An engineer? Didn’t Mohammad Shahnawaz, alias Shafiuzzama Alam, know that poverty and ignorance cause terrorism? “Delhi Police arrests suspected ISIS terrorist Shahnawaz in major breakthrough,” Hindustan Times, October 2, 2023: In a major breakthrough, the Delhi Police Special Cell apprehended Shahnawaz alias Shafi Uzzama, the National Investigation Agency’s (NIA) most wanted terrorist. Shahnawaz, who had […]
UK: Muslim migrant PhD student built drone that could carry bomb or chemical weapons for the Islamic State
Doesn’t Mohamad al-Bared know that poverty and ignorance cause terrorism? The idea that poverty causes terrorism, so thoroughly contradicted by this story, is a call for Western nations to write more checks to governments of Muslim countries. It’s also demonstrably false. The New York Times reported that “not long after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001…Alan […]
France: Two Muslims, one a ‘brilliant law student,’ plotted jihad massacres at churches and of foes of Islam
We used to be told routinely that jihadis are generally poor and uneducated, and that poverty causes terrorism. This was a justification for showering money upon Muslim countries. But it was never true, and that never worked. “Church, personalities who are ‘enemies of Islam’… A planned attack involving two radicalized young people foiled,” translated from […]
Pakistan: Female jihad suicide bomber who murdered three people was ‘highly educated’
We don’t hear that poverty and ignorance cause terrorism as much as we used to, now that the terrorists upon which the U.S. government is focusing are primarily its own citizens who disagree with the ruling regime. But in regard to Islamic jihad terrorism, the West still assumes that this claim is true, as it […]
UK: Ali Harbi Ali, killer of MP, is son of former Somali official and lives in wealthy London neighborhood
How could this chap be wealthy? Doesn’t he know that poverty causes terrorism? That’s a nearly universally accepted axiom in the West, although it is really just a call for Western nations to write more checks to governments of Muslim countries and Muslim organizations in the West. It’s also demonstrably false. The New York Times reported that […]
Malala says education kills terrorism; one dead Muslim engineer-turned-ISIS jihadi begs to differ
Indian intelligence agencies verified on June 6 that a Malayali Muslim engineer from Kerala, who had joined the terrorist outfit ISIS, had died in Libya. His name, “Abu Bakr Al-Hindi,” has also been commemorated in a document of the Islamic State entitled “Know Your Martyrs.” He has been venerated as an “Istishhadi,” which translates to […]
Israel: Muslim who murdered Israeli teen is upper middle class American citizen
Shalabi is “relatively mature, 44, a father of seven, holds American citizenship, and a member of upper middle class.” The common assumption that poverty causes terrorism is just a call for Western nations to write more checks to governments of Muslim countries. It’s also demonstrably false. The New York Times reported that “not long after the […]
Somalia: Muslim doctor from Canada joins the Islamic State, urges Muslims to “get on the path of jihad”
It is taken for granted among mainstream counterterror analysts that poverty causes terrorism, yet there is a steady stream of affluent people who join the jihad. And Dr. Youssef Al Majeerteyn seems somehow to have gotten the idea that jihad involves violence against unbelievers. Where did he learn that? Is his mosque in Canada being […]
Bangladesh jihad murderer was well educated and from rich family
John Kerry will be surprised, but no sane person should be. The idea that poverty causes terrorism, and that showering Muslim countries with money will end it, has been shown to be false again and again — although it is still a core assumption of U.S. foreign policy. The New York Times reported in March […]
Israel: 3 Muslim doctors and nurse arrested for jihad terror bombing
Three doctors and a nurse? But John Kerry and other U.S. officials assure us that poverty and lack of opportunity causes terrorism! Reality is, of course, different. The New York Times reported in March that “not long after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001…Alan B. Krueger, the Princeton economist, tested the widespread assumption that poverty […]