British authorities, and authorities all over the West, treat terrorism as a mental illness rather than a threat because they are so cowed and terrified by the prospect of charges of “Islamophobia,” and so abjectly ignorant of the actual teachings of Islam, that they assume that Islam simply cannot possibly be the motivation for jihad terror activity. They therefore have to look for that motivation elsewhere. It is unlikely that even this official report in Britain is going to change that situation significantly, because if the authorities start to get close to the truth about jihad violence, the “Islamophobia” charges will ring out thick and fast.
“SOFT ON TERROR Anti-terror bosses to be told to stop painting jihadis as mental health victims,” by Jonathan Reilly, The Sun, February 4, 2023:
ANTI-terror bosses will be told to stop treating would-be extremists as if they are mentally ill.
Instead, they should treat them as bad people who follow dangerous ideologies, a major report is to say.
The back to basics call comes in a review of Prevent, the Government-funded anti-terror programme intended to root out potential extremists.
The report by former Charity Commission chairman William Shawcross will also say Islamist jihadists remain a greater threat than far-right extremists….
But it has been criticised for failing to root out those who go on to kill — including Ali Harbi Ali who murdered Tory MP Sir David Amess in October 2021.
Last year, it was swamped with more than 6,400 referrals, including 2,000 boys who were identified as being no threat.
The long-delayed review follows concerns that Prevent officials act like social workers who regard those referred to it as vulnerable or mentally ill.
It will even suggest that some Prevent-funded groups have promoted extremist narratives….
Hoi Polloi says
How better to break the individual taxpayer? Admit millions to take food and housing for free and inflate costs to those who pay for it all. Deny any responsibility for demographic change and its costs, all intended to strengthen the leftist stranglehold.
Expand expensive health care while denying it to citizens who vote against them; one wonders just how they cost-justified that one. No legal responsibility falls to those in charge for weaponizing “mental illness,” because how could a law enforcement be held responsible in these instances? Swamp the system and terrorize legitimate citizens with the threat of a 5150.
The drive to paint islam as other than the source of the violence is also served, all the while forgetting how many of these countries have average IQs that would cause a westerner to be institutionalized. It’s win-win-win for leftists.
John ..Smith says
There are a few reasons why the MSM have been reporting these murderous jihadi attackers as being mentally ill. One reason is they may not want to appear islamophobic, but I believe the main reason is, that they genuinely do believe these perpetrators are mentally ill. For example, when someone blows up innocent kids at a concert, the average person would assume that the perpetrator wasn’t right in the head. But unlike Robert Spencer (who has been drawing our attention to this for years) the average person is not aware of the teachings of islam like he is.
tgusa says
“British authorities, and authorities all over the West, treat terrorism as a mental illness”
This is the predictable result when the mentally ill are charged with deciding who is mentally ill. You have to be crazy to take western authorities seriously on just about anything these days.
James Lincoln says
tgusa says,
“This is the predictable result when the mentally ill are charged with deciding who is mentally ill. ”
Absolutely true.
Made me chuckle though…
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Aside from terrorism, everything is a mental illness these days. Governments worldwide, w/ some rare exceptions, seem to have lost the fact that some people are simply evil! In this case, though, as usual, any islamic underpinnings of this terrorism is ignored
David M says
I don’t think these jihadis are actually evil, I think they have been brainwashed into performing evil acts by Islamic teahings. They are putting the bigger goal (72 virgins in heaven) before their normal instincts.
A soldier who shoots another soldier in battle is doing the same thing. He would not normally shoot another man, he is putting his normal instincts aside due to his army indoctrination.It’s all about how the brain has been programmed.
OLD GUY says
Pretending you are not in a war against another may make you feel safe and good, but you are going to get your butt kicked all the same. The longer we put off recognizing Islam for what it is, “WORLD DOMINANCE” the uglier the fight for survival will be.