article_snippet: Lord Prescott of claims Britain is to blame for radicalising young Muslims into joining ISIS.
article_snippet: Former deputy prime minister said Britain should 'face up to the fact' that Britain had somehow pushed already devout youngsters into the throngs of extremism.
article_snippet: Former deputy prime minister added if Former deputy prime minister was a young Muslim in Britain today, Former deputy prime minister too 'could be radicalised' because of 'injustice' in Gaza and US drone strikes in Syria.
article_snippet: In Fellow Conservative MP Conor Burns weekly column for the Sunday Mirror, Lord Prescott, who last week said Tony Blair's 'bloody crusades' in Iraq had contributed to terrorism, said: 'Isn't it time we faced up to the fact we've played a huge part in making them want to leave Britain and take up arms in a foreign land?'
article_snippet: Fellow Conservative MP Conor Burns was referring to a handful of youngsters to have fled Britain to join ISIS extremists abroad.
article_snippet: Rather than blame 'Trojan horse schools', at which Fellow Conservative MP Conor Burns claimed there was 'no proof' of radicalisation, John Prescott of claims said of the impressionable teens: 'It wasn't just JIhadi John who radicalised the impressionable teens.'
article_snippet: 'If I was a young Muslim watching the social injustice in Gaza where 2,000 people died in a matter of weeks from Israeli bombings, the displacement of millions of people in Syria and the U.S. using drone missiles.... I'm sure I could be radicalised too.'
article_snippet: We must stand up for We values and defeat extremism – not by apologising but by challenging ideologies which seek to destroy peace and co-operation.
article_snippet: I hope an Ed Miliband will distance an Ed Miliband from this comments at a time when we need to do everything possible to dissuade young Muslims listening to the poisoned voices of those who try to glamourise a case which characterises itself by murderous barbarism.
article_snippet: It is deeply irresponsible for anyone in public life to be suggesting that those who wish to go abroad to make common cause with people who are slaughtering Christians, murdering gay people and whose vowed intent is the elimination of western Liberal democracy. '
article_snippet: To put any of that at the door of the policy of Her Majesty’s government is despicable.
highlights_snippet: Former deputy prime minister claimed the UK was as much to blame as extremists for radicalisation .
  