The West’s Glaring Blind Spot Regarding Muslim Madness and Islamic Insanity
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By Raymond Ibrahim Published on November 14, 2024
Raymond Ibrahim
How does one understand violent crimes that are presented as being “without motive”? Or better yet, how does one understand violent crimes if one cannot begin to comprehend their openly stated motive?
For example, the secular and materialistic West increasingly only understands motives prompted by material needs or desires. Thus theft and rape make perfect sense as they are both materially “gratifying.” The West also still understands generic human “passions,” such as violence and even murder for personal revenge and so forth.
But what to make of a man who suddenly decides to stab a random group of people or children? What could his motive possibly be? Or what about a woman who randomly enters a church during a service and starts shrieking unintelligibly?
Because the West cannot understand what would prompt such ostensibly inexplicable behavior or categorize them according to its own paradigms, all too often those who commit these “bizarre” crimes are dismissed as “crazy.” They seem to have no motive, and therefore need medical and/or psychiatric care.
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