{"id":118985,"date":"2014-01-26T10:46:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T05:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=118985"},"modified":"2014-02-01T01:04:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T19:34:27","slug":"religious-difference-not-ideology-will-fuel-this-centurys-epic-battles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/religious-difference-not-ideology-will-fuel-this-centurys-epic-battles\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Difference, Not Ideology, Will Fuel This Century&#8217;s Epic Battles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Tony+Blair&amp;x=9&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tony Blair<\/span><\/a> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_52800\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Tony-Blair-in-London-010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52800\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-52800\" alt=\"Tony Blair\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Tony-Blair-in-London-010-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Tony-Blair-in-London-010-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Tony-Blair-in-London-010-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-52800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Blair<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The last weeks have seen a ghastly roll call of terror attacks in the obvious places:\u00a0Syria,\u00a0Libya,\u00a0Iraq\u00a0and\u00a0Lebanon, as well as\u00a0Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia and Pakistan. Also suffering are places where we have only in recent years seen such violence: Nigeria, and in many parts of central Africa, in Russia and across central Asia, and in Burma, Thailand and the Philippines. We can either see all of these acts of killing as separate \u2013 produced by various political contexts \u2013 or we can start to see the clear common theme and start to produce a genuine global strategy to deal with it.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is that, though of course there are individual grievances or reasons for the violence in each country, there is one thing self-evidently in common: the acts of terrorism are perpetrated by people motivated by an abuse of\u00a0religion. It is a perversion of faith. But there is no doubt that those who commit the violence often do so by reference to their faith and the sectarian nature of the conflict is a sectarianism based on religion. There is no doubt either that this phenomenon is growing, not abating.<\/p>\n<p>Read more\u00a0in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/jan\/25\/religious-difference-ideology-conflicts-middle-east-tony-blair\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Observer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":52800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-constitutional-reforms","category-editorial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Religious Difference, Not Ideology, Will Fuel This Century&#039;s Epic Battles - 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