Greasy Islamophobe that I am, I thought the only powerful rebuke to jihad terrorists would be killing them in large numbers. Good thing Obama is here to enlighten me and show that a bunch of politicians jawing over politically correct myths about the weather will actually stop the jihadis in their tracks. Doubtless this climate […]
Prince Charles blames “horrors” of jihad in Syria on a failure to tackle climate change
“There’s very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria, funnily enough, was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land.” If that was what led to the war in Syria, then […]
Robert Spencer, PJM: Obama: Climate Change Causes Jihad
Over at PJ Media I discuss the recent appalling and fact-free statements by Obama: State Department deputy spokesperson Marie Harf was widely ridiculed in February for saying of the Islamic State (ISIS): We cannot win this war by killing them, we cannot kill our way out of this war. We need, in the longer term, […]
Obama: Climate change “an immediate threat to our national security,” caused jihad in Nigeria and Syria
Obama’s claims here are based on the proposition that poverty causes terrorism. Drought led to jihad in Nigeria, and drought, crop failures and high food prices led to jihad in Syria. But if poverty causes terrorism, one wonders why the world isn’t full of Haitian and Angolan terrorists. Also, poverty doesn’t cause terrorism. The Economist […]