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Researchers claim that brain scans show that social exclusion creates jihadists

Jan 6, 2019 1:44 pm By Robert Spencer

“Far from needing to improve economic conditions, combat ideology, or medically treat extremists, focusing on alleviating interpersonal discrimination can keep those with extremist leanings on the non-violent and negotiable side of the fence,” said researcher Nafees Hamid.

Well, at least this twaddle is an improvement over the idea that jihadis are simply suffering from poverty, such that throwing money at them will solve everything, or that they’re mentally ill and need psychiatric treatment. It’s all because the poor lovable lugs feel left out, you see. If non-Muslims would simply be nicer to them and include them in their games, all will be well.

In reality, this study has things exactly backward. Social exclusion doesn’t cause jihad, jihad causes social exclusion. Those Muslims who take seriously Islam’s teachings about the superiority of Muslims and the inferiority of the non-Muslims (Muslims are the “best of people” according to Qur’an 3:110, while Qur’an 98:6 says unbelievers are “the most vile of created beings”) is more likely to shun those unbelievers. Such a person is also likely to take seriously Islam’s other teachings, including its exhortations to jihad. No amount of courtesy and inclusion will change such beliefs.

“Brain scans show social exclusion creates jihadists, say researchers,” by Mark Townsend, Guardian, January 6, 2019:

For years western policymakers have tried to establish what causes individuals to be radicalised. Now a pioneering study has used medical science to gain fresh insight into the process – in the brains of potential jihadists.

University College London (UCL) researchers were part of an international team that used neuroimaging techniques to map how the brains of radicalised individuals respond to being socially marginalised. The findings, they claim, confirm that exclusion is a leading factor in creating violent jihadists.

The research challenges the prevailing belief among western policymakers that other variables, such as poverty, religious conservatism and even psychosis, are dominant drivers of jihadism. “This finally dispels such wrongheaded ideas,” said the study’s co-lead author, Nafees Hamid of UCL. “The first ever neuroimaging study on a radicalised population shows extreme pro-group behaviour seems to intensify after social exclusion.”…

The findings also emerge after recent Islamic State-linked attacks in Strasbourg and Morocco and as British police continue to investigate a possible motive behind the New Year’s Eve stabbings in Manchester.

Using ethnographic fieldwork and psychological surveys, researchers identified 535 young Muslim men in and around Barcelona, the Spanish city where in 2017 Isis supporters killed 13 and wounded about 100 people in the Las Ramblas district.

Of those identified, 38 second-generation Moroccan-origin men, who had “expressed a willingness to engage in or facilitate violence associated with jihadist causes”, agreed to have their brains scanned. The results showed a striking effect when they were socially excluded by Spaniards while playing a virtual simulation called Cyberball, a ball toss game with three other players who abruptly stopped throwing them the ball.

Later scans showed that the neurological impact of being excluded meant that when issues were raised that the individual had not previously considered inviolable – such as introducing Islamic teaching in schools or unrestricted construction of mosques – they became far more important and were deemed similar to “sacred” and worth fighting for….

The links between extremism, social exclusion and radicalisation corroborate some previous research with one report commissioned by Manchester mayor Andy Burnham after the Arena attack identifying a lack of social integration. “Far from needing to improve economic conditions, combat ideology, or medically treat extremists, focusing on alleviating interpersonal discrimination can keep those with extremist leanings on the non-violent and negotiable side of the fence,” said Hamid.

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  1. Krishna says

    Jan 6, 2019 at 2:00 pm

    Yeah then according to Nafees Hamid research for 1400 years jihadis have been conquering half of the world becuase they have always been socially excluded

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 6, 2019 at 2:53 pm

      +1

      • revereridesagain says

        Jan 6, 2019 at 4:47 pm

        ” ‘ Cause no one wants a fella with a social disease…” Nafees Hamid, the research world’s answer to Officer Krupke. Well, as Spencer says, it beats “We’re depraved on account of we’re deprived.”

    • george1ornan says

      Jan 7, 2019 at 4:09 am

      Universities no longer know how to do research – they have to prove that it is not indoctrination which caused those results. Oh, oh, but they never even thought of that.

  2. Buraq says

    Jan 6, 2019 at 2:06 pm

    Ah yes, Hitler only had one ball. If he had had two, would he have considered the Jews as fellow human beings? No, I think Hamid’s social experiment is a load of balls; and he’s probably just angling for more research funds from naive infidels!

    Clown!

  3. somehistory says

    Jan 6, 2019 at 2:15 pm

    “Social exclusion”….in other words, incest and inbreeding to the exclusion of willingly allowing the males to leave islam and marry non moslim women, and allowing females to leave islam and willingly marry non moslims and thus, mixing of genes in the pool

    • Carol the 1st says

      Jan 7, 2019 at 2:38 pm

      Robert always hits the nail on the head “Social exclusion doesn’t cause jihad, jihad causes social exclusion.”
      – but let’s not forget a factor that likely has equal import:

      *EXCLUSION* is perhaps a euphemism or mask for “INVOLUNTARY CELIBACY” (Incels).

      Black Pigeon has a great video on the subject – studies show that cultures that promote sexual frustration do NOT have a good effect on young males. He cites China and the Middle East:

      “Incels Spark Civil War in Europe”

  4. Heidi says

    Jan 6, 2019 at 2:31 pm

    I wonder if we use neuroimaging techniques on their head if they show any brain at all.

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Jan 6, 2019 at 2:43 pm

    This claim , ifs very lame , that social exclusion causes young men to become violent jihadists. This absurd and nonsensical claim does ,indeed shows three things.

    First ,that fool statement exposes the the old saying is true, which is that “Evil is always looking for an excuse.”

    Second ,and just as if not more important, that this bogus excuse of a statement reveals that the left wing is still in strong denial about he violent ,dangerous and deadly nature of Islam. , therefore the left will say anything to get Islam “off the hook.”

    Third, this is also indicates much Muslim infiltration and influence many institutions of America ,Canada and the countries of Europe.

  6. Prabh108 says

    Jan 6, 2019 at 2:45 pm

    Moslems are prohibited from forming friendships with persons outside of the ummah. An ayatollah bluntly states that there is ‘no fun’ within islam.

    It would be risky to engage in play (games,sports etc) with such persons. It would be wise for nonmuslims to remember that Moslems seek nothing less than Extinction of Nonmuslims.

    The Ummah and izlamojihadists (and their allies) must inculcate the exalted noble principle of “Live and Let Live” within the hearts of the practitioners of MohaMADanism.

  7. somehistory says

    Jan 6, 2019 at 2:47 pm

    Right on all counts. moslims…outwardly and undercover moslims… won’t stop trying to justify the unjust until islam is no more.

    • somehistory says

      Jan 6, 2019 at 2:52 pm

      This was a reply to Walter Sieruk, but did not appear directly below as intended.

  8. dan christensen says

    Jan 6, 2019 at 2:54 pm

    “…focusing on alleviating interpersonal discrimination can keep those with extremist leanings on the non-violent and negotiable side of the fence,…”

    “alleviating interpersonal discrimination” is just a subtle way to report that jihadists are offended, if infidels do not feel terror in their hearts when jihadists flex their muscles.
    To alleviate this painful state of mind in jihadists, the infidels must focus on displaying terror in the hearts, whenever jihadists blow themselves up – but then the jihadist no longer is in need of alleviation.

  9. gravenimage says

    Jan 6, 2019 at 3:40 pm

    Researcher claim that brain scans show that social exclusion creates jihadists
    ………………………..

    If this were the case then why aren’t lonely Infidels waging violent Jihad?

    Also note that this once again puts the onus on the victims–if only you had invited that surly Muslim next door to your bar-b-que last summer, then he wouldn’t have had to mow down all those Christmas shoppers…

    • revereridesagain says

      Jan 6, 2019 at 4:53 pm

      “Look What You Made Me Do”, Muslim style. Like Muslim wives, we are disobedient and therefore deserve to be struck.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 8, 2019 at 12:14 am

        +1

    • KWJ says

      Jan 7, 2019 at 3:00 am

      In this case the researcher is saying, “If only you had teaching of Islam in schools” “If only you allowed unrestricted buildings of mosques, K would not have joined ISIS.”

      At first I thought he was going to say what you said along the lines of “I should have invited him to dinner,” but this researcher is making it about religion while saying it isn’t ideological or being poor. The Cyber ball game is Spaniards that suddenly stop throwing the ball. He didn’t say Muslim or non-Muslim Spaniards, but then he segues into *religious* exclusion examples.

      So, second generation Muslims born in Spain aren’t Spaniards? Spaniards->can’t teach Islam in schools or build all the mosques you want->Spaniards are anti-Islam because they won’t let us MUSLIMS do whatever we want which makes me feel interpersonally excluded so I’ll become a jihadist and Allah tells me not to be friends with non-Muslims anyway and those Spaniards drink wine at dinner and my local imam says secularism is bad and I feel discrimated against so I’ll join ISIS where we can be violent Muhammadans.

      So when Muslims don’t get what they want they turn to Allah’s words to relieve their suffering, and one of Allah’s Greatest Hits is to spread Islam with terror – Muhammad said he had been made victorious by terror.

      I think of social exclusion as you can’t join my group/school/celebrations, etc. for whatever reason I have. If you stay in your community, don’t venture out nor try to make friends with non-Muslims then you are self-excluding. If you have little in common then that’s normal. But this doesn’t sound like that. It sounds more like, per his examples, as a society thing such as I hear Muslims say something along the lines of it feels like French society is excluding Islam. Forget that there are several thousand mosques in the UK alone and many Islamic schools besides private religious teaching such as Christians attend Sunday School after church services. One doesn’t even need a religious school.

      I only read the excerpt but it sounds like malarkey and comes down to religion/ideology not *individual* social exclusion or discrimination. If it were, and say I had a party and a Muslim says I’d like to go but you have wine and drinks at your parties and I can’t be around that. Well, I won’t have any alcohol so you can be included. Uhh, no, you either deal with it or you self-exclude by your own choice. I’m not giving up my fun for you, however I am willing to serve non-alcoholic beer or wine so you kind of feel like everyone else with bottle and glasses in hand.

      Muslims like to blame everyone else a lot. Muhammad did that.

      I wonder how much this guy got paid for this uninspiring research.

  10. RonaldB says

    Jan 6, 2019 at 4:03 pm

    The methodology of this experiment is so far from the conclusion, I’m surprised it got past peer review…or did it? There was not publisher cited.

    First, note the experimental subject were preselected for jihadist sympathies and positive orientation to jihadist violence. This selection alone invalidates any conclusion except that jihadists get mad when socially shunned by kafir.

    Continuing on, simply because homicidal rage can be induced in jihadis by social exclusion does not mean that homicidal rage is limited to socially-shunned jihadis. In other words, the percentage of violent jihadis who become violent due to social shunning might be a very small percentage of violent jihadis who become violent.

    Third, is there a control group of non-jihadi, non-Muslims who were subjected to experimental social exclusion? If so, did they show rage and measurable brain changes?

    And as pointed out in Robert’s comments, the social exclusion is self-inflicted. Who the hell wants to associate with a Muslim who considers violent jihad to be acceptable behavior?

  11. james reid says

    Jan 6, 2019 at 4:57 pm

    Reasons why they’re excluded: 1) they follow a dingbat, supremacist ideology that wants to enslave, subjugate & rape; 2) the average IQ of the Islamic World is 80. From this it can be surmised most of the Islamic World will have IQs of around 40 – 50. With an IQ of < or = to 80, the individual can't be trained to do a basic job.

  12. Hilltop Watchman says

    Jan 6, 2019 at 7:23 pm

    What am utter load of GARBAGE. If that’s the case how come all of those “socially excluded” Jews during the Hitler years, never turned into the jihadi equivalent.

    Once again Muslims using pseudo-science as taqiyyah to try and twist reality, using their sense of superiority treating us infidels’ as fools.

    I sincerely hope that UCL see this for what it is, disavows it and sees to it that this liar is kept out of the public eye on pain of being sacked.

  13. FYI says

    Jan 6, 2019 at 7:40 pm

    islam’s antisocial policy of Al Walaa Wal Baraa …and the koran preach social exclusion:-

    Al Walaa Wal Baraa and koran 5 v 51 are in total violation of God’s 2nd chief commandment{found in Judaism and Christianity,MISSING in islam of course}

    That explains a lot:the islamic HATRED for the non-muslim,the islamic disobedience in the koran to God’s Exodus 20 Commandments.

    “Oh ye who believe!Take not the Jews and christians for friends.they are friends to one another.he among you who takes them for friends is one of them”
    koran 5 v51

    So a muslim who wants to be friends with an infidel is an infidel.

    And instead of God’s 2nd chief commandment we have allah’s preaching the COMPLETE OPPOSITE.

    Instead of “Let’s TRY to get along”{Biblical 2nd chief law found in Judaism and Christianity} we have allah saying to muslims “Let’s NOT get along” because muslims are the holiest people in the world [koran 3:110}and they cannot mingle with those Jews and polytheistic* Christians

    Remember that allah COMPLETELY MISSED those 2 chief commandments:so there is no real LOVE of God,LOVE of fellow human,no Golden Rule in islam…

    *Just so muslims know:Christians do not believe God is divided into parts{is God a cake??}or that God has companions or that Mary has anything to do with the Trinity.
    The false accusation of SHIRK is due to allah’s EPIC THEOLOGY FAIL.
    The Trinity is a MONOTHEISTIC system revealed in the Gospel{NOT polytheistic},a book which allah claims he wrote{koran 5 v 4 6-47} and gave to Jesus{that is Logically IMPOSSIBLE:Jesus didn’t have the Gospel,it came AFTER Him and was written by humans}Now why would allah bring up the concept of the Trinity in the Gospel only to reveal in the koran that he completely MISUNDERSTANDS It koran 4:171?because allah’s claim to have written the Gospel is FALSE that’s why!

  14. A_M_Swallow says

    Jan 7, 2019 at 12:02 am

    Ah! Good, a cure. Being in a western country makes then lonely so solve their social problem by sending the Muslims to a Muslim country like Pakistan.

  15. infidel says

    Jan 7, 2019 at 9:41 am

    We Hindus have tried this inclusion business with Muslims for centuries… didn’t work folks. They carved out Pakistan and Bangladesh out of our lands and those that we Hindus allowed to remain in good faith have still not integrated and now planning for a second partition…

    • RonaldB says

      Jan 7, 2019 at 10:00 am

      Actually, India has a long, long history of being conquered by marauding, murderous, mass-killing Muslim armies who destroyed all vestiges of Hindu civilization whereever they went, especially the temples and shrines. Read Robert Spencer’s History of Jihad for the (gory) details.

      And yes, it’s a shame the partition was not a complete partition. Currently, the Muslims in India are prospering, while the Hindus in Pakistan, like the Christians, are being systematically harassed, excluded, and persecuted.

  16. No Muzzies Here says

    Jan 7, 2019 at 9:58 am

    Backwards. Savagery leads to social exclusion. Brain scans are showing the savagery. Why are so many people obsessed with giving Jihadis a free pass to practice their Jihad?

  17. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Jan 7, 2019 at 6:11 pm

    Really? Hurt feewings always lead to mass murder (but strangely, only among muslims)?!

    Here’s one for ya, genius:

    BRAIN ATROPHY:

    How does fear-focused, slanderous paranoia (leftism, islam) atrophy brains?

    Because such people choose to see truth as lies, and so prevent them selves from learning.

    Such literal masochism is self-inflicted stupidity.

    It’s quite likely that all stupidity is self-inflicted.

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