Sunday, September 22, 2002
WELFARE IS POSSIBLE CAUSE OF TERRORISM
The original opinion piece appears in the Wall Street Journal. The article is password protected, but Mickey Kaus at Slate excerpts and comments on the original piece. Read the short comments from Kaus, but the crux of the argument says that Germany's welfare state allows Muslim extremists from the Middle East to live outside of German (and Western) society, because they never assimilate by entering the workforce.
The original opinion piece appears in the Wall Street Journal. The article is password protected, but Mickey Kaus at Slate excerpts and comments on the original piece. Read the short comments from Kaus, but the crux of the argument says that Germany's welfare state allows Muslim extremists from the Middle East to live outside of German (and Western) society, because they never assimilate by entering the workforce.