Excerpt from this day’s program:

…And let’s not forget Turkey working with Qatar. If the peoples of Western Europe were not so sickly in spirit, they would immediately convene at NATO Quarters and expel Turkey from NATO. As the Americans are paralyzed when it comes to toppling the Muslim Brotherhood agent in the White House, so NATO is mute and motionless in the face of what has happened to Turkey led by the neo-sultan Erdogan and his sidekick Foreign Minister Davutoglu who have imprisoned hundreds of army officers, the traditional guardians of non-religious governments, and scores of journalists critical of their dictatorship. These brutes are backers of ISIS because ISIS is Sunni.

But I digress. I hit upon Marie Harf because of today’s Washington Post’s scoop that Jihadi John the head-chopper in ISIS speaking perfect British English is a native of Kuwait who grew up in London and went to university and graduated with a degree in computer programming.

One can only wonder how Ms. Harf computes this. Once again, hardly the first time, a Muslim maniac is exposed as no downtrodden member of the exploited proletariat striking out at injustice but yet another well-to-do, comfortable, middle-class, educated fellow. Like Muhammad Atta of 9-11 infamy whose successful dad had enough cash to send him to Germany for his university education. Economic deprivation and political oppression, Marie Hard has yet to understand, has nothing to do with this kind of behavior. Its roots are in the culture of Araby and its principle religion that was only partially successful at suppressing the pagan idolatry of the Arabs two thousand years after Mt. Sinai had turned twelve Jewish tribes into a nation of laws; six centuries after the rise Christianity which also wrestled with paganism…