Why do young men and women need to be empowered? Most aren’t mature enough or ready for much in the way of real responsibility.
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Mohammed Atta had a good job at a city planning firm in Hamburg, Germany. The guy who tried to blow up Times Square was an accountant. The Ft Hood shooter was a doctor.
Atta is an odd sort, older than most suicide terrorists at 33. He gave himself over to Islam and wrote out his last will and testament on the day that Israel launched Operation Grapes of Wrath into Lebanon.
Faisal Shahzad stated his motives for the Times Square attempt were the US drone attacks in Pakistan. His mentor was an American terrorist recruiter who was killed in a US drone attack: Al-Awlaki.
The same Al-Awlaki recruited Ft Hood Shooter Nidal Hasan, and had also contacted at least one of the 911 attackers.
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What a load of absolute crap. This guy is clearly a jihad sympathizer… as are so many “moderate” muslims. Yeah sure, it’s all about subverting the dominant power structure. NO, it is a sick ideology that licences sociopaths to murder innocent people.
.#Jeffrey - The reason our young people need to feel empowered is because they are ready to tackle the issues, their parents–the Boomers–left to be solved. Driving the actions toward peacetime renewal and rebuilding, voting to change the Congressional gridlock and address the real issues of our time. Plus, they know how to use and live through “social media” just as much as their jihadi counterparts.
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Egypt: U.S. Explanation of State Department Meeting With Muslim Brotherhood Terrorists “not understandable”…
"There is a jaw-dropping level of hypocrisy inherent within the U.S. State Department hosting the Muslim Brotherhood when you contrast the anxiety expressed by the White House to a speech by Benjamin Netanyahu.
If the White House is upset over an open speech that Benjamin Netanyahu will deliver to congress, imagine how angry Egypt’s president al-Sisi feels knowing the Muslim Brotherhood is in closed meetings with U.S. officials."[quote=“system11111, post:1, topic:16147, full:true”]
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Should Obama be Impeached?
“The effort to establish unilateral authority presents an existential threat to our system of government. Although the President has insisted that he is merely exercising executive discretion, any such discretion by definition can only occur within the scope of granted authority and only to the extent that it is not curtailed by the language of the Constitution. This includes his obligation to faithfully execute the law. U.S. Const. art. II, § 3, cl. 4.
Some of the President’s actions can be viewed as within permissible lines of discretion. However, many of his actions cannot and are violations of his oath of office. That oath is not merely an affirmative pledge to defend the Constitution but to yield to its limitations on his own authority. To put it simply, that was the deal struck on January 20, 2013.”
By Jonathan Turley, Professor of Law, George Washington University…and an Obama supporter.
Oh good lord. Look who’s crawled out from under his birther rock!
2 more years David, you have two more years…then what will you focus your laser like attention to? Hilary? Oh boy…
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It is hard to generalize across the Islamic world. Try understanding one country at a time, perhaps. Pakistan was the epicenter of global terrorism 1990-2010 or so; thereafter Yemen, and now Syria-Iraq provide it stiff competition.
Today, when 60 Shias were blown up in their mosque in Pakistan, this article is a must read:
This backgrounder on Pakistan is also a must-read:
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Right now nothing is as worthless in our society as an 18 year old high school graduate at least that is the message we send 18 year old high school graduates. They graduate in the spring and are immediately unemployed or at best under employed. Many go to college on loans but all college does for most of them is leave them in debt. Those who don’t go to college have nothing to do. When they graduate from college 5 or 6 years later many have nothing to do. More importantly people like you go out of your way to make young people feel worthless. The people who are attracted to gangs and jihad are those same people who have no place in mainstream society and won’t for several more years.
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I hope you don’t mind. I took your 4th paragraph and posted it on my facebook page. This has made the most sense - to me more than anything else written about the jihadis.
Very well said. The better analogy with ISIS from the 1930’s is the attraction of people - mostly young, disenfranchised, and unemployed - to fascist movements, not the International Brigades as stated in the article. People tend to forget that there were active active fascist and/or Nazi organizations in many countries at that time, including the US and Britain.
Sorry, just not buying this analysis. I agree that assimilation is may not be the primary cause of jihad-ism or radical Islam, but to compare it to or see parallels with past youth movements is just bizarre. I see a group of men lusting for power and using whatever tools available to manipulate others into supporting their political/power goals. It is not a movement forward, but a movement backwards.
I found this somewhat telling as well:
“One begins to see parallels emerge with past youth movements claiming to defend fundamental human values against powerful countervailing forces in the world, like the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War.”
in reviewing the history of the International Brigades, I found no evidence of systemic criminal activity on their part. they didn’t butcher everyone who didn’t agree with them, they didn’t make sex slaves out of women in towns they captured, etc., etc., etc.
I don’t know if this was just “space fill”, but if the author, pedram partovi had a point, it got lost in the reality of what “radical Islam” actually does, with their “Global Jihad”. it has little to nothing to do with breaking the shackles of the oppressed, and more to do with replacing the “elites” they’re supposedly fighting against. they just put an Islamic spin on it.
And they’re any different from anyone else? The Congress is full of people who aren’t mature or ready for much in the way of real responsibility and they got there because of other people who weren’t mature and accepting of the responsibility of getting information about the candidates.
The difference is that the people running ISIS have different motivations than the people who recruited for the Spanish Civil War. The forces working on those being recruited, however, are very similar.
If that is how you define assimilation, what do you make of Huckabee and his brethren? They certainly are not assimilated into what you describe as “becoming Western.”