…Yesterday in the Torah reading we were introduced to Ishmael and boy are those verses as current as the latest news. In one of the weekend newspapers one report cited the security forces reckoning that most of the violent these days are 16 and 17 years old. These are the ones without a conscience, without human empathy, functionally psychopathic personalities.

And what also is true is the power they have to steer the ship of state so to speak, the community of Arabs. They are the “street Arabs,” a term you will find in the Oxford English Dictionary. In my travels through Arab countries, I saw them everywhere; young men, idle, with nothing to do, and I’ve no doubt one cause of this excess of young men with nothing to do is the polygamy that is common in Araby. They have too many children to raise properly. Osama bin Ladin’s father had children with 56 different women.

They have too many kids that the society cannot sustain. They are also a culture of inbreeding, making a fetish of marrying close cousins…