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American Experts: Religion Unlikely a Motive for ISIS American Followers
ASHARQ AL-AWSAT ^

Posted on 09/25/2016 10:36:00 AM PDT by ameribbean expat

Washington – A number of American psychologists ruled out the possibility that religion might be the main motive for the American Islamists extremists who used violence, especially those who said they are ISIS followers. These experts said that a huge number of them suffer psychological problems and cultural contradictions or even a failure in life.

John Cohen, a criminal justice professor at Rutgers University and the former counterterrorism coordinator at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, told Asharq al-Awsat that many of them have psychological and behavioral characteristics in common.

“Some studies reveal that they suffer dangerous psychological and personal problems regardless of their religious motives or identities such as moving from one job to another or difficulty making friends,” said Cohen.

(Excerpt) Read more at english.aawsat.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: isis; islamicextremism
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To: ameribbean expat

Deporting the experts will do more good than deporting illegal Hispanics ... at least per capita.


21 posted on 09/25/2016 11:03:57 AM PDT by mvonfr
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To: ameribbean expat

Remove all muslims from America and this debate goes away.


22 posted on 09/25/2016 11:10:12 AM PDT by umgud (ban all infidelaphobics)
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To: ameribbean expat

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23 posted on 09/25/2016 11:10:27 AM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: fuzzylogic

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This “soft science” is obviously about as soft as flaming marshmallow!!

It’s astonishing how deep you head can be in the sand. An obviously supremacist ideology that empowers men to embrace all their dark thoughts - so long as it is directed toward non-Muslims, the “wrong kind” of Muslim or helpless boys & girls.
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I think there’s another, better, hole their heads are inserted...though I think, sometimes, they have a hard time finding even with both hands.

This could be *THE* shining example of Socialist ‘higher learning’: “*FREE* college funding” *point here*, etc.


24 posted on 09/25/2016 11:14:22 AM PDT by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: ameribbean expat

hooo-wattt?


25 posted on 09/25/2016 11:14:38 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: dfwgator

That’s just the part of the reaction. Islamic terrorism. Religion is a mental illness.


26 posted on 09/25/2016 11:15:34 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: ameribbean expat

Islam celebrates and attracts the most base animalistic carnal desires of the human mind. It is not hard to figure out.

And to have idiots like this fool who was “counterterrorism coordinator at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security” is it any wonder why we Obama is a massive failure when it comes to Islamic terrorism? Well, failure to us, but wildly successful bowing to the islamic world.


27 posted on 09/25/2016 11:19:02 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Hillary Clinton, the elderly woman's version of "I dindu nuffins.")
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To: ameribbean expat

[[“Some studies reveal that they suffer dangerous psychological and personal problems regardless of their religious motives or identities such as moving from one job to another or difficulty making friends,” said Cohen.]]

It’s not despite their religion it is BECAUSE of their religion . Islam incubates pathology

Their unholy book tells them NOT to make friends with you but to kill you instead .


28 posted on 09/25/2016 11:20:34 AM PDT by Lera ( 1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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To: ameribbean expat

You can’t fix stupid.


29 posted on 09/25/2016 11:22:59 AM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: ilovesarah2012
I'll break it down as to why liberals dickfectors want to join iSIS:

* they can't seem to find a job despite the current unemployment rate of 4.9 * they have no friends except the nice people they chat with on ISIS recruiting sites.

* they want to wear Star Wars uniforms because they look cool.

* the outfits are easily modifiable if they want to don a burqah and pretend to be female (they can only do this once but they get free flying lessons and the last three....

Look at me

Look at me

Look at me

30 posted on 09/25/2016 11:24:58 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“they suffer dangerous psychological and personal problems...........

..........caused by Islamic teaching.

Islam is a mental disorder that causes its adherents to be dangerous to all others.”

Caused by centuries of inbreeding.


31 posted on 09/25/2016 11:25:25 AM PDT by Bluebeard16
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To: Louis Foxwell

Yes, exactly. And while we’re at it, how about having them figure out using the same values how many Americans are mentally ill and have NOT gone on murderous rages killing scores of people.

Psychology is such a soft science, it beggers the imagination how much it might resemble a religion. Or, as we all know having read any dictionary’s definition of cult and how religion is a cult, no matter what religion.


32 posted on 09/25/2016 11:29:57 AM PDT by Bodega
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To: ameribbean expat

“ruled out”
They want us to accept their pronouncements as definitive. Refused.
“psychological problems and cultural contradictions or even a failure in life.” They have deep psychological problems, caused by their ideology of death and destruction being out of sync with the world and nature.
The are a failure in life, as their religion tells them to be, so they can look forward to their 72 virgins.


33 posted on 09/25/2016 11:32:04 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: ameribbean expat
"A number of American psychologists..."

Pick a number, any number, eh? How about 'zero'? That statement is as useless a validation of an intentionally false statement as it can get.


34 posted on 09/25/2016 11:36:33 AM PDT by wtd
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To: ameribbean expat

In other News;

“9 out of 10 experts say that most experts are wrong”

More at 11.


35 posted on 09/25/2016 11:40:18 AM PDT by Zeneta
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To: ameribbean expat

that many of them have psychological and behavioral characteristics in common.

Ummm, They watch porno think that is what love and sex is then get disappointed when rejected so they decide to put it in their gods hands.


36 posted on 09/25/2016 11:50:26 AM PDT by the_daug
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To: ameribbean expat

No, I’m sure very few people who are willing to murder others and then give up their own lives for the ISLAMIC State have even a passing interest in ISLAM. Why would anyone imagine a connection between the two?


37 posted on 09/25/2016 11:53:38 AM PDT by madprof98
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To: ameribbean expat

Consider how many mass-murderers were 2nd-generation Muslims...?


38 posted on 09/25/2016 11:54:29 AM PDT by Does so (Vote for Hillary...Stay Home...==8-O)
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To: jospehm20

Psychology attracts nutty people. Old and true stereotype.


39 posted on 09/25/2016 11:56:44 AM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough!)
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To: ameribbean expat

So people with major psychological problems are attracted to an evil and violent religion?


40 posted on 09/25/2016 12:03:06 PM PDT by Wyatt's Torch
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