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Will Oil Make or Break the Islamic State?
by Ben Cohen •
September 18, 2014 at 5:00 am
Now, with
the Islamic State's self-proclaimed caliphate having captured key oil wells
in the Middle East this year, foreign oil has become an even more lethal
financial weapon-of-choice for those seeking to destroy democracy and further
escalate the War on Terror.
That
President Barack Obama failed even to mention oil as a critical factor in the
war against IS during his speech to the nation on September 10, is an
omission both revealing and dangerous in terms of how his administration
wants to depict the stakes involved in this latest confrontation with the
jihadis.
America's failure to achieve energy independence over the last 30 years
has resulted in exponential oil price increases that have hurt our nation.
Trillions of dollars have left, and billions more continue to leave our
economy to purchase oil from countries that seek our destruction, and to
support madrassas [Islamic religious schools] that teach new Muslim
generations how to hate -- and worse.
Now, with the self-proclaimed caliphate of the Islamic State [IS] having
captured key oil wells in the Middle East this year, foreign oil has become
an even more lethal financial weapon-of-choice for those seeking to destroy
democracy and further escalate the War on Terror.
Children as Suicide Bombers in Islamic Countries
by Lawrence A. Franklin
• September 18, 2014 at 4:00 am
One
Pakistani recruiter of child suicide bombers describes these children as
"tools provided by God."
Another
Muslim cleric in a madrassa [Islamic boys' school] describes child
suicide bombers as "a gift from Allah that we have an unlimited number
willing to be sacrificed to teach Americans a lesson."
Using
children as suicide bombers will stop when... they stop "condoning the
killing of innocents."
The most unconscionable form of child abuse is perhaps the least
addressed by human rights organizations: the recruitment and indoctrination
of children by jihadi extremists who transform them into suicide bombers and
child soldiers.
Hamas's intentional targeting of Israel by missiles this summer from
within densely populated neighborhoods of Gaza filled with Palestinian
children is the most callous form of child-abuse yet devised.
During the recent hostilities between Hamas and Israel, media focus
remained on the number of civilians -- especially children -- killed in Gaza.
There was almost no mention, however of the cynical intent by Hamas to draw
Israeli fire on its own people.
This deliberate infliction of harm and death on one's own populace was
likely designed to win the propaganda war in an attempt to demonize Israel in
the court of world opinion.
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