Is he trying to play both sides of this?
check out islamreview.com This site breaks it down very well.
I'm not advocating blind hatred or racism Tony, (I've got friends who are Sikh and Buddhist) and I fully understand the terrorists tactics and goals. Just trying to make my teeny brain understand this situation...
But I do know COIN strategy, and one of the first tactics is isolate the terrorists, whether Tony Blair believes what he says or otherwise its a good tactic, alls fair in Love war and COIN ops, I would go round cheerfully saying I believe its right to walk around with a banana stuck up my butt if it helps to isolate the terrorists from a population of people who believe in bananas rammed up there butt.
As a young boy I used to have a childrens bible I didnt learn about good or bad or morals from the book as I just concentrated on the battles it was just one of a whole range of war books I collected as a boy.
You get out of any book what you want
Tony