
In connection with at least three Muslim terror attacks (one, two, three) this year, police were able, almost on the spot, to diagnose the attacker as suffering from mental illness. It always amazes me how authorities are able, in a surprisingly short time, to diagnose somebody. Being an experienced psychologist myself, I know that it usually takes hours, and most often days, weeks or even months, to correctly diagnose a person.
Having worked with criminal Muslims (see my article: “Report from the therapy room: Why are Muslims more violent and criminal?”) and done extensive psychological analysis of Islam’s texts for years, my take is that the enormous amounts of hate speech in the Quran (Allah’s revelations through the angel Gabriel to Muhammad) and the Hadiths (Muhammad’s equally holy words and deeds) function as propaganda that makes the psychological step to follow these same books’ hundreds of orders for Muslims to kill non-Muslims shorter and easier – no matter if you are sane, rich and have a happy family, or not.
I would not surprised if it turns out that people with psychiatric diagnoses are over-represented among criminal Muslims. There may be several reasons for this. One is that inbreeding – which is known for increasing the risk of schizophrenia and other psychiatric problems, which again increase the likelihood of violent behaviour – is exceedingly widespread among the followers of Islam (up to almost half of Muslims may be inbred) (see my article: Muslim Inbreeding: Impacts on intelligence, sanity, health and society). It can also be because violence is more accepted in upbringing in Muslim families – which is also known for increasing risk of psychiatric disorders and violent behavior. Finally, it may be that the Quran is more likely to inspire people who are crazy and prone to violence, while sane people might reject these books as outdated and barbaric.
The fact is that there are also people from other religions who have mental problems, who are poor or have problems in the family, but none of them (or at least many, many fewer – as in 1:1000) commit mass murder in the name of religion. If the latest wave of “mentally ill” terrorists had not been brought up with a religion that preached death and annihilation of non-believers, would they have committed their atrocities? I believe not.
The problem is not insanity, poverty or family problems. The problem is a religion that preaches hate against people of all other faiths and orders its own followers to kill us. People with psycho-social problems who have been fed this religion since birth may be more vulnerable to act according to its God and prophet, but the root cause – the match that lit the fire, the cause without which these people would never have been told that killing is a good thing – is still the religion.
Nicolai Sennels is a psychologist in Denmark.
wildjew says
I just heard Fox News commentator, John Roberts, tell Chis Wallace (unchallenged),Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez had been suffering from depression for years. So says his family.
“Beam me up Scotty!”
mortimer says
REALITY CHECK
Journalists seem to think any excuse for Muslims will do…and that will exculpate them from wanton murder…just because the ‘others’ have the wrong religion.
Example: “Muhmad Mehmad was feeling a little blue about his dysfunctional Muslim family life… Muhmad Mehmad had a boss who would let him take 5 twenty minute prayer breaks a day…” so he was JUSTIFIED in buying an assault rifle, spraying the military base and then shooting at police officers.
Even those who are mentally ill know it is immoral to commit murder.
Journalist can’t understand the concept that INTELLIGENT, SANE PEOPLE who are Muslim believe they should kill ‘OTHERS’ because they have the WRONG RELIGION. Pious Muslims KILL for the sake of RELIGION! They kill for RELIGIOUS REASONS…normative Islam…not insanity.
Michael Copeland says
Allah is the ENEMY of the unbelievers. 2:98
Allah does NOT LOVE the unbelievers. 30:45
KILL the unbelievers wherever you find them. 9:5
The Koran is part of Islamic law, its teachings “universal and trans-time”.
It is death for denying any verse: anyone can do the killing penalty-free.
Our politicians need to become acquainted with this information.
Blitz2b says
It is time to ban the Koran, and put it in some museum. Just like they did with the confederate flag.
One incident in that many years was enough to put away the flag as something that incites hatred…. A flag, no words written on it, no slogans of hate, just some red blue and white stars and stripes arranged in a different order…. Yet we deduced that this object incited hate.
With Muslims mass murdering unbelievers on a regular basis inspired by CLEAR TEXTS in black and white.. All right there in the Koran, yet all our politicians, media, leaders and even Religious clerics of other faiths are dumbfounded when a Muslim kills discriminately for the same of his religion. … What gives?
MatBastardson says
Psycholgy is at about the stage of development surgery was when it was practiced by barbers.
JIMJFOX says
Perhaps YOU need some time on the couch??
Charli Main says
Anyone believing in the insanity preached in the Koran is insane—–no long term observation and diagnosis necessary.
mortimer says
Charli Main writes “no long term observation and diagnosis necessary”.
Charli, didn’t you even read this piece by Dr. Sennels? Are you more expert than he?
Acts of terrorism require much planning and preparation that the insane are unable to do…the insane are disorganized.
Please read the article next time.
Charli Main says
Sociopaths and psychopaths are totally insane, Mortimer, and they are far from disorganised—- they know EXACTLY what they are doing.
The prisons are full of these lunatics that carefully planned and executed their murders
regards
john spielman says
I believe hey are not insane but pure EVIL, like Hitler, possibly demon possessed
voegelinian says
Yes true. Charli is merely saying that the time is past for us to scratch our heads seeking an explanation or to try to “understand” the Muslim psyche and culture — when, that is, we are looking to justify our condemnation of Muslims. No need to spend one iota of time any longer. We should automatically, prejudicially condemn Muslims, IPSO FACTO QUA MUSLIMS.
Now, insofar as we need to increase our knowledge of the ways of the cultural and psychological disease of Islam which has taken strange hold of Muslims, in order to better protect ourselves and preduct their behavior (as best we can), then that is useful activity.
Those who have anxious residues of PC MC in them, however, will be trying to explain Muslims in order to determine whether, and how, and IF, we should condemn them (and to figure out ways to AVOID condemning the majority of them — to make ourselves feel better, absolving us of “bigotry” etc.).
Linde Barrera says
To Voegelinian (Vogue)- I don’t know what country you live in now, or where you grew up, but no group in America suffered more from bigotry than African-Americans, first, and Native Americans, second. The vast majority of the people of these 2 groups did not deserve the nasty treatment they received from the US government, from various organizations, or from many single individuals. And I don’t have a single drop of African or Native American blood in me. So if Muslims from anywhere act out the disgusting “mandates” of their Quran, why should any human NOT feel justified in their bigotry of these Muslims?
Mr UPSIDE DOWN says
I am WITH YOU THERE … Charli Main
Linde Barrera says
I sincerely hope this article by psychologist Nicolai Sennels is submitted for review at the Journal of Mental Health, the Journal of Behavioral Health Services, the Elsevier.com social science/psychology report, and similar mental health publications.
Phobic-ist says
Believe me Linde, if it is it will be rejected out of hand…doesn’t fit the agenda, see. I am hoping that the occasional voices of reality that do sometimes get an airing will multiply, but I ain’t holding my breath.
Angemon says
Unfortunately, getting talking heads, politicians and decision makers understand that is not as simple as presenting facts and evidences.
mortimer says
MUSLIMS HAVE OVERVALUED IDEATION – psychologists should study Islamic conversion
“Over-valued ideas are truly a neglected area of psychopathology with few experimental studies published.
There is a different emphasis in the USA and Europe regarding their definition. For authors in the USA an over-valued idea has become shorthand for ‘poor insight’ in the middle of a continuum of obsessional doubts to delusional certainty. Compared to negative thoughts, obsessions and delusions, they are often more resistant to any treatment. A better understanding of over-valued ideas is required if advances are to be made in therapy and for the development of appropriate measures to evaluate the efficacy of novel treatments. A cognitive behavioural model of over-valued ideas is presented which draws upon the philosophical distinction between beliefs and values. It is argued that over-valued ideas are associated with idealised values, which have developed into such an over-riding importance, that they totally define the ‘self’ or identity of the individual. Idealised values are also characterised by the rigidity with which they are held. Such patients are unable to adapt to different circumstances and ignore the consequences of acting on their value.”
D. Veale (Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, University College School
of Medicine, University College, University of London, England)
Mr UPSIDE DOWN says
first time i ever heard that one Mort’.i have studied – psychology i don’t have a degree,..very interesting….every is a bit topsy turvy in my upside down world..or maybe its the right way up..but i have OVER VALUED IDEAS ABOUT IT …OH well Jesus Saves….that is such a undervalued idea to many .kind regards…
cronk says
Mental illness is now another excuse why Muslims go on homicidal rampages.
John Duffin says
Sounds exactly right on. Now all the major media outlets need to publish this article also.
Cecilia Ellis says
Wow! In addition to this article, I just read the two embedded-link articles, “Report from the therapy room: Why are Muslims more violent and criminal?” and “Muslim Inbreeding: Impacts on intelligence, sanity, health and society”. While I had my suspicions, the well-documented, scientific information presented in these two articles is pivotal in understanding why so many could adhere to and support such an evil ideology. I certainly have been educated this day! (I understand that at least one of these articles was previously posted on JW, but I was not aware of this . . . so, new JW readers really should read these articles.) Then again, it does not really take a psychologist to show the insanity of Islam . . . the daily reports of Muslim atrocities and madness are sufficient Islamic semaphore to convey that message.
nicu says
That’s German Judges say : they are mentally retarded ( they use other words ) – and have such a hard life – so they get the Migrant – Bonus = less punishment than natives !
They know exactly what they do – they start with 12 !
If every person with depression would be a killer …. well … what a crap !
abad says
It’s that old “chicken or the egg” question.
Does mental illness precede Islam, or does being Muslim cause mental illness?
swampbubbles says
“Does mental illness precede Islam”
Yes. Yes, I think it does. Mohammed [the self-proclaimed prophet] was simply mentally ill. Maybe Allah is too.
Huck Folder says
As mo’s sock-puppet, undoubtedly.
MKG says
Good point Abad.
Perhaps the spiritually depraved seek strict guidence and end up mentaly ill.
RGP says
A recent call to act… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uSleMwRXVo
particolor says
Put those Highly Skilled Police Diagnosis Specialists as Employment Officers in Nuclear Facilities !
Mirren10 says
Nicolai Sennels nails it, absolutely.
We are told, constantly; murderous muslims are motivated because they are a) uneducated b) because they’re feeling disenfranchise’. because they don’t feel ‘part of the society’, because they can’t get a job; because nasty old kufrs look at them the wrong way.
I am so *bloody* sick to death of all this meretricious, *lying* bullshit. May they all rot in hell.
Paleologos says
For me this begs the question, … “How do you tell if a muslim is insane?”
islam = insanity
Really, isn’t this like the question, … “How do you tell if yogurt has gone bad?”
Yogurt tastes bad already, … how can you tell if the yogurt has gone bad?
Which leads me to my final question, … “What is a sane muslim?”
R/
Paleologos
voegelinian says
This is a matter of not only two worldviews, but two worlds. Udeation and behavior that in our world and worldview would be considered criminal, insane, dangerous, impractical, regressive, and …. (I must dust off an arcane word no longer used in polite company)… evil — are in the world & worldview of Islam not only perfectly normative, but divinely blessed and commanded.
A Jihad Watch reader from long ago (“PETER SHEARER”) commented on a 2012 article by Sennels and made this apt diagnosis of the diagnosis:
I’m really suggesting that you may be analyzing Muslims as if they were Westerners who happened to have read a really bad book all of their lives when you should be looking at them as being members of a society whose social skill set is derived from a time and place in which Conan the Barbarian would have felt comfortable…
I don’t much care for the conclusion which PETER SHEARER comes to — but I’ve always had the nagging feeling that Sennels is starting axiomatically from the assumption that Muslims must be like us — then working back from the data to a conclusion. That, however, I maintain, is one of the constellation of disastrous assumptions modern Westerners keep insisting on making.
Back in 2012, Sennels published an article here on “deradicalizing” Muslims — not as a satire, but as a sincere goal.
“But how to make a violent Muslim peaceful? This is probably one of the most important questions of our time, especially among people and authorities working with anti-terrorism.”
Merely the thought that this is a seriously pragmatic goal reveals enormous assumptions underneath about Muslims and Islam — assumptions which seem to drastically (if not disastrously) underestimate the unique nature of the problem, and which presume that underneath their Islamic exterior, Muslims are a Homo Occidentalis (which, of course, by an ironic retention of Western Colonialist conceit morphed into Wilsonianism, has become the standard of human nature).
voegelinian says
Damned ghostly grey draft text box here at Jihad Watch comments!!!
That weird word I have in my second sentence, “Udeation” should be, of course, “Ideation”.
Angemon says
voegelinian posted:
“A Jihad Watch reader from long ago (“PETER SHEARER”) commented on a 2012 article by Sennels and made this apt diagnosis of the diagnosis:
I’m really suggesting that you may be analyzing Muslims as if they were Westerners who happened to have read a really bad book all of their lives when you should be looking at them as being members of a society whose social skill set is derived from a time and place in which Conan the Barbarian would have felt comfortable…
I don’t much care for the conclusion which PETER SHEARER comes to — but I’ve always had the nagging feeling that Sennels is starting axiomatically from the assumption that Muslims must be like us — then working back from the data to a conclusion. ”
So you don’t care about the conclusion Peter Shearer arrived at, but you always had the feeling that Sennels was doing what Peter Shearer concluded? How does that work? Also, another instance of you trying to undermine a JW contributor – clearly you know better than Robert Spencer, Hugh Fitzgerald and Nicolai Sennels combined!
““But how to make a violent Muslim peaceful? This is probably one of the most important questions of our time, especially among people and authorities working with anti-terrorism.”
Merely the thought that this is a seriously pragmatic goal reveals enormous assumptions underneath about Muslims and Islam”
Yeah, just ask, for example, Walid Shoebat – I’m sure he can vouch that you can’t deprogram a muslim under no circumstance*!
For those who don’t know who Walid Shoebat is, he’s a former “palestinian” PLO terrorist turned critic of islam, warner of the dangers of islam and overall supporter of Israel.
Cecilia Ellis says
And as I recall, Angemon, Walid Shoebat was the one who said, “What is it about kill that you don’t understand?” He, like others, understood that and left Islam.
Huck Folder says
@ Paleologos
“What is a sane muslim?”
An oxymoron.
Larry A. Singleton says
“Does Islam Have a Role in Suicide Bombings” by A.J. Caschetta. And “Hamas Web School for Suicide Bombers” by Yohanan Manor and Ido Mizrahi.
Caschetta’s article covers this psychological aspect and a lot, lot more. Including an expose on Iran.
The Last English Prince says
The perpetrator sought out military targets and sent out two blog posts with binary information prior to his attacks.
The forensic side of his blog posts point to premeditation based on his forward glance to attaining Paradise.
He struck a bargain with Allah – plain and simple.
Huck Folder says
“…pain and simple.”
Dave J says
Islamism itself is a form of self-affirming mental illness, attracting more adherents every day. It appeals to the criminal emotionally retarded element, of which there are millions. They are psychopaths, with no human sympathy and no capacity for regret.
They are robots in service of Allah. The Chattanooga shooter is a prime example.
“We’re trying to figure out his motivation”. Seriously?
London Jim says
prayer for Dave.6-8am GMT
OKAY. .for wisdom to alight. Tempo, JOHN 14_ KJV
Purushottam Deshmukh says
To say Muslims turn fanatics or jihadist terrorists due to poverty, illiteracy, and broken families isn’t a fact. There are a large number of cultures across the globe destined to dire poverty and illiteracy, yet except Mohammed’s followers we haven’t seen any culture severing heads of apostates and non-Muslims.
The basic fact about an Islamist whether rich or poor is he has no respect and love for nature and its abundant beauties. He is found solely devoted to a make belief of NON-BEING. Devotion to non-existing abstractions brings about an abnormally sick brain with otherworldly murderous hallucinations. A devotee as this doesn’t find anything sick in his worship of non-being but holds others accountable for his distracting brain, if he is an Islamist he has then ‘orders’ from non-being to decapitate infidels.
I have due respect for Nicolai Sennel’s perfect observation.
Jenny H says
I’m unable to access the “Report from the Therapy Room” etc. article. Has it been removed? Is there some way I can access it?
Cecilia Ellis says
That’s strange, because I accessed it yesterday (July 19th) on the following link, but I can no longer access it at that link::
http://10news.dk/?p=323
However, you can find it here in JW archives. I just accessed it. Here is the link:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/04/nicolai-sennels-report-from-the-therapy-room-why-are-muslims-more-violent-and-criminal
Will says
Muhammad, ill or not was manipulative, cunning, sexually obsessed warlord who when he was dying determined to make mankind pay for his mortality and pay they have and the billion lives is closer every day. He is, IMO, the worst criminal in the history of mankind.
BTW that link: http://10news.dk/?p=323 failed every time I tried it.
duh_swami says
In the doctors office, diagnosis is important, but in the real world of the institution, it is not a diagnosis that’s dealt with, it’s behavior…No one cares what you think or say, but they do care what you do. Psychiatric medications don’t cure anything, they are chemical restraints on behavior, when the behavior is out control, physical restraints are applied..
The term, ‘mentally ill’ is a catch all, and can mean most anything. The ‘fixed’ delusions of the psychotic are similar to the ‘fixed’ delusions of Islam. A lot of that is simply gross materialism and a willingness to be ruthless in its pursuit.
Islam is the religion of ‘I want’, and ‘I want it now’. Profit motivation.
The bottom line is entry into paradise upon death. Quran 9:111 is the tip off.
Entry into paradise is of supreme importance to every Mahoundian, or should be. Without the promise of paradise there would be no point to Islam at all. The Islamic promise of paradise is a rip off of Jesus who said that those who believe in him shall have everlasting life. If he had not said that, there would be no point in Christianity either.
So are all Mahoundins psychotic? No, but they all share the same ‘fixed’ delusions, and are willing to kill for it, so they are not psychotic, they are just plain NUTS……
Jan Aage Jeppersen says
“Though this be madness, yet there is method in it.” (Hamlet).
And the method is called Islam.
sahani says
Eating habits in islamic family need to be investigated HALAL meat need to be reexamined how an animal butchered via HALAL method creating mental disability in most muslim making judgmental decision deficiency .
You are what you eat so our dr need to see the difference between in Halal meat and Chataka meat
Jan Aage Jeppersen says
It is possible that Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez had been suffering from depression for years, but it is impossible that he was depressed when he acted as a jihadi and killed infidels.
If the killer was depressed at some time prior to the act I suggest that this would be in the phase when he tried to make sense of the revelations in the Quran and hadiths. Any normal person would be depressed when reading such gruesome, barbaric, inhuman and perverse documents. I got depressed when reading Martin Luther’s Jew hating pamphlet “The Jews and their lies”, and Hitler’s “Mein Kampf”. And of course when I read the Quran.
Had the killer survived he would not have shown and signs of depression. Instead he would have seemed spiritually intoxicated. I base this on observations and conclusions made by Jessica Stern, the author of “Terror in the name of God”.
Stern reflected the puzzlement that initially strikes almost everyone encountering Islamist terrorism until they come to understand its ideology as a pseudo religion rather than as a political movement. She writes:
“I have come to see that apocalyptic violence intended to `cleanse` the world of `impurities` can create a transcendent state. All the terrorist groups examined in this book believe – or at least started out believing – that they are creating a more perfect world. From their perspective, they are purifying the world of injustice, cruelty, and all that is anti-human. When I began this project, I could not understand why the killers I met seemed spiritually intoxicated. Now, I think I understand. They seem stat way because they are.”
The joint commissioner of the Mumbai police, Rakesh Maria, said of the captured terrorist Muhammad Ajmal Kasab, the only surviving perpetrator of the 2008 mass murder in Mumbai, India, “He was led to believe that he was doing something holy.” He is also known as the smiling terrorist, and to me he seemed to be In an exalted state of mind and full of joy.
The ancient Greeks called any psychic disturbance for “hiera nosos”. They were talking about holy illness. To them religious fanaticism and excitement was the original form of any mental illness. Religion, in the vicinity of which the demonical, the crime and madness are located, contain in its nature impulses and seeds to the most gruesome distortions and excesses. To the honour of the Gods more blood has been spilled than for any other purpose. As irresistible as religion only one force can take control of a human being – Eros. Both are characterized as being able to bring humans into a transcendent state of ultimate happiness and joy.
BC says
“Report from the therapy room”
Can someone provide a link to this article the link on this page does not work?
many thanks
Jan Aage Jeppersen says
Try this link:
http://www.google.dk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CDMQFjACahUKEwjc_KHD4enGAhWBlRQKHWgKDG0&url=http%3A%2F%2F10news.dk%2F%3Fp%3D323&ei=evCsVdzXG4GrUuiUsOgG&usg=AFQjCNFw6IFNOZYLe3oNA2mghM6gx8Mcyw
Cecilia Ellis says
I accessed it yesterday (July 19th) on the following link, but I can no longer access it at that link::
http://10news.dk/?p=323
However, you can find it here in JW archives. I just accessed it. Here is the link:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/04/nicolai-sennels-report-from-the-therapy-room-why-are-muslims-more-violent-and-criminal
Linde Barrera says
To Cecilia Ellis- Thanks a million times over for posting a link to Nicolai Sennels’ outstanding and authentic article of April 27, 2012 “Report from the Therapy Room”, where he expounds on his research about Muslim and non-Muslim criminal behaviours, attitudes toward society, etc. It should be copied and sent to the UN High Commissioner on Refugees. This article was an eye opener for me, and I am very grateful to you for advancing it. Kind regards.
BC says
If you Google it is found on JW somehere
Jan Aage Jeppersen says
Sorry my link also not working. If you Google the name of the article and Sennels name you will have no problems to open and read the article fra 2012.
Lioness says
I heard again and again on the news that the motive for the shooting was unclear. Unclear? Really? I guess it became clear soon afterwards: mental illness. Very simple.
Huck Folder says
Troll?
It was, is and ever will be ISLAM.
Tim says
India has 350 million people living below poverty line. I don’t see them forcing their way into other countries, plan to occupy it to create a Hindu state and terrorize people.
Mark says
Some Muslim terrorists are mental cases, but most aren’t. As a psychologist and a fairly rational person, I can say with certainty that Muslims are over represented in malicious acts of mayhem and murder. becuase their religion teaches it. Children are the easiest to indoctrinate, and once poisoned, theyre posisoned for life.
However, it helps being a psychologist to figure out why President Obama is in total denial of this fact. In fact, it helps being a psychologist to figure him out at all..
ninetyninepct says
“So why is it that only Muslims, with or without the above mentioned problems, commit acts of terror?”
Murder, killing, violence rape, beatings, executions and on and on and on are commanded in the Koran which fits the legal definition of hate literature. Why isn’t the government following it’s own legislation and banning that book? Islam could easily be considered a gang and there are laws against criminal gangs. Arrests are in order.
It would seem then that many Muslims have mental and emotional problems or sicknesses. Are there not minimum health requirements to be able to immigrate?
Off subject, but religions are tax exempt for some strange reason. since Islam is obviously a cult and we see hundreds of “Islamic Centres” being built, why are they not audited and taxed like any other organization.
Kepha says
ninety: Why is it that Muslims are the only ones committing acts of terror? One is because the New Leftists of the Silly ‘Sixties and Sillier ‘Seventies are getting to d–d old, and have found nice niches in a forgiving American society (think Bill Guilty-as-sin-an-free-as-abird Ayers); also much of the Merxist world is still in shock after the Soviet collapse.
(Dr.) Sandy Kramer says
The attackers, without question, suffer from a mental illness. That illness is known as Islam. Unfortunately, “Islamic Terrorism Syndrome” – I.T.S. – has not yet wended its way into the DSM-IV. and, as of yet, has not been assigned a classification number in the Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders,
James DeMeo PhD says
Back in the 1980s, I did the largest cross-cultural survey of human behavior among over 1100 different human cultures, using the standard ethnographical data routinely used by psychologists for social theory testing. My work — undertaken before 911 and when I mistakenly thought self-reform was proceeding within Islamic nations — showed the Muslim world to be the carriers of the most extreme forms of family and social violence, more extreme than any other cultural group one could identify. The geographical maps made from those data — the first ever to be composed — also showed to be roughly the same dimensions as both the Islamic world, and the largest geographical territories of harsh desert conditions. The historical analysis indicated Islam was the ultimate development, over 6000 years of human history, of the tribal nomadic warrior. Muhammed’s doctrines are an expression of that, but it is important to note that the social institutions for creation of this great violence are the central mechanism, beyond merely the intellectual ideology. So the Muslim world, scattered across this large Saharan-Asian region, what I called Saharasia, are characterized by harsh physical abuse of children, genital mutilations of boys and girls, immense sexual repression coupled with sexual abuse, the crushing out and obliteration of sexual love by arranged marriages and especially child marriages of old men to young girls. And then, the ideology of a merciless warrior-god whose dictations mirror those of the most cruel of living males. The typical Bedouin family structure, replete with veiling of women and murder of girls who trangress taboos, does not exist to the same extremist extent anywhere else in the world, except as an expression of Islam, the desert nomad warrior’s creed from the dead dry heart of Arabia, is now transplanted wherever Islamic people travel, Muhammed’s rule-book for believers having been created in the same dead deserts. My book “Saharasia” gives the evidence, which is upsetting to Muslims, but also to some Western people, as it shows whatever social violence we have in our nations comes from similar causation. Unfortunately, the findings have been squelched and resisted by both right-and left-wing people, by both athiests and moderate religious people. It is all “too much”, but nevertheless grounded in empirical facts, as gathered by hundreds of anthropologists and ethnographers over the last several hundred years, recorded in every university library but scattered in many different books until I was able to gather the evidence together.
James DeMeo, PhD
Linde Barrera says
To James DeMeo, PhD- Thank you for your very interesting comments based on the research you have done. Would you care to make a personal prediction on this topic for the future, or is that not something you wish to entertain?
James DeMeo PhD says
Dear Linde, OK I’ll give it a go.
My outlook for the future is not good. Huntington was correct about Islam having bloody borders, and a bloody interior. The problem is the loveless nature of Islamic culture — which has geographical variation but common themes. For most of the world, there are two major human love relationships that make for happy families and content societies. The love between mothers and babies, and the love between young people that later leads to affectionate marriages. I found a collection of tribal cultures around the world, mostly in pre-European situations within Oceania and the New World, where both forms of love were present, without child-beatings and fully love-match marriages as the rule. These cultures had no serious social violence, and if they had a military it was only defensive in nature. There was no orientation towards conquest and no rape, no sadism, no polygamy either, lacking in the sexual chaos often seen in libertine Western culture. So the affirm much of what both liberals and conservatives want to see, even while offending a few things they may not like. Geographically, these peoples lived at the most remote corners of the world, away from the Saharasian region as far-distant as possible.
By contrast, Muslim society has a lot of boy-abuse, sexually and physically, while girls are extremely repressed. They have no “dating” or “romance” as we know it, even though Western fantasy runs riot about “sexy harems” and such, which never existed. Harems were places of great misery, sexual slavery, suicide and syphilis. Old men married young girls as a rule, often many young girls, as up to four wives, or as many concubines as they could afford. Also the Muta temporary marriages as on the Haj. This forces young men to seek women from outside cultures, as with the old desert nomad warriors, to kidnap young women as booty. We see it today in Islamic State, where all other members of the tribe get murdered — that is not new to Islam, nor was it new to many of the pre-Islamic tribal nomads, notably in Central Asia — the Mongols, Huns, Sythicians, etc.
The point is, the violence is created by the social institutions which permit cruelty and violence which is aimed specifically to destroy love and emotional bonding between moms and children, and between men and women. Unless Islam can somehow break free of those cultural institutions, they are doomed to sadism and violence, as is every culture that comes into close contact with them. Whcih is why it is so alarming to see such horrors as polygamy making intrusions into the Western nations, along with other institutions of the old warrior nomads. Sorry to say BOTH male and female genital mutilations fall into the category of the warrior cults, though there is evidence that early male circumcision can be mitigated against by later emotional love between husband and wife. Female mutilations are much more difficult, as they tend to be far more ruthless in character, and occur within a social context of extremely low women’s status and hysterical sexual taboos.
That’s a rather long winded introduction, and there are other very old social institutions which created much damage to the young, such as infant cranial deformation, now dead and gone, but it was dominant within Central Asian warrior nomads. How to end these practices when people hold them dear to their very heart and existence? It will take many generations, and between now and then, in my view, Islam must be treated much as we did Communism, by an Iron Curtain approach. Anyone carrying such violence-producing social institutions ought not to be allowed the rights to settle in the Western democracies. But anyone reading Spencer’s blog will know the difficulties about that!
Cheers,
J.D.
James says
One point to clarify: Polygamy and arranged marriages vacuum up all available young women, leaving many young men without marriagable partners, until they are old enough to afford the bride-price. But more commonly, such young men are organized into military institutions to serve the cultural mandate for conquest. And by such conquest, they can steal women, in wars where rape becomes a primary motivation! We saw this in Darfur, and see it today with Islamic State. Even European-raised young men, filled with anger towards their home culture, saturated with internet pornography, rush to Islam as a means of “getting a girl” by forcible measures. We see similar with the massive influx of mostly male immigrants into Europe, crowded into boats. These are young men in their sexual prime, often deliberately cast out of their home societies with instructions to go get a woman in Europe! But their heads are filled with their own repugnant fantasies, which I know from interviews with such men over the years: “European women are all whores and prostitutes” is the sentiment, that “you can get a girl in Europe or America without a problem”. And hey believe it, just as they would also say “if my sister ever dressed like the European women, I’d kill her!”
That’s alarming, an extreme version of the “double standard” that most women will know about. But Western men as a major rule don’t kill their mothers or sisters, or wives, for being sexually active. And some Western women are terribly sick also, rush off to Islamiic nations with the idea of getting some young handsome man as “lover”, only to discover what gang-rape and sexual slavery is like. But young Muslim men and women are trapped in that way of thinking, like Hitler Youth, they consider themselves to be “clean” and “pure”, while everyone else is “dirty”, in the sexual sense. The idea of killing “kafirs” or “inferiors” and kidnapping girls for rape is a strong motivation for the men. “Heroic”, as the propaganda has it. This aspect of the sexual “allure” of Islam, as if Muslim society was some region of great sexual passion and satisfaction, as wretchedly false as it is, rarely gets much discussion. But it is a primary motivation for youth who go on violent jihad, even if it is restricted to the ideology of getting 72 virgin girls in the hereafter, once you have butchered some infidels.
J.D.
Linde Barrera says
To James DeMeo, PhD- I can’t thank you enough for your factual, terrific response to my question about making a prediction regarding Islam. So to finalize our “conversation”, I would like to make several comments. You mentioned “Also the Muta temporary marriages as on the Haj”. I know that Haj refers to pilgrimage to Mecca, but I didn’t find any reference to Muta. You mentioned how alarming it is that polygamy is being accepted in western countries and I totally agree. The UK is recklessly allowing polygamy for Muslim immigrants and stupidly gives additional welfare money for those extra wives and their offspring. (David Cameron and Parliament–wise up.) When I lived in a certain ‘hood in Queens, NY, I knew a bunch of men from Yemen who ran/owned grocery stores and candy stores. They had a wife living with them in Queens, but when they wanted another wife, they went back to Yemen and married again, keeping the Yemeni wife in Yemen. I think it is a disgusting practice, personally! As far as I know, bigamy and polygamy are illegal in the US. I sure hope that is so, and I will check on that point. You wrote about male and female circumcision. I heard on the news about 4 years ago that a report was issued citing a very low rate of cervical cancer among married, Jewish women due to the fact that their husbands had been circumcised (thank God) at a very tender age, 8 days old in a ceremony called a “bris”. You wrote about old men taking child brides, and this custom is very repugnant to me. Just because a girl gets her menses at 9 or 10 doesn’t make her emotionally or mentally “ready” for sex or child bearing. This is another disgusting Islamic practice. And I can tell you as a retired NYC public school teacher, there is such a term called “developmental progression” meaning how a human advances in thinking and physically doing from being able to grasp a pencil properly for writing, to looking upon both girls and boys (regardless of the student’s gender) in kindergarten as friends and playpals, to looking upon those same girls/boys as “yucky” and “gross” depending on the student’s gender in 5th grade, etc. One would think developmental progression would be taken into account not just when assessing children academically, but for social, emotional and mental health EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD, but such is NOT the case, and I find it extremely disturbing and barbaric. So I will end our correspondence with a great big thank you, Dr DeMeo, and my sincere hope that western countries will take action along the lines of your recommendations in the last paragraph of your comment. But until then, it seems like the image of Edvard Munch’s surrealist painting symbolizing terrifying fear “The Scream” will prevail. Best wishes and thank you once more.
Nicolai Sennels says
Thanks. Super interesting explanation.
Uncle Vladdi says
Glad you noticed! Empirical evidence can only be ignored by the elites for so long.
HONOUR KILLINGS EXPLAINED:
According to the books of such embedded cultural anthropologists as Raphael Patai’s “The Arab Mind” and Carl Salzman’s “Culture and Conflict in the Middle East,” Arab “culture” (which is codified in the Qur’an) glorifies the tribe over the individual, so each tribe engages in us-versus-them, might-makes-right wars all the time.
The best way to keep your tribal numbers up is to have each man marry four or more wives, which guarantees he will breed four (hopefully male warrior) children each year, while also depriving his enemy’s tribes of those same women and warrior-breeding ability.
This is also why they marry their own cousins all the time (so the enemy tribes can’t steal their women and potential warrior-children, thus weakening their own tribes) and it’s also why they have “honour” killings (because if they can’t control even their ‘weakest’ members, then they will invite attack from other tribes AND they’ll have lost those women’s warrior kids to their enemies, too)!
So if they don’t kill their own women, then those women’s actions will eventually get them all killed!
Libtards in the West refuse to see this easy truth, and pretend it’s the moslems’ “cultural right” to out-breed and conquer everyone.
You believe in “Democracy,” in voting-might-makes-rights?
Allowing polygamy destroys your children’s future rights.
PS: Not surprisingly, the only non-Arab or non-moslem, so-called “Christian” countries which also have honour-killings, are all colonies which derive their cultures from Spain – because Spain was violently conquered and enslaved by islam for 780 (for almost 1,000) years, that’s why!
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islam’s “morality:” US AGAINST THEM, MIGHT-MAKES-RIGHT, AND BLAME THOSE VICTIMS:
When islame was originally created, it was modeled on the Jews monotheism (whose twelve tribes are never at war with each other) because the pagan Arab tribes were always at war with each other; their so-called culture always was and still is only based on might-makes-right and us-against-them.
Muhammad simply codified that nonsense for all time, said god still wanted them to commit those crimes, “but only” against a common enemy: against anyone and everyone who refused to join Muhammad’s new islamic war and plunder cult.
And of course Muhammad really only set this up to enrich himself, so he’d have an excuse to commit every crime known to man, enthusiastically and often. Needless to say, when not united in common hatred of non-moslems, all moslem Arabs (and moslems in general) still gleefully indulge in waging war on each other.
Islam indulges in group-might-makes-rights, ends-justify-means fatalism.
But the means used really only end up defining the end results: when you lie, cheat, steal and kill to get your way, you don’t end up defined as a “great success,” but only as a lying, murdering thief.
They base their sharia “legal” (crime) system on “All is allowed except that which is specifically forbidden.”
But this “Anything goes” system pretends to include the “right” to attack innocent others first. The reality is, that those innocent others don’t like that sort of thing, and when they outnumber those who pretend to have such a right to be irresponsible to those others, so it doesn’t happen much these days. Well, except in the middle east, where long ago two or more warring Beduoin tribal chiefs each declared to the others: “In times of drought and famine, it is our holy right and duty to attack the rest of you first!” And the rest said: “Agreed!” Thus they pretended crime was OK since they all agreed to it. Today’s liberals use this same group-might-makes-right excuse, saying “islam isn’t evil because we all do it too! Whee!”
The real social contract, however, is based on the Golden Rule of Law, which simply defines morality in all situations as “Do Not Attack First!” It holds that our only real right is to not be attacked first, and our only real responsibility is to not attack others first.
By choosing to agree to obey the Golden Rule, we in the West achieve trust, progress, and civilization.
Moslems agree to the brazen rule of chaos (“always attack first!”) and so inflict distrust, stagnation, and barbarism.
“Honour” killings are demanded in the Qur’an’s Sura 4:89 for anyone who even gives a hint about attempting to leave islam – and that of course includes any women who show these signs by disobeying men and/or by wearing ‘Western’ clothing. And the only reasons they give for women having to wear “islamic” clothing in the first place is given in Sura 33:59 – the explanation being that they must cover up lest they “force” the moslem men to molest and rape them, like they “have to” do to all the non-moslem women (!)
;-(
In fact, islam’s overall premise is, according to the Qur’an, sahih ahadith, Tabari histories, Ibn Hisham’s version of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul allah (life of Muhammad) and of course as codified into the four Sunni and one Shia maddhab fiqhs of sharia crime (“law”) that all non-moslems are lying traitorous hypocrites, who all secretly already know that Muhammad is right, but have chosen to cover up the shiny-shiny truth of islam, and so are known as “The DIRT” (Kuffars, or al-Kafirun, as denoted in the Qur’anic chapter of that name).
So, all moslems are so “superior” to these traitorous non-moslems, that it’s not only their right, but also their holy duty to allah, to extort, enslave, and murder them all for being guilty of the crime of not being moslems!
So obviously, islam is ONLY an ancient, ongoing CRIME-syndicate, and the only “religious”
part in it, is where they say:
“God told us to commit these crimes!”
(Capisce?)!
BAN ISLAM!
Linde Barrera says
To Uncle Vladdi- I wish you were a reporter on CNN, ABC, CBS, and MSNBC. People would be a lot smarter, thanks to your easy to understand delivery.
Jaladhi says
>” there are many poor people in this world. There are many people with mental problems, and people with family problems. So why is it that only Muslims, with or without the above mentioned problems, commit acts of terror?”
Because murder and mayhem is taught by their religion and their religious books and their religious leaders!!
And the world goes out to find psychological reasons for their murderous behavior. Why doesn’t the West see the obvious instead of looking for excuses for their atrocities.
We have enough of this gobbledygook psycho-analysis of Muslims.!! The fact is they what they are doing to please their god Mo/allah!!
Scott Davis says
I believe there is another reason for the much higher levels of violence among Muslims. Children grow up seeing their mothers routinely beaten (likely female children too). Bosch Fawstin, a self professed “recovering muslim”, reported in his blog that all his female relatives have been beaten.
Uncle Vladdi says
Here’s the “psychology” of “radicalization:”
The bottom line of sharia is that Islam’s Qur’an only lists and sums up all the bad criminal acts everyone might become tempted into committing in the course of their lives anyway, and gives them the endorsement of “God” himself! So everyone already prone, in at least some situational circumstances in their lives, to indulge their criminal desires and turn them into criminal actions, will eventually embrace islam (in prison, if not before)!
Beyond this, “muslims” are also trained from birth to lie to all others, and to personally kill small animals in their Eid rituals, while being taught they are the best of people, and all infidel others are only worthy of being murdered and sent to hell – by them, personally, not by “god.”
And in Judeo-Christianity, when one is depressed and considers suicide, (much less considering suicide after or by committing mass murder) one is told one is destined for HELL.
While in islam, on the contrary, when one is depressed and considering suicide, one is told that all one has to do to guarantee one’s instant ascent to HEAVEN itself, (while also guaranteeing a choice spot there for 72 of one’s chosen family members and closest friends) is to at least TRY to murder as many (even random) infidels as one can, “for allah!”
Richado says
They all suffer from Islamic personality disorder, just like the founder of their murderous ideology, Mohammad, who first started it.
Observer59 says
Has long as we need their oil, “we” will keep to accept their crap.
There is simply too much at stake.
Furthermore, here in the Netherlands our government only represents the interests of our multinationals who love to export their products to the Middle East and other Muslim countries.
The financial interest for multinationals is priority nr.1. That is why our borders are wide open and we must accept their “crap”
All the rest is collateral damage. The disturbaties, the rapes, the killings.
They will never be willing to deal with this treath as they should.