our protection and that of the world-at-large lies in education
But the news reports from Great Britain are that the plotters in the bomb plot were recruited at the local universities, and were college students.
They were being taught to hate! Not at the college but in extracurricular activities.
I grew up in the 1960's, a heyday of student radicalism in the US. Bill Clinton, our last President, and John Kerry, the last person nominated by the Democrats for the Presidency, are former student radicals.
For that matter, Ahmadinijad, the President of Iran, is a former student radical, who took part in kidnapping and imprisoning Americans during the Iranian revolution against the Shah.
Sayid Qutb, the Egyptian "father" of the Islamist movement, was an exchange student in the United States.
I don't think it's lack of education that's the problem here.
I think it's lack of empathy, lack of love, lack of caring whom you hurt, lack of tolerance for the rights of others to be different from you, lack of respect. Lots of that going around, but loving your enemy won't save you if your enemy doesn't love you. |
