LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Tony Blair announced Monday $2 million in funding to back Islamic studies at British universities as he urged the public to listen to the religion’s moderate scholars rather than to its radicals.
Blair’s government hopes the funding will lead to a major shift of the focus of Islamic studies from an Arab and Middle Eastern perspective to that of the plural society in Britain.
Blair told imams, scholars and clerics at a two-day conference in London that British Muslims “overwhelmingly” wanted to be “loyal citizens,” despite attention given to a small number of radicals. (more…)




































