idiocy!!!
every day i try to read a couple of different things to musa out loud... today it was an editorial in the Washington Post, written by a member of the sept. 11 commission. i am no scholar, either of Islam or of current events, but i had to at least react:
"One of the most deep-seated of these problems is the U.S. government's tendency to treat this war as a law enforcement issue," John Lehman says. "... As late as June of this year, Mark Mershon of the FBI testified that the bureau will not monitor or surveil any Islamist unless there is a "criminal predicate." Thus the large Islamist support infrastructure that the commission identified here in the United States is free to operate until its members actually commit a crime."
oh my God! they're not letting us imprison people on the basis of their professed beliefs even though they haven't actually done anything wrong!!! wait... we ARE doing that. what is this guy complaining about??
"Even in the United States, some 80 percent of Islamic mosques and schools are closely aligned with the Wahhabist sect and heavily dependent on Saudi funding. Five years after Sept. 11, nothing has been done to materially affect this root source of jihadism."
i am so sick of this recurring idiotic statistic. does anyone remember where it originated? i forget his name, but he's some sheikh-type dude who has repeatedly impugned his own community this way...
he also mentions the "jihadist regime in Iran" - i can understand the temptation to think this way, but does anyone else find it almost oxymoronic, if not just moronic, to coin such a phrase? this guy just seems to love the word "jihadist" and use it with joyous abandon to mean any Muslim he doesn't like.
"Thus Rumsfeld's question -- are we killing, capturing or deterring jihadists faster than they are being produced? -- must be answered with an emphatic no.
i think the "question" needs to be rephrased: "are we killing, capturing or deterring jihadists faster than we are creating them?" they aren't just popping out of the woodwork automatically, you know...
"One of the most deep-seated of these problems is the U.S. government's tendency to treat this war as a law enforcement issue," John Lehman says. "... As late as June of this year, Mark Mershon of the FBI testified that the bureau will not monitor or surveil any Islamist unless there is a "criminal predicate." Thus the large Islamist support infrastructure that the commission identified here in the United States is free to operate until its members actually commit a crime."
oh my God! they're not letting us imprison people on the basis of their professed beliefs even though they haven't actually done anything wrong!!! wait... we ARE doing that. what is this guy complaining about??
"Even in the United States, some 80 percent of Islamic mosques and schools are closely aligned with the Wahhabist sect and heavily dependent on Saudi funding. Five years after Sept. 11, nothing has been done to materially affect this root source of jihadism."
i am so sick of this recurring idiotic statistic. does anyone remember where it originated? i forget his name, but he's some sheikh-type dude who has repeatedly impugned his own community this way...
he also mentions the "jihadist regime in Iran" - i can understand the temptation to think this way, but does anyone else find it almost oxymoronic, if not just moronic, to coin such a phrase? this guy just seems to love the word "jihadist" and use it with joyous abandon to mean any Muslim he doesn't like.
"Thus Rumsfeld's question -- are we killing, capturing or deterring jihadists faster than they are being produced? -- must be answered with an emphatic no.
i think the "question" needs to be rephrased: "are we killing, capturing or deterring jihadists faster than we are creating them?" they aren't just popping out of the woodwork automatically, you know...
posted by Ayesha | 1:44 PM
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