Posted on 02/25/2014 8:08:43 AM PST by kristinn
Terrorist supporter Susan ‘Medea’ Benjamin spoke sympathetically of al Qaeda terrorists in a speech to a leftist group in Miami, Florida last week.
Benjamin, co-founder of the leftist front group Code Pink, spoke on February 18th to a gathering of fellow leftists at Florida International University according to a report by the leftist site FightBack!News.
“Medea Benjamin spoke about her travels to American-created war zones and areas being targeted by U.S. drones. She described tragic encounters with families of those murdered by American drones in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Somalia – including the mother of three sons who were all targeted and killed by drone strikes.
“”It is horrible that there are so many innocent casualties,” she said. “But even those actually targeted by drones and labeled as ‘militants’ are usually young people who join organizations like Al Qaeda because they don’t have much and have run out of options. Hearing their families speak about them was like hearing about young people who decide to join gangs in the U.S.””
Yes, Susie, people who join al Qaeda–the world-renowned terrorist group famous for the 9/11 attacks on America–are doing so for the paycheck, not the promise of eternal life with 72 virgins and the chance to slaughter Americans, Jews and anti-Islamist Muslims with bombings, plane hijackings and suicide attacks.
Benjamin also fails to note that many al Qaeda terrorists are well educated sons (and daughters) of privilege.
Last year Benjamin and her Code Pink co-leader—and Obama bundler—Jodie Evans traveled to Yemen where they met with the father of slain al Qaeda spiritual leader Anwar al-Awlaki and raised funds for the families of al Qaeda terrorists.
Such talk and terrorist alliances have not prevented Code Pink from working with President Barack Obama and leaders in the Democratic Party.
Actually, she’s right. The street gang leaders need to be declared “enemy combatants”, arrested, and sent to Gitmo, too.
Code Pink stinks.
Equating terrorism as caused by poverty is nothing more that making an excuse for terrorism...
Going off of just the headline, I can agree with her. But from a different perspective.
Street gangs terrorize innocent people just as al Qaeda. Methods may be different, but the effect is the same.
I’m pretty certain she does not see it that way...
Marxists and Al Queda are on the same side. They both hate America equally.
Pray America wakes up
Inner city miscreants are murderous terrorists, so she got that right.
The 19 hijackers on 9-11 were hardly poor.
Bin Laden and Zawahiri were hardly poor.
Its the religion. - Tom
“Ugly Bob, your face looks like somebody tried to put out a forest fire with a screwdriver.”
Phillip - South Park
That’s who she reminds me of. When will they start making her wear a bag over her face? Would be a public service to us all.
Then how does she explain the terrorists from Saudi Arabia, like Bin Laden, who was a millionaire?...................
marxists are atheists. islamists are not. It’s a marriage of convenience, with atheism destroyed if fulfilled. Even hillary knows it of late.
Then how does she explain the terrorists from Saudi Arabia, like Bin Laden, who was a millionaire?...................
She cannot, she is purposely ignoring the one primary cause of terrorism today: Islamic Jihad.
I have yet to hear something from Code Pink that is not disgusting.
Street gangs are pretty ugly, to be sure, but I don’t see any of them massacring schools full of little girls for the audacity to try to learn to read. I don’t see street gangs doing car bombings in crowded marketplaces. I don’t see street gangs hijacking jets and flying them into skyscrapers. What on earth Medea Benjamin sees I’d just as soon not know.
I’m not sure why that is a big deal. Both cultures need to be exterminated.
Don’t let the left control the conversation. Let it go and say what you want about issues.
We must never again react to them - let them speak into a vacuum, they say this crap to have normal society to react.
“DAWI”
Don’t Argue With Idiots - they pull you down to there level and beat you with experience.
Just noticed the byline...congrats.
We do see street gangs randomly firing into crowds that include children in drive-bys.
But to be fair to them, I’m not aware of many times they intentionally targeted children.
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