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Khalid Shaikh Mohammed shocked many Americans with his boastful Guantanamo confession claiming “credit” for some 31 terrorist assaults (including 9/11) and describing foiled attempts to stage many more. The most alarming revelation about this vicious mass murderer, however, involves his background: he received his college education entirely in the United States, subsidized by the generosity of dedicated Christian donors and taxpayers in North Carolina. Born in oil-rich Kuwait to a family of Pakistani ancestry, Mohammed enrolled first at tiny Chowan College, a devout Baptist institution in rural Murfreesboro, North Carolina, and then transferred to the historically black campus of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, where he earned a degree in mechanical engineering. In other words, he based his life on murderous hatred and hostility to the United States not because our nation harmed him, but because we helped him; not because he knew nothing about the character of America, but because he, in fact, experienced it first hand. While Dinesh D’Souza argues that Muslim fanatics hate us because our elites have abandoned traditional values, in the case of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed he got to know some of the most wholesome, traditional corners of “red state” America. Those who suggest that we can deflect al Qaeda attempts to destroy us by showing more generosity and openness for the Islamic world ought to consider Mohammed’s sobering example, and to consider what, exactly, North Carolina taxpayers and donors to Chowan College got in return for their generosity in underwriting the education of a criminal, America-hating mastermind.
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