Why are so many “mentally ill” people committing jihad worldwide lately? My latest in PJ Media:
Justin Sullivan converted to Islam in September 2014; that was when, says his father, he began “acting combatively.” Just three months later, he murdered a man who was a neighbor of his parents in Morganton, North Carolina. And last week, he was sentenced to life in prison for plotting a jihad massacre in the U.S. for the Islamic State.
But it’s not jihad, it’s “mental illness.”
The Charlotte Observer noted that, at Sullivan’s trial:
… a Durham psychologist … testified that Sullivan suffers from psychological problems that could spiral into full-fledged schizophrenia.
We have seen this sort of thing many times before.
A Muslim was arrested in June 2016 for a jihad plot to attack tourists and police. He was found with a knife and a machete. According to the Telegraph:
[T]he suspect has a history of psychiatric problems and has been diagnosed as schizophrenic, but is considered nonetheless “truly radicalized” with a “serious profile.”
Authorities did not always grant that these supposedly mentally ill jihadis were “truly radicalized.” Last March, a Muslim in Germany attacked a 59-year-old man riding his bicycle, bashing his skull with a hammer. Police announced: “The suspect may have a mental illness.” They stressed that this was not a jihad attack, the attacker was simply “mentally ill.”
Another Muslim in Germany who wounded nine people with an axe in a train station was also not a jihadi; he had “mental health problems.”
In August 2016, a Muslim stabbed six people in London, murdering one of them. The BBC reported:
[T]he Met Police’s assistant commissioner for specialist operations, Mark Rowley, said the investigation was increasingly pointing to the attack being “triggered by mental health issues.”
That same month, a Muslim entered a police station in Toulouse, France and attacked a police officer, stabbing her in the throat — in strict accord with the Qur’an’s command: “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” (47:4). He, too, had a “psychiatric disorder.”
That was also the verdict in the case of Gyulchehra Bobokulova, the Muslim woman who in May 2016 beheaded a four-year-old girl and then paraded her severed head through the streets of Moscow. She screamed “Allahu akbar” while brandishing the girl’s head and said that Allah had ordered her to behead the girl. She seems to have had an Islamic State boyfriend. She had become religious not long before the beheading, and started wearing hijab. She says the beheading was revenge for Russian airstrikes on Muslims in Syria. She told her son to pray five times a day and live in accord with Sharia.
Despite all that, however, she was declared insane and not brought to trial.
Likewise, a Muslim in Paris who stabbed a Jewish woman to death while screaming “Allahu akbar” may not face trial in light of claims that he was not in his right mind when he committed the murder.
In Uruguay last year, a Muslim screaming “Allahu akbar” stabbed a Jewish man to death, and later explained that in committing this murder, he had “followed Allah’s order.” But a judge ruled that he was “suffering from chronic psychosis of schizophrenic type” and “was not able to appreciate the wrongfulness of his actions.”
A Muslim who was shouting “Allahu akbar” outside a Brooklyn synagogue in July 2016 and had two knives in his car was, according to the New York Daily News, nothing to be concerned about:
[I]nvestigations by the NYPD and FBI showed Joudeh, 32, was emotionally disturbed and not a terrorist threat.
Last month, a Muslim who stalked through a Jewish area of London screaming “Allah, Allah” and “I’m going to kill you all” was also not a jihadi. A police spokesman explained:
He was detained by officers under the Mental Heath Act. No one was injured. This is not being treated as terror-related.
Apparently the cry of “Allahu akbar” is itself a sign of mental illness. Last month, a Muslim in a Metro station in Lausanne, Switzerland, began screaming “Allahu akbar,” causing commuters to run away in terror. But there was nothing to be concerned about. The prosecutor explained:
[T]his is a person who was afraid his life was in danger. At the height of his crisis, he began to face paranoia. Then he called to God for help. This is what he did last Friday in the subway shouting Allahu akbar.
An anti-Christian animus is also a sign of mental illness. Last Christmas, a Muslim was arrested in Italy for setting fire to a Nativity scene. He explained that as a Muslim, he “wanted to destroy Christian symbols.” But police said he was simply suffering from a “visible psycho-physical crisis.”
Similarly, in Germany last October a Muslim screaming “Allahu akbar” burst into a church during a wedding and began destroying the flowers and tearing down the wedding decorations. Police were called to the scene; one explained: “We tried to calm the obviously traumatised Syrian man.” Once subdued, the “traumatized” man was taken to a psychiatric hospital.
Of course. Everyone knows that nothing but mental illness would make a Muslim scream “Allahu akbar” and cause a disturbance in a church.
Mental illness is also the cause of anti-Americanism among Muslims. Military Times reported that in November 2015:
[A] Jordanian police captain opened fire in an international police training facility, killing two Americans and three others. The government subsequently portrayed the police captain as troubled.
Of course. What else could he be?
Are you seeing a pattern? What could account for this global outbreak of mental illness, that always manifests itself in similar ways?…
Krazy Kafir says
When you raise your child to be an, empty shell, Islam, is waiting.
john spielman says
yup – the demons of islam are waiting to enter an unoccupied house
Richard says
Sanity and insanity is often a social judgment, rather than a medical one. What is sane in one society is insane in another. Many ancient Scandinavian warriors were known as “berserks” (literally “bear-shirts”) because they worked themselves up for battle into a vicious mental sate of butchery that made it almost impossible to kill them. One such Viking held off King Harold’s entire army of Saxon axmen on an English bridge, and so may have been partially responsible for his defeat by William the Conquorer. This was really little different than what we see by “lone wolf” Muslim jihadists today. The same can be said of the Filipinos who used to “run amok” against American troops. They worked themselves up into such a state that the United States Army had to invent the 45 bullet because it was the only thing that could stop them. “Assassins” is a name of a group of Islamic murderers who worked themselves up for the killing by using hashish. Someone being “crazy” or not means little if they are trying to kill you or a loved one. Nor is it “hate” to want to kill them first.
Benedict says
Luckily Islam is that mental illness for which more Islam will provide the only effective therapy.
Peter says
How can that be true when it is well documented that they have gone to great lengths to kill even each other, if any westerner thinks that they can convert to Islam to save their own necks they would be wrong to do so. We will always be looked upon as infidels
Michael says
It’s just as well that Islam is a mental illness. You can lock patients in the funny farm forever and jab them with an electric cattle prod any time you want.
M. Archer says
It is very dangerous to discuss Islamic terror in the same breath as one speaks of true mental illness. In a cynical way it is easy for uneducated folks to say( with humor) that you would have to be insane to do the terror we see from radical terror perpetrators. Radical terror is a conscious choice based on religious ” inspiration” while with true mental illness there is a disconnect between the persons choices and his perception of reality by reason of mental defect. Too many word games and “semantics” quips does damage to our understanding of mental illness and to the justice system which clarifies these distinctions for the purpose of protecting the populace from true evil.
Guy Forester says
This is just one more of the same lame excuses by the ruling elites and oligarchs to avoid naming the real cause and to avoid going after the state sponsors of terrorism. The OPEC oil money buys lots of reasons for failing to act to defend the nation.
Declaring a “war on terror” is the same as if FDR (and I am not one of his liberal/progressive fans) had declared war on “dive bombing” after Pearl Harbor. Now we have “mental illness” causing the jihad murder de jour. Can you imagine how the war in the Pacific had turned out if we pursued the effort in light of the fact that the IJN and Army was suffering from “Banzai syndrome” and “Kamikaze delusional psychosis”? Or how about fighting Germany on the premise that all Nazis suffered from “Jewish/Zionist anxiety disorder” and/or “Aryan supremacy delusional disorder with superimposed Nazi invincibility syndrome”?
This is all more pseudo academic BS, MS, PHD. Anything to avoid cutting off the money from OPEC for the political and academic oligarchs.
mortimer says
IT’S THE IDEOLOGY, STUPID!
Jihad IDEOLOGY is similar to NAZI IDEOLOGY. Both IDEOLOGIES are founded on liberating AMORALITY. Both IDEOLOGIES thus have appeal to the CRIMINAL MIND.
JIHAD IDEOLOGY is the reason for Islamic VIOLENCE AND AMORALTY. Allah is pure will. Allah is thus not ‘moral’ or ‘ethical’. Allah is opportunistic. Mohammed followed Allah. Muslims imitate Mohammed’s amorality.
The willingness to torture, rape, plunder, demolish, enslave and commit mass murder for ALLAH, is not an illness, but an OVERVALUED IDEATION. Muslims who murder ‘for the sake of Allah’ are NOT insance, but merely ‘sold’ on the ideology of Islam which is absurd and romanticizes crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Paul N Silas says
As Churchill said, “Islam in a man is like rabies in a dog”
* Mortimer, you seem like a very intelligent person, where do you see this ending?
John A. Marre says
It’s hard to distinguish between mental illness and the Jihadi mind. They both come from an inability to perceive reality.
gravenimage says
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Jihad, the New Mental Illness
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Funny how pious Muslims are all “mentally ill” in exactly the same way…sarc/off
TL says
This is another reminder that psychiatry and psychology are stupefying pseudosciences of quacks, cranks, and “agents of change”, as The Chicago School of Professional Psychology likes to call its graduates. Of course The Chicago School encourages its students to adhere only to the highest and most exacting standards of professional ethics. Likewise, “In keeping with the spirit and letter of the law, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology prohibits discrimination against its employees, students, and applicants based on…religion…”.
It’s by the way that “Through partnerships with agencies and organizations throughout the Los Angeles area, the Forensic Training Institute provides students in our L.A. campus Forensic Psychology program the opportunity to train law enforcement personnel, governmental staff, and representatives of nonprofit organizations in areas ranging from gang intervention to mental illness recognition.”
https://www.thechicagoschool.edu/academics/centers-institutes/
Joanne says
“Apparently the cry of “Allahu akbar” is itself a sign of mental illness. Last month, a Muslim in a Metro station in Lausanne, Switzerland, began screaming “Allahu akbar,” causing commuters to run away in terror.”
Any way we could have yelling, ‘allahuakbar,” in a crowded place declared illegal, like yelling, “Fire?” It certainly has the potential to incite panic.
Voytek Gagalka says
“What are the learned theorists in North America and Europe planning to do about this global epidemic of mental illness?”
What else if not dumping more taxpayers’ money into this black-hole of “mental illness” for everlasting (but futile) “studies” of those cases while number of corpses of that “sudden” outbreak continue to grow and grow? You see, “doctors” will have jobs, “lawyers” will have their jobs, gravediggers will have jobs too and “economy” will grow and grow, the GDP with it, and because of that their “stock markets” will boom since all those “vital” indicators will go up and up and we’ll be living at last in the La-la land.
Prof.Helen McCaffrey says
Maybe some smart psychiatrist will do a peer reviewed paper .
staffsgt7 says
I can’t even count the number of times that I have written and said, islam is for psychopaths, sociopaths, and malignant narcissts… and horndog women who just ‘have to have that man’ – or the ones who prefer and have chosen ignorance of islam because it is cool to be a useful idiot.