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NEWS that a terror-linked imam is behind an in- your-face Islamic subway- ad blitz should spark one thought: oil.
What’s the link? Maybe none.
But petro-dollars have bought a lot of extremist Muslim influence here and elsewhere. They’ve also helped fund our enemies and assorted terror movements.
Fortunately, the “J-ihad train” campaign comes as perfect-storm conditions push Americans, finally, to do something about oil.
No, there’s no evidence that black gold is funding the ads, a project of the Islamic Circle of North America in Queens. Nor is there anything nefarious per se about the ads’ proselytizing – though terror experts have cited the ICNA’s past support for terror groups, and The Post reported Monday that the imam was linked to the ’93 World Trade Center bombing and plans for other attacks.
But consider what oil dollars are buying: It’s not just huge stakes in US financial concerns and real-estate assets.
Saudi petro-millions have funded madrassas, mosques and Islamic centers here and elsewhere, many with an anti-Western bent – not to mention terrorists in the Mideast. The Saudis have also spent mountains of cash to get places like Harvard and Georgetown to hire faculty friendly to their point of view.
Oil revenues account for 85 percent of the Iranian government’s income – much, used to fund anti-US and anti-Israel terror, destabilize Iraq and Afghanistan and pursue military programs, including (no doubt) nukes. Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez would be a no-name despot but for his oil.
Indeed, so alarmed is oilman T. Boone Pickens that he’s launched a multimillion-dollar campaign to raise red flags. On Tuesday he told Congress of dangers that flow “directly from our overwhelming dependence on foreign oil” – much of which “comes from countries that are not our friends.” This puts us, he says, “in the position of paying for the tools these countries use to embrace, export and manifest” an ideology meant “to see us fail.”
That a big oil tycoon is the one sounding the alarm is telling of the threat we have faced for the last three decades.
Hat tip to the New York Post.
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