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| The False Link Between Terror And Poverty |
| 2014-05-17 |
[Ynet] Political correctness is preventing enlightened people like John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... from seeing the real cause of radicalization in the Mohammedan world. In light of the turmoil of the public debate over "who is to blame" for the failed negotiations with the Paleostinians, we should pay attention to another statement made by John Kerry, which points to the American secretary of state's problematic way of thinking. Kerry spoke about the spreading terror, about Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... , the Islamist organization which has been slaughtering Nigeria incessantly and about the 276 girls it kidnapped. Why is that happening? It's the poverty, Kerry explained. Is it really? Let's try to put this theory to the test of facts. If the problem is poverty, the solution is just to hand out money. Anything else might call for blood, sweat, tears. Maybe even thought. First of all, none of the perpetrators of the terror attacks in the United States came from a background of poverty. On the contrary, they were all successful young men, members of the Mohammedan world's elite club. the late Osama bin Laden ... who is no longer with us, and won't be again... , the pope of terror, came from a family of millionaires. The hundreds of young people who arrive from Europe to the jihad organizations in Syria are not members of the disadvantaged class. They are usually academics and students. Secondly, Kerry says he based his theory on the link between poverty and terror on a series of conversations with African leaders. That's interesting, because Africa has millions of poor Christians alongside millions of poor Mohammedans. According to Kerry's theory, they should have produced an equal amount of terrorism. But reality is slightly different. And as Abdul Rahman Al-Rashid, the former editor-in-chief of London-based Arabic-language newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat, wrote: "Not all Mohammedans are terrorists, but almost all forces of Evil are Mohammedans." Thirdly, two things happened in the past few decades. According to World Bank figures, from 1990 to 2013 the world's poor population decreased by 50% - an impressive accomplishment for the war on poverty. At the same time, recent decades have seen ups and downs in the level of terrorism, but there is no serious research pointing to a direct link between terror and poverty. The problem is that Kerry holds a deep faith which characterizes parts of the global left and the Western academia, according to which if all depressed people on earth are treated a bit more pleasantly and generously, it will lead to a regression in hostility -- and young people will anyway not be drawn to terror. I wish that were true. Instead of commando units for fighting terror, the US should have sent regiments of social workers with deep pockets to every center of poverty in the world. It would have cost billions, but much less that the war on terror. What leads people to terror? The 250 million Mohammedans in sub-Saharan Africa turned to the school of the moderate Sufi Islam. The change occurred with the Saudi capital, which was used for education according to the Wahhabi school. Afghanistan was once, in the 1960s, a sane country. Women would walk around without a head cover and no one would harass then. At some stage Saudi capital began flowing in, and it was used to establish a network of educational institutions which produced a new generation of jihadists. In the past decade Saudi capital has been flowing into universities in Britannia too, for the establishment of "Islamic learning centers." The result was similar: Radicalization. In other words, the problem is not lack of capital, the problem is excess capital, which is used for brainwashing and incitement. For the avoidance of any doubt, most Mohammedans are not terrorists. They are the victims. But there is no need for a majority. There is a need for a terrorizing violent minority. Most of those who write about radicalization processes influenced by Saudi capital are Mohammedans. What brave Mohammedans are capable of seeing, many enlightened people are having difficulties seeing. The political correctness disrupts their common sense. The saddest thing is that Kerry has a countless researchers and experts who should have presented him with truthful data. Facts rather than illusions. There is a concern, just a concern, that that same political correctness is distorting Kerry's sources of information about the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict as well. This is bad news in regards to the performance of the American administration, and even worse news for the chances of peace. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #7 Political correctness is preventing enlightened people like John Kerry from seeing the real cause Yep Jawn seees hat Jawn wants to see. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2014-05-17 20:13 |
| #6 Stop the funding. Drill here. Drill now. Drill more. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-05-17 15:37 |
| #5 Terrorism, war, drugs, temple prostitutes, NFL, NBA....take away the money and they usually fold. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-05-17 08:19 |
| #4 An old Egyptian acquaintance on mine said Terrorism won't just go away because there's too much money to be made. There are lifelong careers to be made at a wage far above the average. Plus in my opinion it also allows those with a touch of sadism in their hearts to flourish. You wanna take a big bite out of terrorism? Stop the funding. |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2014-05-17 08:13 |
| #3 Our GIVERnment is full of ivy leaguers and look at their results. In the mid-east terror elite it appears they are unproportionally doctors. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2014-05-17 07:58 |
| #2 Mental poverty? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-05-17 05:59 |
| #1 Ever notice how it's generally the wealthy who insist that.... "poverty is the root cause of crime?" |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-05-17 03:25 |