I’m getting off topic a bit here, but thought you should see this important story. Hat tip: Robert. Here is how the story at World Net Daily begins:
JERUSALEM – The 9-11 attacks were carried out because of a lack of “empathy” for others’ suffering on the part of al-Qaida, whose terrorist ideology “grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair,” Sen. Barack Obama explained in largely unreported comments eight days after the mega-terror attacks that rocked the nation.
Please read the whole article. Obama isn’t alone in his thinking that poverty breeds Islamic terrorism, we see that notion as a driving force even among high level State Department officials. Note former Asst. Secretary of State Ellen Sauerbrey’s comments last year here (bring more refugees to the US so they won’t become terrorists). Sauerbrey, before joining the Bush Administration, was a Republican leader in Maryland, but must have been drinking too much of the kool-aid at the State Department. Her comments, and Obama’s, show a fundamental misunderstanding of the imperatives of Islam.