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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

The grand meme to not implicate Islam.

OK, fine no immigration from ME countries because the bulk of them are psychopaths.


41 posted on 09/25/2016 12:08:15 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: jospehm20
Psychologists are pretty much useless.

The one thing Scientology got right.

42 posted on 09/25/2016 12:26:32 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (It's gonna be bloody.)
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To: ameribbean expat

ISLAM is a psychological and cultural problem, a severe and irremediable-short-of-conversion one.


43 posted on 09/25/2016 12:33:07 PM PDT by arthurus (Hillary's campaign is getting shaky)
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To: ameribbean expat
The thing is, these people all (or most) attend a mosque. The so-called "good" muslims know who they are and that they are on the brink of doing bad things.
Until they start policing their own or turning them in, they will be lumped in with the bad ones. And that might mean getting rid of them all.
44 posted on 09/25/2016 12:34:17 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (It's gonna be bloody.)
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To: ameribbean expat

Even the psychologists are covering for the Muslims. What were they paid to draw this preposterous notion?


45 posted on 09/25/2016 12:34:33 PM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarm)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
Islam hates anything that isn’t it.

And much of what IS it. Sunnis, Shias, Shias, Alawites, etc. Each of them proclaims the others to be apostates who must be killed.

46 posted on 09/25/2016 12:36:20 PM PDT by arthurus (Hillary's campaign is getting shaky)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Islam IS mental illness, sort of as Liberalism is mental illness but more immediately violent.


47 posted on 09/25/2016 12:38:12 PM PDT by arthurus (Hillary's campaign is getting shaky)
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To: Neoliberalnot

They did not have to be paid. They are leftists. They are all part of the Dystopian Herd.

It is as with the Federal bureaucracies: The Powers That Be do not have to direct most of what they do against We The People, for they are all on the same filthy, rotten page.


48 posted on 09/25/2016 1:41:10 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: ameribbean expat

I quote myself from long ago:

“Politics is the art of taking people’s money and using it against them.”


49 posted on 09/25/2016 1:42:31 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: ameribbean expat

More attempts to provide cover for Islam in America.


50 posted on 09/25/2016 2:10:10 PM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: ameribbean expat

Ostrich-level insanity - bury your head in the sand, deny reality, and just ‘hope’ it goes away.


51 posted on 09/25/2016 3:44:42 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: ameribbean expat

Must be Global Warming


52 posted on 09/25/2016 4:58:22 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Sucks when EVERYTHING is Illegal and I'm too old to hold up my end!)
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To: ameribbean expat
Of course it has nothing to do with religion. Islam is a religion of peace, as we are reminded after every terrorist attack (29,000 plus violent Muslim terrorist attacks since 9-11).

My guess? It's because they like the color black on flags, and they especially like squiggly white lines on a black flag.


53 posted on 09/25/2016 5:03:57 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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Islam is a war plan.


54 posted on 09/25/2016 5:04:30 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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