h/t to Infidels Are Cool
For the last 10-11 years, apologists for radical islamism have been spewing a number of lies about the causes of radical Islam. The causes have ranged from anger at U.S. retaliation for 9/11 to rampant poverty in many Middle Eastern countries. For "enlightened" liberals the notion that these behaviors could be caused by a violent interpretation of the Muslim religion itself is considered "Islamophobic".
A recent study, however, debunks the notion that poverty is a root cause for Islamism. In fact, those in poverty are less likely to sympathize with radical Islam, and in fact are more likely to be victims of this ideology.
That this is a surprise to anyone is actually more shocking to me, as a number of our home-grown Islamists are from backgrounds that are anything but poor. Adam Gadahn (born Adam Pearlman), an American who is now an al Qaeda operative comes from a middle to upper middle class background. John Walker, the American Taliban also comers from an upper middle class background. Bin Laden was a millionaire. As you go down the list of the 9/11 hijackers, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and members of the Muslim Brotherhood, you find doctors, lawyers, architects, and other highly educated and well-off individuals. Not the template that those in the media liberals portray, who is some poor bastard living in squallor in some third-world hell-hole.
Duh: Poverty does not create jihadis. Islam does
by Kal El on June 8, 2011
I think I have been saying this since I lived in Qatar in 2003. Now the imbeciles in the media pull their heads from their asses and see what time it is. Maybe it’s time to stop pissing away billions of dollars in aid to countries that hate us anyway, and use those funds to fix some of our own problems.
Poverty does not breed extremism in Pakistan, study finds
Spending millions of pounds on development in Pakistan will do nothing to keep young men out of the clutches of the Taliban, according to an extensive survey of Pakistani attitudes towards extremism which will deepen the row over Britain’s aid budget.
READ MORE HERE---> http://infidelsarecool.com/2011/06/duh-poverty-does-not-create-jihadis-islam-does/
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