by Nicolai Sennels
Psychopathic people and behavior are found within all cultures and religions. But one tops them all — by many lengths.
The daily mass killings,
terror, persecutions and family executions committed by the followers of
Islam are nauseating, and the ingenuity behind the attacks — always
looking for new and more effective ways of killing and terrorizing
people — is astonishing: hijacking jumbo jets and flying them into
skyscrapers, hunting unarmed and innocent people with grenades and
automatic rifles in shopping malls, planting bombs in one’s own body,
using model airplanes as drones, attaching large rotating blades to
pickup trucks and using them as human lawn movers, killing family
members with acid or fire, hanging people publicly from cranes in front
of cheering crowds, etc.- in addition to stabbing people in the back,
shooting parents in front of their children, slitting throats of
sleeping babies, etc.
It
makes one ask oneself: what creates such lack of empathy and almost
playful and creative attitude towards murdering perceived enemies?
This is a question for psychologists like me.
Studying the Muslim mind
Nobody
is born a mass murderer, a rapist or a violent criminal. So what is it
in the Muslim culture that influence their children in a way that make
so relatively many Muslims harm other people?
For people to change, they have to want it, to be allowed to change, and to be able to change — and only a tiny minority of Muslims have such lucky conditions.
As
a psychologist in a Danish youth prison, I had a unique chance to study
the mentality of Muslims. 70 percent of youth offenders in Denmark have
a Muslim background. I was able to compare them with non-Muslim clients
from the same age group with more or less the same social background. I
came to the conclusion that Islam and Muslim culture have certain
psychological mechanisms that harm people’s development and increase
criminal behavior.
I am,
of course, aware that Muslims are different, and not all Muslims follow
the Quran’s violent and perverted message and their prophet’s equally
embarrassing example. But as with all other religions, Islam also
influences its followers and the culture they live in.
One
could talk about two groups of psychological mechanisms that both
singly and combined increase violent behavior. One group is mainly
connected with religion, which aims at indoctrinating Islamic values in
children as early as possible and with whatever means necessary,
including violence and intimidation.
One
can understand a Muslim parent’s concern about his offspring’s
religious choices, because the Sharia orders the death penalty for their
children should they pick another religion than their parents. The
other group of mechanisms are more cultural and psychological. These
cultural psychological mechanisms are a natural consequence of being
influenced by a religion like Islam and stemming from a 1,400 year old
tribal society with very limited freedom to develop beyond what the
religion allows.
Classical Brainwashing Methods in the Upbringing
Brainwashing
people into believing or doing things against their own human nature —
such as hating or even killing innocents they do not even know — is
traditionally done by combining two things: pain and repetition. The
conscious infliction of psychological and physical suffering breaks down
the person’s resistance to the constantly repeated message.
Totalitarian
regimes use this method to reform political dissidents. Armies in less
civilized countries use it to create ruthless soldiers, and religious
sects all over the world use it to fanaticize their followers.
During
numerous sessions with more than a hundred Muslim clients, I found that
violence and repetition of religious messages are prevalent in Muslim
families.
Muslim culture
simply does not have the same degree of understanding of human
development as in civilized societies, and physical pain and threats are
therefore often the preferred tool to raise children. This is why so
many Muslim girls grow up to accept violence in their marriage, and why
Muslim boys grow up to learn that violence is acceptable. And it is the
main reason why nine out of ten children removed from their parents by
authorities in Copenhagen are from immigrant families. The Muslim
tradition of using pain and intimidation as part of disciplining
children are also widely used in Muslim schools — also in the West.
Combined
with countless repetitions of Quranic verses in Islamic schools and
families, all this makes it very difficult for children to defend
themselves against being indoctrinated to follow the Quran, even if it
is against secular laws, logic, and the most basic understanding of
compassion.
And as we
know from so many psychological studies, whatever a child is strongly
influenced by at that age takes an enormous personal effort to change
later in life. It is no wonder that Muslims in general, in spite of
Islam’s inhumane nature and obvious inability to equip its followers
with humor, compassion and other attractive qualities, are stronger in
their faith than any other religious group.
Four Enabling Psychological Factors
Not
only does a traditional Islamic upbringing resemble classical
brainwashing methods, but also, the culture it generates cultivates four
psychological characteristics that further enable and increase violent
behavior.
These four mental factors are
- anger
- lack of self-confidence
- no sense of responsibility for oneself
- intolerance
When
it comes to anger, Western societies widely agree that it is a sign of
weakness. Uncontrolled explosions of this unpleasant feeling are maybe
the fastest way of losing face, especially in Northern countries, and
though angry people may be feared, they are never respected. In Muslim
culture, anger is much more accepted, and being able to intimidate
people is seen as strength and source of social status. We even see
ethnic Muslim groups or countries proudly declare whole days of anger,
and use expressions such as “holy anger” — a term that seems
contradictory in peaceful cultures.
In
Western societies, the ability to handle criticism constructively if it
is justified, and with a shrug if it is misguided, is seen as an
expression of self-confidence and authenticity.
As
everyone has noticed, this is not the case among Muslims. Here
criticism, no matter how true, is seen as an attack on one’s honor, and
it is expected that the honor is restored by using whatever means
necessary to silence the opponent. Muslims almost never attempt to
counter criticism with logical arguments; instead, they try to silence
the criticism by pretending to be offended or by name-calling, or by
threatening or even killing the messenger.
The
third psychological factor concerns responsibility for oneself, and
here the psychological phenomenon “locus of control” plays a major role.
People raised by Western standards generally have an inner locus of
control, meaning that they experience their lives as governed by inner
factors, such as one’s own choices, world view, ways of handling
emotions and situations, etc. Muslims are raised to experience their
lives as being controlled from the outside.
Everything
happens “insha’ Allah” — if Allah wills — and the many religious laws,
traditions and powerful male authorities leave little room for
individual responsibility. This is the cause for the embarrassing and
world-famous Muslim victim mentality, where everybody else is blamed and
to be punished for the Muslims’ own self-created situation.
Finally,
the fourth psychological factor making Muslims vulnerable to the
violent message in the Quran concerns tolerance. While Western societies
in general define a good person as being open and tolerant, Muslims are
told that they are superior to non-Muslims, destined to dominate
non-Muslims, and that they must distance themselves socially and
emotionally from non-Muslims. The many hateful and dehumanizing verses
in the Quran and the Hadiths against non-Muslims closely resemble the
psychological propaganda that leaders use against their own people in
order to prepare them mentally for fighting and killing the enemy.
Killing another person is easier if you hate him and do not perceive him
as fully human.
Why Islam Creates Monsters
The
cultural and psychological cocktail of anger, low self-esteem, victim
mentality, a willingness to be blindly guided by outer authorities, and
an aggressive and discriminatory view toward non-Muslims, forced upon
Muslims through pain, intimidation and mind-numbing repetitions of the
Quran’s almost countless verses promoting hate and violence against
non-Muslims, is the reason why Islam creates monsters.
The Psychological Problem within Islam
The
problem with Islam and Muslim culture is that there are so many
psychological factors pushing its followers towards a violent attitude
against non-Muslims that a general violent clash is — at least from a
psychological perspective — inevitable. With such strong pressure and
such strong emotions within such a large group of people — all pitched
against us — we are facing the perfect storm, and I see no possibilities
of turning it around. For people to change, they have to want it, to be
allowed to change, and to be able to change — and only a tiny minority
of Muslims have such lucky conditions.
Far
too many people underestimate the power of psychology embedded in
religion and culture. As we have already seen, no army of social
workers, generous welfare states, sweet-talking politicians, politically
correct journalists or democracy-promoting soldiers can stop these
enormous forces. Sensible laws on immigration and Islamization in our
own countries can limit the amount of suffering, but based on my
education and professional experience as a psychologist for Muslims, I
estimate that we will not be able to deflect or avoid this many-sided,
aggressive movement against our culture.
I
do believe that we, as a democratic and educated society can become
focused and organized concerning the preservation of our values and
constitutions, can win this ongoing conflict started by the often inbred
followers of Sharia. The big question is how much of our dignity, our
civil rights, and our blood, money and tears will we lose in the
process.
Nicolai Sennels
Source: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/17646#.VhK-AJezddt
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