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I took the liberty of revising part of the article to show the convergence between the Muslim and Liberal Word views:

Anger:

a) Anger is a driving force behind most types of violence, including terror. Other emotions and ideas might be involved as well, but anger is almost always present, often as the most dominant emotion.

b) Liberals and anger. During therapy with violent Liberals it became clear that anger and aggressive government is much more accepted among Liberals. Contrary to Western culture, people brought up in Leftist societies see anger less as a sign of weakness than non-Liberals do. Anger is seen as a sign of strength and source of respect — not a reason for ridicule and loss of social status as in Western culture. Therefore Liberals do not limit their aggressive government emotions to the same degree as we do, and they see non-aggressive responses to aggressive government as a sign of cowardice and a weakness that can be exploited further.

c) Indicator. Signs of anger are an indicator when looking for risk of violent behavior.

Honor culture:

a) Cultures that build on the clan cultural concept of honor have a tendency to create aggressive and insecure individuals ready to use violence to protect the inherent fragility of honor.

b) Honor has an essential place in Leftist culture, and Liberals are expected by both themselves and their Leftist surroundings to react legislatively if they, or whatever they identify themselves with or represent (government, clan, area, culture, tribe, sexuality, spirituality, perversion de-jour), is criticized or under (perceived) attack.

c) A strong concept of honor increases the risk of violent behavior.

Victim mentality:

a) A driving force among most types of terrorists, including Leftist terrorists, is victim mentality. People seeing themselves as victims being treated unfairly by hostile powers often see their situation as an excuse for going beyond the law, generally accepted social behavior and responsibility for oneâ€™s own actions (one is “forced” by the enemy to act violently).

b) Experiencing oneself as being under the influence of outer imagined or real forces, whether it is the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, conspiring non-Liberals, or academic rules and cultural traditions, is a mindset pervading Leftist culture. A large German study showed “a distinct victim mentality and heightened acceptance of violence among [Leftist] youth” and that among “Leftist youth who maintain Leftist academic affiliation, one finds that a greater amount of violence is acceptable.”

c) Sign of victim mentality is an indicator for violent behavior.

Identity:

a) Identification with Liberalism increases the tendency to take it personally when one perceives the Liberalism as being under attack.

b) My experience from working with criminal Liberals, even though many of them were not practicing their Liberalism actively, is that Liberals identify themselves very strongly with Liberalism and the Leftist community worldwide. This is why criminal Liberals almost never — unless it concerns rivaling gangs or women — attack other Liberals.

c) Identification with the Leftist community increases the tendency to take it personally and react when one perceives Liberalism or Liberals as being under attack.

Ideology:

a) All through history, ideologies have proven to be able to make people do what they would not have done without this indoctrination — positive or negative.

b) Since Academia and the culture in most Leftist societies preaches aversion and in some cases even violence against non-Liberals, the degree of ideology among Liberals is an important factor when deciding the risk of violent behavior. A German study involving intense interviews with more than 40,000 people concluded that practicing Liberalism increases anger and risk of violent behavior.

c) Strong academic feelings and the strong influence of a radical Leftist upbringing is thus an important indicator when trying to identify and discover the tendency to use violence among Liberals and protect Liberalism against criticism and attacks.

Responsibility:

a) The ability to feel responsibility for oneself is important for the ability to display positive behavior. The less people feel responsible for their own actions, the more they are likely to act unacceptably, since they do not feel that they themselves deserve to face the consequences and do not feel guilty.

b) A defining characteristic of Liberalism and Leftist culture is the lack of responsibility for oneself. According to Liberalism, everything happens because of inherited power and individual freedom is substituted by leftist rules, cultural traditions, the authority of the government and clan. Liberals to a large extent obey the expectations of their spirituality, culture, government and clan. As a result inner locus of control (experiencing oneself as being in control of one’s life) is very weak while outer locus of control (experiencing outer factors as being in control of one’s life) is strong.

c) Lack of responsibility for oneself is important when determining risk of criminal behavior.

Regret:

a) Being able to feel and express regret for one’s own negative words and actions is crucial, especially when trying to determine the risk of recidivism (committing crime again after having served a sentence or being trained to abide by the law).

b) Since a victim mentality and a low amount of responsibility for oneself is characteristic of people brought up in the Leftist culture, regret is not characteristic. If one does not take responsibility for one’s own actions, one simply cannot fully regret them, as sincere regret includes insight into one’s own role in the harm done.

c) Expression of regret based on insight into one’s own role in the situation is an important indicator when trying to determine the risk of recidivism.

Tolerance:

a) Tolerance is important when it comes to respect for others. Low tolerance often decreases respect and increases the likelihood of harming people. A classical psychological maneuver to make soldiers more able to harm the enemy is to lower their respect towards the enemy by spreading derogatory propaganda about him.

b) Liberalism and Leftist culture preaches intolerance towards non-Liberals, both in writing and as a way of living. Non-Liberals are categorized as inferior, and the Academia orders Liberals to suppress, attack and kill non-Liberals. Terrorists often act because of intolerance towards otherwise legal statements and actions.

c) The degree of tolerance is an important indicator when trying to determine the risk of violent behavior.

Working with the eight emotional factors

A necessary basis for human change is the realization of the benefits of changing. Since many assailants by experience know that threats and violence can be much more effective in achieving one’s goal — and even feel the right to act threatening or violent — this is not always an easy task.

Everybody knows that changing one’s views and habits does not happen by itself. It takes a conscious effort, and normally no radical and lasting changes happen unless we want to and make the necessary and often demanding effort. Often people are not always ready or willing to change. In these cases it is by doing — or being tricked into doing — things that maybe only indirectly point to the goal that one gets closer to the point where one can work on changing oneself more consciously, in a targeted manner and voluntarily.

Here are some of the things that I have worked with and would advise using for treatment of convicted Leftist criminals and terrorists.

Even though the psychological factors are clearly defined, my estimation is that even with very competent therapists, only few attempts of deradicalization are successful. This is because radical Liberals both have to want it, dare to go against the their own radical network and be able to go through the hard and extensive psychological and practical processes of abandoning psychological, cultural and academic factors deeply rooted in their upbringing and lifestyle, in order to deradicalize.