Instead, he is trying to reclassify it as a “mental illness.” In fact, France continues to lead the world in whitewashing Muslim terrorism as mental illness. Despite Macron’s previous proclamations (after every Muslim terror attack) “In our fight against Islamic terrorism, we will never give in,” blaming the attacks on ‘mental issues’ appears to be more like a Vichy excuse for finding an excuse to surrender.
FrontageMag – Daniel Greenfield (h/t Nita) There’s hardly a Muslim terrorist attack committed by a single perpetrator in Europe or America in the last five years that the authorities and the media haven’t tried to spin as mental illness.
Both Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, the Syrian Muslim mass killer who shot up a Boulder supermarket, and Faisal Akram, who took a Texas temple hostage to secure the release of ‘Lady Al Qaeda’, had their attacks blamed on mental illness.
When Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-old Jewish kindergarten director, was murdered by her Muslim neighbor while shouting, “Allahu Akbar”, the authorities gave her antisemitic killer a pass because his pot smoking had supposedly brought on a “psychotic” episode.
The Halimi murder had strong echoes of the previous killing of a Jewish DJ by a Muslim killer where the expert shrink had insisted that “it is not an anti-Semitic act but an act of delirium”
When Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, an ISIS Muslim terrorist, drove a truck into a Bastille Day celebration, ran over as many people as he could, and exchanged fire with police until he was killed, his family and the media insisted that he was mentally ill. “Nice Attacker Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel Wasn’t a Jihadist,” an NBC News headline blared even though Bouhlel had been collecting ISIS material and the Islamic terror group took responsibility for the attack.
“This is absolutely not an act of terrorism,” a French prosecutor insisted after another Muslim man rammed into a crowd in Dijon while shouting, “Allahu Akbar” and announced that he did so for the “children of Palestine.” The prosecutor also claimed that he had no religious motives.
These weren’t random decisions. Rather French authorities have been trying to reclassify Islamic terrorism as a psychological problem in much the same way that the Obama administration had deliberately reoriented and destroyed counterterrorism in the United States.
Former French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb had taken to claiming that a third of terrorists have “psychological issues”. This worldview is reflected by France’s FSPRT master list of Islamic Jihadists which serves as the key database for fighting domestic terrorism in France.
Now the Macron government is trying to rewire Europe’s counterterrorism the same way. A recent memo from France to the Council of the European Union argues that the “Jihadist threat is evolving” to become “independent from terrorist organizations” and that the perpetrators only have “a tenuous or inexistent link to the radical movement” and suffer from “psychological instability or even mental disorders.”
Additionally, the French memo blames the victims of Islamic terrorism by arguing that the terrorists are triggered by the “the extremely sensitive nature of the notion of blasphemy” which can cause Muslims who are “outside of the jihadist sphere of influence to carry out attacks.”
Within a few paragraphs the French memo to the EU has managed to dismiss the entire idea that Al Qaeda, ISIS, and other Islamic terrorist groups are relevant, then the existence of Islamic terrorism as a whole, reducing it to a question of mentally ill non-terrorists who are triggered by “blasphemy” so that their brutal attacks are really the fault of their non-Muslim victims.
As an example, the French memo to the EU lists the brutal beheading of Samuel Paty, a French teacher, by a Muslim refugee furious over his use of Mohammed cartoons as a teaching tool. President Emmanuel Macron, at the time, had appeared at the scene and blasted the horrifying murder as “a typical Islamic terrorist attack”.“They won’t win,” he had declared.
But the EU memo suggests that like previous French presidents, Macron was playing to the crowd, and has no intention of fighting Islamic terrorism, instead he seeks to redefine it.
France currently holds the presidency of the Council of the European Union giving it even more authority than usual and the memo concludes by asking member states to agree to a “six-monthly EU threat assessment in the field of counterterrorism.” What this amounts to is the Halimi case writ large all across Europe.
Reclassifying Muslim terrorism as mental illness has been a longstanding project of the terrorism deniers. It’s been especially popular in France which due to its laïcité secularism is even more unable and unwilling to grapple with the theological motivations of Islamic terror.
The ‘medicalization’ of terrorism is convenient because it transforms an external threat into an internal social problem which is exactly what the Europeans had been doing with Islamic terrorism for generations. Muslim terrorists can appear paranoid, delusional, and unstable, but psychiatric standards based around a 21st century European middle class urban population are a particularly poor fit for gauging what is normal for a culture entirely outside that worldview.
Whether any Muslim terrorists can indeed be diagnosed as suffering from mental illess is as relevant to the nature of the beast as the number of schizophrenic SS or NKVD killers. Totalitarian movements, whether it’s the kamikazes of Imperial Japan or the suicide bombers of Hamas, often draw on mentally unstable killers who are readier to die for the cause.
But to say that Islamic terrorism is the product of mental illness is in its own way as delusional as reducing WWII to an etiology of the possible mental illnesses that Hitler or Stalin could be diagnosed with. Insane people participating or even leading totalitarian movements doesn’t mean that the problem is mental illness or that it can be solved by taking a few pills a day.
The Macron government’s attempt to shift the emphasis from a religious war to psychological screening is the true delusion here. Releasing Islamic terrorists, as the French government has done, while insisting that they go to therapy sessions is a refusal to grapple with the root causes of immigration, migration, and the ‘mosqueization’ of French cities by Islamic movements.
The Texas temple terrorist attack showed us that the European failure to police its Islamic terror threat isn’t just a problem for Europeans. From the Hamburg cell at the heart of the September 11 attacks to the latest Texas attack, Europe remains a springboard for attacks on America.
And if France succeeds in imposing its medicalized notion of terrorism on the European Union, it will be that much harder to keep it from further corrupting American counterterrorism.
Cleavis Nowell says
Just think of how fast French NATO Soldiers would surrender to Putin’s crack Russian soldiers !
Hartmut says
Macron quickly picked that one up from the Swedes and Germans.
Andrew+Blackadder says
There is indeed a point, an argument, to be made that anybody who follows a man that he himself admitted to cutting off the heads of hundreds who didnt want to follow his Fascist Religious Cult, and instructed his followers to kill even more, right up until today, and then believe that this man was a man of peace, then I would most certainly call such people as bat shit insane, or in PC jargon, mentally unstable.
However it appears today that 2+2=5, the Sky is Green and islam means peace… Go figure…
Daniel Erbstoesser says
Macron is a leftside blinder. Macron wants to activate the migrationpackt and he wants a transfer union because france is broke and germany must pay so that the french can buy homes and go in pension with 56 or so and we germans well they are dicussing if we should not work until we are 70. This thing called macron is a commy leftwing and nothing else. This piece of … thinks that he can do what he wants and others pay the bill but what am i writing that is normal in the times today aint it. Oh before i forget, france is up to 80% muslim and the count grows daily and france cant get the control back so france is lost and soon a muslim country.
frenchreader says
@ DE
Even though I can agree with almost all what you write, please keep in mind that for the majority of French people, retirement is 65 years old, or 40 full labour years if you start working very young.
Retirement at 56 yo is for the military and some civil servants. Well, Germany has so few military left and certainly not enough to help us fight the jihadists in Africa…. What about the civil servants ?
France is not even close to 80% muslim, 15 % perhaps, which far TOO much, I agree. How many muslim Turks do you have in Germany ?
Well, lets all hope that with Zemmour as the next president, we will avoid such a grim future as you predict.
Munich says
DE probably meant “jusqu’à 80%” when he wrote “up to 80%” and was talking about certain areas of France. I understand his English better because I translate it back to German 🙂
frenchreader says
@ Munich
What do you make of this ?
https://www.presseportal.de/pm/110332/5135101 ?
Munich says
That’s the outcome of the march through the institutions. German cultural marxists took over the Green Party shortly after it was founded by genuine ecologists. Muslims are one of the groups the Greens want as future voters. They think that catering to muslims will bring them to power and enable them to set up their socialist utopia which of course will rather be a dystopia. If they were not brainwashed with their leftist crap but informed about historic facts like the fate of Iranian leftists who helped Khomeini against the Shah, they would think twice about the Islamization of Europe. Unfortunately, too many Germans naively believe that the Green Party will save the environment, the climate and all living beings. I am horrified by my country and would like to leave. But as a reader of Fdesouche, Riposte Laïque and other foreign sites I know that all Western countries are infested and your country might even be worse off than mine. I wish Eric Zemmour and/or Marine Le Pen the best of luck for the next elections.
Linda Rivera says
Quran (3:56) – “As to those who reject faith, I will punish them with terrible agony in this world and in the Hereafter, nor will they have anyone to help.”
If Muslim daily jihad and Muslim murders and Muslim TERROR Attacks have nothing to do with Islam, then the LIARS must publicly declare that the HORROR and TERROR, Extreme Suffering and SATANIC RITUAL ABUSE TORTURE/MURDERS that the Quran demands is done to non Muslims, has NOTHING to do with Islam.
And that Robber, Pedophile, Mass Murderer, Torturer, Serial Rapist and Beheader, warlord Mohammad, who Muslims revere as the PERFECT man, has NOTHING to do with Islam.
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/violence.aspx
The Quran contains at least 109 verses that speak of war with nonbelievers, usually on the basis of their status as non-Muslims.
Some are quite graphic, with commands to chop off heads and fingers and kill infidels wherever they may be hiding.
Muslims who do not join the fight are called ‘hypocrites’ and warned that Allah will send them to Hell if they do not join the slaughter.
Linda Rivera says
Quran (8:12) “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them”
The UN, EU, British, Western European, American, Canadian and other Western GOD HATER governments Constantly LIE and DECEIVE for their big favourites — Muslims, Muslim terrorists and Muslim terrorist organizations.
The dirty TRAITORS are one spirit with Muslim Killer Terrorist Savages. Via their dirty, demonic lies they support and aid and abet every Muslim rape, gang rape, torture, sexual enslavement, violent physical attack, daily jihad and MUSLIM TERROR ATTACK.
The wicked, evil traitors will spend all eternity in FIERY HELL. They worship the same dark, death god of Islam. SAME god. DIFFERENT name.
Bible, Romans 12:19
“VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY,” says the Lord
Pray Hard says
Oedipus Macron isn’t going to do sh*t about islam? I’m soooooooooooo surprised.
Fear The Legion says
Politicians aid and abet islam.
Hoyt says
Islam is a mental illness, among many other things , all of them evil ! Fuck Islam , good morning Cair
Dubi says
The petit Islamic Republique in France
Visiting a French town where the children’s dolls are faceless so as not to insult Muslims. Op-ed.
Giulio Meotti, Italy
01.02.22 19:48
Giulio Meotti
צילום: עצמי
The television program Zone Interdite took its cameras to Roubaix, in the north of the country, with 100,000 inhabitants of whom 40 per cent are Muslim. The result is a shocking picture of Islamization, which the TV extends to Marseille, Paris and other cities (at the University of Bobigny they show a place to pray in silence).
The documentary is worth the two hours it takes to view, but by the end of the first twenty minutes, you understand what a European country becomes where Islam is massively present.
Islamic prayers on the street, full veils everywhere, Islamic bookstores and butchers on every corner, shops that come with niqabs, soft toys and children’s books without faces because in Islam it is forbidden, restaurants with areas reserved for women alone, mayors colluding with proselytism, Koran and Arabic lessons in schools…
Faceless toys sold to parents anxious to respect an ultra-radical version of Islam that prohibits the representation of human beings caused a particular sensation. A saleswoman says the children are adjusting and that it “doesn’t bother them at all.”
Zone Interdite has brought to light a reality that many still refused to see, but which now no one can deny. The situation is much more serious than some believed. Thus, the habits and customs of totalitarian Afghanistan take root under the gaze of the French public authorities.
“As we procrastinate entangled in our concern for the law and our fear of being racist, Islamists know what they want,” comments journalist Elisabeth Lévy. “Afghanistan is two hours from Paris,” writes Eric Zemmour.
Today there are 10 percent Muslims in France. What do the French think will happen to their country when they will be 20-30 percent?
Roubaix is often in the news for violence and police being attacked!
frenchreader says
And don’t forgetto mention that the journalist who filmed in Roubaix is now under 24h police protection because of the numerous death threats she receives .on social media ….