George W. Bush, leading evangelist… for Islam
Young people want to be powerful and imitate those whom they read about in the newspaper. During George W. Bush’s presidency, whom have they read about in the paper? Osama bin-Laden, Saddam Hussein, Zacarias Moussaoui, Abu Musab Zarqawi, Muqtada al-Sadr, and the list goes on. Nearly all of these guys are powerful take-charge ass-kickers. Unlike the Gangsta Rappers whom kids were imitating in the 1990s, the Muslims in Western newspapers don’t merely wave 9mm pistols out the windows of their SUVs. These guys actually do manage to kill the people they hate, often by the thousands.
If George W. Bush had delegated the pushing aside of Saddam to an underling in the State Department or Defense Department and never mentioned the words “Iraq” or “Saddam” in any speech he might not have glorified being a pissed-off Muslim to such an extent. But as it happens W. has given center stage to angry Muslims for the last three years. This might encourage older folks with a lot of property to protect to become fearful, vote Republican, and give up their civil liberties in exchange for security. But for young punks without much to lose one would think that the sight of all of these Arab bad-asses on TV would encourage them to convert to Islam and at least talk the talk if not actually walk the walk. (According to this International Herald Tribune article, it is already happening in France, especially in the prisons where more than 50% of the inmates are Muslim.)
