Former prime minister warns of large-scale terrorism attacks in Europe as he praises MPs for voting for airstrikes in Syria and says Isis ideology ‘has deep roots’[br]Support for the propaganda of Islamic State stretches “deep into parts of Muslim societies,Tony Blair has said as he warned of terrorism attacks on a larger scale than the shootings and bombings in Paris last month unless the group and its ideology are defeated.
In a speech in Washington, in which he praised British MPs for the “valuable” decision to extend RAF airstrikes against Isis targets from Iraq to Syria, and the former prime minister warned that “a belief in innate ((adj.) natural, inborn, inherent; built-in) hostility between Islam and the west” is not the preserve of a few.
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Source: theguardian.com