Tony Blair's Reluctance to Utter the "J" Word Speaks Volumes About His Steadfast Cluelessness

It's the jihad, stupid. And I mean that most emphatically and sincerely:

Tony Blair has reignited debate about the west's response to terrorism with a call on governments to recognise that religious extremism has become the biggest source of conflict around the world. 

Referring to wars and violent confrontations from Syria to Nigeria and the Philippines, Blair, writing in the Observer, argues that "there is one thing self-evidently in common: the acts of terrorism are perpetrated by people motivated by an abuse of religion. It is a perversion of faith." 

Identifying religious extremism as an ever more dangerous phenomenon, the spread of which is easier in an online age, he says: "The battles of this century are less likely to be the product of extreme political ideology, like those of the 20th century – but they could easily be fought around the questions of cultural or religious difference."...

Gee, ya think? That being so, it would be most helpful if you could at least peg it for what it actually is--neither an "abuse" nor a "perversion" but a central tenet of supremacist Islam.