Gas for terrorists
National Politics Comments (2)
The next time you consider the purchase of a family car that matches satisfying heft with infinitesimal mileage per gallon, you might want to think about where some of that gas money will ultimately be going. Part of the price of every extra gallon helps, albeit indirectly, to finance mosques and religious schools all over the world that spread a fanatical variant of Islam that sees legitimacy in terrorist attacks. This financing, amounting to billions of dollars a year, comes from the government and private charities of Saudi Arabia, a country that is now taking in roughly $80 billion a year from oil exports.
Source: The Saudi Syndrome
I thought we’d been there, done that with this topic. Surely, the Huffington parodies of the ONDCP Super Bowl ads. Remember the ones where they walk you up a chain from the seller on the street to Usama bin Laden?
At the time, liberals decried the commercials, which attacked the premise of drug legalization by saying that money used buy drugs could end up in the hands of terrorists. Today, though, thanks primarily to the efforts of Ms. Huffington, we have a New York Times editorial saying that SUV drivers are funding terrorists when they buy gasoline.
I wonder though, does the money spent by Prius drivers end up in some other pot or are they just funding terrorism more slowly, over a longer term?
MickC @ January 1, 2005