Tel-Chai Nation: "Mentally ill" is not a defense for jihadism

A French psychology expert's debunked the whole excuse of declaring Islamofascists and terrorists "mentally insane" and using that to avoid giving them serious penalties:

French psychiatrist Yann Andretuan, head of the French navy’s psychological service who has practiced psychiatry in several French hospitals for more than a decade, refutes this psychiatric interpretation of Islamic terrorist attacks, regarding it as false.

“I am a psychiatrist and I do not believe that terrorism is a madness in the psychopathological sense of the term,” Andretuan writes in an article in Le Figaro, a French national newspaper.

First, Andretuan maintains that psychiatry and psychology are “saying nothing to explain this madness and to heal it,” indicating an absence of medical roots and hence the impossibility of a medical cure.

Andretuan then goes on to relate his own experiences as a psychiatrist. In his 12 years of practice in different French hospitals he states he had to restrain a patient only once and had been assaulted, also only once, by a dementia patient in his nineties.

“Psychiatric wards can be loud but rarely violent,” states the experienced psychiatrist.

The French doctor then cites a study done in the 1990s, which showed that the probability of being attacked by “an individual who had consulted a psychiatrist is ten times less than by someone who hasn’t.”

Some have argued that jihadists’ mental illness is evident in the fact that they are recruited, sometimes easily, to such a murderous cause as Islamic terrorism. Andretuan also demolishes this argument.

“Some individuals will find a cause that will give meaning to their delirium…but how many?” he asks. “It is not necessary to fear an epidemic in the psychiatric services.”

Andretuan then cites commando units the English established in the Second World War as an example of the difficulty and unsuitability of recruiting the mentally ill.

“(The English) imagined to recruit sociopaths because of their absence of resistance to killing,” he stated. “This was a failure. They thus went looking for men, educated and often products of good English society, not presenting any psychiatric troubles…”

Besides, Andretuan says, armies have always gotten rid of mentally unstable recruits, considering them too difficult to control.

Well there you have it. The guy's got a good view of the situation, proving the notion of a jihadist being literally insane is phony. One sure thing: the establishment had better not even think about going after him for debunking the whole insanity defense. If they're smart, they'll defend and respect his arguments.

Labels: anti-semitism, dhimmitude, France, islam, jihad, terrorism, war on terror

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SOURCE:
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https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/05/10/the-two-state-unicorn/

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Melanie Phillips (columnist for
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SOURCE: article by Melanie Phillips, 2019 May 16
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Ambassador Ron Dermer said:

“The Palestinians have repeatedly
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SOURCE: Ten Deadly Lies about Israel
by Ambassador Ron Dermer, 2015 October 20:
www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/ten-deadly-lies-about-israel-213272

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Rabbi Benjamin Blech said:
It is time for Jews to say to the New York Times:
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SOURCE: J’Accuse by Rabbi Benjamin Blech, 2014/7/30

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Why Rabbi Haskel Lookstein permanently
stopped reading the New York Times:

SOURCE: Time’s Up for the New York Times
in My Home by Haskel Lookstein, 2019/5/13

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Rabbi Steven Pruzansky said this on 2015/10/29:

“In the genocidal war being waged
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SOURCE:
A New Low, a blog article by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky

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2015 October 14, found in: The Algemeiner

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U.S. Ambassador to Israel David M. Friedman said:

“If anyone speaks to the editors of the [New York] Times,
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