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Radical Islam, it has grown into a global jihad.

The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.

This radical Islam is a religious-based ideology. And you actually have to, when you deal with the ideology, you have to attack it on that basis.

In Britain, Christianity is dying. Islam, unfortunately, isn't.

Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.

Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and the west. But a radical minority of Muslims firmly believes that Islam is under siege, and is committed to winning the holy war it has declared against the West.

When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.

The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam.

We must remember that Islam is not an enemy, and we have no war with Islam.

This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.