May 9, 2014
Hillary and the Face of Terror
Hillary Clinton, under attack for refusing to label brutal and murderous Nigerian Al Qaeda affiliate, Boko Haram as a terrorist organization during her tenure as Secretary of State, resurrected the old-poverty-causes-Jihadism-myth, rebranding it as “social justice.” Though later, during her now iconic Congressional testimony about Benghazi, Hillary slipped up and admitted that we are facing a “spreading Jihadist threat.”
Of course, Hillary is not the only Obama Administration Official to trot out this demonstrably false canard. President Obama himself infamously voiced the same nonsense right after 9/11, while still a state Senator in Illinois; current Secretary of State John Kerry reiterated it last fall, and Code Pink has also attempted to recently perpetrated the myth.
The poverty-causes-Jihadism myth is itself an evolution of the original poverty-causes-suicide-bombings myth, or poverty-causes-terrorism-in-general, which became a Leftist cause...(Read Full Article)