Storm Track Disinformation: What Makes a Terrorist?
What makes a terrorist?Hatred of our freedoms? Gripes about colonialism? Poverty? Religion? All of the above?
No. What makes a terrorist is the same thing that makes a Nazi, a Communist, a fascist, or a Maoist. What makes them all the same is an adherence to a tyrannical ideology.
In his new book ‘What makes a Terrorist’, economist Alan Krueger debunks the theory that poverty spawns terrorism. He’s correct on that point and makes good case for it. People like to grab on to that rationale because social injustice is both understandable and preventable – the basis for all liberal solutions. If you can ‘understand’ the problem, you can work towards or talk through to a solution.
Not so with Sudden Jihad Syndrome as we have seen in numerous cases whereby normal-appearing Muslims abruptly become violent.
So what, according to Krueger, makes a terrorist?
- Denial - Delusion - Defeatism
In one short week, we have see the Obama Administration show the world it's denial of Islamic terrorism, the delusion that it can be defeated by giving the terrorist's jobs, and the blatant admission that we can not win the war against Islamic...
- Moderate Muslims
From my friend Reliapundit at The Astute Bloggers: MOHAMED WAS A THIEF A LIAR A PEDOPHILE AND A GENOCIDAL TERRORIST. AND THE KORAN - SUPPOSEDLY A REVELATION - IS LETTERED WITH RACIST, MISOGYNIST, AND ANTISEMITIC FILTH - NOT TO MENTION HISTORICAL ERRORS....
- Why Not Legalize All Violent Ideologies?
Ayesha Ahmed makes a good point. I think taking this angle has some persuasive power. Here is an excerpt from the article, Why Shouldn't All Violent Ideologies Be Legal? If Islam, with its terrorist founder and role model (and long bloody history)...
- Winds Of War: New Counter-terrorist Magazine To Launch
Security Solutions International (SSI) hopes to launch a new counter-terrorist magazine in the Spring 2008 called the Counter-Terrorist. And they should know what they’re doing since SSI itself was established with the help of experienced Israeli elite...
- Enemy Mine: Our Societal Weakness Is Our Enemy’s Strength
There’s been much talk of Mark Steyn’s new book America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It and his warning of the use of demographic jihad against the non-Muslim world. But there is another warning he gives in his book that has gone, so far,...