Tony Snow Explains Why American Muslims Aren’t Participating in the Cartoon Jihad
Q: Why aren’t angry Muslims in the United States torching buildings owned by Danes, Norwegians, French, Spanish and other Cartoon Infidels whose newspapers have printed cartoons, first published in Denmark, bearing the likeness of the Prophet Muhammad?
A: Because American Muslims have better things to do.
Here lies an important fact, too little mentioned or explored. The recent outburst of righteous arson in the Muslim world has been described as a warning to the West, a sign that radical Islam has become a force of considerable sweep and power, an indicator that terrorists have mastered propaganda techniques capable of sending raging hordes into the streets in a matter of minutes.
But another explanation fits the facts. The mayhem has centered in four nations: Afghanistan, Lebanon, Pakistan and Syria. Each has a double-digit unemployment rate, and poverty rates between 32 percent and 52 percent. All have large pools of idle men who can show up for a mob activity at a moment’s notice. In short, they’re havens for losers, uniquely equipped to stage such spectacles.
In other words, it’s amazing how a functioning economy influences civilized behavior.
American Muslims have motive not to join jihad
Western civilization has created something which Western Muslims have every reason to protect. A functioning culture which produces opportunity and freedom is the very thing American Muslims want to protect. What will they have to gain except to sink …
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