Like so many other jihad terrorists, Justin Sullivan’s will to commit jihad violence is consigned to mental illness. Yet while Sullivan is described as “socially awkward” with “psychological problems,” which are undesirable traits in Western culture, the jihadist culture of war and conquest cultivates those very traits, glorifying violent impulses as obedience to the divine will and thereby turning them into “skills” of jihad warfare against infidel countries.
Sullivan planned to carry out a massacre over the next few days “at a concert, bar or club, where he believed as many as 1000 people could be killed using the assault rifle and silencer.” He “remained ardent in his Islamic beliefs and had not expressed remorse.” Psychological problems.
More on this story. “In rural NC, teen planned to unveil an ‘Islamic State of North America’”, by Michael Gordon, Charlotte Observer, June 27, 2017:
ASHEVILLE–Calling Justin Sullivan’s plot a “cold and calculated” conspiracy of ISIS-inspired terror, a federal judge in Asheville sent the 21-year-old Morganton man to prison for the rest of his life….
Sison, a veteran federal public defender from Asheville, called one witness – a Durham psychologist who testified that Sullivan suffers from psychological problems that could spiral into full-fledged schizophrenia if does not receive adequate prison treatment or is housed with hardened inmates.
Under questioning by Savage, Dr. Jim Hilkey said that during his 15 visits with Sullivan, his patient remained ardent in his Islamic beliefs and had not expressed remorse.
As part of the sentencing, Reidinger ordered that Sullivan undergo a psychological assessment, with the findings to help determine where he should be held.
In the last three years, 125 persons have been arrested in the United States on charges of aiding ISIS. Sullivan becomes the second to receive a life sentence.
In April, Harlem Suarez became the first, following his conviction for buying a bomb to blow up a beach in the Florida Keys……
Ren says
A follower of islam is a sick psycho.
Dave Flang says
Sounds like he could work for the fake news outlets.
Michael Copeland says
Schizophrenic?
Sebastian Faulks said this about a book:
“It’s just the rantings of a schizophrenic.”
The book is the Koran.
mortimer says
If the Koran was written by a schizophrenic, then Mohammed was mentally ill. If Mohammedans imitate Mohammed, it is not a fact that they are schizophrenic, but that they are ACTING OUT the symptoms of schizophrenia.
Such a person is said to have ‘OVERVALUED IDEATION’… meaning that fantasizing has become frequent and is causing the person to live outside the real world in a world of legends and mythology. Such a person may be fundamentally sane, but still delusional.
The way for a psychiatrist to determine if they are sane is to test how much the Islamic terrorists are otherwise attached to reality.
Muslims who are basically sane, believe in the supposed perfection of a mentally ill cult leader.
Sam says
EVIL CAN BE ANYTHING BUT ISLAM OF COURSE!!!!
billybob says
Seeing this young man who has succumbed to the madness of Islam breaks my heart. He could have been my son. He could have been your son. It is not good enough to simply send him to jail for the rest of his life. Some attempt must be made to rehabilitate him and open thereby a path to redemption and finally freedom.
There must be an inquiry into how this young person was indoctrinated. I doubt it would simply be self-indoctrination via the Internet, as with a name like “Sullivan” he most likely never had any prior background in Islam. Somebody groomed him, patiently and carefully, over time. That person must be found, arrested, and made to pay for destroying the life of this young man.
jihad3tracker says
I have previously recommended reading the essay titled “Why Islam Creates Monsters” — by Dr. Nikolai Sennels, but it is relevant now, again. Dr. Sennels has posted on JW — look him up in the search box. Highly recommended by ancient old Me.
And the brilliant Dr. David Wood, a couple of months ago, put a 3-part video on YouTube titled “The Psychology of Islam”, which is also on his blog, www [dot] answeringmuslims [dot] com. If you have limited time, watch Part 1 from its start until about 28 minutes — that gets to the essence of why Islam is so pathologically hostile to our fellow humans.
jihad3tracker says
OOOPS ! ! ! I meant to write that PART 2 (not Part 1) is a stand-alone intro to the pathology of Islam, from the beginning of Part 2 until about 28 minutes.
MAS says
Thank you for the leads. There’s something about this sect that just doesn’t seem to add up.
Terry says
After 15 visits, this piece of shit remained adamant in his Islamic beliefs and showed no remorse.
And the bleeding heart- ” who testified that Sullivan suffers from psychological problems that could spiral into full-fledged schizophrenia if does not receive adequate prison treatment or is housed with hardened inmates.
In my view- TFB.
He should be place din the general population with hardened criminals- especially if there are a few who still like this country. And give him some lessons, or perhaps have Sullivan have an accident.
utis says
We don’t let wild hyenas and rabid animals run loose among humans. Why humans, who can’t stop trying to injure or kill the helpless? Keep this loony locked up until he can be verified harmless by unbiased, objective verification, not wishful thinking.
yohanan says
Fortunately the father alerted the police in time. When the son reportedly hired a hit man to kill his parents it was an FBI agent. The would be jihad terrorist got life. A good outcome to a hard story.
TERRY says
A disagree. A good outcome would be if this 20 something year old piece of garbage got the death penalty.
AND IT BE CARRIED OUT QUICKLY-WITHOUT ANY, OR AT MOST ONE APPEAL.
Let us go back in time. A Puerto Rican ‘nationalist” tried to assassinate president Truman, in Miami/Miami Beach FL.
he was caught.
Trial within about two weeks. Found guilty. Executed within two months.. (I am sure one could get the exact time frames, used to have them). THAT IS JUSTICE.
abad says
Islam is a mental illness
MAS says
Is the mainstream news media covering this case? I live in North Carolina; three or so hours from Asheville and I don’t read the mainstream anymore so I don’t know. But it strikes me that I would not have missed the headlines if this character had been planning to blow up a mosque or an all-black college. On a 1 to 10 scale of newsworthiness I’d give it a 7.5 or 8. But is it been discussed that way?
Linda Goudsmit says
TOLERATING THE INTOLERANT: The Tipping Point of Multiculturalism by Linda Goudsmit 7.1.17
It is often necessary to look backward to move forward.
The United States of America was founded upon the democratic principles of freedom, equality, justice, and upward mobility – the opportunity to assert power over oneself and determine one’s own destiny. “Only in America” describes the wonder of upward mobility where success is determined by the individual not by the State. Unlike its English predecessor, American democracy guaranteed that in America it was not necessary to be born into wealth or born into the ruling aristocracy to achieve financial success or political power. The United States guarantees religious freedom to its citizens and further guarantees the separation of Church and State.
The United States of America is the greatest experiment in individual freedom ever created anywhere in the world. It has existed as the dream and beacon for freedom of oppressed people everywhere seeking refuge and safety from the tyranny of their own despotic governments. Since its inception the United States has welcomed freedom lovers who assimilate and embrace the United States Constitution, laws, traditions, and cultural norms through the process of legal immigration. We have been enriched by the contributions of legal immigrants in science, art, literature, music, medicine and every other sphere of American life. The combination of upward mobility and individual freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution and incentivized by the opportunity for success produced the most powerful nation on Earth.
The history of immigration in America is the story of immigrants seeking refuge through legal immigration into the United States who assimilate and become part of the American dream – until now. America is currently under siege by immigrants with hostile cultural norms hoping to change American life rather than assimilate into it. Islam is on the march and hijrah, immigration jihad, is part of the plan.
Islam was not an issue for America in the time of President Thomas Jefferson. Islam was not an issue for America in the time of President Harry Truman. Islam is an issue for America now in the time of President Donald Trump because former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush rebranded Islam as a religion of peace.
Islam is not a religion of peace like Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, or Judaism. Islam is a unified socio-political system with a militarized wing, an educational wing, a religious wing, and enormous oil wealth. Islam is governed exclusively by religious sharia law. There is no separation of Church and State in Islam. The goal of Islam since the 7th century is the transformation of the world into an Islamic caliphate ruled by religious sharia law. Islam is tyrannical in its demand for conformity to its barbaric sharia laws. Islam is intolerant and recognizes sharia law exclusively. Islam is a supremacist socio-political movement seeking world dominion not a religion of peace. Islam is a threat to American democracy.
Historically the multiple cultures and people of the world were separated by physical and/or national boundaries. Wars were fought and boundaries changed but cultures and people with shared values shared their space. Immigration challenges societies with multiculturalism because immigration imports people with values and cultural norms unlike the host country. As long as the differences in cultural norms and values are secondary like foods, dress, holiday celebrations multiculturalism works. The difficulty arises when cultures with primary conflicting cultural norms and values attempt to occupy the same space in a country.
A society’s primary values and cultural norms are reflected in definitions of mental health and mental illness specific to that culture. The definitions identify what is acceptable and unacceptable behavior and those values and norms are codified into laws that govern that society. Muslim societies governed by sharia law revere a father murdering his disobedient daughter as an “honor” killing. In Western society governed by secular Constitutional law a father murdering his disobedient daughter is an intolerable criminal offense punishable by imprisonment or death. Murdering an infidel, an apostate, a homosexual, or a disobedient wife are endorsed and rewarded by Islam. In Western societies all four are intolerable criminal offenses punishable by imprisonment or death.
The left-wing liberal apologists for Islam deny that irreconcilable differences exist among cultures and they are trying to persuade America that Islam, a supremacist socio-political movement is not a threat to democracy. The Leftists, using their politically correct moral relativism to justify tolerating the intolerable in America have reached the tipping point of multiculturalism by redefining treason as mental illness. Rebranding the threat does not make it any less threatening.
When definitions of mental health shift to accommodate political correctness and moral relativity society is pressured to tolerate the intolerable which threatens existing social norms and the laws that reflect them. In this circumstance mental health becomes politicized and can be used to defend the indefensible. When North Carolina psychologist tried to assert that an American jihadi was mentally ill the question becomes, “Mentally ill by whose standards?” The jihadi is considered a hero in Islam and a criminal in America. Western men and women who reject their Western cultural norms and embrace Islam and sharia law cannot be considered mentally ill if they embrace Islam. Their choices have consequences. They may renounce their Western cultural norms but must still be judged by them.
Apologist for Islam have curtailed their indefensible defense of Islam as a religion of peace and have launched a new campaign to present Islamic jihadi recruits as mentally ill. This new strategy was applied recently to defend jihadist Justin Sullivan in North Carolina. Reported by JihadWatch on June 28, 2017:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/06/north-carolina-jihadi-has-psychological-problems-that-could-spiral-into-full-fledged-schizophrenia
“Sison, a veteran federal public defender from Asheville, called one witness – a Durham psychologist who testified that Sullivan suffers from psychological problems that could spiral into full-fledged schizophrenia if does not receive adequate prison treatment or is housed with hardened inmates. Under questioning by Savage, Dr. Jim Hilkey said that during his 15 visits with Sullivan, his patient remained ardent in his Islamic beliefs and had not expressed remorse.”
Cultural relativity whether accepted as normative or defined as mental illness is problematic because both create social chaos.
Consider a society of cannibals for whom eating human flesh is normative. If an American travels to parts of tropical Africa where cannibalism is the cultural norm or learns of cannibalism on the Internet and decides to cannibalize his neighbor should he be considered mentally ill and absolved of his crime? Should he be free to cannibalize people because he has embraced cannibalism and it is normative in tropical Africa? The problem with cultural relativity is that it only works in subjective reality. In the real world of objective reality cannibals cannot be tolerated in non-cannibal societies because accepting the hostile norms of the cannibals is an existential threat to the non-cannibals. Perhaps the Leftists will defend cannibalism on the grounds of moral relativity or cultural relativity. Perhaps they will set up cannibal courts and establish a two-tier system of justice one for cannibals and one for non-cannibals.
Cultural and religious freedom guarantees cultural and religious tolerance but when tolerating the intolerable become an existential threat to society the tipping point of multiculturalism has been reached. Cultural relativity that posits all cultures are equal in value is diametrically opposed to civilized society, the rule of law, and the Constitution. Religious freedom does not require American society to import or support those who wish to transform American social norms rather than assimilate into American society.
There must be limits of tolerance in a tolerant society because tolerating the intolerable is the tipping point of multiculturalism. It is cultural suicide to tolerate the intolerable.