Tel-Chai Nation

Maybe he is, but words and actions are two entirely different things, and only if a debate actually takes place will any progress be made. From the AP Wire (via Jihad Watch):

LONDON Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday that Britain needed a debate about the position of Muslims, but that the faith also needed to decide how it comes to terms with modernity.

At his monthly news conference, Blair said he supported a local school authority's decision to bar a Muslim woman from working as a teacher while wearing a veil.

He said, however, that should be just one issue in a broader debate about "the relationship between our society and how the Muslim community integrates with our society."

"There's a second issues which is about Islam itself, and how Islam comes to terms with and is comfortable with the modern world," Blair said.

Similar debates, he said, were happening around Europe and in the Muslim world.

Blair's argument is certainly getting somewhere, but there's still a long way to go, and only when we see something like this on television and radio will we actually know that there's been progress made on dealing with Islam.

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