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Jihadism, Liberalism and Perversion
American Thinker ^ | December 09, 2007 | Stephen Rittenberg, MD

Posted on 12/10/2007 10:01:37 AM PST by PurpleMan

In a time when gleeful murderous terrorists blow themselves up daily, it behooves us to face the reality that militant Islamic jihadism is a perversion and its practitioners derive a gratification that is more than simply defensive against feeling of inadequacy. It is the pleasurable charge that comes from throwing off all inhibitions on the discharge of murderous rage.

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1 posted on 12/10/2007 10:01:38 AM PST by PurpleMan
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To: PurpleMan
Jihadism, Liberalism and Perversion

I don't like that list of available choices.

2 posted on 12/10/2007 10:04:29 AM PST by Jeff Chandler ("Liberals want to save the world for the children they aren't having." -Mark Steyn)
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To: PurpleMan
Jihadism, Liberalism and Perversion

I need to find a photo of Mrs. Clinton standing between Dennis Kusinich and Barney Frank.

3 posted on 12/10/2007 10:05:43 AM PST by Jeff Chandler ("Liberals want to save the world for the children they aren't having." -Mark Steyn)
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To: PurpleMan

Jihadism, Liberalism and Perversion....Pick your poison?


4 posted on 12/10/2007 10:08:12 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: PurpleMan
Stephen Rittenberg, MD is a psychoanalyst.

The first article I can recall reading by a psychoanalyst that wasn't psychobabble.

I urge everyone to click the link and read the whole thing. It's worth it.

5 posted on 12/10/2007 10:37:05 AM PST by Graybeard58 ( Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: PurpleMan
An excellent read. Bookmarking.

6 posted on 12/10/2007 10:46:14 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
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To: Graybeard58

unfortunately, it did babble in a few places, but I think he has a good start on an idea that needs some more work. He needs to make a more forthright comparison of the values and hypocrisies of these two cultures. The ideas he hangs on Jihadis are not without parallels in our culture.

In fact, it is all the more important that these expanded notions of erotic impulse as perversion expressed in murderous rage be clearly distinguished, Christian v. Muslim, in order to avoid liberals doing the usual superficial generalizations.

Plus, it touches on another issue he didn’t deal with: Do you make a wholesale rejection of another culture, or do you diagnose for both it’s strengths and weaknesses, or determine where religion has nothing to do with perversion? Arguably, child molestation is universal. Some cultures condemn it, some condone it, and others try to rationalize it in various ways. Same for violence, suicide, and the whole list of what we recognize as sins.


7 posted on 12/10/2007 10:47:25 AM PST by bioqubit (bioqubit, conformity - such a common deformity)
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To: Graybeard58

Actually, Charles Krauthammer (Dr. in Psychiatry) wrote THE article on Bush Derangement Syndrome
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/03/bush_derangement_syndrome_chen.html


8 posted on 12/10/2007 10:51:13 AM PST by PurpleMan
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To: Graybeard58

Absolutely...and sent it around.


9 posted on 12/10/2007 11:56:04 AM PST by Adder (hialb)
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To: PurpleMan
Is slime= irrational sadistic religious fanaticism

liberalism= irrational emotionalistic irrational Marxist fanaticism ( because of their irrational beliefs in Marxist labor theory of value and Marxist exploitation of labor theory which they use to justify their worthless economic policies)

10 posted on 12/10/2007 2:47:15 PM PST by mjp (Live & let live. I don't want to live in Mexico, Marxico, or Muslimico. Statism & high taxes suck)
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