Is Tony Blair now playing the role of EDL/BNP recruiting Sergeant?

It is with absolute astonishment that I find myself reading a BBC News article in which it is reported that Tony Blair "has described radical Islam as the greatest threat facing the world today".

Now, one has to be very careful with what one writes on this subject. Let me make this very clear - I have no issue with anybody's race or religion provided that it does not seek to influence the way that I live my life.

Now, Christianity has exerted much influence over people's lives for centuries. In debates about Islam and Sharia Law, that little fact must not be overlooked.

But what is really going on here with Blair?

One of the interesting things to ask oneself is why is it that a New Labour politician can say such a thing?

Imagine what Leftists would have said had a member of the BNP or the English Defence League said such a thing.

The Leftists would no doubt have screamed "racist", "xenophobe", "fascist" and "extreme right wing" labels at them.

And, in some instances, those descriptions would be accurate and appropriate.

However, what Blair hopes for is that a distinction can be drawn between "peaceful Muslims" and "Islamist extremists".

We will go as far as accepting that there is a distinction between the two.

However, can Blair really expect that normal, everyday, Anglo-Saxon man-on-the-street will draw the same distinction?

Of course not.

What distinctive visual features does Blair hope Dave the plumber from Bolton will be able to use to assist him in differentiating?

People do not take time to sit down and study the Islamic faith. Many people form their opinions based on soundbite news and iconic images.

In warning that radical Islam is "the greatest threat facing the world today", Blair will have provided succour to those who support the BNP and/or the English Defence League. Rightly or wrongly, to many of those people, Blair's statement will be taken as confirmation of everything that they believed in.

So then, they go and support an organisation like the English Defence League - and find themselves opposed by Unite Against Fascism - an organisation supposedly bankrolled by New Labour and/or the trade unions.

So, who are Unite Against Fascism?

Their website lists their supporting organisations as:

* » National Assembly Against Racism (NAAR)
* » Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR)
* » Show Racism the Red Card
* » University and College Union (UCU)
* » National Union of Mineworkers (NUM)
* » Communication Workers Union (CWU)
* » Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS)
* » National Association of Schoolmasters and Women Teachers (NASUWT)
* » National Union of Teachers (NUT)
* » National Association of Probation Officers (NAPO)
* » UNITE the union

So, a trade union funded organisation, without doubt.

The same trade unions with their strong ties to New Labour.

New Labour, the party which Tony Blair was an architect and Prime Minister of.

So, Tony Blair comes out with these statements about a "radical Islam", people then react to his problem - by joining the BNP/EDL (reaction) - and they are countered by the trade union/Labour linked Unite Against Fascism.

With all of these groups divided against one another, chaos ensues, and order out of chaos is created by a crackdown on civil liberties and free speech (solution).

None of which explains the free fall of WTC Building Seven.

Wherein, we ask whether there's a more sinister agenda at work here.

Sorry to get all conspiracy theory, but in the same BBC interview, Blair goes in for some sabre rattling.

"We need to give a message to Iran that is very clear - that they cannot have nuclear weapons capability, and we will stop them," he says.

This, we are told, is relevant because: "Iran was one of the biggest state sponsors of radical Islam."

Okay, so we seem to be spotting the nurturing of public opinion here.

Now, this blogger does not judge or dislike people based on their skin colour, religion or anything else. We only ever judge people on their behaviour.

However, we would accept that immigration has gone too far.

But we also remember allegations that excessive immigration was deliberately planned by Labour in what some people would see as a plan to gerrymander their own political future.

So, the large number of immigrants into the UK apparently vote for the Labour Party. A former Labour leader warns that "radical Islamists" are the biggest threat to the world, people who then have fear form groups like the English Defence League, the Labour supporting unions then fund a group called Unite Against Fascism, and the victims of the "native" reaction then go and vote for Labour again and thus continue the cycle.

Very clever. Very manipulative. Very wicked.

Perhaps the Labour Party ought to be a proscribed group. It certainly seems to be at the centre of a lack of cohesion in our communities - and then profits at the ballot box as a result.

And while we try and get our head around that one, back to Iran.

Listen, politicos.

At this moment in time, Iran has done nothing to me whatsoever.

If you want to be a wartime leader, go right ahead - be a leader.

Not a coward who orders everybody else's kids to get killed in the name of the patriotic fervour that you so despise.

Nope, you want to be a wartime leader, you lead. Take your people into battle. Get on the front line. Put yourself and your children in the front line of any military action. Be prepared to fight yourself, to send your children into the frontline of war. Be prepared to lay down for what you believe in before expecting everyone else to do so.

It's all very well sitting in a nice safe, highly protected luxury bunker while you make everyone else go and get killed. But that's not a wartime leader.

It's a hypocritical coward.