Easily the Stupidest Column I’ve Ever Read

Folks, I may have to stop blogging. I just don’t know how I can do it anymore – not after reading this column in the New York Times. This may be the stupidest thing I’ve ever read in a newspaper, and I’m including any article that quotes Cameron Diaz.

The authors premise, as best I can divine it, is that Madrassas – those state-sponsored schools that have so richly earned our watchful gazes for teaching their students absolute hatred for America and Israel – don’t have anything to do with terrorism.

While madrassas may breed fundamentalists who have learned to recite the Koran in Arabic by rote, such schools do not teach the technical or linguistic skills necessary to be an effective terrorist. Indeed, there is little or no evidence that madrassas produce terrorists capable of attacking the West. And as a matter of national security, the United States doesn’t need to worry about Muslim fundamentalists with whom we may disagree, but about terrorists who want to attack us.

Yes, friends, you read that exactly correct. Madrassas aren’t a big deal because, while they may breed fundamentalists, they can’t possibly breed terrorists because terrorists are smarter than Madrassa graduates. Skilled terrorism requires college.

Okay, let that one sink in while I get into a little background here. We’ve heard a lot about madrassas but very little information about what they are so here’s a quick definition. Madrassas are religious schools – similar to Catholic schools or Baptist schools like the one from which I graduated. There are several levels of madrassa which give varying levels of education. The important thing to note here is that a madrassa is controlled by only one religion and that religion may have several dozens, or even hundreds, of madrassas teaching students its particular brand of Islam.

The madrassas about which we most worry are the ones run by the Wahabi sect of Islam. That’s the sect that wants to see the infidels burn and makes absolutely no secret about it.

Now, let’s go back to the column. The contention, remember, is that madrassas can’t possible breed terrorists because they don’t teach those valuable technical skills that today’s terrorist needs to get ahead.

Forget completely that even with technical skills, a terrorist isn’t a terrorist without a deep and abiding hate and you can’t get that just anywhere. That has to be burned into you either by a traumatic event that ignites the hate or by years of relentlesss indoctrination.

You know, like you could get in any of thousands of madrassas run by an anti-American sect of Islam.

But that’s of no importance to the authors. To them, a madrassa is a madrassa is a madrassa. In fact, as they say, there are fewer Pakistani children in madrassas than there are home-schooled children in the US.

Except that we’re not indoctrinating our home-schooled children to kill the infidels are we?

And it’s not like these terrorists in training can’t get their bomb-making skills elsewhere, right? I mean, once you’ve gotten out of a madrassa, you couldn’t possibly go on to college or anything and pick up all those smarts for which the modern terrorist is known. Heck no. That’d be beyond the consideration of this column’s authors. I mean, of what use would a couple thousand people programmed from youth to hate America and everything about it be to international terrorists. They’re all dumb, dumb, dumb so they couldn’t possibly be terrorists. Heck, they’re so dumb that the possibility of their getting more education in countries with a few large universities that happen to be heavily influenced by anti-American Islamists is inconceivable!

And there’s no way in the world that a madrassa-educated person could buy an airplane ticket and fly to America where he could be taught do something like, say drive a bomb-laden truck into an elementary school. No siree. That takes a sheepskin!

Because those terrorists have standards!

Those 72 virgins in Heaven want a college-educated man, you bet!

That’s really the ridiculous assertion this column is making to us today. And the Times published it.

How stupid.

Here is the deal. Indoctrinating children to hate anyone means creating a potential killer, regardless of who is doing the indoctrinating. It so happens that various sects of Islam have a state-sponsored way to indoctrinate tens of thousands of children every single year. We know, for an iron-clad fact, that madrassas are producing people who would love nothing more than to kill Americans or Jews or anyone else who doesn’t follow their own particular brand of Islam. Yet the authors want us to believe that they “…are not and should not be considered a threat to the United States”. We must simply ignore the constant flow of anti-American propaganda they feed their children because those children could never, ever hurt us.

Absolute rubbish. Complete and utter hogswallow. I find it almost impossible to believe that any newspaper much less the New York Times would print something this ridiculously flimsy.

But I suppose it’s what was coming next. First, we have to believe ourselves the bad guys against terrorists. The War on Gitmo seems to be doing that pretty well thus far. Then we have to believe that the folks drilling “Death to America” into the heads of thousands of innocent Arab children aren’t the bad guys. That would be a lot harder to do since those children seem to grow up into suicide bombers and “insurgents” pretty darned well. But a column like this that runs in one of the most prestigious newspapers in the nation instead of the Web Site of some terrorism apologist (or Democratic Underground) is a first step in that direction – a direction that’s going to get an awful lot of us killed.

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