The Discerning Texan

This article (translated by Google translation tools) from IslamOnline tackles the issue of French Muslims joining terrorists in Jihad in different spots of the world. The issue is so huge that even IslamOnline.net has to acknowledge it. The translation at least conveys the meaning which is that (according to the writer) unemployment, poverty and marginalization in society causes these French to join the Jihad.

These are the same false arguments that Islamic apologists present everytime and Robert Spencer and Hugh Fitzgerald of Jihad Watch along with other have refuted them time and again (also here).

In addition to these arguments I add one of mine. Western societies, even, even if we assume that there is this huge bias and marginalization against immigrants and Muslims, offer a times the opportunity available in the Arab world. Freedom of worship, freedom to think and do, freedom to write, public libraries, grants, access to money, etc. I had a French boss 13 years ago who was a reasonable and wonderful man but he once told me that he was so mad at Arabs in France. His reason was the fact that as a native born white French man, whose ancestors were French he could not get a loan to buy a house at reasonable terms. On the other hand he had a Moroccan neighbor who was unemployed and had 7 children who lived off the monthly subsidy the French government provided for each child. When that immigrant needed a house the government either gave him one or gave him a no interest loan (I cannot remember). That immigrant's only contribution to French society was the fact that he came to France, had sex, had 7 children and them sat on his butt and did nothing while my boss toiled to feed his family of 4.

Jihadists know all of these things unfortunately they use their freedoms to move and speak to plot terrorist operations in Europe. Their arguments about injustice and marginalization are only to fuel the guilt in Europeans and Americans who feel bad for brown skinned people or people of color in general which is a guilt that is grossly unfounded since our liberal historians have made us feel as if we are the only nation in all of history who committed the gross atrocities of slavery and discrimination. All this while ignoring the fact that every civilization in history (including the Islamic civilization) contributed to slavery, segregation and discrimination in ways and to a degree that the Western Civilization practice of slavery and segregation at one point makes it look like a model of tolerance and brotherly love. It is time for the West to realize that and release itself from the shackles of guilt imposed on it by liberal historians, the mainstream media and PC correct institutions.