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"EXTREMELY poor societies…provide optimal breeding grounds for disease, terrorism and conflict." So said Barack Obama, arguing in favour of more development aid to poor countries. Mr Obama is not alone in regarding economic development as a weapon against terrorism. Hillary Clinton, America's secretary of state, has called development "an integral part of America's national security policy". The idea that poverty could be associated with terrorism is not implausible. If acts of terror are committed by people with little to lose, then it is reasonable to expect them to be carried out disproportionately by poor, ill-educated people with dismal economic prospects.

Fatwa against Terror Operations In a recent fatwa, Egyptian mufti Dr. 'Ali Gum'a ruled that terrorist operations in Muslim countries are against the shari'a, because the latter forbids killing Muslims or harming their property unjustly, because a suicide bomber violates the Islamic prohibition against killing oneself, and because these terrorist acts are used by non-Muslims as a pretext to interfere in the affairs of Muslim states and plunder their resources.

Terror als Widerstand Die offizielle Linie der Bundestagsfraktion vertritt der außenpolitische Sprecher, Norman Paech. Der Hamburger, der sich selbst als Völkerrechtler bezeichnet, lässt wenige Gelegenheiten aus, Israel in die Nähe von Staatsterrorismus und Rassismus zu rücken. Gleichzeitig leugnet Paech den massiven Judenhass der Terrororganisationen, die Israel zerstören wollen. So behauptete Paech auf dem Höhepunkt des Libanonkriegs im Jahre 2006 auf Nachfrage steif und fest: "Antisemitismus gibt es im Nahen Osten nicht." Für den linken Außenpolitiker ist der Terror lediglich Widerstand.

Endlich wieder da: moderate Islamisten!