No, Obama, Bangladesh Islamic State Terrorists Were not Poor

Breitbart ^ | July 4,2016 | JOEL B. POLLAK

[Hojczyk]

In 2015, State Department spokesperson Marie Harf said: “We cannot kill our way out of this war. We need in the longer term – we need the longer term to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups. Whether it’s lack of opportunity for jobs…”.

But some of the Bangladeshi jihadis were rich, educated members of the country’s privileged elite.

From Reuters:

Posts on Facebook identified the men, pictured on an Islamic State website grinning in front of a black flag, as Nibras Islam, Rohan Imtiaz, Meer Saameh Mubasheer, Andaleeb Ahmed and Raiyan Minhaj.

Most went to prestigious schools or universities in Dhaka and Malaysia, officials said.

“A majority of the boys who attacked the restaurant came from very good educational institutions. Some went to sophisticated schools. Their families are relatively well-to-do people,” Bangladeshi Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu told India’s NDTV.

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Several posts on social media said the man identified by police as Nibras Islam attended Monash University in Malaysia. A friend who knew him while he studied at Dhaka’s North South University told Reuters that Islam later went to Monash.

Two others went to an elite public school in Dhaka called Scholastica.

The New York Times also reported:

Bangladesh’s capital city reeled in shock on Sunday as clues began to flood social media about the privileged backgrounds of the half-dozen attackers believed to have butchered 20 patrons of a restaurant during a bloody siege here

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The men, all in their late teens or early 20s, were products of Bangladesh’s elite, several having attended one of the country’s top English-medium private schools as well as universities both in the country and abroad.

Among them was the son of a former city leader in the prime minister’s own Awami League, the governing party.

[smokingfrog]

[Travis McGee]

[chajin]

It is a generalization, but poor people tend to riot, while premeditated guerilla activity (aka terrorism) comes from people with education and disposable income.

[CIB-173RDABN]

Is there any wonder this war will never end with Democrats in charge?

[sockmonkey]

What? They didn’t grow up sharecroppers, shoe shine boys, or digging through trash for recyclables? Color me shocked! /$

[beelzepug]

Harf wit.

[Forty-Niner]

The left’s take on the war being waged by Islamic terrorists is twisted by their attempt to mold it to their agenda like anti 2nd Amendment gun control measures...because of this the left is incapable of winning this war and none of us are safe.

I expect that every 2=4 months an attack will occur with increasing causalities each time. The left will respond with new gun restrictions each time. Just another reason why they may find themselves involved in 2 armed conflicts in short order......

[mumblypeg]

“...rich, educated members of the country’s privileged elite...”

Sorta like democrats who keep pimping the poor in the US?

[chuckee]

Jobs for jihadis. Is that in Obama’s foreign aid budget?

[dsrtsage]

O’Bunghole is racist

ISIS are brown people
brown people are poor
ISIS are poor

[Alberta's Child]

In one of Robert Bork's books he suggests that boredom is one of the most destructive personality problems we face in the modern world.

I think he was 100% right on this ... and we see it among our own pampered young adults as well as those who grew up in Islamic cultures.

[Capt. Tom]

“We cannot kill our way out of this war. We need in the longer term – we need the longer term to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups.

The root cause is a Muslim following Islam the way Muhammad did, for the prospect of an eternal reward with Allah.

This would appeal to any Muslim rich or poor, with or without a job. -Tom

[SunkenCiv]

"Death to America!"

[48th SPS Crusader]

we need the longer term to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups.

They join these groups to follow the dictates of their religion

[FreedomPoster]

I point out at every opportunity that Mohamed was a terrorist, and that men acting in these terrorist attacks are very much in line with Islamic values. After all, Mo was the “perfect man” in Islam.

[Capt. Tom]

I point out at every opportunity that Mohamed was a terrorist, and that men acting in these terrorist attacks are very much in line with Islamic values. After all, Mo was the “perfect man” in Islam.

Correct.

When the Muslims don't have a Caliph to keep them on track, they drift into inaction against us Kafirs.

The Caliph is back and Abu Bakr al Baghdadi is pressing the Muslims to pick up the sword again against us Kafirs.

Some Muslims will do that as we are seeing, and some will avoid following the fundamentals of Islam by following Muhammad's examples on how to treat us Kafirs. -Tom