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Australia: Psychiatrist says terrorists are more devout than other Muslims, are following the Qur’an

Jun 7, 2017 8:35 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

“There has been too much promotion of so called moderate voices of Islam who usually turn out be apologists for terrorism, desperate to dilute any link between terrorism and Islam and promoting a message of Muslim victimhood…It’s important we don’t tarnish all Muslims but people are just so sick of the platitudes and calls for tolerance, for unity and that Muslims are victims.”

Truthful words, coming from a cultural Muslim psychiatrist. If only more people were “so sick of the platitudes.” Unfortunately, the victimology subterfuge and the “Islamophobia” narrative continues to be a powerful propaganda tool used by Islamic supremacists/stealth jihadists.

Tanveer Ahmed’s statements are consistent with what Jihad Watch and other counter-jihadists have been warning about routinely:

In the wake of the United Kingdom’s third terrorist attack in 10 weeks, Dr Ahmed said the mainstream media and politicians also needed to acknowledge terrorists were following the Koran.

‘It’s grounded in scripture. People who commit terrorism, they are actually more devout than many other Muslims. Their actions don’t come out of thin air, they’re following strict instructions.

If Ahmed has not already been deemed an apostate for telling the truth about jihadists being motivated driven by Islamic texts, it won’t be long.

“Australia needs to stop worrying about Islamophobia’: Muslim psychiatrist says ‘moderate’ activists downplaying Islam’s links to terrorism are fuelling extremism in teenagers”, by Stephen Johnson, Daily Mail, June 6, 2017:

A Bangladeshi-born psychiatrist says the ABC plays a role in radicalising young Muslim teenagers by over emphasising how they are victims of discrimination.

Tanveer Ahmed, a cultural Muslim who moved to Australia when he was six, says the national broadcaster’s obsession with perceived Islamophobia was often counterproductive.

‘Often the voices they reach for reinforce that because their first instinct is to quell so-called Islamophobia,’ he told Daily Mail Australia on Monday.

‘It keeps feeding the message that none of it is their fault, that the West is in fact against them.

‘It’s inaccurate and doesn’t get to the source of the problem. It keeps feeding grievance, it keeps feeding this idea of Muslim grievance so in that respect it’s part of the problem.

‘Terrorism is, at its heart, a conflation of personal resentments with a political ideology of resentment which Islamism is.’

Dr Ahmed is a former SBS journalist who has also previously been a member of the federal government’s Australian Multicultural Council.

The 42-year-old psychiatrist, who has a practice in Sydney’s west and visits prisons, called on the ABC to be wary of airing so-called moderate Muslims who downplayed the link between Islam and terrorism.

‘There has been too much promotion of so called moderate voices of Islam who usually turn out be apologists for terrorism, desperate to dilute any link between terrorism and Islam and promoting a message of Muslim victimhood,’ he said.

‘They use voice after voice of from various religious Muslims, almost all of whom have identical views, that Islam has nothing to do with terrorism, Muslims are victims of racism and the real problem is racism and white nationalists.’

In the wake of the United Kingdom’s third terrorist attack in 10 weeks, Dr Ahmed said the mainstream media and politicians also needed to acknowledge terrorists were following the Koran.

‘It’s grounded in scripture. People who commit terrorism, they are actually more devout than many other Muslims. Their actions don’t come out of thin air, they’re following strict instructions,’ he said.

‘It’s important we don’t tarnish all Muslims but people are just so sick of the platitudes and calls for tolerance, for unity and that Muslims are victims when in fact there’s a great deal of sympathy in a significant proportion of the Muslim community for the justification of terrorism be it blaming Western colonialism, blaming racism, discrimination…..

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  1. john spielman says

    Jun 7, 2017 at 8:38 am

    yup! islam is an evil WORKS RIGHTEOUS THEOLOGY, and killing and being killed in jihad is the only way to guarantee entrance into allah’s big drunken bordello in the sky!

    • Arasu says

      Jun 8, 2017 at 10:16 am

      Spot on, John.
      I want to share a video I came across on youtube. Hope you enjoy it.

  2. mortimer says

    Jun 7, 2017 at 8:41 am

    God bless Dr. Tanveer Ahmed for his ‘radically’ courageous testimony.

    This is one of the most intelligent descriptions I’ve ever read about Islamic TERRORISM: “People who commit (Islamic) terrorism, they are actually more devout than many other Muslims. Their actions don’t come out of thin air, they’re following strict instructions.”

    Thanks, Dr. Ahmed.

    • mousey says

      Jun 7, 2017 at 4:25 pm

      i agree.

    • Debi Brand says

      Jun 9, 2017 at 2:40 am

      “People who commit (Islamic) terrorism, they are actually more devout than many other Muslims.”

      No doubt about that.

      Any one with any worthwhile knowledge of the regard-worthy (from the Islamic perspective) Islamic works, knows, “Allah” calls the best of the believers those who live and function as do the Leaders, scholars, scribes, soldiers, citizens and patrons of Islamic Stat; moreover, “He” calls munafigun—hypocrites—those who live the lives of so-called Moderates.

      Therefore, I suggest we also address them as such, given, in brief, that is precisely what they are. That is precisely what they are identified as by the book they claim to hallow.

  3. dumbledoresarmy says

    Jun 7, 2017 at 8:47 am

    Come on , Tanveer, come on, mate … you’ve come so far… might as well be hung for a sheep as for a lamb… screw up your courage and apostasise!!

    Join the ranks of the brave and free – Bosch Fawstin, Hannah Shah, Magdi Cristiano Allam, Sam Solomon, Nonie Darwish, Wafa Sultan, Ibn Warraq, Mona Walters, Rifqa Bary, Mark Gabriel, Daniel Shayesteh, and your fellow Bengalis Taslima Nasreen and “Abul Kasem”….

    • mortimer says

      Jun 7, 2017 at 8:55 am

      DDA, that’s easy for you to say. And not smart, mind you. Father Zakaria Botros advises apostates from Islam NOT TO TELL ANYONE. Botros is from Egypt and was in JAIL in Egypt for his Christian religion.

      Dr. Ahmed will have more effect among Muslims if he is not called an ‘apostate’ which will give them the right to dismiss his remarks before hearing them. You are foolish.

      • JIMJFOX says

        Jun 7, 2017 at 10:14 am

        Well, he has already said enough to invite a fatwa & be branded a heretic- which is effectively an apostate, subject to death.
        I’d like to think there are millions of secret apostates in Islam, waiting for a time when it will be safe to come out & destroy the ‘religion’. Saudi Barbaria is terrified of this possibility, as proven by a new law defining atheists as terrorists.
        http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-declares-all-atheists-are-terrorists-in-new-law-to-crack-down-on-political-dissidents-9228389.html

  4. OMG says

    Jun 7, 2017 at 8:53 am

    Just totally spot on. Why can’t the media and politicians see this. Maybe the tide is turning. The prayers are working. Theres no hiding now after all the recent blooddhed. Islam is now widely viewed as a filthy, brutal and barbaric ideology that should come under the same scrutiny as nazism.

    • JIMJFOX says

      Jun 7, 2017 at 10:18 am

      NOTHING to do with prayers- everything to do with increasing jihad attacks. The more atrocities the better- in a sick world, liberal retards need to see this evil as often as possible & hopefully have it happen to them. None so blind as those who refuse to see…

    • blitz2b says

      Jun 7, 2017 at 1:29 pm

      True dat … Believe you me, if it was not for our traitorous liberal left in the west, Islam would shrink like a wounded snake and crawl back into the hellhole that it originated from, which BTW is a prophecy of the fake prophet of Islam that I’m hoping will eventually come to fruition.

      In the mean time, our very own western libtards are breathing life into this sick demonic ideology, shamelessly defending every atrocity committed in it’s name.

      Before we try to educate Muslims about Islam, during our lifetime, let us make an effort to convince at least one brain dead liberal that Islam is NOT like other religions and it DOES have a world domination agenda. We have to convince them that if and when Islam is in majority they (liberals) will be the ones targeted first because in Islam there is no such concept as liberal. Christians and other minorities may be humiliated and persecuted but all the ones who shelter under the umbrella of liberalism will be marked for death.

  5. rubiconcrest says

    Jun 7, 2017 at 9:02 am

    A ‘cultural Muslim’, that is the first time I have heard that term used. It is good that Muslims can recognize their culture but separate themselves from the faith.

  6. Paul N Silas says

    Jun 7, 2017 at 9:30 am

    Yesterday I posted “Don’t we have a Delta Force or SAS group to make these open Jihadist disappear? It’s called Black Ops”.

    As usual I got the liberal response to a war, ” We are a nation of laws and we just can go around making people disappear”.

    If a person is a legal resident of the U.S. and is advocating a violent overthrow of the Constitution it is called treason. Penalty for treason is death.

    If a person is an illegal resident and does the same, they are an ununiformed invader, and it is open season on them.

    The Judo-Christian West is at war with The Left and Islam, so “Allahu Glock-bar”!

    • Paul N Silas says

      Jun 7, 2017 at 9:31 am

      Allahu Glock-bar means, my Glock beats your devil god cult!

    • Tom says

      Jun 7, 2017 at 2:49 pm

      If we start down the path of “making them disappear ” what next? Anyone who disagrees with the government of the day “disappears”?

      Those tactics aren’t acceptable in a civilized nation or a democracy. They only occur in totalitarian states.

      We should be identifying those jihadists who are openly vocal about bringing down a democracy and replacing it with Sharia law, arrest and convict them of sedition and put them in isolation in a jail specific to the purpose for a long time while attempting to deradicalize them.

      We can get them off the street but it must be in a lawful way, otherwise the next one to be disappeared may be you or me or one of our loved ones.

      • Paul N Silas says

        Jun 7, 2017 at 4:45 pm

        There are no rules or laws in a war. It’s kill or be killed, simple as that , and it’s coming to it very soon.

        • Paul N Silas says

          Jun 7, 2017 at 5:03 pm

          Is there any doubt that they are trying to make all of us “disappear” Tom. Only an idiot would think that if our Jihadist friends had a nuke that they wouldn’t use it. Or maybe some super bug plague?

          I’m not calling for vigilante justice, I’m just saying that we have people to do this kind of “wet work”.

  7. John A. Marre says

    Jun 7, 2017 at 10:04 am

    “terrorists are more devout than other Muslims, are following the Qur’an”
    A very obvious fact. Saying it shouldn’t be a heroic act.

    • Tom says

      Jun 7, 2017 at 2:37 pm

      It’s heroic because in saying it he knows he is putting his life on the line to get the “obvious” out in the open for left wing Liberals to see.

      He is a brave man.

    • Ed Lee says

      Jun 7, 2017 at 4:16 pm

      Others have posted this before, but it bears repeating: “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” Western political and business leaders are most certainly engaging in deceit about the threat of jihad. Dr. Ahmed telling the truth about Islam is very likely to cause powers on the left to want his death, just as much as devout Muslims who consider him a heretic or apostate.

  8. Richie says

    Jun 7, 2017 at 10:07 am

    I always thought Muslim ‘extremists’ or ‘radicals’ were the peaceful ones, the ones who abandoned the homicidal foundations of death cult that is Islam. Violent Muslims are following the teachings to the letter

  9. pnr says

    Jun 7, 2017 at 12:14 pm

    ‘psychiatry’ is a pseudo-science as is most of ‘psychology’

    • Dara Smythe says

      Jun 8, 2017 at 4:34 am

      Huh? And so?

  10. Ace-of-Clubs says

    Jun 7, 2017 at 1:00 pm

    Well said, Dr Ahmed in Australia. If only there were millions of Muslims like him prepared to enlighten the west about the true nature of the Koran and what it teaches. It is so rare to see a Muslim speaking about their own religion in this way, but we need more of them.

  11. Guest says

    Jun 7, 2017 at 1:32 pm

    Well if the college educated man of the mind says so…

    • Dara Smythe says

      Jun 8, 2017 at 4:36 am

      ???

  12. Tom says

    Jun 7, 2017 at 2:33 pm

    Thank you Dr. Ahmed for your honesty and psycholigical insight into the mind of muslims. How refreshing to have a real man of muslim background stand up and tell it as it is.

    He is absolutely right that accusations of Islamophobia only serves to propagate the victim narrative that almost always follows a terror attack where a devout muslim or muslims are the perpetrators.

  13. Stan Lee says

    Jun 7, 2017 at 2:54 pm

    When the Islamist problem is attributable to “more devout Muslims,” then they all are unfit to live in any kind of community other than homogeneous Islam.
    Where they are concerned, their thought processes need to leap forward many many, centuries, and still they may never change attitudes when exposed in close proximity to people of any other faith, or no faith at all. Wherever that scenario exists, blood is shed.
    When nations intend for themselves to be free, where citizens are charged with responsibility of observing national law, such as in the USA and its Constitution, Islam is totally incompatible.
    Islam originated on its basis of conquest in order to accumulate followers in every corner of this world, be it through conversion to Islam or death by refusing conversion to Islam. It can operate on no other basis, therefore let us believers in all faiths other than Islam not have any illusions about the Muslim faith.

    • Tom says

      Jun 7, 2017 at 6:42 pm

      When the fundamentals of a religion are peaceful, the more fundamentalist a devout follower becomes the more peaceful they become.

      When the fundamentals of a religion are violent, the more fundamentalist a devout follower becomes the more violent they become.

  14. Matthieu Baudin says

    Jun 7, 2017 at 9:07 pm

    “… The 42-year-old psychiatrist, who has a practice in Sydney’s west and visits prisons, called on the ABC to be wary of airing so-called moderate Muslims who downplayed the link between Islam and terrorism…”

    Impressive! Not only words but also action. Would Teresa May or any of the other ‘shrinking violet’ heads of government, including Australia’s, have any inclination to listen to this mans analysis; one formulated from within the cultural/religious group in question and the humanist profession of Psychiatry?

  15. Debi Brand says

    Jun 8, 2017 at 3:23 am

    ‘It’s grounded in scripture. People who commit terrorism, they are actually more devout than many other Muslims.”

    Indeed. They are “those who believe,” as the “Holy Book” of all Muslims declares they are.

  16. Brien Doyle says

    Jun 8, 2017 at 4:54 am

    The Koran gives an easy out for those criminally inclined and for those who enjoy being sadistic in their attitude and violence toward other people without having to have a conscience or regret.
    They are already absolved from guilt by their holy book.
    No way they will revise their book.

  17. Mirren10 says

    Jun 8, 2017 at 8:16 am

    I agree with dumbledoresarmy.

    If this bloke has the wit to see so far, he needs to go the whole hog and **apostasise** publicly, and say why, as other courageous ex-muslims have done. Waiting ….

  18. Chris Malan says

    Jun 8, 2017 at 8:28 am

    He will be ignored. It’s unlikely that the ABC will have anything to say about what he said.

  19. Valkyrie Ziege says

    Jun 8, 2017 at 9:07 am

    ; Religions don’t want ”tolerance”, they want subservience.

  20. Philip W. says

    Jun 8, 2017 at 11:22 am

    He’s not wrong.

  21. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Jun 8, 2017 at 11:45 pm

    “It’s important we don’t tarnish all Nazis …. er, Muslims.” WHAT?!

    As for criminal terrorists (those embracing the crime of extortion writ large) being “mentally ill” – well, only if all criminals are, and I think that’s giving them their favorite alibi to excuse their own criminal desires and actions: “I didn’t do it! Only my brain did it! Whee!”

    Further, if so, then since Muhammad himself was the biggest terrorist, he, too, must have been “mentally ill” when he wrote his book of excuse-making crime-alibis called “the Qur’an” and advised and extorted everyone around him to join his gang and join in the fun, too – or DIE.

  22. ron says

    Jun 9, 2017 at 2:11 pm

    i have islamophobia! and I’m damn proud to have it. if you don’t have it, then you have truthophobia.

    • Debi Brand says

      Jun 9, 2017 at 3:19 pm

      “if you don’t have it, then you have truthophobia.”

      Indeed. Well stated.

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