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Robert Spencer in PJ Media: A Book That Changes the Counterterror Paradigm

Dec 10, 2018 7:45 am By Robert Spencer

My latest in PJ Media:

It isn’t often that a book can revolutionize the general understanding of an entire concept, and can lead to a fresh way of approaching a problem that had hitherto stymied even the most acclaimed experts in the field. Such a book is Jamie Glazov’s remarkable Jihadist Psychopath: How He Is Charming, Seducing, and Devouring Us; if heeded, his book could do nothing less than break the West out of the suicidal death spiral in which it seems inextricably caught today.

Jihadist Psychopath is most certainly the first book to tackle head-on, from a new and entirely unexpected angle, the odd phenomenon that has played out with such dreary regularity over the last two decades. After every jihad terror attack, the focus of the international media — and even government and law enforcement officials — is never on telling the truth of what happened and formulating ways to protect citizens more effectively from this threat in the future. Instead, the focus is on Muslim communities as the victims, as if, in a total inversion of reality, the attackers had been non-Muslims targeting Muslims.

This inversion of reality manifests in innumerable ways. There is, immediately after the attack, the flood of news articles about how the local Muslim community is shocked — shocked! — by the attack. We are told that when mosque members first heard about the attack they prayed that the culprit was not a Muslim, and that they didn’t know the attacker; if the evidence is unmistakable that they did, we are told he had gotten angry despite the imam having preached peace and tolerance. We are told that this embattled and unjustly blamed community now fears a backlash from racist, redneck, non-Muslim yahoos. We are told that President Trump is largely responsible for the climate of fear in which Muslims in America must live today, and that “Islamophobia” is at record levels.

Even more insidious is how this inversion of reality plays out in both domestic and foreign policy. New York City dropped a successful surveillance program in Muslim communities — despite the fact that two judges had affirmed its lawfulness and constitutionality — after Muslims in New York claimed it unfairly singled them out. The United States has seen countless lives lost and has spent trillions on efforts to win hearts and minds in the Islamic world. We have built schools and hospitals and highways, funded democratic elections, and much more, all predicated on the unspoken but unmistakable assumption that what is broken in the Islamic world is our responsibility, if not our doing. And that it is up to us to make it right.

How has it come to be so generally accepted in the West that the jihad against us is all our fault, and that it is we — its victims — who must change our behavior in order to accommodate and appease those who are victimizing us? Glazov’s theory in Jihadist Psychopath is as compelling as it is unique: What is playing out on the world stage today is the classic interaction of the psychopath and his victim. The psychopath, Glazov explains, first seduces his victim with a charm offensive. Then, once he has manipulated his prey into giving him what he wants (which is, in essence, the victim’s very soul and very self), he affects a posture of wounded victimhood if the victim protests against his mistreatment. He even rewrites the history of their relationship to buttress his spurious scenario.

A case in point: several months ago, American University Professor Akbar Ahmed published a book in which he argued that Europe, increasingly riven with crises caused by the Muslim migrant inundation, actually needs a new al-Andalus — a new dawning of Muslim rule on the continent. Ahmed outrages the historical record by portraying the original Muslim occupation of Spain as the setting of a paradise of multiculturalism, in which Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in harmony and mutual respect.

That was never true, and Ahmed’s argument, eagerly advanced in all the elite academic circles, is a classic example of how his jihadist psychopath scenario plays out (which is not to say that the mild and elderly Dr. Ahmed is himself either a jihadist or a psychopath). Europe, brutalized and victimized by jihad violence, Muslim rape gangs, skyrocketing crime, and more as a result of mass Muslim migration, is told that it needs yet more Muslims and more Islam, and is supplied with a fictional history of Muslim magnanimity to cinch the case.

And Western analysts fall for it every time. The audacity and insightfulness of Jihadist Psychopath, however, offers a glimmer of hope….

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  1. Benedict says

    Dec 10, 2018 at 8:32 am

    “The psychopath, Glazov explains, first seduces his victim with a charm offensive. Then, once he has manipulated his prey into giving him what he wants (which is, in essence, the victim’s very soul and very self), he affects a posture of wounded victimhood if the victim protests against his mistreatment. He even rewrites the history of their relationship to buttress his spurious scenario.”….

    I must confess that I have never met such a creature, but if he comes my way I’m confident, that I’ll be able to smell his bad breath from afar without having read Glazov’s book – not to say that his book cannot have its points.

    • mortimer says

      Dec 10, 2018 at 9:18 am

      Benedict, the sociopathic jihadist is a CHARMER who does not ooze evil, but slick charmer. You will feel relaxed, trusting and happy with a jihadist sociopath.

      Their game is BAIT and SWITCH. They conceal their next moves.

      They do not have bad breath. Their words and voices are sweet.

      The media have been pursuing these JIHAD DENIERS for years. They promote peace in public, but jihad in private among like-minded Muslims.

      They make certain that we trust them before they betray us.

  2. traci94 says

    Dec 10, 2018 at 9:58 am

    I hope that this book, along with The History of Jihad, will make a difference. Although I do feel somewhat skeptical. As Americans, we are conditioned to be “tolerant” and non-judgmental (as if we can live through life without making judgements!) I remember being in a small argument with my mom’s boyfriend about Islam, and he said that he has nice Muslim friends, implying that Islam is somehow benign.

    I truly believe that Islam is demonic, and I am reminded of two Bible verses:

    Ephesians 6:12

    “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”

    2 Corinthians 11:14

    “And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.”

    I pray that people will WAKE UP to reality, and I am thankful for Jamie and Robert for their tireless efforts to sound the alarm!!

    • traci94 says

      Dec 10, 2018 at 10:18 am

      Also, this evil has blinded people in the church in some weird way. Within the last year, our church had a series of Sunday school lessons on world religions, and of course, I wanted to especially attend the one on Islam. I found this lesson to be less than helpful. I made a few comments about how Muhammad did the exact same things as ISIS is doing now – beheading people, taking sex slaves, etc. And a woman right beside me raised her hand and said something like, “Well…what am I going to tell my Muslim friends? We can’t avoid talking to Muslims.” First of all, did I say anything about NOT talking to Muslims?? No. Secondly, as far as what she can say to her Muslim friends, I thought, how about you tell them that their prophet is less than stellar? But, I don’t think quick on my feet, or at least I didn’t then, and I just kind of nodded.

      But their are people in my church that are really BIG into refugees. It is like Islam uses our Western laws and freedoms against us (freedom of religion, etc.) AND Christian doctrine against us – God talks a lot about the plight of the refugee and sojourner in the Old Testament.

      • Elisha says

        Dec 10, 2018 at 6:53 pm

        Sister, churches these days are full of liberals who call themselves Christians. Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ reminded us in Matthew 7 that “the way is difficult and few find it.” On dealing with muslims, it would be wise to enquire firstly what our Lord Jesus puts upon our hearts. Secondly, we can learn from Christian apologists like David Wood, Sam Shamoun and Jay Smith. God bless.

    • Rufolino says

      Dec 11, 2018 at 6:15 am

      “Demonic” is a very strong word which I’m reluctant to use, but after everything, one is compelled to think this word is probably the right one.

      • traci94 says

        Dec 11, 2018 at 2:29 pm

        Yes, I don’t use the word demonic often nor I do I use it casually, but I look at the fruits of Islam – the hundreds of years of violence, the inability to coexist with any other society/religion/culture, the sheer disrespect of basic human rights, the inability to take constructive (or ANY) criticism, the insistence on special treatment and privileges, the use of deception and lies, the easily triggered rage, the use of migration to spread Islam…couple all of this with the insistence from Muslims and non-muslims alike that Islam is a religion of peace, the world’s inability to acknowledge the truth -and I can come to no other conclusion.

  3. Elisha says

    Dec 10, 2018 at 6:47 pm

    “Instead, the focus is on Muslim communities as the victims, as if, in A TOTAL INVERSION OF REALITY, the attackers had been non-Muslims targeting Muslims.”

    Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
    Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;
    Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

    Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,
    And prudent in their own sight! – Isaiah 5:20-21

    “(which is not to say that the mild and elderly Dr. Ahmed is himself either a jihadist or a psychopath).”

    More than likely, he is both. sura 16:106 means that one cannot trust ANY muslim.

  4. gravenimage says

    Dec 10, 2018 at 9:35 pm

    Robert Spencer in PJ Media: A Book That Changes the Counterterror Paradigm
    ……………..

    This sounds like an important book from Jaime Glazov.

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