Written by Alexandros Niklan Sr. Security Consultant
“ Mentally Disturbed”. The new“ lone wolf terrorist” profile.
This small article describes a new point of view on " mental illness " that authorities use recently while they tend to describe attacks taking place by people all over Europe and Israel as actions coming from a person in such state.
Terrorist profile of a radical believer of Islam, describes a person who has a different perception of logic and“ baptizes” his action with a " divine seal " directed by altered quotes of Islam, as to accomplish his goals. In a way, someone would say that he might be mentally disturbed. Something that we are regularly hear / watch when an attack takes place in the West.
First we need to think what constitutes mental illness. Most people with a disturbed mental state are rarely murderers or become such in process. A small percentage that indeed killed and injured others, did it under pressure caused by other factors or as a way to enjoy their lust on pain / blood( e. g. serial killers).
However today when we see these attacks taking place by people with knives and machetes, none of the above is valid. They are certainly not under bad temper or pressure in order to consider that they have been pushed to crime. For example, an employee who lost his job and took a gun and hostages, is under pressure but he still has his stable mind and he is, most of the times, handled. This is not valid on these attacks. There is no room for reasoning with them and they seem to finish the attack it in a flash-action, killing spree. Not to mention that right after their actions they tend to evade arrest by running away instead of following the“ martyr’ s way”. Somehow this does not look like a sign of an ill-minded person.
Second point of reference now, is the amount of similarities those persons have. They all have origin from M. East and N. Africa. They are usually 2nd or 3rd generation immigrants, taking citizenship of their hosting country. They are also all desperate Muslims who after some time, seem that this religion becomes their life doctrine, as they attend regularly radical preaching and prayers. It is quite strange for Authorities to ignore and not being able to identify the obvious profile similarities on this raid of recent attacks, named as“ mentally disturbed actions”.
In a profile of these attackers, there are points like that they are usually in their early 20 ' s to mid 30 ' s, of Muslim belief, killing with no apparent goal and have no signs of mental illness, rather than their killing actions against many. Somehow, it seems that this story does not stick. Too many coincidences and lack of evidences to support such stories. Theory looks like to becoming quite obvious here, but since i too, do not have evidence but only strong indications please bear with me. Most of the attackers are either connected to radical circles or self-influenced by news and internet clips / tutorials of radical Islam. Their goal becomes to accomplish something that will distinguish them and provide their actions
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