Terrorist Groups Functioning in Islamic Regimes

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As the world mourns the victims of the terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka, David Harsanyi reminds readers of The Federalist that terrorist organizations have deep roots in Islamic regimes around the world. Those regimes, he says “either actively sustain terror, tolerate these groups, or pay them off to engage in terrorism elsewhere.” He writes (abridged):

Those who kill in the name of Islam are part of a worldwide, historic, ideological, and political movement that includes, to various degrees and various reasons, radicalized men and women from both great factions of the faith. Then again, terrorist groups—as well as their recruitment and propaganda outfits—are often functioning in Islamic regimes, which either actively sustain terror, tolerate these groups, or pay them off to engage in terrorism elsewhere.

Yet the American left continues to downplay the danger, first by arguing that Islam has nothing to do with Islamic terrorism, then by lumping every white-skinned person who commits a terrorist act into one imaginary coherent political movement to contrast against it. It’s true that Americans have been spared much Islamic terror since 2002—a year that, curiously, nearly every graph media uses to measure domestic terrorism starts—but only because we’ve spent billions of dollars each year and immense resources, both in lives and treasure, keeping it out of the country and fighting it abroad.

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