They think he can be “deradicalized.” Yet deradicalization programs are an abysmal failure everywhere they have been implemented. From the Jihad Watch archives:
UK: Libyan migrant who went on stabbing spree in Reading was in government deradicalization program
Gitmo prisoner reveals: Saudi “deradicalization program” is really a jihad training program
11 ex-Gitmo prisoners flee the Saudi “rehabilitation program” and join up with terrorist groups
Jaw-dropper: 25 former Gitmo detainees “return to militancy” despite Saudi rehab program!
Flight 253 jihadist wasn’t cured by Saudi anti-jihad art therapy
Former Guantanamo detainee now top al-Qaeda ideologue — “He was transferred to Saudi Arabia in 2006 where he was placed in a national rehabilitation project.”
Indonesian government admits that its jihadist rehab program is a failure
Malaysia: Muslim cleric active in deradicalization program promotes hatred of non-Muslims
France’s only jihadi “deradicalization” center is closing — it was voluntary, and it was empty
The whole premise of “deradicalization” is that Islam is a religion of peace that jihadis misunderstand, twist, and hijack. Since that is a false premise, and warfare against unbelievers is actually taught in the Qur’an and Sunnah, “deradicalization” focuses on other issues, such as “anger issues” that the jihadi may have, his feelings of “alienation,” and the like.
But since none of that changes what the Qur’an and Sunnah say about warfare against unbelievers, it doesn’t “deradicalize” the jihadi at all. A British psychologist behind a “deradicalization” scheme has also admitted that there’s no guarantee that jihadis can ever be “cured.” And Jonathan Hall QC, the UK’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said there was “no magic bullet or special pill” that could help to change convicted extremists.
“‘We have a chance here’: Lawyers say teen charged with threat to kill non-Muslims can be saved from extremism,” by John Weekes, NZ Herald, September 23, 2021 (thanks to Henry):
A teenager accused of threatening to kill non-Muslims has been granted name suppression after a lawyer argued the young man had a chance of being deradicalised.
The 19-year-old Auckland man first appeared in the North Shore District Court on September 10, one week after Ahamed Samsudeen embarked on a stabbing frenzy in New Lynn.
The teenager reappeared today. He has not entered any pleas, and his electronic bail application did not proceed today.
But in a name suppression hearing, defence counsel Peter Syddall said the teenager “can’t be held in custody for ever”.
Syddall said publishing the man’s name and details of the alleged offending would damage his rehabilitation prospects.
“[He] is not yet in the same boat as Mr Samsudeen, the LynnMall attacker. We have a chance here and we need to do everything we can to make sure that chance bears fruit.”
Syddall said the teen was held in a cell for 23 hours a day.
Syddall said publishing the man’s name and details of the alleged offending would also greatly harm his client’s fair trial rights.
Police supported name suppression too.
The alleged offending seemed to result from the man’s social isolation in relation to cognitive difficulties, prosecutor David Johnstone said.
“The prospect of being named may [send] him down what he regards as a black hole to which the only exit is violence.”…
gravenimage says
New Zealand: Lawyers for Muslim teen who threatened to kill non-Muslims say he ‘can’t be held in custody for ever’
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He is only technically a teenager–as a 19-year-old he is a full adult. But his lawyers are hoping to present him as a child.
More:
“The prospect of being named may [send] him down what he regards as a black hole to which the only exit is violence.”…
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So Islam has nothing to do with it? Instead, it is naming this thug that would cause violence…what claptrap.
And no–“deradicalation” does not work, because threatening to murder Infidels is orthodox Islam.
tgusa says
De-islamification anti islamist youth program. Forget it Jake, its New Zealand. What the authorities are doing there is really not a good idea to do when you are just a mid sized island.
Grace says
You can’t root out something that is in their DNA. The only reaction should be permanent removal from a civilized society. send them back to the sand pits.
gravenimage says
Grace, this is not about DNA. Some Muslims do leave Islam, and some Infidels convert to Islam. Islam is an ideology–it is not genetic.
Michael Copeland says
“cognitive difficulties. …. social isolation”. Here we go, it is the “mental issues” excuse being prepared.
Memo to New Zealand police and prosecution:
Learning Curve needed.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2019/10/islam-the-learning-curve/
gravenimage says
Yep.
David Foot says
The threats coming to our world come today mostly from two tyrannies:
The Islamic tyranny and the Marxist tyranny
Both have things in common, one of the most notable is “Indoctrination” which conditions the mind.
The Moslems push indoctrination of the mind to levels which in the West we don’t understand nor have we usually seen. And these threats are helped by the lying Marxists within who lie to us about this cult to safeguard their “principles” which come before life itself, the Marxists force outcomes regardless and let more Moslems in to our societies.
If we tried to emulate Moslem indoctrination in our education we would fall foul of the Marxist enemy within. Some Moslem parents have been known to kill a child for not being able to recite verses of the Koran. We have no idea of what we are dealing with. To talk about a “deradicalization” process is just wishful thinking.
There is only one way to deradicalize a radicalized Moslem successfully and it involves pressing the off swithch!
Sadly there are Marxist “do-gooders” in the West who have no idea of indoctrination and bring death in to our countries, and they keep doing it, no amount of dead is worth compromising their superior “principles” and to stop Moslems from coming in to our countries. The Marxists don’t learn because they don’t want to learn, their Marxist ideology comes before any risk to life or actual loss of life and the outcome is forced time and time again.
What is more, the Marxists carefully talk about a cult which doesn’t exist: “Islamist Cult” there are no “Islamist” temples anywhere. There are only Moslems which go to mosques!
gravenimage says
+1