Why, of course. Why didn’t we think of this before? How could anyone have gotten the crazy idea that Muslim mass shooters are not mentally ill? Why, mass shootings by Muslims couldn’t possibly have anything to do with the Qur’an’s commands to “kill them wherever you find them” (2:191, 4:89, cf. 9:5) and the demands in the Qur’an and Sunnah to make war against unbelievers. Why, to think such a thing would be “Islamophobic.” Those who think Muslim mass shooters are not mentally ill must simply hate Muslims. Why, a sterling and objective academic, Brett Mercier, says so! It must be true!
“Study: People prejudiced towards Muslims perceive mass shooters who are Muslim as less mentally ill,” by Eric W. Dolan, PsyPost, December 13, 2018:
New research provides evidence that religious prejudice can influence how people perceive mass shooters. The study, published in the journal Psychology of Violence, found that people prejudiced against Muslims tended to view Muslim mass shooters as less mentally ill compared to non-Muslim shooters.“While mass shootings makeup only a small percentage of total gun deaths, they are an issue that many members of the public are extremely concerned about,” said study author Brett Mercier of the University of California Irvine.
“As mass shootings in the United States are almost certain to continue, I think it is increasingly important to understand how the public responds to them. Up until now, there hasn’t been that much research on this topic. For this particular paper, my co-authors and I noticed that there appeared to be a double standard in how many people treated shooters who are Muslim, relative to shooters who are not.”
The study, which included more than 2,600 participants, found that Muslim mass shooters tended to be viewed as less mentally ill and more motivated by religion — but only among those with negative views toward Muslims.
“Our research finds that individuals who have negative attitudes towards Muslims discount mental illness for mass shooters who are Muslim. This means that those with negative views of Muslims are probably overestimating how much violence is caused by extremist Islamic groups,” Mercier told PsyPost.
The researchers also found that participants with negative attitudes toward Muslims viewed Muslim shooters as less mentally ill than Christian mass shooters. They also viewed Muslim shooters as less mentally ill even they were described as having symptoms of mental illness….
The study, “Muslim Mass Shooters Are Perceived as Less Mentally Ill and More Motivated by Religion,” was authored by Brett Mercier, Adam Norris, and Azim F. Shariff.
infidel numero uno says
As a lay person, even I can understand that they’re just carrying out the commands of their evil, unholy, ungodly, depraved 7th century cult, the most catastrophic mania ever to infect the Earth’s poopulace.
mortimer says
Here the allegedly DIVINE COMMANDS that create the ‘illness’ of jihadism in Muslims:
The Koran’s 164 Jihad Verses: K 002:178-179, 190-191, 193-194, 216-218, 244; 003:121-126, 140-143, 146, 152-158, 165-167,169, 172-173, 195; 004:071-072, 074-077, 084, 089-091, 094-095,100-104; 005:033, 035, 082; 008:001, 005, 007, 009-010, 012, 015-017, 039-048,057-060, 065-075; 009:005, 012-014, 016, 019-020, 024-026, 029,036, 038-039, 041, 044, 052, 073, 081, 083,086, 088, 092, 111, 120, 122-123; 016:110; 022:039, 058, 078; 024:053, 055; 025:052; 029:006, 069; 033:015, 018, 020, 023, 025-027, 050; 042:039; 047:004, 020, 035; 048:015-024; 049:015; 059:002, 005-008, 014; 060:009; 061:004, 011, 013; 063:004; 064:014; 066:009; 073:020; 076:008.
Michael Copeland says
“I have no mental defect or disease, neither past or present. I was well aware of my actions.”
Abdulhakim Muhammad (Carlos Bledsoe) – Little Rock, Arkansas, killer (in a letter to the Judge).
Angus says
“The study, which included more than 2,600 participants, found that Muslim mass shooters tended to be viewed as less mentally ill and more motivated by religion — but only among those with negative views toward Muslims.”
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“negative views toward muslims” = REALISTIC views of muslims
DHazard says
That’s so true it’s almost funny. But you found one of the studies weak spots. Why not conclude that people who know the most about Islam also know that all Muslims are, in a way, mentally. Islam does that to people. Legally sane, morally insane.
somehistory says
The correct conclusions in a nutshell. (npi)
One who is aware of what moslims are taught every day, again and again and made to feel they will not get a reward unless they kill…and kill as many as is possible…will see the murders for what they are: a religious expression with the idea of a reward.
Others, who may have been asked, but have no knowledge of islam and how molsims are made to “think” of killing, may see them as no different from other killers. If one is mentally ill, then so is another.
esther says
as a not precisely lay person—–I know that the delusions and
hallucinations of psychosis do not pop up from NO-WHERE.
They are manifestations of stuff already planted in grey matter.
IMHO all mass murderers are mentally impaired—-and VULNERABLE
to “suggestion”. Simply stated—–tell a nut that his “god” would like
him to kill someone——-and he is far more likely to do it than would a
non nut
mortimer says
THE OSTRICH BRIGADE … Observe the common ostrich cowering with its head in the sand when it is confronted with hard evidence, logic or reason.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9phVODRQkM
Save Europe says
Agreed. That idiot apologist for Muslim terrorism fails to acknowledge the disgusting duality within the Koran and how it is both anti Judeo-Christian !
Muslim terrorists in my opinion, are unquestionably Orthodox Muslims – ie adherents to their vile supposed book.
Kilauea says
The problem of mentally ill Muslims is exacerbated by traitorous politicians in the West who make excuses for their savage behavior. I wouldn’t have these animal sin my house, so why do our political leaders allow them into the country?
mortimer says
This psychologist is making excuses for Muslims … they are NOT mentally ill. They are OVER-IDEALIZING the JIHAD IDEOLOGY.
JIHADISM is the ideology that claims that JIHAD is the MOST IMPORTANT action for Muslims to perform, even more important than prayer and fasting.
JIHADISM Is the Islam ‘OF THE CONSENSUS’.
Carolyne says
And they are pure evil.
mortimer says
Carolyne, Jihadists do not believe that killing kafirs is evil.
They are sincerely delusional. They sincerely believe that they are PLEASING ALLAH who HATES THE DIRTY KUFAAR. (So Muslims should hate the kafirs too.)
Allah rewards JIHAD MURDERERS with eternal sex with slaves in Islamic paradise. The Koran calls this reward ‘Allah’s BOUNTY’. (Bounty is a word whose root means ‘goodness’.) They are so deluded, they are happy to kill.
Gerald M Sanders says
The response of those who charge bigotry against muslim acts of violence are psuedo-scientist. Before one takes actions for good or evil tnese actions rest upon ideas. The Muslim violence rests upon an ideas that are clearly stated in the Koran and other Muslim writings. Angry Muslims who read the Islamic teachings will act upon them and are in perfect agreement with the founders of Islam. I am sure that this “expert” was trained in American or British universities which have lost the ablity because of political correctness (many of the universities take enormous sums of money from Muslim countries)to think and apply true critical thinking.
Tom says
To follow the logic of the authors of this study, they are apparently saying that NON Muslims perceive those mass killers who commit such heinous crimes and who are Muslim as being sane. Whereas those who perceive Muslim mass murderers as mentally ill are simply acknowledging the truth.
Considering the vastly overwhelming number of Muslim mass murders that have taken place, compared to those by Non Muslim killers, and if we accept the conclusion of the report that Muslim mass killers are mentally ill, it would appear that mental illness is rampant within the Muslim community.
That being the case and it being acknowledged as being so by the left and the so called “experts”, then WHY, in the name of all that is logical, would we allow such a community flaw to be imported into our own countries.
“You can be full of love and kindness, but you still cannot sleep next to a mad dog.” Ashin Wirathu, Buddhist Monk.
mortimer says
Winston Churchill: “Islam is a man is like hydrophobia in a dog.”
Tom says
Excellent quote from Churchills book of 1899 The River Wars.
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.”
Prebangian says
Islamic peoples have significantly higher rates of consanguinity compared to other ideological/cultural groups which results in a greater probability of mental illness. Genetic testing of perpetrators might help determine scientifically the probability of mental illness resulting from one or more generations of consanguinity. Also, the two conditions, mental illness and Jihadist belief, aren’t mutually exclusive. A Jihadist, versus say an Amish adherent, may present different mental illness symptoms, e.g. violence versus withdrawal.
Rarely says
I guess it all depends upon what he considers “negative attitudes” towards muslims. It’s a little difficult not to be at least a little wary of them if one has any info on the European situation. Those Pollyannas who are not at least a little concerned must be living in a vacuum.
It would also depend upon one’s definition of “insanity”. If being raised with constant brain washing that non-muslims are less than human so that you carry that as a basic value is “insanity” then he would be perfectly correct. So I guess that the KKK and neo-Nazis are not “evil” but merely “insane”.
It is the legal definition of “insanity” that is relevant to determine guilt and not some airy fairy concept that anyone who commits an atrocious act MUST be insane to have done so.
There are just too many huge holes in his hypothesis.
mortimer says
POLLYANNAS have also been called “THE OSTRICH BRIGADE”.
Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s Minister of International Trade of the Trudeau government, is a PRIME MEMBER of the Globalist Regressive Left, or the Ostrich Brigade. Here is some of Chrystia Freeland’s ostrich logic:
1. Every faith has bad people
2. Diversity is an unconditional good
3. Criticizing Islam is the same as demonizing Muslims
4. The Bible is just as bad.
5. Pew polls on religious values are untrustworthy.
SHE KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT ISLAM BUT WHAT HER BRAIN MAKES UP.
Ronen says
Doesn’t it sound just like it was paraphrased from the tale ‘the emperor’s new clothes’?
“Only fools can not see these clothes”
Terry Gain says
I await the study which concludes that everyone who doesn’t understand that Islam is an irrational disaster invented by an evil man is mentally ill.
mortimer says
LET US COMPARE JIHADISTS WITH HITLER’S NAZIS for a moment.
Were ALL GERMANS INSANE in the time of Hitler? We have seen the pictures of rapturous Germans saluting the Fuehrer !!
REMEMBER that Hitler had a program of EXTERMINATING THE MENTALLY ILL !!! We cannot say that MOST GERMAN KILLERS WERE MENTALLY ILL … the majority of GERMANS under Nazism were involved in the crimes of Hitler in some way.
The same is true with Muslims IN THE PERIODS OF JIHAD. The Armenian-Assyrian-Pontic genocides were conducted by ORDINARY TURKS … these JIHADIST KILLERS were not taken from mental asylums, but were often the ordinary Muslim neighbors of those Christian victims whom they executed.
Papa Whiskey says
Except for the ones the Ottoman rulers recruited in prisons for “special squads.”
mortimer says
I was mentioning the GENOCIDES, sir. Most of the killing was not done by ‘specialists’. The savage methods used were primitive, inexpensive and often invented spontaneously such as sinking barges of people in the middle of the Euphrates..
Carolyne says
Mr. Mercier et al are mentally I’ll.
Halal Bacon says
shitslam IS a mental dis-ease
kessler says
All this survey has proved, is that some people have the brain capacity to see through the lies spouted by the mainstream media, politicians and muslim leaders, who after each jihad attack tirelessly attempts to downplay the involvement of Islam by ascribing it nothing more than “mental illness”.
We know that terrorists who happen to be Christian are not acting on behalf of a global terror group and mandating their actions through their religion. We know that they are not following a religious ideology calling for world domination and subjugation of unbelievers. We know they are “lone wolfs” and more likely to act due to mental illness.
That’s all this survey confirmed – no surprise there, but I assume the intent is for us to feel guilt for knowing the truth.
mortimer says
The survey proves that there are a lot of POLLYANNAS in the USA.
mummymovie says
Yeah, it sounds like this “researcher” (laugh!) is not willing to even admit that their backward, violent, religious ideology even PLAYS A PART in jihad activity; The “study” (gimme a break!) has simply determined that they are all just mentally ill, and we are unable to recognize that, because we are all just bigots and racists… Period!
Well, the establishment media sure is doing enough to hammer home the perception of mental illness being associated with attackers in ALL jihad attacks. This is the working assumption they always start with… at our expense, of course.
Clowns!
mummymovie says
And the idea that any information this twerp might have gathered could ever be considered a legitimate study is just hilarious.
Anything to facilitate global jihad and the hijra into otherwise free and open societies, right?
mummymovie says
Not to mention that this “study” which claims to be objective, is -of course- apparently conducted and/or co-authored with/by a guy named Azim Shariff, who could not possibly have any ulterior motives in a project that yields “results” like this.
Unimaginable.
No Muzzies Here says
The only people in the world worse than the Jihadis are the ones who play mental games to justify the violent takeover of the world by Jihadis.
Jayell says
What proportion of devout muslims are ‘shooters’ (or blower-uppers, or decapitaters, etc) as opposed to devout Christians (which of course should not include just anybody in a christian- based culture who isn’t a muslim)? Going purely on media reports, I seem to have heard dozens of reports of the former and virtually zero of the latter, and bearing in mind the lower number of ‘devout muslims’ in the West compared with Christians, one has to ask why the muslim.community has so much ‘mental illnes’ compared with Christians?
Guy Forester says
Problems with this so called study:
1. University of California
2. The authors need vetting to determine factors that would influence their gathering of data, including the survey instruments, statistical analysis, and the backgrounds of the authors.
3. There is not one single command in the New Testament from Jesus, Joseph, Mary, the Apostles, God the Father, or the Holy Spirit that says believers are to go out and force conversions, rape, pillage, loot, and kill non believers. When someone says that “God told me to do this,” you can bet that person is on something, hallucinating, psychotic, or some combination of these.
4. The “fruit of the spirit” listed in the New Testament is “love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control” (Galatians 5:22, NKJV).
5. Please compare what is taught to those that follow the religion we dare not name to the teaching of Jesus of Nazareth, who was born into a Jewish family. He most definitely did not belong to any other race, religion, or ethnic group, regardless of what any other book may teach.
Carolyne says
And they are pure evil.
Ernie says
Brett Mercier is just an opportunistic POS , pleasing the globalist elites for fame and money . He is one of many traitors selling his soul for very dubious reasons . I would really love it if somebody would drop this sissy somewhere in Somalia or Eastern Afghanistan . They would promote him there….. not to a doctorate but……..to a dancing-boy career ( and well deserved in my opinion) .
DHazard says
“The Arab world is incapable of development because it prefers envy, resentment, hatred, vendetta, gender apartheid, conspiracy theories and religious superstition.”
“The bottom line. Arabs cannot have nukes and Arabia must be reformed. You don’t let insane, unintelligent people have Weapons of Mass Destruction EVER.”
Extreme but containing more than just a kernel of truth, these quotes are from:
http://baconeatingatheistjew.blogspot.com/2006/03/arab-intelligence-insanity-and.html
somehistory says
No true Christian commits mass murder. If a person who has truly embraced Christ’s teachings and is attempting to live his life accordingly, self-control and obedience to the law will apply.
If a person who has been raised to think of themselves as Christian kills another, it must be remembered that this is totally unChristian…unless the killing is in defense of another or self in the face of death.
There are people who are mentally ill, but not so many that commit mass murder as their are moslims who commit mass murder and the “reasons” are totally different.
islam demands bloodshed.
Christianity does not demand killing for Christ nor for a “reward.’…or for any other reason. In fact, Jesus Christ warned, “Those who live by the sword, will die by the sword (Matthew 26:52).” And He also said the one “trying to save his soul, will lose it. But the one losing his soul for my sake, will find it (Matthew 16:25).”
The three authors of the “study”…are not fully informed. And the one guy seems to have a name that is associated with islam. Perhaps he is helping to mislead the others.
Paul says
“The researchers also found that participants with negative attitudes toward Muslims viewed Muslim shooters as less mentally ill than Christian mass shooters.” What Christian mass shooters, pray? I can’t think of any. (Unless of course you conveniently equate any white person with Christianity. And please don’t suggest Timothy McViegh – he was an atheist).
Keys says
Horse apples ! Fake research.
$11.95 to download a pdf of the research.
No way I’m giving my credit card info, etc., so I will not be able to see the details of selection criteria, statistical method, etc.
But my main question is “who funded and initiated this research project” ? CAIR ?
Lydia Church says
NEVER trust a ‘pretty boy’ in a hot pink shirt.
THAT is rule #1!
: D
They are always part of that ‘Russian disinformation’ propaganda project….
see? Two can play that game….!