The West’s Glaring Blind Spot Regarding Islamic Intolerance

The Stream : 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.

Enter Muslim criminality in the West. I cannot begin to tell you how many hundreds of reports I’ve read over the last two decades concerning Muslim acts of violence and intolerance that end with the authorities concluding that the culprits acted without any motive and must therefore be suffering from a mental disorder and in need of treatment.

Standard Practice

Here are just a few recent examples, mostly from those two European bastions of Muslim migration, France and Germany:

• France, Oct. 18: A woman who had “dedicated her life to” Islam decapitated her daughter. Official diagnosis: “mental health problems.”
• France, Sept 26: After noting that an unknown man hurled excrement at two churches — an old Islamic tactic — the report concludes that the “man could be suffering from mental health problems.”
• U.S., Sept. 23: Although a jury found a Muslim man who murdered 10 people in a Colorado supermarket guilty, the Associated Press describes him in its opening sentence as “a mentally ill man.”
• Germany, Sept 16: A Muslim migrant from Syria with a history of criminal behavior stretching back to his arrival in 2017, spotted a 79-year-old German man wearing a cross. He tore it off, then punched the septuagenarian in the face. News reports at the time stated that “the Syrian is now in a psychiatric facility.”
• Germany, Aug. 16: Mursal Mohamed Seid, a Somalian Muslim migrant, savagely murdered a German man. According to news reports, “He stabbed his victim 111 times with a knife before beheading him … The attack was so violent that the victim’s intestines spilled out while he was still alive … Seid is said to have committed the crime in a schizophrenic delusion and was therefore placed in the high-security ward of the district hospital in Mainkofen, Bavaria.”
• France, July 24: “An individual” entered a church, “threw water on the candles, then on the sacristan who was coming towards him, performed prayers in Arabic, recited verses from the Koran and shouted ‘Allah will judge.’” The report concludes that the individual is “suffering from psychiatric disorders.”

Why were all these Muslim criminals — who again represent only a drop in the bucket of similar examples I’ve encountered over the last two decades — deemed to be insane?

Because the West cannot understand Muslim — specifically jihadist — motives. And it can’t understand them because it is prevented from understanding them by the powers-that-be, which have done everything possible to suppress and censor the truth about Islam from reaching the average person in the West.

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