Posted on 02/21/2015 7:07:35 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Last week, President Barack Obama sparked outrage when he declared that the root cause of Islamic State (ISIS) terrorism is not radical Islam but poverty.
We have to address grievances terrorists exploit, including economic grievances, said Obama.
However, as terrorism experts explain, a vast percentage of Islamic terrorists come from middle-class backgrounds, wealthy families, or have impressive educational pedigrees. CNNs national security analyst Peter Bergen says many of the worlds most notorious terrorists came from affluence and education:
Osama bin Laden: son of a Saudi construction magnate who attended Saudi Arabias top high school and best university.
Mohamed Atta: ringleader of the 9-11 terrorist attacks and the son of an Egyptian lawyer. Atta worked on his doctorate at a German university.
Ayman al Zawahiri: Present leader of al Qaeda and a surgeon who comes from a leading Egyptian family that counts ambassadors, politicians and prominent clerics amongst its ranks.
Nidal Hasan: the Fort Hood terrorist who was not only an officer in the U.S. Army and a psychiatrist, but is also from a comfortably middle-class family in Virginia.
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Numerous studies have found similar trends. One study of 172 al Qaeda terrorists conducted by former CIA case officer Marc Sagemann found that just under half were professionals; two-thirds were either middle or upper class and had gone to college; indeed, several had doctorates.
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Obama is a liar and a dissembler. What else would one expect from him?
Much like everything else, he has no bleeping clue.
They aren’t poor. They are aspiring for a greater goal and they are just plain mean and evil.
This story is right out of the PLO line that kept the USA throwing $$$ at Yasser Arafat for decades.
Palestinians were poor so we had to help them.
Every dime of it went right into Yasser Arafat’s pocket.
It is poverty in a sense. All those people with seemingly boundless and unexhaustable unearned wealth, and even with all that advantage are still incapable of delivering anything of any value to the world, while the evil jews rack up nobel prize after nobel prize
There is that $500M or so that they looted from a bank in Iraq.
Captain Obvious weeps. Such a thing was common knowledge, and the admin’s toadies blather about jobs programs.
This is fine for high school debate teams, but these people think they can run the country on that precept. And they've steadily purged from government anyone who tries to tell them otherwise. I hope we survive the next two years.
Inspire of the lies we are being told ( have to write in bold to shout out the message to the masses ) PROVERTY AND MISERY FOLLOWS RADICAL ISLAM WERE EVER IT GOES !.
PROVERTY AND MISERY IS NOT ! IS NOT ! IS NOT ! THE RESULT OF HOW THESE DEVILS ARE TREATED OR NO JOBS ! HELL NO ! PROVERY ! MISERY IS THE RESULT OF RADICAL ISLAM WERE EVER IT GOES !
ALSO ? These devils are NOT acting out of the result of PROVERTY or misery, they are possesed by demons and devils.
Occultic practices require violent and the shedding of innocent blood to bring forth, to summons Satan.
What they are doing consciencely or unconscientiously by being possessed if to give Satan power, that is what is at the heart of the matter, not PROVERTY or misery.
ISIS controlled areas have NO water , No electricity and No garbage collection ,only total terror
Recent evidence on dead bodies shows ISIS/ISIL/IS have been harvesting organs from their captives.
Sadly, organ harvesting is a lucrative business.
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Most of the social advocate organizations seem quiet regarding the things ISIS/ISIL/IS are doing.
Proverty, mayhem, death, poor, misery follows where ever Radical Islam goes.
Saw on various sites that the local savages who murder for ISIS are paid $150 or $400 a month depending on where you look, and foreigners joining the savages are paid $1,000 a month. But, who knows? Look like they have paying jobs. Does Ms. Harf think they aren’t paid enough.
Because they sercetry approve of it, they are either under the influence or working for the devil himself.
The bible says, that the devil, or Satan will or can transform his self into or as a angel of light.
I am sticking to my words just like Rudy Juliani is.
Terrorists, revolutionaries, radicals, whatever you want to call them, are never the poor.
They come from middle classes, and are slightly well off to being rich. This has been true from the Jacobins to Lenin to Bin Laden.
Think about it, do the impoverished masses have time to be militant and think about ideals? No, they’re too busy trying to survive.
Not to forget about Bill Ayers, Obama’s terrorist friend and spoiled rich boy.
Bet they have a boatload of US tax dollars.
Since ISIS are 1 percenters, will Obama go after them and demand they pay their “Fare share”
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