Islam is also a Stockholm Syndrome on a Titanic scale

Submitted by Marko Sket (Belgium), Jun 30, 2006 at 16:00

Muslims can think, technicaly speaking. However, in the field of the philosphy they would not and dare not to use this univeral human natural ability. If they did, they could have lost the joiussance that has been begotten to them by indulging in colective fantasmas, for example: being the chosen people by the best god and having had borne the last and the best informed prophet, therefore rightly privileged.

In all 1400 years long history of Islam, those among Muslims who dared to think and those that could not resist to think had suffered perpetual persecutions or worse. The cleverest among them have had only one choice, a choice of a victimized hostage. This behavior is well known in psychopathology and breeds permanent self hatred and anger directed to those who act for them as a mirror or a messenger of reason. Hence, smart people and free thinkers in parts of the word with muslim majority have swallowed emotions and thoughts of their persecutors, in short, those of bestial tyrants, intolerant clerics and violent fanatics. And of course, many of them became perpetrators of a terror, too.

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