{"id":32038,"date":"2015-07-20T02:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T06:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=32038"},"modified":"2015-07-19T08:38:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T12:38:03","slug":"making-a-terrorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/07\/20\/making-a-terrorist\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a terrorist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tam<\/a> at View From The Porch<\/em> linked to this discussion of how domestic terrorists don’t match the media’s default profile<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Of course, there\u2019s an easy way to make it harder for Da\u2019esh to \u201crecruit Americans,\u201d and that\u2019s to zero out immigration from nations where the common values are inimical to American values. But there are problems with that. Many of the people seeking to immigrate from Da\u2019esh territory to the USA are fleeing that terror and seeking security \u2014 and freedom. They have a very high potential to be very solid, freedom-loving Americans. The problem we have seen in the USA (and to a greater extent in some European countries like Sweden and France) is not so much the immigrants, but their children who, exposed to academia that hates the new homeland, regresses to an imagined \u201cgolden age\u201d religious extremism.<\/p>\n

The conventional wisdom on the left and in the press (but we repeat ourselves) that terrorists are made by poverty and oppression is, frankly, silly. Like the communist terrorists of the 1970s, the mohammedan terrorists of today are a product of wealthy-kid ennui and self-loathing. Well-known terrorist cases range from solidly middle-class (Tsarnaevs) to professional class (Ayman al-Zawahiri) to stankin\u2019 wealthy (bin Laden); it is rare to find one without some university education. Certainly part of the problem is that the moral component of a university education today includes an unhealthy dose and burden of contempt and blame for the host society. That\u2019s beyond the scope of what this report, centered as it is on the nuts and bolts of what ISIS is and how it means to attack our homeland, covers; but if it is not addressed there is another terrorist cause on the far side of this one, and so on endlessly like a land of rolling hills.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tam at View From The Porch linked to this discussion of how domestic terrorists don’t match the media’s default profile: Of course, there\u2019s an easy way to make it harder for Da\u2019esh to \u201crecruit Americans,\u201d and that\u2019s to zero out immigration from nations where the common values are inimical to American values. But there are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,13],"tags":[47,257,764],"class_list":["post-32038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-usa","tag-islam","tag-terrorism","tag-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8kK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32039,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32038\/revisions\/32039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}