Blame Anything But Islam
Joe Queenan writes in the WSJ about various media people blaming Faisal Shahzah's attempt at Times Square jihad on the foreclosure proceedings on his Connecticut home:
Ruminating about the circumstances that drove Shahzad around the bend, CNN's Jim Acosta said that the possibility of losing one's house most assuredly "brought a lot of pressure and a lot of heartache on that family."Even more insightful was Ezra Klein of the Washington Post, remarking: "It's a reminder that foreclosures generate an enormous amount of misery and anxiety and depression that can tip people into all sorts of dangerous behaviors that don't make headlines but do ruin lives. And for all that we've done to save the financial sector, we've not done nearly enough to help struggling homeowners."
No, we haven't. And since an awful lot of people of all nationalities are in foreclosure at this very moment, the authorities are going to need all the help they can get in monitoring this situation. If you know of anyone in your neighborhood that has fallen behind in his mortgage payments, immediately contact the police.
As CNN's and the Post's astute analyses make clear, homeowners are only one missed payment away from becoming depraved terrorists. This is yet another case where unscrupulous mortgage brokers, heartless banks and conscienceless real-estate agents have brought this society to its knees.
Perhaps he bought the house for privacy while constructing bombs, meeting with fellow terrorists, etc. and intended to let it foreclose. Maybe in his mind he was just paying rent.
Patty at May 9, 2010 4:54 AM
If there had just been more art school scholarships available in Vienna in the 1920s...
david foster at May 9, 2010 7:16 AM
Mark Steyn nails the insanity that is the Left here.
Robert W. (Vancouver) at May 9, 2010 8:05 AM
The money line in that Mark Steyn article is this:
"Incidentally, one way of falling behind with your house payments is to take half a year off to go to Pakistan and train in a terrorist camp."
The left in this country can only wish they had someone with 1/10th the insight, intelligence, and talent as the great Mr. Steyn.
David Crawford at May 9, 2010 8:15 AM
Faisal Shahzad did not do this because he was a radical muslim; he did it because he was a disgruntled "tea-bagger." /MUCHO SARCASMO
mpetrie98 at May 9, 2010 4:55 PM
Yet that guy in Texas who flew into the IRS building was immediately a right wing domestic tea bagger terrorist.
Nevermind his published rants against pretty much everyone in government, right and left side of the aisle. Oh, and he actually did have money troubles IIRC.
Sio at May 9, 2010 6:10 PM
I still wonder why the news-cycle is still praising that moron by giving him airtime. He's a lousy bloke who did a botched job at making an IED. I look at his set-up and even I could had done better!
Having a Jihadist group in Pakistan claiming responsibility on this is like a corporation praising a defective product. Are we supposed to be afraid of that?
Toubrouk at May 10, 2010 6:06 AM
I thought the foreclosure was somewhat deliberate; that is, that he stopped making payments because he was planning to commit his little act of incompetent bombmaking.
Astra at May 10, 2010 9:17 AM
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