Bright College Days (Paul Jacob wonders about the isms bred in colleges)

 Bright College Days (Paul Jacob wonders about the isms bred in colleges)  -  Our "higher learning centers" often referred to as colleges teach socialism at almost every level and the situation has gotten worse with each year. Keep your kids at home, teach them to work for a living, send them to local schools where you can still have some influence upon them or send them to the military where they'll learn something useful.

August 26, 2011 Bright College Days We parents worry when we send our kids off to college. But do we worry they'll become terrorists? No. But a funny and slightly disturbing article by Colin Lidell in Taki's Magazine takes notice of the deep connection between college life and terrorism. Indeed, "every major Islamist terrorist attack in Britain has been led by university students or recent graduates." Lidell makes a broader point, too, even with his title: "The Persistence of Bourgeois Radicalism." Universities and colleges have long served as hotbeds of extremism: Becoming "radicalized"--whether your bearded prophet happens to be Marx or Muhammad--is essentially code for having too much time on your hands and a sense of smug entitlement. This is the essence of university life. With three years of sleeping late, anything seems possible. The author concludes that the best cure for such radicalism is the requirement of work. He leaves that thought to linger in the readers' minds, letting us extrapolate upon government subsidies to increase the rolls of college student bodies. A related fact, uncovered by previous scholars of Islamic radicalism, is that the main subsidizer of Muslim radicals in the West have been the welfare states of those countries. It seems that the safety nets of British and European states (as well as Canadian and Australian governments) have funded quite a number of terrorist cells. Perhaps one reason America has nurtured fewer home-grown terrorists is our tougher-to-obtain "welfare." This is Common Sense. I'm Paul Jacob. Comment on this episode | View/download the PDF	Paul Jacob is President of Citizens in Charge and Citizens in Charge Foundation, which sponsors both Common Sense and Paul's weekly Townhall Column. The opinions expressed in Common Sense are Paul Jacob's and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Citizens in Charge or Citizens in Charge Foundation.

This email was sent to plbooth@centurytel.net by commonsense@citizensincharge.org |   Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe™ | Privacy Policy. Citizens in Charge Foundation | 2050 Old Bridge Road | Suite 103 | Lake Ridge | VA | 22192