Jul 06 2007
Jihadist Leaders Have College Degrees And Financial Opportunity
Everyone knows al-Qaeda’s leader, Osama Bin Laden, came from an extremely wealthy family that runs one of the Middle East’s largest construction companies. But one of the myths of the western media is the root cause of Islamo Fascism is the poverty and lack of opportunity in the Middle Eastern, Muslim countries. The fact is the driving force behind Islamo Fascism is well to do young men without any morale scrouples willing to play on the desparation of the region’s poor in order to recruit human guided weapons. It is not the West’s success but the decadence and greed of the well to do in Muslim society that drives al-Qaeda and their ilk. Just check the backgrounds of those who send the suicide bombers to kill innocent people:
A peculiarity of the global jihad network is that it attracts young men with backgrounds in science and technical education, although before the current suspects the only known medical doctor was al-Qaeda’s deputy leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Pakistani-born Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, mastermind of the September 11 attacks, studied mechanical engineering in North Carolina. Abu Hamza, the Egyptian hate preacher who radicalised many young British Muslims at London’s Finsbury Park mosque and is serving a seven-year sentence for inciting murder, studied civil engineering.
Al-Qaeda’s former leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a one-time petty crook, reportedly studied biology. At least three members of the Hamburg cell that led the September 11 attacks were engineering students (its leader, Mohammed Atta, studied town planning). Joining the long list this week were Moroccan-born Younis Tsouli and Briton Waseem Mughal, computer science and biochemistry graduates respectively. They were among three men sentenced to a total of 24 years for running British jihadist websites that incited people to murder.
Cults work like this. They take impressionable young men and make them believe they are he saviours of humanity and they must sacrifice all to meet the fate God has in store for them. What can offset this mindwashing is a lot of sunlight into the dark, to show how these wealthy people spend their time sending others off to die for them. And then run away when things get tough – sometimes dressed as woman! The cowardice of these con-men is only matched by the amount of blood they will spill to gain power. This is not a result of poverty. It is the result of misguided and out of control well to do young men playiing god.
More details showing poverty is not the issue at the WSJ
Backgrounds of 148 Palestinian suicide bombers show they were less likely to come from families living in poverty and were more likely to have finished high school than the general population. Biographies of 129 Hezbollah shahids (martyrs) reveal they, too, are less likely to be from poor families than the Lebanese population from which they come. The same goes for available data about an Israeli terrorist organization, Gush Emunim, active in the 1980s.
• Terrorism doesn’t increase in the Middle East when economic conditions worsen; indeed, there seems no link. One study finds the number of terrorist incidents is actually higher in countries that spend more on social-welfare programs. Slicing and dicing data finds no discernible pattern that countries that are poorer or more illiterate produce more terrorists. Examining 781 terrorist events classified by the U.S. State Department as “significant” reveals terrorists tend to come from countries distinguished by political oppression, not poverty or inequality.
• Public-opinion polls from Jordan, Morocco, Pakistan and Turkey find people with more education are more likely to say suicide attacks against Westerners in Iraq are justified. Polls of Palestinians find no clear difference in support for terrorism as a means to achieve political ends between the most and least educated.
The support these lunatics are receiving from the media worldwide is part of the problem.
Islam is the cause for this fascism; their god allah demands them to kill all those who do not submit to islam.
It reminds me of Jesus’s words: “If you live by the sword, you’ll die by the sword”! For that reason, they will never succeed with their twisted faith.