GETTY/IG Jeremy Clarkson doesn't believe ISIS is a serious threat to our way of life

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Eight DAYS after the Paris terror attacks left 130 dead the former Top Gear host claimed the world should "leave the terror organisation alone". Clarkson even claimed the sadistic killers - who butchered 30 Brits on a beach in Tunisia in June - didn't really want to hurt non-Muslims. His extraordinary comments came as the UN passed a unanimous resolution to take "all necessary measures" to defeat the evil death cult.

BBC Jeremy Clarkson believes Islamic State should be left alone by the West

They say that IS wants to destroy our way of life, but does it? Jeremy Clarkson

Writing in a newspaper column, the 55-year-old said: “If we drop bombs on them, they will become angry and send people over here to blow us in shopping centres. ‘This will make us angry so we’ll drop more bombs which will cause them to send more people over to Europe to blow up, and so on and so on.” READ: CLARKSON'S MOST CONTROVERSIAL MOMENTS Bizarrely, Clarkson then criticised leading figures for not properly "understanding" what ISIS is, or what they want. He said: “They tell us it doesn’t follow the teachings of Islam, but it does actually. "They also say that IS wants to destroy our way of life, but does it?”

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Presenting himself as an expert in the teachings of the Koran, he added: “IS chief spokesman Sheikh Abu Muhammad al-Adnani called on his followers to find an infidel and ‘smash his head with a rock, run him over with a car and destroy his crops’. “That sounds very scary until you work out what he means by ‘infidel’. “He means any muslim who shaves his beard or drinks alcohol. He means any Shi’ite Muslim. “He does not, however, necessarily mean Christians or Buddhists or Jedi Knights like me. “He will just about tolerate us lot so long as we basically leave him and his organisation alone.”

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The strange stance puts him at odds with the majority of the British public, who are backing further military intervention against Islamic State in Syria. But Clarkson went on to claim people will eventually just ‘get bored’ of the mass murderers. Writing in the Sun, he added: “Nobody interfered when Oliver Cromwell was running amok in Ireland, Killing everyone who got in his way. “Nobody tried to stop Stalin, or Pol Pot or Idi Amin. “But they’re all gone now because, eventually, people become bored with their crackpot ideas and moved on.”

Twitter users were appalled by the insensitive timing of the comments. Michelle Matthews posted: "Idiot! Just as irresponsible and ignorant as the other extreme; those who are attacking any Muslim now." Another added: "This is why nobody thinks anything substantial of this person. Insignificant." And political activist Godfrey Davey added: "He seems to know as much about the situation as he does about cars."

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Since the Paris bloodbath last week, there are real fears London may be in the terrorists' sights. Defence secretary Michael Fallon has previously admitted "ISIL is a very direct threat to us in Britain." MI5 have put the current UK threat level as 'severe' - one below the highest rating of critical. That means the security service think an attack is 'highly likely'.

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