Jihad poverty
Erick Erickson remembers.
At his popular Red State site, Mr. Erickson quoted extensively from a Sept. 19, 2001, column by Barack Obama, in which the future president blamed the previous week's terrorist attacks on "a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair."
Muslim jihadists "see poverty all around them and they are angry by that poverty. They may be suffering under oppressive and corrupt regimes and that kind of environment is a breeding ground for fanaticism and hatred," Mr. Obama wrote in the Hyde Park Herald.
"In his Cairo speech, Barack Obama did not directly mention 'poverty,' but instead went with the white man's burden — an indirect way of saying the same thing — pontificating that 'tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims,'" Mr. Erickson wrote, before going in for the kill.
"Contra Obama, it turns out that yet again, the Al Qaeda terrorist who tried to blow up a Delta jet on Christmas Day was another rich kid," Mr. Erickson wrote, linking to a report in the British newspaper, the Independent.
"With his wealth, privilege and education at one of Britains leading universities, Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab had the world at his feet — able to choose from a range of futures in which to make his mark on the world," Independent reporters Andrew Johnson and Emily Dugan wrote.
The moral, according to Mr. Erickson: "Some people want to kill us. They need to be rooted out and killed first. And we should perhaps consider that the 'War on Terror' we are no longer allowed to refer to continues even if we choose not to participate." |
