Psychopathic people and behaviour 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 terrorising 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. 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?
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 behaviour.
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 behaviour. 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
behaviour.
These four mental factors are anger, self-confidence, responsibility for oneself and 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 dehumanising
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 Islamisation 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 organised 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.
Sunday, February 16, 2014
Nicolai Sennels: Psychology: Why Islam creates monsters
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