We like to think we are superior to the violent Moslems who learned nothing of practical value in their religious studies in the madrassas and are useful only as jihadi cannon fodder:
Text books in Pakistani schools foster prejudice and intolerance of Hindus and other religious minorities, while most teachers view non-Muslims as "enemies of Islam," according to a study by a U.S. government commission released Wednesday.
The findings indicate how deeply ingrained hardline Islam is in Pakistan and help explain why militancy is often supported, tolerated or excused in the country.
And that describes the government schools! The private madrassas are the radical places. Contemplate that.
But what about all of our Grievance Study majors whining that their worthless degrees can't get them jobs to pay off their massive student loans? What did they expect when they only learned another version of the religious madness that our figurative madrassas drum into the heads of their students? Even some of the supposed "best and brightest" are proving to be just soon-to-be credentialed idiots who cannot tolerate blasphemy.
Our "students," who have more competence in hacky sack and drum circles than they do on basic economics, learned to love global warming and liberalism as the answer to all their problems. They've learned to hate all the right targets that correct-thinking leftists believe are hateful.
Why should we be shocked that some of them have been motivated to take to the streets to insist that we should all suffer from a discredited economic system and government philosophy that saves them from their suicidal life plan? Are the Wall Street types who contributed to the recent financial crisis saints? Of course not. But the answer isn't to destroy the system that provided us with the prosperity that those protesters don't seem to understand was created and not just given to us by God (or Che, or Marx, or whoever they think provided the consumer electronics that they carry around even in their Animal Farm camps).
On a personal note, every day I feel better about my history major. I've done pretty well with it, and compared to the grievance studies majors out there my degree is starting to look like a hard science.
