How does one protect the multicultural dogma from the evidence of its own empirical failure? By declaring the terrorists insane. This has now been going on for more than ten years, and the cases have piled up.
A man shouted “Allahu akbar!” and “Die, infidel!” while stabbing four people, killing one of them, at a railway station outside Munich. In Bavaria, the authorities immediately rejected the notion that he had “an Islamic motive”. Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann added that the attacker had “psychological problems”.
A Muslim in France destroyed Christmas decorations while shouting “Allahu akbar!”. “His mental state was deemed so impaired that it required admission to the specialist hospital in Allonnes”.
In Germany, a person was killed with a machete by a man in a shopping centre in Hamburg who shouted “Allahu akbar!”. German authorities regarded him as “mentally disturbed”.
Also in France, a Muslim driver drove into pedestrians while shouting “Allahu akbar!”, but it was “absolutely not an act of terrorism”. The man had a “serious and long-standing mental illness”.
A Muslim, also in France, stabbed a rabbi: “Haddouche was deemed not criminally responsible due to mental problems”.
A Muslim in Austria drove a car into a crowd and killed three people, got out and stabbed passers-by: “It is believed that he suffers from a mental illness”.
In France, a man tried to strangle a police officer while shouting, you guessed it, “Allahu akbar!”. “He was said to have a history of mental problems”.
If you are beginning to see a pattern in these cases, you are neither insane nor conspiracy theorists (the problem with conspiracies today is that 95 per cent are false, but 5 per cent are true).
My advice is not to watch the television broadcasts about the Modena attack. Stay away from RAI, Mediaset and LA7. It is the same media rubbish everywhere, and it prevents people from understanding what is happening in Europe (Mediaset is merely a noisier and more banal version of the Left).
And if these cases are not enough for you, here are another thirty or so, randomly selected.
The stabbing attack in Leytonstone, London: The perpetrator Muhaydin Mire “suffered from paranoid schizophrenia”
The attack on the train from Amsterdam to Paris. Profile: “Unstable and compulsive”.
The attack in Nice: “Severe mental disorder”.
The attack in Würzburg: “Paranoid schizophrenia”.
The attack in Ansbach: “Psychiatric problems”.
The attack on the Berlin Christmas market: “Paranoid behaviour and instability”.
The attack in Westminster, London: “Compulsive behaviour and instability”.
The attack on London Bridge: “Possible paranoid traits”.
The attack in Stockholm: “Psychologically unstable profile”.
The attack in Marseille: “Long psychiatric history” France24
The attack in Hamburg: “Previous psychiatric admissions”.
The attack in Trappes: “Psychiatric problems”.
The attack in Strasbourg: “Psychologically unstable”.
The attack in Villejuif: “Psychiatric problems”.
The attack in Reading: “Mental health problems”.
The attack in Dresden: “Mental illness”.
The attack in Mulhouse: “Schizophrenic profile”.
The attack on the cathedral in Nice: “Possible mental imbalance”.
The attack in Vetlanda: “Felt mentally unwell”.
The attack in Brussels: “Admitted to psychiatric hospital”.
The attack in Annecy: “Admitted to psychiatric hospital”.
The attack at the Eiffel Tower: “Psychologically fragile”.
The attack in Dublin: “Neurocognitive disorder”.
The attack in Mannheim: “A history of mental illness”.
The attack in Solingen: “Psychological vulnerability”
The attack in Magdeburg: “Signs of mental illness”.
The attack in Munich: “Mental illness”.
The attack in Aschaffenburg: “Believed to suffer from mental illness”.
And then we come to Modena. “Schizoid mental disorder”.
Do you see a pattern here?
From around the time of the great migration wave and the attacks in Paris and Brussels (2015–2016), Europe was inundated with terror.
Never before had we seen motorists in our streets mowing down dozens of innocent people and then stabbing them. At that point, a protocol was developed: While the bodies still lay in the street, the attacker was to be declared “mad” and any religious connection ruled out, even when it had been shouted aloud.
The result is a Europe that has convinced itself that it has a collective mental health problem, instead of recognising the reality: A totalitarian ideology has been imported in massive doses.
The psychiatrisation of the attacks is not a misjudgement: It is a precise political strategy, just as in the days of the Soviet Union there were madhouses for dissidents.
It served to de-Islamise the phenomenon, to remove it from the debate about immigration, failed integration and the incompatibility between sharia and democracy. It served to protect the multicultural dogma from its own empirical collapse. To admit that a disproportionately large number of these acts of violence stem from a specific cultural-religious milieu would mean recognising it as the principal carrier of ideological violence in the West. Better, then, to transform the terrorist into a patient and the enemy into a victim of the system.
But it is Europe that has chosen to go mad rather than wake up. And the real, deadly illness is the gaze that stubbornly refuses to see.
After Modena, concrete barriers have appeared at the entrance to the Prati market in Rome and to the old town of Bergamo.
Do we believe that we can stop madness in this way?
Al-Qaeda terrorist Haroon Aswat, who was behind the London attacks in 2005 in which 52 people were killed and 800 injured, was released early from a psychiatric prison “after his schizophrenia had improved”. The European Court of Human Rights had halted his extradition to the United States because of concerns that his schizophrenia could worsen under American prison conditions.
And one of the terrorists responsible for the Bataclan massacre (100 dead) begins this week to be released from prison on account of good behaviour.
Everything is going to be fine, dear mad Westerners. You have boarded a gigantic raft bound for the multicultural island that does not exist.