We missed Salim Mansur’s last weekly column as he’s been in Morocco. But he’s returned home now, and he gave me a heads up to an interview he did last month, for an organization called The Investigative Project on Terrorism, which he thought we’d be interested in. There’s also a good short video clip of Dr. Mansur being 
interviewed.
Here’s an excerpt:
Mansur: Ignoring Muslim-on-Muslim Violence Undercuts U.S. Interests
…Mansur was scathingly critical of comments by President Obama suggesting a connection between poverty and the attempted Christmas Day bombing near Detroit, and by White House senior adviser John Brennan, who suggested that dealing with “underlying grievances” is critical to defeating Islamist terror.
“I would say it’s a totally disingenuous argument. The fact that it is being said from the highest pulpit in a free society, a political pulpit of the President of the United States, is very troubling. The Christmas bomber was not a man who was living on a dollar a day; he was the son of a millionaire. Faisal Shahzad, who tried to blow up Times Square, was not some poor peasant from Pakistan; he was the son of a two- or three-star general in the air force,” Mansur said. “Most of…the people who did 9/11 came from Saudi Arabia, and they were not people working in the field barely scratching out a living.”
If poverty were the cause of terrorism, “why don’t we hear about Indian Muslims strapping on bombs” and carrying out suicide attacks? Mansur asked.
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