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The myth of the poor, oppressed jihadist never dies. U.S. secretary of state John Kerry is the latest Obama administration official to peddle this odious narrative. Cue John Lennon’s cloying “Imagine,” don your plaid pajamas, and curl up with a warm cup of deadly naïveté.
While meeting with Catholic Church officials at the Vatican in Rome on Monday, Kerry expounded on their “huge common interest in dealing with this issue of poverty, which in many cases is the root cause of terrorism or even the root cause of the disenfranchisement of millions of people on this planet.” In other words: If only every al-Qaeda and Taliban recruit had a fraction of Kerry’s $200 million fortune, they’d all be frolicking peacefully with infidels on jet skis sporting “Coexist” bumper stickers.
This wasn’t a one-off. Kerry delivered a similar Kumbaya-style discourse at the Global Counterterrorism Forum last fall: “Getting this right isn’t just about taking terrorists off the street. It’s about providing more economic opportunities for marginalized youth at risk of recruitment.” Naturally, the Foggy Bottom apple doesn’t fall far from the Pennsylvania Avenue terror-excusing tree. President Obama subscribes to the very same “midnight basketball” theory of counterterrorism. In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, Obama asserted that jihad “grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair
Here’s a refresher cheat sheet:
9/11 lead hijacker Mohammed Atta went to Hamburg University to study urban planning.
Convicted al-Qaeda scientist Aafia Siddiqui is a Pakistani who studied microbiology at MIT and did graduate work in neurology at Brandeis.
Osama bin Laden did a summer-school stint at Oxford.
Christmas Day underwear-bomb operative Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab was an elite Nigerian engineering student who studied at one of Britain’s leading universities and “lived a gilded life.”
Jihadist Samantha Lewthwaite, the notorious “White Widow” British Muslim convert linked to last year’s Westgate-mall massacre in Nairobi, was the daughter of a soldier and a former University of London student.
British-born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a London School of Economics student, was convicted of abducting and murdering American journalist Daniel Pearl.
Seven upper-middle-class jihadi doctors were implicated in the 2007 London–Glasgow bombings.
Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri didn’t need more education or wealth to steer him away from Islamic imperialism. He had a medical degree. So did former Hamas biggie Abdel al-Rantissi.
Al-Qaeda mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed attended Chowan College in Murfreesboro, N.C., and then transferred to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, where he earned his degree in mechanical engineering along with 30 other Muslims. Mohammed applied his Western learning to oversee the 1993 World Trade Center bombing plot (six Americans dead), the USS Cole attack (17 American soldiers dead), and the September 11 attacks (3,000 dead). He also has been linked to the 1998 African embassy bombings (212 dead, including 12 Americans), the plot to kill the pope, the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl, and the Bali nightclub bomb blast that killed nearly 200 tourists, including two more Americans.
Osama bin Laden, of course, was dedicated to spending every last penny of his inherited Saudi fortune — estimated at between $50 million and $300 million — to wage war on the West. Al-Shabaab jihadists have amassed their own terror campaign chest through the illegal ivory trade.
Privileged jihad funders from Qatar and other Gulf states heap their petro-dollars on al-Qaeda. The Taliban raised $400 million in one year, according to a 2012 U.N. report, not just from opium, but largely from “donations, taxing local economies and extorting money from such targets as drug dealers, cellphone operators and aid projects.” Indeed, since 2006, “the Taliban have managed to finance an ever-increasing number of attacks, reflecting a year-on-year increase in income,” the U.N. report said.
Memo to stupidly rich elitist John Kerry, richly stupid progressive Barack Obama, and the administration’s bleeding-heart bureaucrats in a bubble: Financial bankruptcy is not, and has never been, the “root cause” of Koran-inspired hatred and violence against nonbelievers. Lack of intellectual stimulation is not, and has never been, the “root cause” of radical Islam’s centuries-old and never-ceasing imperative to establish a worldwide caliphate and conquer the West. The root cause of civilizational jihad is unmitigated evil and arrogance, not lack of compassion, understanding, or social justice.
Islamic terrorism never had such dutiful tools as the American fools who rationalize it.
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Dear Marianne. Jihadists are terrorists well-paid by Talmudists in order to destroy whatever vestige of Christianity is left.
I totally agree with you, Wulfrano. The bible tells us that in ending days we will face trials and tribulations of every kind. We are facing that now. The enemy from hell has stepped up his attacks and uses these radicals to do HIS work! Of course Christians are targeted. The demons of darkness hate Christ so they will come after anyone who shines the light of his truth. Our hope is knowing that all that we go through as believers must first be filtered through the hands of God. If he allows it, it is for his purpose. We can’t lose, Wulfrano! We are his people!
Dear Marianne. With tears in my eyes I have seen christian corpses in Africa, in Pakistan, in Syria, in Egypt, in Russia, even in Mexico. All killed by the demons Allah and Baphomet through their psychopathic henchmen.
Yes, Wulfrano, it is so very sad what is going on. I can hardly take this world any longer! The evil and darkness are just too much. But we are told in Scripture to not grow weary and to stay in the race because Christ is coming to make all things new! Unfortunately, as you say, it is not going to get better. Keep your eyes on Christ!
Not to mention the unspeakable horror of billions of abortions. Not even in Noah’s time were people so evil. And you know what happened then…. Imagine what is going to happen now…..
Wulfrano, we know what is going to happen next. The tribulation will put people through judgments and yet many STILL won’t believe or surrender to Christ! The blood of those murdered babies cry out to God. He will not forget.
Yes indeed.