An interview with Henrik Day Poulsen, psychiatrist, Ph.D., translated by Nicolai Sennels for 10news.dk:
Our laws are not geared to understand or cope with the fundamentalist mind. Their perception of reality is completely intact, unlike that of the insane person, whose mind is completely chaotic and who would therefore never will be able to plan a professional attack such as the one we witnessed in Paris Wednesday this week. …
And here we find a very important point where you have to understand how a fanatic thinks. They break all the social norms and rules that we take for granted. Norms like respect and being fair, considerate and trustworthy become secondary to the fight for what the fanatic wants to achieve. The end justifies the means. Untrustworthiness, falsehood, deceit and manipulation are fully acceptable when acting in the name of God. Even though the scripture says that one is not allowed to lie.
Understanding such standards is important when trying to understand a fanatic. And if you understand the fanatic mind, you will know why constructive dialogue is impossible. Obviously, a fanatic will show up and discuss issues with politicians, as we see in the media. But when the camera is turned off and everyone has gone home, they laugh in their beard and prepare the next fanatical deed. In the name of God, of course.
It is well known that psychopaths lie, manipulate, steal and kill for personal gain. The thrill of committing crimes is often also a key motivation. Most people can understand the psychopath mind, and we have great experience in handling them in a democratic society. We have laws, courts and police to lock them up. But if you think that the Muslims in Grimhøjmoskeen (a Danish mosque famous for sending jihadis to Syria) or the terrorists in Paris are “just” a bunch of psychopathic criminals, you make a serious mistake.
The psychology of a fanatic is often quite different, although their tendency to speak with two tongues, lie and distort the truth may look like the usual psychopathic jailbird.
A very good illustration of the difference between a psychopath and a fanatic is the fact that the two French brothers of North African descent … almost in a provocative manner left their identity cards in the getaway car. A normal, experienced criminal would never be so stupid, since this obviously increases the risk of being discovered and caught. This action reads like a suicide bomber who knows that he or she will die with 100 percent certainty. A true psychopath will do anything to escape and will instead hire a “useful idiot” to do the dangerous and dirty work.
The two brothers did the dirty work themselves and are proud of it. They are heroes and are probably already hailed as heroes on various Muslim extremist websites. If they are caught and sentenced to life in prison, they would continue their dissemination of fundamentalist Islam inside the prison, because our prison system does not take into account the danger that such people represent. …
In my opinion we should have special departments for fundamentalist Muslims in prison, so they do not have the opportunity to indoctrinate the paltry jailbird Mohammed or Ismael sentencing for drug crime or violence, and who experience themselves marginalized in society and as treated unfairly.
Our legislation is simply not geared to understand and cope with the fundamentalist mind.
St. Croix says
“In my opinion we should have special departments for fundamentalist Muslims in prison, so they do have the opportunity to indoctrinate the paltry jailbird Mohammed or Ismael sentencing for drug crime or violence, and who experience themselves marginalized in society and as treated unfairly.”
(Does he mean to say “…so they do not have the opportunity…”? Seems like that is what he might have said but I have not read the original)
At any rate I say FINALLY! Some good sense coming out on this topic! And it’s about time. Someone with no understanding of religious sensibilities will have difficulty understanding how they think for sure. And anyone with some psych. courses knows these two jihadis are not crazy or mentally ill. The are devoutly Muslim.
vlparker says
I call them psychopaths all the time, just like I call Mohammed a psychopath. But I know they really aren’t, they are just evil. I guess I will have to stop throwing that word around when describing jihadists.
Ed says
True, they are both.
Don McKellar says
Very good interview. A professional mental health opinion, that clearly states the problem being faced. Great post.
Wellington says
Fitting since the character of the founder of Islam was one which demonstrated psychopathic tendencies——and narcissistic tendencies——and pedophiliac tendencies——–and complete control-freak tendencies——and……, and…… and……
Mohammed deserves no respect, only scorn. Start from here and the entire Islamic house of cards will come tumbling down. If you devastate Mohammed, and he so deserves devastation, you devastate Islam, and Islam so deserves devastation. As Mohammed goes, so goes Islam. A sure bet.
mortimer says
According to a Rand Corporation report on counter-terrorism, prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense (US), terrorists ARE NOT particularly impoverished, uneducated, or AFFLICTED BY MENTAL DISEASE.
“Terrorists are not particularly impoverished, uneducated, or afflicted by mental disease. Demographically, their most important characteristic is normalcy (within their environment). Terrorist leaders actually tend to come from relatively privileged backgrounds. These conclusions are firmly supported by empirical analysis.”
Jihadism is now called an ‘overvalued ideation’, rather than an illness.
Salah says
“As Mohammed goes, so goes Islam.”
That’s exactly what we should do: destroy the character of the founder of Islam…from their own “holy” books, using their own “holy” language.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/12/perfect-man-arabic.html
jihad3tracker says
EXCELLENT REALITY ! ! !
ALSO LOOK UP POSTINGS OF DR. NIKOLAI SENNELS HERE AND ON THE WEB — ESPECIALLY ONE TITLED “WHY ISLAM CREATES MONSTERS” .
As I have urged before, visit these websites PLEASE : http://www.inquiryintoislam.com / http://www.citizenwarrior.com / http://www.thereligionofpeace.com / http://www.barenakedislam.com / http://www.pamelageller.com.
ONE OF THE FIRST TWO RESOURCES LISTED ABOVE HAS “THE TERRIFYING BRILLANCE OF ISLAM” — intended without sarcasm. Muhammad created a superb way of entrapping all those who came seeking a belief system.
That “terrifying brilliance” article goes into the strategy . . .well worth 15 minutes to read it. And, of course, pass all of these specifics along to friends and family who still are clueless.
somehistory says
Quote: “A true psychopath will do anything to escape and will instead hire a “useful idiot” to do the dangerous and dirty work.”
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This is not necessarily true. Many psychopaths do their own *dirty work* and thoroughly enjoy it. Sometimes the *dirty work* is just manipulating others out of their money, or other moral crimes. Many psychopaths end up in prison for serious crimes of *dirty work.* Up to and including serial murder.
And didn’t the two brothers run from the police to get away, to get inside the printing plant? They said they were desiring death for their false god, but just as the *true psychopath* will try to stay free and alive, these two didn’t just turn themselves in after they *avenged* their false prophet, and they tried to preserve their lives.
mortimer says
The Kouachi brothers wanted to destroy a print shop (the printer of Charlie Hebdo?).
This mindset is called ‘overvalued ideation’. They were not psychopathic. They were ‘true believers’ as were the Nazis who shot themselves rather than surrender.
somehistory says
islam is a disease straight from the devil, It infects heart, mind and soul. Psychopaths are drawn to the very things where there inner motives and desires can be realized, just as child molesters/rapists go where there are children and find jobs in order to have easy access to their prey.
It is impossible for anyone, layman, or doctor, to determine whether these particular two were psychopathic fanatics who worshipped the murdering, lying rapist they called a prophet, or just fanatical in their worship of the devil’s progeny.
My point was that a *true psychopath* will do, and enjoy doing, dirty work…killing, stealing, raping, causing heartache…many have deliberately created serious problems for their own parents/ siblings in order to feel the thrill their brain craves.
In any case, they had no conscience, nor remorse, no empathy, and felt it so very easy to lie to cover over what they had done that they knew was a wrong against society…or they would not have run away from their first murders. Psychopaths are the same…no remorse, no conscience, no empathy and lie easily to cover so as to escape punishment and keep on doing wrong.
mortimer says
‘Psychopathy’ is determined by an objective list of criteria.
somehistory says
Psychologists and psychiatrists can’t really make a determination without actually seeing and talking with the individual. They may make *educated* guesses based on what others tell them about the person, on writings by the person and if possible, video, etc. But they can’t really determine *if* unless they talk with, usually more than once, and listen to the individual. I’m not a psychologist, but have had them as professors (while studying anti-terrorism, profiling, and other related subjects) and was told that by one of the best in his field.
The doctor who made the statements quoted in the article would have had to actually talk to these guys to determine exactly. I don’t know whether or not he did, but suspect not.
mortimer says
Islam has all the characteristics of a religious cult:
http://www.csj.org/infoserv_cult101/checklis.htm
Calling it ‘a disease’ won’t help to resolve the problem.
somehistory says
As long as people in power are making excuses for it, lying about it and covering for it and its image, it won’t matter if some of us refer to the murderers as psychopaths….which is a personality disorder, and the are fully aware of what they are doing.
As far as it being an actual disease, like small pox, measles, TB, etc., it isn’t. But the teaching of little kids in madrases and mosques full of preaching and praying for the death of others and teaching lies as though they are truths is a disease of the devil, a mental state of blindness to what is behind the lies and what is really going to happen to them for killing other people, praying for the death of others.
Writing the word *islam* should be enough description without any adjectives. In a *sane* and righteous world, it would be as it would be recognized as satanic.
No, these two and their companion, the one in the Jewish market, the ones who are killing children in Iraq, Syria, Nigeria, and all over the world it seems are not *diseased* in the medical sense. They are not *mentally deficient* in the medical sense. They may not all have a personality disorder such as psychopathy. But in a spiritual sense….they are diseased, mentally and morally deficient.
Katnis says
Interesting, thoughtful article. Also interesting to know that muslims are instructed and encouraged to lie and deceive to protect and further their causes.
100% agreed that muslims should be detained away from other prisoners. Jails in the US present recruiting opportunities.
Jay Boo says
Islamopath:
A follower of the Serpent of Satan Muhammad.
ECAW says
Islamopath – excellent term. We must spread it.
Jay Boo says
Thanks ECAW
Glad to share
I hope that it will be used by others at JW and beyond
ECAW says
Here is my attempt to spread the word:
https://ecawblog.wordpress.com/islamopathy/
Mirren10 says
‘Islamopath:
A follower of the Serpent of Satan Muhammad.”
Good one.
Richard Sherman says
Psychiatric mumbo jumbo..
This is not rocket science: Muhammad was a sociopath who personally decapitated 600 – 900 unarmed Jews…Since 627 every Muslim who emulates his sociopathogy by murdering people is just another worthless sociopath ( is there any other kind?)..
As Churchill said with great prescience in 1899: ” Islam in a man is as dangerous as rabies in a dog”.
Wellington says
I’m inclined to agree. Seems a true fanatic is, in effect, one kind of a psychopath (sociopath) and not someone entirely or even mostly different from your “standard” psychopath.
Gardener says
You use words like sociopath as if they meant what you want them to mean, quick and easy words to dehumanize the enemy. If you genuinely think, for instance, that all Islamic State members are sociopathic, you are quite simply mistaken. The majority of them are not sociopathic. Sociopaths do not have a conscience or sense of moral responsibility. Islamic fanatics at large believe they are doing everything they do for a just and good cause and that they are fulfilling their moral responsibility by fighting evil. It is an upside-down world-view to be sure, but similarly a soldier in any war believes he is waging war for a just and good cause. Sometimes that cause may be just, but in every war there are two (or more) sides that all have soldiers believing they are fighting for a just and good cause! They aren’t sociopaths just because they are incorrect in their beliefs and their interpretation of reality.
In the case of Islamic fanatics, they are brainwashed into their absurd cause by Islamic doctrine. Perhaps Muhammad was a psychopath himself as many religious leaders and gurus are, and his followers then mirror his pathology. Nonetheless, there is a significant difference between the psychology of the fundamentalist and that of the sociopath, and that difference is not mumbo jumbo at all. The more it is studied and understood the more effectively the fundamentalist mindset and indoctrination can be countered. Sociopaths certainly can and do attach themselves to one cause or another, but that doesn’t make the average jihadis sociopaths as such.
Wellington says
True believers (or, if you like, fanatics or fundamentalists) in a totalitarian ideology, and Islam is a totalitarian ideology, very much tend to look at the world in an excessive us v. them kind of way and the “them” are essentially objects, things, to the “us.” This is quite psychopathic and so I would argue that the Muslim fanatic, utterly devoid of any true Golden Rule guidance, is very much a psychopath.
ECAW says
Excellent comment Gardener. Calling religious fanatics sociopaths or psychopaths misses the mark.
Likewise, calling religions we don’t like cults won’t do. It’s the same as calling plants we don’t like weeds. Looking at this again:
http://www.csj.org/infoserv_cult101/checklis.htm
there are things that don’t seem to fit, for instance size. In everyday usage we think of a cult as small, the startup phase of a religion. Most die with the charismatic founder but some don’t, like Mohammed’s alas. I imagine Mormonism was once dismissed as a cult. Now it’s called a religion. Perhaps, if it survives another hundred years, Scientology will be generally accepted as a religion.
Looking at this criterion:
“The leader is not accountable to any authorities (unlike, for example, teachers, military commanders or ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream religious denominations).”
isn’t this just an appearance due to size? Priests and monks are accountable to authorities because there are so many people involved and there has to be a formal organisation but the Pope isn’t accountable to anyone. No religions that I know of are democracies.
Also, fully formed religions display various cultish characteristics in varying degrees in different parts of their organisation and at different times in their history. If Islam is a cult today then so must have been 16th century Catholicism.
Sandra says
Evil….has NO power without our permission or omission.
We have laws to live by….from Adonai….God Almighty. If we break a law…we are to be punished. No pity or exception….unless it’s self defense and with 2 or more trustworthy witnesses.
Demonic possessions are all around Washington…..Hollywood…religion…music industry….middle east…spreading like cancer….humanity MUST TAKE CONTROL! Stop giving Satan strength by fearing him and his minions. Use the power that Adonai gave us ALL….when we call on Adonai! We must rebuke all of Obama and his minions now!….in the name of Adonai.
Bezelel says
The bright side is there is no legal defense of insanity if they are labeled fanatics. Their behaviour is still criminally insane and when confronted with their behaviour it is not time to rationalize or debate. They will have already chosen the time and place and method.Hesitation is not a good thing in a fight or flight scenario.
Ren says
To think that a jihadi is crazy or is a sychopath is to remove all responsability from his acts. Just like in a murderer trial, one often brings up mental disorder as an alibi to disculpate him of all responsability. A jihadi is foremost a muslim. What drives him to commit crazy or sychopathed deeds comes from part of the teaching of Islam.
somehistory says
No, to find that a criminal is a psychopath does not absolve him/her of guilt for the crimes they commit. There are many, many men, and some women, in prisons for crimes they committed and prison psychiatrists/psychologists have diagnosed them as psychopaths. Some are said to be sociopaths and some doctors use these terms interchangeably as they are so very nearly the same in aspect.
The psychopath knows exactly what he/she is doing when doing it…they are not insane…they just want to do what they do as everything is all about them personally. They care not for how others feel or what they may need.
Ren says
Laws might differ in countries. In Canada, if a mental disorder is proven while one is committing a murder then he is considered not criminally responsible… Check recent Guy Turcotte case, a cardiologist who stabbed his two children to death.
somehistory says
Of course, my comment was drawn from U.S. law, not Canadian. In the U.S., a person can be *mentally Ill*…but if they know what they are doing is *wrong*…they still have to be given a sentence. Only if they can show…which is very, very difficult…they had no knowledge of what they were doing as being *wrong* at the time they committed the crime…can they be found *not guilty by reason of insanity.* And then, they are still confined, but in a mental institution. They are not allowed to be free until a doctor is willing to certify that the person is no longer insane…and there is the medical term of insanity which is not the same as the legal term of insanity. Having a *personality disorder* …which is what a psychopath dx is…and being *insane* is not the same either.
So, if it is different in Canada, if a mentally ill person is allowed to go free after killing someone, I find that very strange law.
somehistory says
I looked up the doctor and found that he spent nearly four years locked up and then was re-tried for the same crime, although being found not guilty because of his mental condition at his first trial. That is a big difference from U.S. double jeopardy law, but he still was confined in a mental hospital…which also happens in the U.S. in cases of not guilty by reason of insanity.
Glorfindel says
There is one glaring mistake in the article: The second last paragraph leaves out a “not”. It should say “In my opinion we should have special departments for fundamentalist Muslims in prison, so they do NOT have the opportunity to indoctrinate the paltry jailbird Mohammed or Ismael sentencing for drug crime or violence, and who experience themselves marginalized in society and as treated unfairly.”
Christian scripture certainly injunct against lying: The Ten Commandments (don’t bear false witness) and Jesus in Matthew 5:37 – “Simply let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.”
Against that, Islam has “sacred lying” in the form of Taqiyya, Kithman, Tawriya and Muruna.
Bezelel says
I saw that too, I’m thinking it was a typo. Not would fit right in.
Deirdre Gates says
Apparently we now have two groups of mentally peculiar people opposing each other: 1. All those wicked islamophobes, whose derangement is deemed criminal, and 2. Moslems in jihad mode, whose psychopathic predilections can be excused on grounds of their psychopathy.
It seems the only certifiably sane people are the politicians, the bankers, journalists and the sheeple.
duh_swami says
It’s not true that psychopaths are scatter brained and can’t make a plan…
The movie character Hannibal Lecter was a psychopath.
In the institution, it is not a diagnosis that is treated, it is behavior.
Like most psychiatrists who sit in a cozy office and prescribe medications,
few have had actual institutional experience.
He’s right that most Mahoundians are not psychopaths, but some of their behavior mimics psychopathic behavior, like no remorse for murdering people.
Of course Allah lets them off the hook with Q 8:17.
Talk is useless when the monster is hanging off your arm by his teeth. You better do something besides talk…A whole lot of psychobabble is not going to help…
Jacob Metz says
To believe that Islam is a religion of peace is the same as believing an abusive husband loves his wife. He swears love and devotion to his wife and beats her every night. “I love you,” the husband declares as he strikes her again and again.
Actions speak louder than words. There is an old Arabic proverb- There are four fingers between truth and falsehood (while holding four fingers between the eye and the ear).
The world hears the Muslims spew peaceful rhetoric and claim that they are only trying to live godly and in harmony with their neighbors; the world also sees the violence, terror, and genocide the Muslims perpetrate around the globe.
If you think that, when they gain the upper hand, Muslims will treat you with justice and equity, all you have to do is look at their behavior when they gained the upper hand in Syria and Iraq- there were mass murders of religious minorities.
All you need remember is that you’re next on their list.
DeusLoVult says
Excellent. Couldn’t have stated it better myself.
duh_swami says
An interview with Henrik Day Poulsen, psychiatrist, Ph.D.
I hate to say anything, but a psychiatrist is a MD, not a PHD. A PHD is a psychologist. A psychiatrist must be a medical doctor first, then specialize in psychiatry, a PHD does not. A Psychiatrist can prescribe medications, a PHD cannot. It takes 10-12 years + to become a psychiatrist, 4-6 years of college for a PHD. They both have their place in the mental health world, but they are not exactly the same.
umbra says
Psychiatrists can also obtain their PhD (in psychiatry) through additional postgraduate research work after they have gained their MD in psychiatry.
duh_swami says
The psychiatrist does not need or want any PHD’s unless they got it prior to their license to practice medicine…A PHD is not a step up for a MD…
Oliver says
I think this is a useful interview, and it’s good to have this point of view put across calmly by a psychiatrist. In France we often hear that extremists are “just mad people” and what they do has “nothing to do with Islam”.
BC says
Brilliant. I wish some psychiatrists would investigate the basic rot in the heart of Islam and what accounts for its rabid mysogyny. The segregation of the genders. Boys are prevented from the association of girls as is a normal part of human growth and development especially in the adolescent years and are taught from an early age that they are superior to females. Freud living in a sexually repressed era taught us the ills of repressed sexuality. Muslim males isolated from normal contact with females become obsessed with sex/ I do not know what is the situation in other countries but in UK Muslim sexual assaults on women and attempted assaults and kidnapping are occurring on a regular basis.
then of course they are told that they will have a life of sexual abundance in paradise, especially if they die fighting for Allah, which is a big incentive for adolescent men. No mention of such rewards for women of course.. In fact Mohammad specifically mention most of the inhabitants of hell are women!
If you wish to learn about life in Muslim households I recommend The Price of Honour by Jan Goodwin
sgodym says
I find it interesting that there is such a parallel between this description Islamic fanaticism and American Leftists. The end always justifies and means. The major difference I see here between Islamic fanaticism and Leftism is that the “god” of the Left is the government!
ECAW says
I sympathise. Our canine’s none too bright either.
DeusLoVult says
These subhumans are the most perverse creatures on the planet. To say they are not insane shows a complete ignorance of Islamic culture.
http://10news.dk/analysis-psychological-consequences-of-islams-views-on-women/
waltinseattle says
the good dr does not describe all psychopaths. he describes high functioning ones. low functioning ones font give aquat for covering their tracks. woner if he ever read Clerkes seminal bolume on them!
Dave J says
The so-called “extremists” are actually the most devout Muslims and are following the Koran’s instructions most literally and faithfully. They regard tolerant, peaceful Muslims as weak and uncommitted – hence much of the discord within Islam is over the degree of obedience to Mo’s evil preaching.
AnneM says
The terrorists are doing what their god, the devil tells them what to do.
staffsgt7 says
islam is learned sociopathy.
josepxicot says
The muslims are all the same and when a gang murder somebody,what do the muslims who are not radi
cals?,just nothing.
jewdog says
Very encouraging to read this analysis. It’s well past time to enlist help from more psychological experts in the war against Islamic supremacism.
vlparker says
I think islam shows how easy it is to program the human brain in most people.
I ran across the following posted on a couple of websites. If this isn’t the definition of insanity I don’t know what is.
The Shoe Bomber was a Muslim
The Beltway Snipers were Muslims
The Fort Hood Shooter was a Muslim
The Underwear Bomber was a Muslim
The U-S.S. Cole Bombers were Muslims
The Madrid Train Bombers were Muslims
The Bali Nightclub Bombers were Muslims
The London Subway Bombers were Muslims
The Moscow Theatre Attackers were Muslims
The Boston Marathon Bombers were Muslims
The Pan-Am flight #93 Bombers were Muslims
The Air France Entebbe Hijackers were Muslims
The Iranian Embassy Takeover, was by Muslims
The Beirut U.S. Embassy Bombers were Muslims
The Libyan U.S. Embassy Attack was by Muslims
The Buenos Aires Suicide Bombers were Muslims
The Israeli Olympic Team Attackers were Muslims
The Kenyan U.S, Embassy Bombers were Muslims
The Saudi, Khobar Towers Bombers were Muslims
The Beirut Marine Barracks Bombers were Muslims
The Besian Russian School Attackers were Muslims
The First World Trade Center Bombers were Muslims
The Bombay, Mumbai, India Attackers were Muslims
The Achille Lauro Cruise Ship Hijackers were Muslims
The Nairobi, Kenya Shopping Mall Killers were Muslims
The September 11th 2001 Airline Hijackers were Muslims
The Sydney, Australia Lindt Cafe Kidnapper was a Muslim
The Peshawar, Pakistani School Children Killers were Muslims
Think of it:
Hindus living with Jews = No Problem
Baha’is living with Jews = No Problem
Jews living with Atheists = No Problem
Sikhs living with Hindus = No Problem
Hindus living with Baha’is = No Problem
Christians living with Jews = No Problem
Jews living with Buddhists = No Problem
Shintos living with Atheists = No Problem
Buddhists living with Sikhs = No Problem
Baha’is living with Christians = No Problem
Buddhists living with Shintos = No Problem
Buddhists living with Hindus = No Problem
Hindus living with Christians = No Problem
Atheists living with Buddhists = No Problem
Confusians living with Hindus = No Problem
Atheists living with Confucians = No Problem
Muslims living with Jews = Problem
Muslims living with Sikhs = Problem
Muslims living with Hindus = Problem
Muslims living with Baha’is = Problem
Muslims living with Shintos = Problem
Muslims living with Atheists = Problem
Muslims living with Buddhists = Problem
Muslims living with Christians = Problem
MUSLIMS LIVING WITH MUSLIMS = VERY BIG PROBLEM
**********SO THIS LEAD TO *****************
They’re not happy in Gaza
They’re not happy in Egypt
They’re not happy in Libya
They’re not happy in Iran
They’re not happy in Iraq
They’re not happy in Yemen
They’re not happy in Pakistan
They’re not happy in Syria
They’re not happy in Lebanon
They’re not happy in Nigeria
They’re not happy in Kenya
They’re not happy in Sudan
They’re not happy in Morocco
They’re not happy in Afghanistan
******** So, where are they happy? **********
They’re happy in Australia
They’re happy in Belgium
They’re happy in France
They’re happy in Holland
They’re happy in Italy
They’re happy in Germany
They’re happy in Spain
They’re happy in Sweden
They’re happy in Denmark
They’re happy in the USA & Canada
They’re happy in Norway & India
They’re very happy in England (UK) (Loads of Welfare Benefits)
They’re happy in almost every country that is not Islamic!
And who do they blame? Not Islam… Not their leadership… Not themselves…
THEY BLAME THE COUNTRIES THEY ARE HAPPY IN!!
And they want to change the countries they’re happy in, to be like the countries they came from where they were unhappy and finally they will be get hammered !!!!
Islamic Jihad: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
ISIS: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Al-Qaeda: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Taliban: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Boko Haram: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Al-Nusra: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Abu Sayyaf: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Al-Badr: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Muslim Brotherhood: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Lashkar-e-Taiba: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Ansaru: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Jemaah Islamiyah: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Abdullah Azzam Brigades: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Al-Shabbab Somalia: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION AND A LOT MORE!!!!!!Think of it
Shane says
Great post! The Paris jihadists are not crazy unless believing in Islam is a mental disease.
frankspeak says
that post says it all…..the rest is just blather!……..
Bruce says
After some thought about when this started in the West (it’s been going on in Israel since before the creation of that state), I came up with another one, and the earliest one I can think of in the U.S.: Robert Kennedy was shot by a Muslim, for a specifically jihadist reason.
sabboleh says
The key point in this article is the use of the term fundamentalist. That is EXACTLY what we are dealing with. Fundamentalism is getting back to the roots of the religion and is NOT practicing it in an extreme form but as it was meant to be practiced….
ekbano says
Exactly. Fundamental means foundational. Starting from the foundations. The base on which everything which follows is built apon. The first principles or building bkocks.
The fact that the most violent, abusive, perverted and hateful acts are being performed by muslim fundamentalists is evidence of the true, basic foundational scource as being violent, abusive, perverted and hateful.
The Islamic scholars and religious authorities are in total agreement that the actions of jihadi murderers is in line with the “holy”, “peaceful” Koran.
Islam is evil.
empty pockets says
As you say, the “fundamentalists” of Islam are practicing the religion as it was intended. The “moderates” aren’t which is why the Islamists kill them, often first so they don’t pollute any others. They are considered apostates just as one who renounces Islam.
video is from David Wood outlining the three stages of Jihad – that many are unaware of – based on what the Koran teaches.
24 minutes long but an education: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rjdO4cfeEg
Reverend Joe says
Were it not for rational peoples ability to recognize evil when they see it and make the necessary changes then the Jewish people would also be behaving in the same radical fashion as the Islamists are today. The reason? Muhammad cobbled together the Koran from existing religious writings and embellished it, to suit his personal needs, with his own thoughts and beliefs. One of the works he used was the ancient Rabbinical writings in the Talmud, which is a collection of essays of thousands of Rabi over hundreds of years. The earliest writers were “radicals” in that they fully believed that, as the “chosen people of God”, everyone else had to see the light and convert…… or be hunted down and killed for the crime of not being Jewish. (sound familiar?)
Of course the Rabi writing later on saw the wrong in this thinking and wrote corrections which result in the two basic forms of the Jewish faith we see today…….. those who simply see Jesus as a Prophet and those who view Him as the true Messiah. And while these two factions disagree…. they certainly don’t slaughter each other as do the followers of different factions if Islam. The clerics of Islam never saw the evil in the Koran…… never made an attempt to marginalize or minimize the meaning of those hateful parts…… and view the entire work as being directly from the hand of God Himself and thus…. perfect. (even though written by a very flawed and evil man who can count warlord, womanizer and pedophile among his numerous flaws.)
There is a huge glaring contradiction in the Charlie Hebdo murders and that is this. Muhammad did not want his image published or circulated so as to NOT make Islam all about him and so that he would not be idolized. What does Islam do every single day? Make Islam ALL about “the Prophet!” It’s an “insult” to make images of the Prophet! No….. it goes against his wishes…. nothing more. Meanwhile Islam itself violates everything that decent loving people stand for. No other “religion” on earth supports the murder, torture, torment, slavery, lying, hate, dehumanizing, intolerance and servitude demanded by Islam. These folks are the ULTIMATE haters and control freaks.
While I can’t support our wholesale slaughter of Muslims what I can support is the orderly and global identification and relocation of Muslims to countries already under Islamic rule. Unfortunately their religion is completely incompatible with all civilized people and they refuse to assimilate into the nations they have spread into. As one writer noted…… Muslim’s escape from countries where their own oppression has become intolerable into nations where they are note oppressed…….. and then work to make that nation like the one they just escaped! Islam has more in common with modern cults than it does any true religion. It’s people are all too easily whipped into a blood thirsty frenzy over the most trivial of things. We celebrate life while they celebrate death. I think that tells the whole story.
Sam Snyder PhD MPH says
What is a psychopath: If we overlay all of these lists of criteria, we can see them coalescing into the following core set:
Uncaring
The PCL describes psychopaths as being callous and showing a lack of empathy, traits which the PPI describes as “coldheartedness.” The criteria for dissocial personality disorder include a “callous unconcern for the feelings of others.” There are now several lines of evidence that point to the biological grounding for the uncaring nature of the psychopath. For us, caring is a largely emotion-driven enterprise. The brains of psycopaths have been found to have weak connections among the components of the brain’s emotional systems. These disconnects are responsible for the psychopath’s inability to feel emotions deeply. Psychopaths are also not good at detecting fear in the faces of other people (Blair et al., 2004). The emotion of disgust also plays an important role on our ethical sense. We find certain types of unethical actions disgusting, and this work to keep us from engaging in them and makes us express disapproval of them. But psychopaths have extremely high thresholds for disgust, as measured by their reactions when shown disgusting photos of mutilated faces and when exposed to foul odors.
One promising new line of research is based on the recent discovery of a brain network responsible for understanding the minds of others. Called the default mode network (because it also performs other tasks and is operating most of the time when we are awake) it involves a cluster of several different areas in the brain’s cortex. The first studies have been done on function of this network in psychopaths and as expected there are problems there. Different studies have noted “aberrant functional connectivity” among the parts of the network, along with reduced volume in some of the networks crucial areas.
Shallow emotions
Psychopaths, and to a degree, sociopaths, show a lack of emotion, especially the social emotions, such as shame, guilt, and embarrassment. Cleckley said that the psychopaths he came into contact with showed a “general poverty in major affective reactions,” and a “lack of remorse or shame.” The PCL describes psychopaths as “emotionally shallow” and showing a lack of guilt. Psychopaths are notorious for their lack of fear. When normal people are put into an experimental situation where they anticipate that something painful will happen, such as a mild electric shock, or a mildly aversive pressure applied to a limb, a brain network activates. Normal people will also show a clear skin conductance response produced by sweat gland activity. In psychopathic subjects, however, this brain network showed no activity and no skin conductance responses were emitted (Birbaumer et al., 2012).
Irresponsibility
According to Cleckley psychopaths show unreliability, while the PCL mentions “irresponsibility” and the PPI describes psychopaths as showing “blame externalization,” i.e. they blame others for events that are actually their fault. They may admit blame when forced into a corner, but these admissions are not accompanied by a sense of shame or remorse, and they have no power to change the sociopath’s future behavior.
Insincere speech
Ranging from what the PCL describes as “glibness” and “superficial charm” to Cleckley’s “untruthfulness” and “insincerity,” to outright “pathological lying,” there is a trend toward devaluing speech among psychopaths by inflating and distorting it toward selfish ends. The criteria for APD include “conning others for personal profit or pleasure.” One concerned father of a young sociopathic woman said, “I can’t understand the girl, no matter how hard I try. “It’s not that she seems bad or exactly that she means to do wrong. She can lie with the straightest face, and after she’s found in the most outlandish lies she still seems perfectly easy in her own mind” (Cleckley, 1941, p. 47). This casual use of words may be attributable to what some researchers call a shallow sense of word meaning. Psychopaths do not show a differential brain response to emotional terms over neutral terms that normal people do (Williamson et al., 1991). They also have trouble understanding metaphors and abstract words.
Overconfidence
The PCL describes sociopaths as possessing a “grandiose sense of self worth.” Cleckley speaks frequently of the boastfulness of his patients. Hare (1993) describes an imprisoned sociopath who believed he was a world class swimmer.
Narrowing of attention
According to Newman and his colleagues the core deficit in psychopathy is a failure of what they call response modulation (Hiatt and Newman, 2006). When normal people engage in a task we are able to alter our activity, or modulate our responses, depending on relevant peripheral information that appears after the task has begun. Psychopaths are specifically deficient in this ability, and according to Newman, this explains the impulsivity of psychopaths, a trait which shows up in several of the lists of criteria, as well as their problems with passive avoidance and with processing emotions.
Top-down attention tends to be under voluntary control, whereas bottom-up attention happens involuntarily. But bottom-up attention can temporarily capture top-down attention, as when movement in the periphery of our visual field attracts our attention. Psychopaths have trouble using top-down attention to accomodate information that activates bottom-up attention during a task. In normal people, this process tends to happen automatically. When the hunter is scanning for deer, a rabbit hopping into the periphery of his visual field automatically attracts his attention. Top-down attentional processes monitor the field of attention for conflicts and resolve them. The standard task for assessing this is called the Stroop task, in which the subject must state which color words are printed in. The problem is that the words themselves are conflicting color words, such as “red” printed in blue ink, so the subjects must suppress a strong inclination to read the words. There are now several studies indicating that psychopaths actually perform better than normal people on these tasks perhaps because they are not distracted by the discrepant color (Hiatt et al., 2004; Newman et al., 1997).
Selfishness
Cleckley spoke of his psychopaths showing a “pathologic egocentricity [and incapacity for love],” which is affirmed in the PPI by its inclusion of egocentricity among its criteria. The PCL also mentions a “parasitic lifestyle.”
Inability to plan for the future
Cleckley said that his psychopaths showed a “failure to follow any life plan.” According to the PCL, psychopaths have a “lack of realistic long-term goals,” while the PPI describes them as showing a “carefree nonplanness.”
Violence
The criteria for dissocial personality include, a “very low tolerance to frustration and a low threshold for discharge of aggression, including violence.” The criteria for antisocial personality disorder include, “irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults.”
Philosophers can play a valuable role here in discerning the consequences of all of these findings for our attempts to build an ethical society. Several questions need addressing. What does the possibility that psychopathy is genetic say about human nature? What steps can we take to “correct” psychopaths and which of these is the most ethical? If it is true that psychopaths have damaged or abnormal brains, can we hold them responsible for what they do? Are there degrees of psychopathy, so that normal people may possess psychopathic traits?
Sure sounds like an Islamic terrorist mind.
empty pockets says
You just described Barack Hussein Obama.
josepxicot says
They are not extremist and fanatical islamics people,the are really muslims believers,don´t be so childnish.
Kathy says
The author says, at the end of the first paragraph, “Even though the scripture says that one is not allowed to lie.” While it is tru that the God of the Bible commands believers to be truthful, the Koran approves deceiving non-believers, in addition to murder.
John Henry says
Fundamentalists? Think of them as devout Muslims and you will understand Islam
waltinseattle says
Think of them as tribalists first, muslims only second and civilized///not very likely. If you read the history (a recent good one is “Banking on Bagdhad” you will see thousands of years of tribalism and thugery long before the prophet, durring his time and eternally after. Had they become Christians, they would be killing in the name of Jesus. had they become budhists, in his name. They have killed suni shia bahai salafis and other groups , they have killed their own sect if not of the same tribal orrigin. this is the “fundamental” basis: TRIBALISM!!! islam? just part of a handy excuse to be control freaks, rob and steal from “brother” muslims, and boil one another in oil etcetcetc.