb blasts ripped through London, Blair offered a measured but emphatic restatement of officially multi-cultural Britain’s tenet of political and social faith.


“We are a tolerant people and I believe we will continue our way of life as a multi-cultural, multi-racial, multi-religious society.’’

In the strongest post-terror defence of multi-culturalism yet from a western European leader,
Blair vowed his country would not allow the terrorists to win by turning the UK into an illiberal society.

“One is the way of the fanatic and the other is the way of the democrat,’’
Blair declared in a statement expected to soothe anxious Muslims and other British Asians fearing a backlash.

But he said with some urgency that it was increasingly important to tackle the “dreadful perversion of the true faith of Islam’’.

Blair controversially reminded the Western world that there were parallels between fanatical Muslims and fanatical Christians.

In what sections of the British Muslim community immediately called a “welcome’’ attempt to officially distance the UK from a vigilante backlash against visually distinct ethnic minorities,

Blair praised the way in which people within the community had been standing up since the London blasts and saying they abhorred violence which was “wholly inconsistent’’ with their faith.

He rejected knee-jerk attempts to tar all Muslims with the same brush.


And he argued that he had “never really doubted’’ that “probably with this type of terrorism the solution cannot only be the security measures’’.


Blair, whose interview with the BBC was broadcast to a stunned nation early on Saturday morning, said the underlying causes of terrorism must be “pulled up by the roots’’.

And in a controversial but clearly deeply-felt rejection of criticism that his decision to join the US-led invasion of Iraq had brought bombs to London,

Blair argued that the world’s “worst terrorist atrocity’’, 9/11, came well before the Iraq war.