Does sexual frustration fuel Islamic violence?
Man's Best Friend
least in part, because he was sexually frustrated?
"That's one of the questions being asked in the investigation into the
Nov. 5 rampage that left 13 people dead and dozens more injured.
According to reports, Hasan visited a nearby strip club in the weeks
before the massacre and was frustrated by his inability to find a
pious Muslim wife."
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MBF
Reginald Carpenter
Does sexual frustration fuel Islamic violence?
Group: alt.religion.buddhism.nichiren
Date: Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 7:08pm
From: Man's Best Friend <radical...@gmail.com>
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RC comments: Re. the subject/ question, the answer to that is a
"maybe;" the website article finds that reason to be inconclusive. But,
a more substantial reason for Major Hasan's murderous behavior that is
really being avoided in the USA news media & US Army military is that he
himself could have been suffering the effects of PTSD -- Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder -- without having even actually been deployed into the
war zone, the Middle East, himself due to his job, aka. MOS - military
occupational skill, as an Army psychiatrist and his treatment of war
veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan. The war going on there must be very
bad if the people who are supposed to be qualified to medically treat
the warriors/ returning veterans are going crazy from it, too! LOL.
The following is an excerpt from an article printed in the "Final Call"
[Muslim] newspaper, issue dated Nov. 24, 2009: "Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder: The Cost of War" by Harry R. Davidson, Ph.D., guest columnist.
"There is currently a media frenzy associated with what some have
referred to as "Jihad at Fort Hood." Major Nidal Malik Hasan has been
identified as the alleged perpetrator of a mass shooting at the Texas
military base that killed 12 people and wounded 31 others. It is
interesting to note that the media has often chosen not to refer to the
fact that the alleged perpetrator had achieved the rank of Major in the
United States Army.
Maj. Hasan was reportedly born and raised in Virginia, the son of
immigrant parents from a small town near Jerusalem. He joined the
military right out of high school, and the Army put him through college
and then medical school, where he trained to be a psychiatrist. Maj.
Hasan started having second thoughts about his military career a few
years ago after other soldiers harassed him for being a Muslim. Many of
the perpetrators were soldiers he was trying to help. In addition he
was traumatized by the stories he heard from returning soldiers with
post-traumatic stress disorder as he treated them at the Walter Reed
Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. and later, at Fort Hood. Fort
Hood is an Army base with the highest number of mental disorders and
suicides and it is believed that this is due to it being the arrival and
departure point for soldiers deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan. Maj.
Hasan was fearful of being deployed to the Middle East himself.
..... At the time of my research, more than 151,000 Iraqi civilians,
and 5,000 Afghanistan civilians have been killed ......
..... There are nearly 60,000 names on the Vietnam [Memorial] wall.
America has lost nearly 45,000 military personnel in the Iraq war.
Suicides are reported at a rate of eighteen (18) per day. Over 100,000
have been wouded and 320,000 veterans of the war have suffered brain
injuries.
A major cost of America's breaking God's law, "thou shall not kill",
is a psychiatric term called Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
Thirty percent (30%) of Vietnam Veterans, more than in any other war,
suffer from PTSD. Today, 15 to 20 percent of all soldiers fighting in
Iraq and Afghanistan show signs of depression or Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder (PTSD). That rate jumps to about 30 percent for soldiers who
have been on three or four combat deployments. Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder is an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to a
terrifying event or ordeal in which grave physical harm occurred or was
threatened to you or witnessed by you. The majority of symptoms of PTSD
include a change in the brain that includes addiction to adrenaline that
can lead to violence against others including family members. Typically
the soldiers with PTSD experience flashbacks of the trauma with vivid
recollections of the terror. People with PTSD have persistent
frightening thoughts and memories of their ordeal and feel emotionally
numb, especially with people they were once close to. Symptoms can also
include re-living the event in flashbacks or nightmares, avoidance of
other people and numbing of emotions, and changes in sleeping patterns
and even an increase in alertness. They may feel detached or numb, or
be easily startled. In addition, they exhibit a high degree of
alcoholism and substance abuse in an attempt to medicate themselves.
After a traumatic event, it can take about three months for any symptoms
to show up, but it can also take years, as is the case with Vietnam
Veterans who suffer from this disorder.
Like Maj. Hasan, soldiers who have not directly experienced war can be
effected. "Mental health issues are a real problem for the Fort Hood
population," an Army study concluded last year. Counter transference is
an occurrence in which a psychotherapist's own repressed feelings are a
reaction to the emotions, experiences, or problems of a person he/ she
is treating. The therapist can associate with or assume some of the
qualities, characteristics, or views of the person or group he/ she is
treating. The vivid recounting of trauma by the survivor and the
clinician's subsequent cognitive or emotional representation of that
event may result in a set of symptoms and reactions that parallel PTSD.
Such transference is also referred to as compassion fatique and
vicarious traumatization. Partial identification is based on the
perception of [a] special quality of another person. Partial
identification results from sharing similarities of persons who will be
able to identify with one another through this common bond to one
another. Hence, Maj. Hasan's fear of deployment could have been a
factor." [end of excerpt]
RC: So, the author's apparent theory is that Maj. Hasan, working in the
US Army as a psychotherapist, had developed symptoms of PTSD himself
through his treatment of returning/ surviving Iraqi & Afghanistan
veterans because of "counter transference", aka. "compassion fatique" &
"vicarious traumatization," and his "partial identification" as a result
of the racial & religious/ Muslim similarities that he identifies with
those Middle East people who have been killed by American forces and
with those who are called terrorists fighting against American forces
there, and perhaps resulting in his "fear of deployment" to that war
zone; and, that the behavior or acts committed like that of Maj. Hasan
because of PTSD is "the Cost of War." WorldPeace! }:<{0
Reginald Carpenter
Re: Does sexual frustration fuel Islamic violence?
Group: alt.religion.buddhism.nichiren
Date: Sat, Nov 21, 2009, 4:05am
From: Reginald Carpenter <chiefst...@msn.com>
Does sexual frustration fuel Islamic violence? Group:
alt.religion.buddhism.nichiren Date: Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 7:08pm From:
Man's Best Friend <radical...@gmail.com>
"(RNS) Did alleged Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan lose control, at
least in part, because he was sexually frustrated? "That's one of the
questions being asked in the investigation into the Nov. 5 rampage that
left 13 people dead and dozens more injured.
According to reports, Hasan visited a nearby strip club in the weeks
before the massacre and was frustrated by his inability to find a pious
Muslim wife."
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O well, have a good day anyway.
MBF
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RC comments: Re. the subject/ question, the answer to that is a "maybe;"
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RC: In a current news story on MSN.com, it was reported that Maj. Hasan
had filled out an application at a Muslim mosque and listed his
nationality as being "Palestinian," even though he was in fact born in
the USA. So, that is another reason for his "partial identification"
with Middle East people beside the other ways that he identified himself
politically & religiously with the, too.. WorldPeace! }:<{0