A man, who just two years ago was the poster boy for the far-Left media’s attacks against the U.S. government’s no-fly list for “unfairly” targeting Muslims, finds himself and several family members sitting in a Turkish prison — arrested earlier this month near the Turkey-Syria border as members of an ISIS cell.
But what is the root cause?
Before you create any evidence-based policies you first have to gather the policy-based evidence.
In the alleged minds of the left’s bien pensants, that muslims are oppressed is, like its parent claim that Western Civilization is evil, a conceptual, not an empirical, truth. As such, there cannot be any empirical evidence against it. (Nor, for the same reason, can there be empirical evidence for it, a point most often lost upon them.) The imprisonment of this islamist hero by the Turks is therefore not only no embarrassment to the left, it is a confirmation, as though any were needed, of their view that Turkey, thanks to the criminal Ataturk, is still too western, despite the heroic efforts of the islamist and bestest Obama pal, Erdogan.
As usual, in the rush to demonize all things American, (which includes any of their efforts to avert a disaster) while defending all things about which normal people quite expectedly harbour some uncertainties, has left the usual suspects with egg on their faces. It’s quite fashionable these days to come up with a narrative which contradicts the pattern of conventional and plausible evaluation. It’s meant to somehow show-case a more open-minded advanced form of thinking. Contrarianism posing as insight.
He became self radicalized later after he heard about root causes and realized he wanted to have a sense of belongings with this fellow criminals.