I Guess Finding Terrorists Jobs Isn’t The Answer

Yesterday the New York Post posted an editorial in response to intelligence information regarding Jihad John, shown in ISIS videos beheading westerners.

The article reminds us that the facts show the fallacy of recent U.S. State Department comments on terrorists:

Contrary to the claim that the attraction to radical Islam is being driven by economic deprivation, Emwazi grew up in a wealthy household in West London, attended nice schools and graduated with a degree in computer programming.

And he was no recent transplant: His family moved to Britain from Kuwait back when he was six.

This picture should put to rest the ridiculous assertion by the State Department’s Marie Harf that fighting ISIS means understanding the “root causes that leads people to join these groups” — e.g., a lack of good jobs.

Hostages who escaped ISIS’s clutches described Emwazi as “obsessed” with Somalia and say he forced them to watch videos of ISIS-offshoot al-Shabaab.

Jihad John, Muhammad Emwazi, is educated an middle-class. Osama bin Laden was wealthy. It seems that material or professional success has very little to do with becoming a terrorist.