tomclarke wrote:The problem - and it is this throughout the Middle East - is that poverty breeds terrorism. . . .
If you think that taking money away from Iraq will remove it from corrupt politicians rather than increasing the poverty - and therefore lack of willingness to cooperate finding non-violent solutions - of half the population you are wrong.
I think you'd have serious trouble identifying that as a causal relation. Lots of people live in poverty, even in the Islamic world, and don't become terrorists. In fact, it's fair to say the vast majority of the Islamic world are poor. Its only in places like Qutar where the people share in the benefits of selling their natural gas, that they're not. Islam panders to poverty, and empowers people through hatred, so I would pose the real cause of terrorism is not poverty but Islam. If you read your Koran you'll see, it's all about killing the infidels, dominating the women, and pretending to be things people simply are not. The trouble is the demonically inspired religion, and we won't see serious stops put on international terrorism so long as we treat Islam as something other than the plague it has been to the planet for 1,500 years. While moderate Islam doesn't cause these kinds of troubles, history and common sense observations about the teachings of the Koran, say that Islamo-fascism is the
intended purpose of the Koran.
Even the most historically ignorant person who holds some popular caricature of the Crusades, usually knows they were instigated not by the overabundance of fighting men in Europe who needed a more benign activity that killing each other, and not by the Pope who preached Holy Crusade, but by the Moslems who had for centuries been kidnapping, torturing and murdering pilgrims to the Holy Land. This is precisely the kind of activity that Islam breeds. It teaches it. Kidnapping is right in the text. Its misguided to think Unholy Jihad is the result of poverty when the cause is so easy to identify. It is caused by the writings of Mohammad.
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http://www.ijreview.com/2014/08/170555- ... orld-live/
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