Spoiled rich suicide bombers

Class warfare, Islamist style

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When you read reports that the Muslim terrorists who bombed the London Underground may have gotten together for a pre-attack whitewater rafting trip in Wales, you realize that this is a very particular enemy ? and one that is recognizable to students of history.

This is the revolt of the privileged, Islamic version. They have risen so far, so fast in the dizzying culture of the West that they have become enraged, disoriented and vulnerable to manipulation.

Their spiritual leader is the son of a Saudi billionaire, who grew up with big ideas and too much money...

Reading some of the London bombers' biographies, you realize the depth of their cultural confusion: "Shahzad Tanweer, 23, came from one of Beeston's most respected families," wrote The London Independent about one of the July 7 bombers. And according to The Washington Post, he had just received a red Mercedes from his dad.

This is not Patty Hearst or the Weather Underground - it's a far more deadly revolt of privilege. But people who were students in the 1960s will remember the phenomenon: The kids from elite public and private schools who went to college, felt guilty about their comfort amid a brutal world, and joined the Progressive Labor Party to ally with oppressed Third World workers. There is a cult aspect to this jihad - an extreme version of the logic that has always drawn disaffected kids to self-destructive behavior...

According to Vincenzo Oliveti in his fine study of the Salafists, titled "Terror's Source," their religious teaching casts aside the traditional canon - the "Sunna" that make up Sunni Islam - in favor of a have-it-your-way smorgasbord. A favorite saying of the Salafists, according to Oliveti, is nahnu rijal wa hum rijal, which he translates loosely as "We are all men so why should we accept that anybody knows better than us?"

What will stop this revolt of privileged Muslims? One possibility is that it will be checked by the same process that derailed the revolt of the rich kids in America after the 1960s - namely, the counter-revolt of the poor kids. Poor Muslims simply can't afford the rebellion of their wealthy brethren, and the havoc it has brought to the House of Islam. For make no mistake: The people suffering from jihadism are mostly Muslims...

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And Muslims are increasingly getting fed up with the terrorists. Even in places where the government has long used the West as a scapegoat. Isalmofascism is showing its true face and losing support thereby.

No wonder the Left love these murderous lunatics. It's a filial recognition. "Hey, we're all spoiled rich neurotic f***wits here!" But our brand of these a**holes mostly just run interference for mass murderers. These guys *are* the mass murderers.

The rich are arrogant at best, and frequently insane. The trust fund kiddies are the worst - no contact with reality at any point. And the poor are largely powerless. Besides, the poor as such don't constitute a clearly identifiable class with a single value system. Salvation lies with the middle class. Long live the bourgeois revolution!

Oh, and a shout out to our freedom loving brethen being repressed in Cuba, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Myanmar and elsewhere. Keep the faith, and don't let the bastards grind you down. Uncle Sam and friends will bail you out in time.

Likewise the Dalits, and the Muslims in Gujarat. The current administration's policy on India reeks of realpolitik, but we'll get it right eventually. The Iraqi Kurds and Shia Arabs also had to wait, but not in vain.



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