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The media's really
worked itself up today with news that as many as six of the
eight suspects under arrest in the U.K. terror investigation
are -- gasp! -- doctors! How could that be?? I mean,
aren't all terrorists just poor, uneducated villagers who
are angry at "the man" for keeping them down?
NO!! The Real Story is that we just haven't been paying
attention. Nothing has changed about the profile of Islamic
extremists except America's understanding of it. Think
about it...the mastermind of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
earned a mechanical engineering degree from a U.S.
university; Osama bin Laden got the best education possible
in Saudi Arabia and has a degree in civil engineering; al
Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's number 2, is described as a "brilliant
doctor," and even the 9/11 pilots were Western educated!
And if you look at groups like Hezbollah, it's even more
conclusive. A study found that Hezbollah militants were
MORE educated and had a LOWER poverty rate than the general
population.
A few years ago, President Bush -- who I think understands
what we're facing better than most leaders -- gave a speech
where he said, quote, "We fight against poverty, because
hope is an answer to terror..."
I wish that were true, but it's not and it shows how
misguided even our own President is on the root causes of
terrorism. After 9/11, the myth that terrorists are all
repressed, poverty stricken young men began to be
perpetuated, but it was a lie then and it's a lie now.
Poverty doesn't create terrorists; it's the other way
around. Terror and violence cause poverty, which then
allows these so-called leaders to repress and exploit their
people.
The common denominator among terrorists isn't their
education, or their career choice or their age, sex, or
language they speak...it's their fascism; it's their
perversion and politicizing of Islam; and it's their
singular focus on destroying everything we stand for.
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