"Following the Brussels terrorist attacks, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said the West’s real enemy is “flabby liberalism.”Many liberals in politics are “unwilling to take people on” out of fear of being considered “intolerant” or “insensitive.”
He urged the political establishment in all Western countries to defeat the terrorist violence by attacking extremist thinking at the source: schools, mosques and the wider society, the Daily Mail is reporting.
“We’re in a situation where we have to fight back,” he said.
“The center has become flabby and unwilling to take people on.
We concede far too much.
There’s this idea that you’re part of an elite if you think in terms of respectful tolerance towards other people.
It’s ridiculous.”
He added that too often moderate voices are defensive about arguing their case, fueling a culture of extremism in religion and politics..."
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