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Empowering Jihad: The Deadly Myth of a 'root cause'
Arutz Sheva ^ | March 02, 2015

Posted on 03/03/2015 4:59:48 AM PST by SJackson

Reports that "Jihadi John," the British-accented narrator of ISIS snuff videos, is Mohammed Emwazi — an educated young man from a middle-class background — ought to put the final stake in the pretense that poverty and a lack of education and opportunity fuel Islamist hate.

This mistaken idea seems to be Obama administration policy. Marie Harf, the US Department of State deputy spokesperson, recently said:

"We cannot win this war by killing [jihadists]. We need to go after the root causes that lead people to join these groups, whether it is lack of opportunity for jobs. . . We can work with countries around the world to help improve their governance. We can help them build their economies so they can have job opportunities for these people."

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: jihadijohn; mohammedemwazi

1 posted on 03/03/2015 4:59:48 AM PST by SJackson
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2 posted on 03/03/2015 5:00:08 AM PST by SJackson (“ISIS is now going to regret this … because King Abdullah is not Barack Obama, Rep. Duncan Hunter)
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To: SJackson
According to commies, everything is the fault of wealth inequality.
Even the climate and religious wars.

3 posted on 03/03/2015 5:19:42 AM PST by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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4 posted on 03/03/2015 5:21:53 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: SJackson

The world hasn’t seen anything yet...

2 Thessalonians 2...”5 Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things? 6 And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way.”

Revelation 9...”13 Then the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, 14 one saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” 15 And the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released, so that they would kill a third of mankind. 16 The number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million; I heard the number of them.”


5 posted on 03/03/2015 5:24:02 AM PST by huldah1776
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6 posted on 03/03/2015 5:29:47 AM PST by Diamond (He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people,)
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To: Diamond

Dumb, dumber and dumbest?


7 posted on 03/03/2015 5:36:09 AM PST by baltimorepoet
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To: huldah1776

What is interesting is that back then, that number in an army would have been unbelievable. In fact, that is probably pretty close to the population of the entire world in Roman times.


8 posted on 03/03/2015 5:38:40 AM PST by baltimorepoet
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To: baltimorepoet
Yeah. Guess which one is dumbest.

Cordially,

9 posted on 03/03/2015 5:40:50 AM PST by Diamond (He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people,)
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To: SJackson

We do need to confront the root cause of Islamic terror. The root cause is ISLAM.


10 posted on 03/03/2015 5:40:59 AM PST by FBRhawk (Pray with faith, act with courage, never surrender!)
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To: Diamond

I’ll put my money on door #2...


11 posted on 03/03/2015 5:45:57 AM PST by baltimorepoet
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