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Sunday, December 02, 2007

'Does Islam Cause Mental Illness?'

Sher Zieve asks an interesting question...

With resumed violent riots in France, the Saudi Arabian woman who was recently convicted of having been gang-raped by seven men and has been sentenced by the Islamic Shari’a court to 200 lashes with a whip (a virtual death sentence) and 6-months in prison - assuming she survives the beating - and the case of Muslims calling for the execution of British teacher in Sudan Gillian Gibbons (who allowed her students to name the classroom teddy bear Muhammad) the insanity occupying the Islamic world is once again slapping the rest of the world in its face. Although she was convicted by the fundamentalist Islamic court system of “insulting Islam” and sentenced to jail time, over 10,000 Sudanese Muslims have taken to the streets and are reported to still be screaming for Gibbons’ death with: “No tolerance! Execution! Kill her, kill her by firing squad!”



Apparently not satisfied with last year’s worldwide riots over the infamous Muhammad cartoons and the multiple videos of Islamist beheadings—not to mention the genocide of non-Muslims that is still being perpetrated in the Darfur area of Sudan—portions of the Muslim word are at it once again. As these types of extraordinarily brutal, sadistic and bizarre behaviors do not occur within the Jewish or Christian communities of the world, I believe that I must ask: Is it Islam, itself, that is causing this mental illness amongst its adherents?


But the question assumes that the outrage is real.

In a recent post, this assumption is questioned by no less a seasoned observer than Richard Rodrigues (Wretchard) of the Belmont Club. We may be seeing the result of the wrong signals being sent by the multiculturalists of the West. We may be encouraging faux outrage by Islamofascists who have been conditioned to expect prostration on the part of the West to their demands.

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