Posted on 04/27/2016 5:19:53 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Religion does not necessarily play a role in radicalization of Muslims, Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday night, citing political repression and denial of rights as relevant factors, along with the lure of “regular meals [and] companionship.”
In a speech at the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University in Houston, Kerry acknowledged that “you don’t have to be poor or repressed or receive special training” to become a recruit of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL/DAESH).
“You don’t even have to be religious,” he added, citing as an example a reported case of two young British men who went to join ISIS in Syria in 2014, but took with them the books Islam for Dummies and The Koran for Dummies. …
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Food & company are hard to enjoy when you’re dead.
Such is the blindness of “materialism.” All problems reduced to a want of some material thing, whether it’s money, jobs, food, sex, etc. Our present day world is run very nearly exclusively by such people.
It’s submit or die....He still doesn’t get it.
And Kerry’s buddies in North Vietnam wanted liberty and freedom for the South too.
And Kerry says this at Rice University, the very place JFK made his famous ‘moon speech’ back in 1961 (the summer of ‘61 I think).
Just another manifestation of how far we’ve fallen.
regular meals and company?
where do i sign up!?! /s
He is an idiot and doesn’t need to be representing our country.
Stupid gigilo wonk wannabee.
mmmm... prison also fits that criteria.
I get it. Islam is not a religon. JF’nK is SO smart....
Islamic heaven too.....
Islamic heaven too.....
Been doing this for 1400 years, he is simply ignoring reality.
Not much of a pension plan though.
Kerry get’s it.
He can relate - it's the same reasons he married his two wives.
He’s a marxist idiot...
I knew it. It was the couscous all along. Ban couscous!
Bullshit.
Purpose!
More than food, more than money, Islam gives them meaning, purpose and a focus.
Something you wouldn’t understand Lurch.
Or perhaps you would... Did you throw your medals away because of food and money?
What an imbecile. He’s just equated ISIL and Al Qaeda with college fraternities and the Boy Scouts. Neck chopping for Pledge Week and sex slaves in place of merit badges. And of course none of it has anything to do with the matching instructions and approvals contained in the Quran and Hadiths.
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