Posted on 08/08/2004 10:49:27 AM PDT by quidnunc
Toronto – Suicide bombers are rational, sane people whose choice to end their lives as they kill others is considered perfectly normal in societies they grow up in, the Globe and Mail reported yesterday from a southern Ontario religious conference. In a chilling analysis of what makes a terrorist, a U.S. psychiatrist who worked for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency said most extremists who use violence are not emotionally disturbed.
In fact, they would be expelled from their organizations if they appeared to be unbalanced, the Toronto Star said from Orillia, Ont.
"Most terrorists are quite normal. It's hard to understand but quite true," Jerrold Post said Friday.
Post, who interviewed terrorists in a 21-year career with the CIA, said the appeal of suicide bombing is broadening.
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Geneva Park, ON – Suicide bombers are rational, sane human beings whose choice to end their lives as they kill others is considered perfectly normal in the societies they grow up in, says a U.S. psychiatrist who worked for the CIA.
Jerrold Post has put together personality profiles for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency for more than 20 years and spoken to scores of accused Palestinian and al-Qaeda terrorists. In an interview yesterday, he said that the appeal of suicide bombing is broadening.
The practice was once limited to very young men, a huge percentage of them teenagers.
"Now women, mothers, have joined this pathway, and middle-aged men, a 43-year-old father. I see it as a trend," he said.
Dr. Post spoke yesterday at the Couchiching Institute on Public Affairs annual conference, held north of Toronto. This year's theme is "God's Back with a Vengeance: Religion, Pluralism and the Secular State."
He said his colleagues have given up asking people why they join their militant organizations to become suicide bombers. "Because we would get these weird looks: 'Why do we join? Everybody is joining. It's only the weird individuals who don't join,' " he said. "This is troubling to hear and understand."
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(Michael Valpy in The Globe and Mail [Toronto], August 7, 2004)
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.....whose choice to end their lives as they kill others is considered perfectly normal in societies they grow up in
Of that, I have no doubt.
It is normal for a pack of hyenas to surround a gazelle and rip to shreds, and to start dining before the animal is dead.
It is normal for a college sociology professor in New England to wear jackets with elbow patches, sport a beard, smoke a pipe, and decry the very capitalist society which has provided his comfortable lifestyle.
In a society which is abnormal, the aberrant is normal.
Many psychiatrists are loonies. Even some supposedly serious and credentialed people are unable to deal with evil. This is cultural relativism at its worst. Should we accept slavery in the Sudan as perfectly rational for the society they grew up in?
ONLY then will they not dare.
Nihlists.
They are happily killing their young men of breeding age.
And now some of their women.
They know they cannot comepete, and they are hopeless.
( they are also crazier than a drunken orchard rat)
(steely)
Yes, the young suicidal jihadis are the well-adapted members of their cohort.
Just as the Young Communists and Pioneers in the USSR and the Hitler Jugend in the Third Reich attracted the best-adapted elements of their own pathological national cultures.
The mad bombers are an authentic expression of contemporary Arab culture. All too authentic.
A society in which the desire for suicide and death are considered "normal" merely identifies that society as deeply pathological, and overcome by an insidious evil.
Living in such a society would drive anyone to despair and hopelessness.
Being considered sane by the standards of an insane society does not make one sane in fact.
Truth of the matter is, any sane member of that society is eliminated ASAP as a dangerous, destabilizing influence.
After enough generations, natural selection insures an almost 100% insane population.
If 'sanity' is allowed to be defined in Leftist relativist-culturalist terms, rather than upon rational, objectivist terms, then this will be the next area to fall to 'diversity'.
It was normal and rational for Nazi Special Action Commandos to shoot 100s men, women and children by mass graves every working day.
It was normal and rational for Japanese Imperial Army soldiers to use prisoners of war for beheading and baoneting practice.
If Osama will pray, to a glowing crater.
Diversity is perversity™ (Michael Savage, The Enemy Within©)
...who happen to live in a sociopathic, evil-driven society.
Hmmmm, I wonder what part of their "culture" makes them want to harm others - could it be the Koran/Islam? If Islam is an insane religion it needs to either be reformed or removed. Human sacrifice was considered a standard part of Mayan culture/religion once - why don't people still do that? Hmmmmm.
Wow, I never thought of it in that light, but that's a perfect analogy. This is the Muslims' modern form of human sacrifice to appease their moon god.
The implication is that we will not have peace until the entire culture is eradicated.
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