{"id":34806,"date":"2017-12-14T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34806"},"modified":"2017-12-03T00:10:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T05:10:40","slug":"qotd-terrorism-and-mental-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/12\/14\/qotd-terrorism-and-mental-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Terrorism and mental illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In the West, the conviction that you must kill people in order to receive 72 virgins in paradise would be considered a mental illness. In Islam, it\u2019s a mainstream belief. 89% of Pakistanis believe in genies. But then again genies are present in Islamic scripture. 89% of Tunisians believe in witchcraft. 72% of Iraqis believe in the \u201cevil eye\u201d. 1 in 5 Afghanis have witnessed an exorcism. Half of Pakistanis believe in fairies.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi religious police have a special Anti-Witchcraft Unit and there are actual witch trials. Majorities of Muslims don\u2019t believe that Muslims carried out the 9\/11 attacks. 40% of Pakistanis believe that fathers have a right to kill their daughters if they engage in premarital sex. Half of British Muslims think that the Jews are in league with the Freemasons. A third believes that Princess Diana was murdered to stop her from marrying a Muslim.<\/p>\n<p>Ideas and behaviors associated with mental illness in the West are mainstream in parts of the Muslim world which exist in a pre-rational medieval universe brimming with conspiracy theories, paranoid delusions, lack of personal responsibility, erratic emotions and an inability to apply reason to reality.<\/p>\n<p>Western psychiatric benchmarks don\u2019t mean much in the Muslim world where witchcraft is a major problem, Jewish conspiracy theories abound and genies are responsible for psychiatric problems. Killing your daughter or just non-Muslims in general is socially approved behavior. The Muslim world has fundamentally different social norms than we do. And that means very different concepts of sanity.<\/p>\n<p>Misattributing Muslim terrorism to madness is convenient, but meaningless. It\u2019s a way for us to avoid dealing with the difficult questions posed by Islam. And that avoidance is also a form of insanity.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Greenfield, <a href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.ca\/2016\/05\/insane-muslim-terrorists.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Insane Muslim Terrorists&#8221;, <em>Sultan Knish<\/em><\/a>, 2016-05-13.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the West, the conviction that you must kill people in order to receive 72 virgins in paradise would be considered a mental illness. In Islam, it\u2019s a mainstream belief. 89% of Pakistanis believe in genies. But then again genies are present in Islamic scripture. 89% of Tunisians believe in witchcraft. 72% of Iraqis believe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,11],"tags":[127,47,906,257],"class_list":["post-34806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotations","category-religion","tag-conspiracytheories","tag-islam","tag-mentalhealth","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-93o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34807,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34806\/revisions\/34807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}