superyooser's Journal: The Psychoanalytic Roots of Islamic Terrorism

"Despite enormous and continuing denial on the part of left and liberal ideologues and the media, we are facing an exceedingly pathological strain of Islamofascist terrorism. So a crucial question must be asked: from a psychological and anthropological point of view, what kind of culture produces human bombs, glorifies mass murderers, and supports humiliation-based revenge?"

The sick truth.
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That book's gonna be on my must read list

[Red Warrior]

though I expect it will be labeled a "racist, zionist pack of lies, lies I say!" by the usuall suspects w/i a week of publication.

Re:That book's gonna be on my must read list

[Talinom]

I just got done with e-mailing our company liberal here (really nice gal with a brain and knows how to use it). She looked at the article and mostly agreed with it. Some parts she didn't, but wasn't specific on what parts. She felt that in a nutshell there is no right answer to the dilemma posed by the culture. Do we "exterminate them ala Hitler and the Jews, force a different government on them (like Bush), boycott them until the problem is solved (ain't gonna happen with the current administration), or wh

Re:That book's gonna be on my must read list

[superyooser]

Don't they sell really nice carpets in Iraq (formerly known as Persia IIRC)?

Iran was Persia.

Seriously, what does the region need to stop the cycle the article shows? Then, what should anyone do about it?

An army of psychologists couldn't fix that mess. The Bible prophesied that it would be this way about the Ishmaelites, the Arabs. (Genesis 16:11-12)

The angel of the LORD also said to her (Hagar)

"You are now with child and you will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard of yo

Re:That book's gonna be on my must read list

[Talinom]

Thanks for the clue-ing up on the country formerly known as Persia. I freely admit cluelessness when it comes to the middle east.

I like your two part plan. It works for me.

Re:That book's gonna be on my must read list

[cyranoVR]

though I expect it will be labeled a "racist, zionist pack of lies, lies I say!" by the usuall suspects w/i a week of publication

More likely, "pseudoscience" and "empty rhetoric."

And those in the know will snicker at the concept of *giggle* Psychoanalysis being used to advocate real-world policies. See, the legacy of Freud has been abandoned by the mainstreams of modern Psychology and Psychiatry because it lacked any hard-science support or (worse) any proven results in the Real World (well, aside from

Re:That book's gonna be on my must read list

[Red Warrior]

Well, we already know that we tend to disagree on about everything, anyway. Why disturb the trend. :-)

Re:That book's gonna be on my must read list

[cyranoVR]

Agreed.

Re:That book's gonna be on my must read list

[Red Warrior]

D'oh!

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[cyranoVR]

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Wow, your warning was dead on! It really was disturbing how a also-ran "academic" could smear hundreds of millions of people and an entire culture through a contrived, anecdote-based work of thinly-veiled propaganda! I loved that part where she dismissed Prof. Said's work on its face based on her own misinterpretation.

Is this what is passing as "scholarly" these days? Truly, disturbing!

OHHHHHH....now I get it. You were refering to the descriptions of homosexu