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04/07/2006
Blair appeals for Muslims to 'challenge extremists'
Prime Minister Tony Blair has said that moderate Muslims must do more to help root out extremists in their communities.
Speaking to senior MPs on the Commons Liaison Committee, the Prime Minister said: "If we want to defeat the extremism, we have got to defeat its ideas and we have got to address the completely false sense of grievance against the West.
"In the end, government itself cannot go and root out the extremism in these communities."
Mr Blair said that he was "probably not the person" to go into the Muslim community to explain that the extremist view was not the true face of Islam. He said: "It's better that we mobilise the Islamic community itself to do this."
Mr Blair appears before the cross-party committee twice a year where he is quizzed on a wide range of subjects.
Mr Blair's comments came after Labour MP Sadiq Khan said that members of Muslim working groups established by the government were disillusioned with the government's engagement with the Muslim community since the London bombings last July.
(KMcA)
Speaking to senior MPs on the Commons Liaison Committee, the Prime Minister said: "If we want to defeat the extremism, we have got to defeat its ideas and we have got to address the completely false sense of grievance against the West.
"In the end, government itself cannot go and root out the extremism in these communities."
Mr Blair said that he was "probably not the person" to go into the Muslim community to explain that the extremist view was not the true face of Islam. He said: "It's better that we mobilise the Islamic community itself to do this."
Mr Blair appears before the cross-party committee twice a year where he is quizzed on a wide range of subjects.
Mr Blair's comments came after Labour MP Sadiq Khan said that members of Muslim working groups established by the government were disillusioned with the government's engagement with the Muslim community since the London bombings last July.
(KMcA)
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