LONDON – Former British leader Tony Blair says the West should set aside its differences with Russia and China to focus on the growing threat from radical Islam.
Blair says tackling “a radicalized and politicized view of Islam” should be at the top of the global political agenda. But he says many in the West seemed “curiously resistant” to facing up to a force that “is undermining the possibility of peaceful co-existence in an era of globalization.”
Blair, who was Britain’s prime minister between 1997 and 2007, is Middle East envoy for the Quartet of the United Nations, the European Union, the U.S. and Russia.
Speaking in London Wednesday, he said the West should support Egypt’s military government against its Muslim Brotherhood opponents, because “on the fate of Egypt hangs the future of the region.”
