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Greenfield: The Islamic Terrorist as Psychopath

Jan 10, 2019 7:59 am By Jamie Glazov

Author’s note:  I will be speaking at Beverly Hills Hotel on Feb. 6 about my new book: “Jihadist Psychopath.” Register HERE. Order the book HERE.

It is a great honor for me that Shillman Fellow Daniel Greenfield has reviewed and praised my new book in American Thinker.  The review is below:

There are basic interrelated questions that any student of human history must ask. Why is human history filled with so much evil, and why do good people so often do nothing in the face of evil?

Jamie Glazov’s new book, Jihadist Psychopath: How He Is Charming, Seducing, and Devouring Us, addresses that troubling question.

The answer that he comes up with in Jihadist Psychopath is a collusion that is not born only of simple radicalism, but of the ways in which Islamic political movements play on our own emotional weaknesses.

Jihadist Psychopath is a journey into the dark heart of the Western world using the metaphor of the interplay between the psychopath and his victims. That metaphor pervades Glazov’s text, structuring his understanding of the growing terror death toll and the accompanying sympathy for the terrorists.

Glazov, who has a BA in Political Science and a PhD in History, had already made a study of Islamic terrorists. To prepare for the writing of Jihadist Psychopath, he also made a study of the most fascinating and deadliest element in the criminal life of societies: the psychopath. Human societies are bound together by empathy. Multiculturalism and diversity stretch and expand our sense of empathy to its limits. The psychopath plays on our sense of empathy despite lacking any empathy of his or her own.

That paradox makes the psychopath extremely curious and deadly. Like a cuckoo bird, the psychopath has evolved to exploit a biological loophole, empathy, meant to bind a species together around shared interests, without the biological commitment to those interests, creating a predator that is facile and adept, as Glazov’s title puts it, at “charming, seducing and devouring us”.

The uses and abuses of empathy by the psychopath and the Islamic terrorist are a major focus of Jihadist Psychopath. Islamic terrorists take advantage of the empathy bonds that multicultural societies use to bind diverse populations together into a single functional entity whose members cooperate and even sacrifice for the benefit of the group, without ever sharing in that sense of mutual responsibility.

Like psychopaths, Glazov argues, Islamic terrorists create the illusion of a mutual relationship while viciously exploiting and eventually destroying their victims by degrees. These victims can be the individuals, the women who marry Islamic terrorists only to be used by them to obtain legal status or to birth new Jihadists, but they are the microcosm of our larger society which is also being charmed, seduced, and destroyed by an ideology that turns our own values and our sense of self against us.

“Once he succeeds in lodging his hooks into his target’s body, he inflicts the key wound, convincing him that he (the victim) is the actual offender and guilty party, and that the psychopath is the actual victim,” Glazov writes.

The exchange of roles between perpetrator and victim is crucial to the predation of weaker societies on stronger societies. As predatory plants mimic the appearance of the prey of their victims, the Jihadist appears to resemble a victim of Western civilization, of colonialism, capitalism, and imperialism, turning guilt and grief into the aphrodisiac of his monstrous appetite, before entrapping his civilizational victim.

Victimhood is the protective coloration of the psychopathic predator, both in his familiar role as the demon haunting a thousand crime stories, thrillers, and action movies, and the less familiar guise of CAIR, ISNA, and countless other Muslim Brotherhood front groups who defend the predation of terrorists by reinventing them as the victims of the very people whom they are killing and destroying.

And yes, the victims are neither truly helpless nor innocent. As the con artist exploits greed, the psychopath’s swollen sense of self-regard feeds upon the narcissism of his victims.

As Glazov notes in Jihadist Psychopath, “It is crucial to emphasize that many victims in the con game possess a tremendous narcissism, since in needing to believe that they are part of the script and can actually change it, they incubate a pathological and self-destructive ego.”

The boundless narcissism of the Left, which convinces its true believers that their beverage choices and their menu options can save or destroy the planet, that even their pettiest actions and emotional states are deeply meaningful signifiers of great and terrible changes in the world, makes it absurdly easy for the Islamist psychopath, who offers the illusion of saving them and himself, to hook them on his line.

The Left hungers for victims to justify its inflated sense of self-importance and its greed for power. Islamists exploit their messianic delusions by playing the victims in need of rescuing. The Islamist psychopath validates the twisted psychology of his radical victims only to destroy his rescuers.

This same psychodrama has played out in Iran, in Egypt, in the United Kingdom, and the United States. When the alliances unravel, as they finally must, the socialist utopia instead becomes the caliphate.

Jihadist Psychopath is an invaluable resource for understanding and coming to grips with the human drama behind the headlines and the radical emotions behind the radical march of political events. It gets at the unacknowledged truth behind the political psychodramas of the Left, the narcissistic notion that even the most destructive behaviors can feel good because they make us feel good about who we are.

“Who we are” was the theme of  a number of Obama speeches. It is no coincidence that the politician who most definitively straddled the cultural divide between Islam and the Left, while uniting them politically in their mutual hatred of the United States of America, could never get enough of telling us who we are.

The core of Jihadist Psychopath lies in the conflict of identities, the slow sonorous clash of civilizations between a West that is losing its sense of self and an East that is regaining it, and between former conquerors losing their religion and renewed conquerors regaining it, between monsters and victims.

“Islamic supremacism crushes all individuality within itself. Its members cannot have their own identity or beliefs, nor can they explore or nurture their own happiness or talents,” Jamie Glazov writes.

And those same Islamic supremacists use their conviction in the inferiority of the individual to destroy the identities of their victims, temporarily adopting their borrowed identities as camouflage, mirroring their victims, gaining their confidence, abusing them, destroying their sense of self, and killing them.

Jihadist Psychopath is a compelling look at the process by which the West is losing its life and its soul.

 

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  1. Kesselman says

    Jan 10, 2019 at 10:48 am

    Most convincing review of an indispensable book. The “daily” psychopath and the jihadist psychopath have all the main traits in common. I know the everyday sociopath due to my professional work and they are not nice encounters i can tell. So an Islamic psychopath tells it all.

  2. Walter Sieruk says

    Jan 10, 2019 at 1:26 pm

    To reiterate the message which is so important the it’s worth repeating, This message is that in the “Foreword “beginning part of the new book which has the title of JIHADIST PSYCHOPATH by Jamie Glazov it reveals the “Anyone who looks at the differences between the Islamic world and the West will easily see that the Muslim world is a failure while the West abounds in significant achievement… A couple of years ago, more books were translated in to Spanish in a single year than into Arabic in a thousand years.”
    There may be a number of reasons for the alliterate attitude on the part of the Muslim population of the Islamic world. One of which may be explained is that this non-book reading spirit is a c carryover from the historic Muslim worldview of things and continues into this twenty first century.

    For example, in history , one scholar ,in her book , informs her reader that “The Library of Alexandria was the center of intellectual life in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, holding scrolls of all Greek literature and thought ,joined by Latin works once the Roman world started writing anything worth reading. In 642 shortly after the founding of Islam, a Muslim army captured Alexandria, and their leader said ‘ If those books are in agreement with Koran , we have no need of them ; and if those are opposed to the Koran , destroy them.’ It took six months to burn to them all.” [1]

    In addition , of FOX NEWS, once some of its network reporters in Pakistan an interviewed the head of a madrasas and the news crew reporter asked him “Why you always have those boys in in school read and study only the Koran and neither any other book ?” That Muslim man who headed that Islamic school replied “The Koran contains all that is need in live to know , so no other book in necessary to read.”

    This may, in part, explain the Muslim alliterate spirit in the Islamic world as well as the backwardness’ and lack of progress in many Muslim nations . Also what Muslim who headed that madrasas for young boys gives further credence and proof to the claim that ,in realty, those Islamic “schools” are actually nothing but Islamic mind programming centers.

    [1] THE GREEKS by Diane Harris Cline 212,213.

    • Will Doohan says

      Jan 11, 2019 at 3:09 pm

      Illiterate, not alliterate.

  3. Jay says

    Jan 10, 2019 at 1:31 pm

    A lot of those Muslims from Western Countries who went to fight for the Islamic State, were literally sociopaths or psychopaths themselves.

  4. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Jan 11, 2019 at 4:12 am

    By his very nature as First Cause and Prime Mover, allah always attacks first. He can never be divided into anything else.

    Therefore, to attack others first is the way of allah. To Submit to this obvious truth and fact is only sanity in a world where everyone and everything else always attacks you first – with all predetermined, irresistible, “inevitable” forces.

    One cannot avoid “chance” encounters and random attacks – one is literally powerless against all-powerful fate, whether there be any discernible patterns of karma to all the pain, fear, greed and hope-filled dynamic dharma of life or not.

    Everyone must be forced to agree to recognize this truth, because avoiding it lets them get angry and place blame for the mere illusion of free-will choice and mens-rea guilty mind criminal intent, and this anger at “criminals” (aka equally helpless fellow victims) for committing their “crimes” (inadvertent random actions which just happen to follow the natural progressively evolutionary law rules of might-made right) is what causes fitna (contention and a lack of societal “peace”)!

    Since children – especially orphans – are the only ones exempt from this, being protected by their stronger parents, they must nevertheless, upon reaching maturity, Submit to and be willingly enslaved to the might-makes-right will of allah too.

    …

    Philosophically speaking …

    Criminally negligent delinquency is not a crime if everyone agrees to do it too!

    Like islam and Christianity’s false, “positivist” obligations version of the golden rule of law (really part of the brazen rule of criminal chaos; aka extortive slavery) libertine philosophy is based on delinquency to the real one and only Golden Rule of Law responsibility to not attack thereby innocent others first, and it pretends to justify this stance by asserting that if everyone agrees in advance to allow them selves to be attacked first – to have done to and for them, anything, unasked – then it’s also their concomitant corollary right to do the same to others. In other words, agreeing to “tolerate” and accept all forms of crime, makes them not crimes at all, because we (i.e: you) all do (agree to) it, too! WHEE!”

    …….

    Paranoid masochism and the hypocrisy required to cover it up is what defines psychopathy: First, the paranoia: you falsely and slanderously assert that everyone else is always out to get you, which choice “makes” (lets) you feel like a helpless victim all the time (self-inflicted masochism) which then lets one create false, hypocritical scenarios of NOT-blaming others, as long as they agree to go along (with your criminal lies) to get along (with you, the extortive criminal) in agreeing that you’re a perpetually helpless victim, “too.” So as long as everyone else in your newly-formed victim-identity gang also agrees that everyone else in the gang is an equally-helpless fellow victim, they get to avoid being labelled as part of the oppressor group you can now all vilify and extort (as “intolerant hateful racist bigot infidels,” etc.)!

    Islam simply takes this common human failing to the next level, giving it the imprimatur of deity as exemplified by The Perfect Example of Humanity for All Mankind, the prophit, Dirty Old Moe himself!

    And, while all criminals are hypocrites and vice-versa, not all criminals are gangsters (but it’s very unusual for them to not at least show a token support for one or more other criminal victimal gangs, as a sort of insurance excuse, just in case)!

    All psychotic paranoid masochists are criminal hypocrites:

    All paranoids are hypocrites, and all hypocrites are paranoid – because they always blame others in order to always stay better than them (as victims) and so insist they’re always right and everyone else is always wrong and out to get them.

    They’re macoshists because they cause their own pain – often mostly BY blaming (and thereby attacking first) all others.

    Obviously, all masochists are paranoids, as well – because they have no hope except to stop the “inevitable, additional” pain caused by the generalized remembered fears of it, by inflicting it on them selves: Masochism IS thought-killing “psychopathy.”

    All masochists are psychopaths, and all psychopaths are masochists.

    …….

    So, the entire “mental illness” meme is nothing but a combined “syndrome” of thought-killing psychopathy which has three main symptoms: “paranoia” – which is really nothing more or less than habitual, victim-blaming, hypocritical masochism.

    It’s all self-inflicted and it’s all a choice – and these days, it’s the lucrative no-money-in-solutions choice of extortion.

    In short: MENTAL ILLNESS IS NO MORE THAN A MISLEADING DESCRIPTION OF THE BASIC SYNDROME OF EXCUSE-MAKING CRIMINALITY.

    Is is misleading because is openly endorses the criminals’ main “inevitable force” alibi to excuse their crimes, by adopting the diseased victim model of society, in direct opposition to the legal profession’s free will choice model.

    …….

    And how and why are psychotic masochists also sadists?

    Because they see others’ weaknesses (and their fears of same) as externally-inflicted attacks on them selves.

    Also, while they can’t feel others’ pains, they habitually risk (and feel taking risks accomplishes their desired goals of avoiding self-reflection, while also giving them the rewarding feeling of potentially turning vague fears into present pains – which is the only real, if self-inflicted and habitual – hope they have left to feel) losing conflicts by initiating them.

    And that’s why they are so inquisitive – not to find out how things work so they can iummprove on them, but to find out how to screw them up so they can risk themselves doing so – so they can choose the fears they want to be focused on, and not leave that choice to the external enemy.

    That’s also why, despite being risk-takers, psychopaths are also rigid control freaks.

    What comes across as hypocrisy and libertine nonsense makes perfect sense when viewed this way.

    Their masochism, hypocrisy, and paranoia are all mens-rea guilty mind free-will driven intentional criminal choices.

    The part of their paranoia which is a choice is the fact that they are hypocrites in pretending and trying to do something about it – but what they are really trying to do, as above, is to control the risks they take and inflict on others just to distract themselves from in their own internally generated but pretended as externally inflicted fears of pain.

    …….

    Some people are so scared of losing that they don’t even try to win any more: “If I don’t try to win, then I can’t lose!”

    So they pretend that compromising their own integrity isn’t mere cowardly Submission to their own fears, but a virtue!

    They pretend they meant to do that – that compromising, negotiating away their own and others’ rights to extortionists, to giving in and going along with criminal lies to get along with the other lying criminals, to settling in stead of winning, and to the pretense that there are no real criminal aggressors, but only equally helpless fellow victims, is only being reasonable, shrewd, canny, wise and realistic – and further, that those people who dare to resist extortionists are really only being mean to those same criminally aggressive predatory equally helpless fellow victims who always deserve support.

    …….

    If and when one is paranoid and believes everyone else is a gang out to get them, then opposing the gang is insanity and virtue-signalling one’s literally slavish worship of the gang’s holy might-made-right is the holiest of rational choices.

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