Saudi, UAE ‘lead way in fighting terror ideology’

Dubai : Governments around the world need a coherent, global strategy to uproot the ideology of violent extremism, according to former British prime minister Tony Blair. In Saudi Arabia and the UAE, they already knew that — and have been acting on it for years.Organizations such as the Saudi-based Ideological Warfare Center and Muslim World League, and Hedayah and the Sawab Center in the UAE, are classic examples of the “prevention is better than cure” methods that Blair calls for on Thursday in a report by his Institute for Global Change.“Extremism is a global challenge both in developing and developed states,” said another expert.