Homeland’s Implausible Take on Islamic Radicalization
“We wanted to, as much as possible, decouple the association between terrorism and Islam,” declares Gordon. The “decoupling” is performed by portraying Brody’s conversion to Islam as purely spiritual. “You live in despair for eight years, you might turn to religion, too. And the King James Bible was not available,” Brody tells Carrie. Islam “wasn’t a stepping-stone toward any terrorist behavior. It was a way of maintaining his sanity…,” notes Ganza. Brody may be both a Muslim and a terrorist, but he’s not a terrorist solely because he is Muslim.
Rather than “decoupling” Islam from terrorism, the bias is re-enforced since Brody turns out to be both. Although we first learn that Brody is a Muslim, and only discover in a later episode that he is a terrorist, setting these two events in different episodes does little to “decouple” them. The producers hope that if viewers spend some time contemplating only his Muslim faith, it will engender the perception that Brody’s transformation into a terrorist is entirely coincidental to his newfound religion.
The storyline errs in its eagerness to convey that the zeal for avenging injustice has more staying power than religious motivation, which remains the elephant in the living room of Homeland. Brody is not a jihadist but a seeker of vengeance with a “legitimate grievance,” extending beyond his release and driving his actions. However, absent the religious component, the goal of empathy with jihadists fails, since they do commit terror in the name of their religion, Islam.
This concept of an anti-American terrorist who is only incidentally Muslim isn’t the only thing about Brody that makes little real-world sense. The hope of retribution supplants the hope of reuniting with loved ones, widely recognized as vital to surviving captivity. Following his release, Brody is indifferent to his family and even has an affair with the CIA agent tracking him. By contrast, the Israeli POW emphasizes the crucial role of hope when a fiancé who since married is asked to remove her wedding ring and reside in another home to ameliorate the returning POW’s rehabilitation.
Count me as one “hawkish” viewer who has always been disturbed by the facile underlying premise of this show. The best moment so far has been in the first episode of season 2, when the wife first learns of his conversion to Islam, and is outraged at the deception and the conversion itself. She says something like…”you are now a member of the religion that, if they knew our daughter was having sex with her boyfriend, would stone her to death in a soccer field!” His lack of response to that was edifying.
Maybe the writers are having to face reality themselves.
Actually that scene disturbed me because the wife never says:
“We’re Christians!”
Actually I saw the ads for the show, saw the premise they ran with to start (“Has he converted to Islam and become a terrorist, or not?”), guessed that he would have, and from there decided that there was no question, the only suspenseful thing would be if he was going to be caught. Since they want the show to run for a while, that of course is easy to answer; so there’s not really any suspense at all. My wife’s watching it, and she’s tried to tell me about it a few times, but I’m just not interested…
I’m another ‘hawkish’ viewer, and I hate this show. I hate it.
I have conservative friends who adore it. No one can answer the one question that without which you can’t watch this show: how can a US Marine convert to the religion of the monsters who torture him, and not call this brainwashing?
Of COURSE it’s brainwashing. No normal person identifies with the people who have tortured him for years and seeks to become what they are.
Oh, and I love that the kid is named ‘Isa’, which I believe is mooooozlim for ‘Jesus.’
Just a repulsive show, with the kind of moral equivalency crap that nuanced leftists so adore.
This show is a big, big lie, and absolutely impossible to believe.
katyiii,
I think you may be overthinking it some. What I take away is that anybody can be brainwashed via Islam to become a terrorist, even a white U.S. Marine.
Here’s the real skinny, even if impolitic to a semblance of viewers –
http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/07/13/islam-blood-a-groundbreaking-policy-paper-contained-herein-the-world-stands-on-a-precipice-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki-109/
Download the embedded policy paper, and you will NEVER look at the subject the same again. And, by the bye, this paper has circulated among requisite policy makers, including those on Capitol Hill, and assorted think tanks.
There is NO cogent argument against its contents, simply because its scholarship is impeccable on EVERY level. So, if Professor Paul Eidelberg was the adviser to the film, surely the truth would have been revealed.
NEVER gonna happen. It eviscerates the meme – Islam is the religion of peace, and jihad is inner struggle.
“No normal person identifies with the people who have tortured him for years”
Your contention (this aspect) is contrary to reality – the condition is known as ‘Stockholm Syndrome’.
The condition offers further interesting insight into the amazing functions of the human brain.
Homeland bends over backwards to portray Islam as the religion of peace while it carries out its terrorism. The propaganda is thick and of course the usual suspects are the terrible CIA and the corrupt US politicians who will do anything to get ahead.
I enjoy the show, especially when I can point out the above-mentioned amateurish propaganda.
I was always uneasy and uncomfortable watching season 1 of Homeland (not watching season 2). It’s certainly a well made show and they’ve thought through whatever it is they’re trying to do.
I seems to me to boil down to whether Brody is going to be depicted as a “hero” or a “villain.” They walked a tightrope between these two the entire first season. Since, in my mind, he’s clearly a villain, the continuing “is he or isn’t he?” game is frustrating.
I think wt Homeland shows is reality. Its not about Islam brainwashing ppl or CIA or wtever its more about how us so called HUMANS have used religion and race and technlogy and wt not as tools to satisfy our need for power.
Is Brody a villian cuz hes Muslim or is he a villian cuz he is doing something wrong by killing ppl?
No religion is of God is bad its the ppl who just tear it out and use it in the wrong way!
“No religion is of God is bad its the ppl who just tear it out and use it in the wrong way”
Depends on what kind of “god” you believe in,
and what your definition of “bad” is
Homework assignment:
Read the Gospels of Jesus.
You will find no commands to kill rape torturer or loot in the name of His Father..
Not. A. Single. Time.
Zero. Zilch. Nada.
Read the Hadith of Mohammad.
You will find lots and lots of commands to kill, torture, rape,
enslave and humilliate all to the glory of,
and the name of, their god Allah.
Their violent behavior is 100% consistant with that “owners manual” of theirs, you know, the one they demand we treat with such reverence, lest they go completely age-shit and kill over the slightest “insult” to it?
Me, I call that type of god, “bad” you see.
Whereas, I aint NEVER heard The Pope ever calling for some Muslims head.
So, I’m enclined to call that type of God, “good”.
But as a liberal, your instruments are calibrated by fools
So your actual mileage may vary
I’m a genuinely conservative Catholic (wouldn’t have bothered trying to follow the ten commandments in all forms if I wasn’t), but even still, it’s exceptionally difficult to differentiate Allah and the Judeo-Christian God, especially seeing how that incident where Mohammad apparently ascended into Heaven and encountered the Prophets, including Moses, and especially encountered God face to face, as well as the angel Gabriel played a huge role in Mohammad founding Islam in the first place (and if Gabriel became a fallen angel, he evidentially would not be on God’s side at that time) strongly implies that Allah and God are indeed one and the same (I doubt it would have been Satan or one of his ilk, especially seeing how they can’t create souls or any life at all, and thus it is extremely unlikely they’d create copies of prophets, even for the purpose of deception.). Heck, religious studies even stated that Islam, Judaism, and Christianity was under the Abrahamic sects of religion. Besides, there have been instances where God does contradictory things even in the Old Testament: For example, he told us never to kill under any circumstance in the Ten Commandments, yet at the same time he ordered for King Saul to commit Genocide in the book of Samuel, and besides which also exterminated Sodom and Gomorrah, despite both these actions being against the commandment “Thou Shout Not Kill.” I wish it weren’t God running Islam and its actions, but I’m forced to accept it because of the above.
And by “conservative,” I’m closer to far right and not simply right of center, and my loyalty to God is probably close to extreme, and my loyalty is pretty much borne of largely fear thanks to Raiders of the Lost Ark and other factors.
It is not thou shall not kill, it is thou shall not murder. Also, what G-d does to the wicked in the Old Testement maybe for reasons not known to the created.
Muhammad did not go to heaven on a winged horse from the Dome of the Rock. There is no such thing as winged horses. Muhammad enjoyed rape, and murder. Jesus, the one that was murdered on a cross for human sin, and rose from the dead, loved his enemies.
The god of the Kaabaa spelled Allah in Arabic is one of 350 gods at the kaabba during Muhammad’s life time. Muhammad made it the only one to worship or off with your head. The god is known to history as Sin.
So why did the religious classes basically state that Mohammad went up to heaven and interacted with the deceased prophets, including Moses? I know that’s what they pretty much said happened in my studies on Religion.
Also, even though the Hebrew said murder, the actions Jesus took, including not killing anyone, not even out of self defense, indicated that God really did mean we shouldn’t kill, period, not simply murder. If he really meant murder alone, it would have been obvious, such as Jesus, who is also described as being the Word Incarnate, basically slaughtering the entire Roman legion who tried to arrest him as an act of self defense or self-preservation, and doing so by manipulating the trees and wildlife to impale or rip them apart, or summoning lightning strikes to incinerate them.
Elaborating on that point, which I have to do by making a new post due to their not being an edit button on here, from my Religion course, Mohammad apparently was ascended into Heaven, encountered all of the prophets, and then met face to face with God. In fact, from that religion course and at least one other course and things I’ve read, apparently the Qu’ran was transcribed as to what God told Mohammad to do. The prophets indicated that this is indeed the Judeo-Christian God. What other groups had the Prophets? I even heard at one point that the Archangel Gabriel was responsible for Mohammad being a follower of God, apparently, so unless Gabriel fell and we didn’t ever hear about it, it seems to be under God’s design. It’s reminding me of the Architect from the Matrix and how he treated humanity via various Ones.
I watched two episodes of ”Homeland” & lost interest. It was boring.
The only thing of interest on HBO was the series ”Rome” & now, the series ”The Borgias” ….
HBO is part of my TV package, if I had to pay for HBO seperately, I’d cancel it.
I like the drama of Homeland, but entirely agree with you as to its complete implausibility. As you say, you cannot de-couple Islam from terrorism, since the Koran clearly calls for the wholesale death of those who refuse to submit. Secondly, if Brody was really interested in spiritual redemption, he would have switched to Christianity not long after he DID have access to a King James Bible. His mentor, at one point, talks about the ‘peace’ that Islam gave him. Most evidence points towards Islam as a legalistic, empty, peace-less faith, full of empty, rote praying. Most Muslims don’t really talk to God as if they belong to Him. Talk to some converts from Islam to Christianity, and you’ll hear this repeatedly. I have. I’ve volunteered for a Christian refugee center for Muslims in Europe and many have converted. I still like Homeland, though, and will continue to watch it.
I am sure Hollywood can make life seem so nuanced as to justify suicide as a means of resolving the conflicts of life. Finally, a permanent solution to the problem of life that demands defense in the face of aggression and hatred. Just call life a really bad experience and slit your wrists. That way you never again have to inconvenience anyone with your vile and dissident idea about wanting to survive.
Proud to say I’ve never watched a moment of this trash. I hear enough about Islam and its followers from my son who has spent the last ten years with them trying to kill him in Iraq and Afghanistan. This decoupling of jihad and its source by Hollywood is subversive, as are all their leftist media efforts to destroy The Republic. Obama said it was his favorite show. Figures.
Amen. You’re exactly right.
“We wanted to, as much as possible, decouple the association between terrorism and Islam,”
Pretty frickin’ naive.
The producers hope that if viewers spend some time contemplating only his Muslim faith, it will engender the perception that Brody’s transformation into a terrorist is entirely coincidental to his new found religion.
May be so for “Brody”, but hardly true for individuals who attempt to justify every single act of filth and carnage on words in the Koran.
The journey of one US Marine vis à vis Islam, his convoluted & personal motivations, is hardly relevant to the larger picture.
You might as well make a film about why Johnny Walker Lindh “converted” from a California kid into heavy metal to Islam. Near as I could tell, he was excited about the prospect Islam offered of getting a girl. Maybe several, as wives.
Or why the vile Adam Gadahn (is or was anyway a bin Laden confidante, maybe hangs with Zawahiri these days) converted.
Just what the “American public” needs. More disinformation.
…a California kid into heavy metal to Islam.
oops, that was Adam Gadahn.
Lindh though did talk some about the chance to get a girl in his new found faith after he was arrested.
“We wanted to, as much as possible, decouple the association between terrorism and Islam,”
Which is Hollywood speak for:
“We wanted to, as much as possible, be obedient litte Dhimmies to avoid the Fatwa of Death that would surely be launched against us by those madman-freak-murderes, if we dared to be honest about their “religion”
Christians dont blow up stuff and chop off heads.
We can piss them off all we want, with safety and impunity.
Muslims?
Not so much.
We might wake up dead.
So change they write a P/C script like their lifes depend on it…
Because THEY DO.
“We wanted to, as much as possible, decouple the association between terrorism and Islam,” declares Gordon.
Funny, but I don’t see a lot of Swedish or Swiss terrorists, and I don’t see any Catholics, Lutherans, Protestants, Hindus, Buddhists, Episcopalians, or even Scientologists blowing people up, flying airplanes into buildings, or stoning or beheading people to death. No, I really don’t see any of that happening. Sorry, you can’t “decouple” terrorism from Islam because that is what the Islamists DO for a living. They are like psychotic little children. If they don’t always get their way and if you don’t do what they want you to do, they’ll attack you and kill you.
Face it, Islam has a bad public relations problem right now and the only people they have to blame are Muslims. They are ALWAYS the victims who demand some sort of compensation for some sort of imagined grievance. Well, they’ve done it to death. Personally, I’ve had enough of it. I don’t see any reconciliation with these people. We are involved in a generational war with radical Islamists that could last much longer than the Cold War ever did. And to think that these barbarians are still willing to kill people over their religion, or, more accurately, that they use their religion as an excuse to kill or terrorize people, is not only pathetic, but it also shows you just how insane they really are.
In some ways, the fall of all these Middle Eastern kings, dictators, and monarchs is the same thing as the fall of the Berlin Wall. When the Berlin Wall fell, it unleashed a lot of old nationalist and ethnic hatreds that were controlled by the Soviets. You only have to look at the former Yugoslavia or Chechnya to see what happened after the Soveit Union fell. When most of the major Middle Eastern strongmen fell, like Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, and Mubarak, it unleashed the radical Islamic forces that were repressed by these strongmen. And what you have now is pure anarchy, stoked by hundreds of years of religious hatred. I wouldn’t place any bets on the future of the Christians in Egypt, or even Lebanon for that matter.
And both Republicans AND Democrats are to blame in this. George W. Bush in many ways was foolish in trying to force Democracy onto countries that never, EVER, had any, such as Iraq or Afghanistan. We can see what a failure those experiements are turning out to be. And Obama was even more foolish to support this nonsensical thing called “The Arab Spring,” which simply unleashed all of the many radical Isalmist groups in places like Libya (al Qaeda), Egypt (the Salafists and the Muslim Brotherhood), and now Syria (again the Salafists, possibly al Qaeda, and God knows how many other Islamist groups we don’t even know about). The west has unleashed the horrific forces of radical Islam because of the stupid and naive Wilsonian desire to “bestow” democracy on people who don’t know the meaning of the word. And we can all see how “well” that’s turning out for us.
Expect to see a lot more embassies torched and a lot more Americans killed. After all, it’s what the radical Islamists do best.
“We wanted to, as much as possible, decouple the association between terrorism and Islam,” declares Gordon.
Funny, but I don’t see a lot of Swedish or Swiss terrorists, and I don’t see any Catholics, Lutherans, Protestants, Hindus, Buddhists, Episcopalians, or even Scientologists blowing people up, flying airplanes into buildings, or stoning or beheading people to death. No, I really don’t see any of that happening. Sorry, you can’t “decouple” terrorism from Islam because that is what the Islamists DO for a living. They are like psychotic little children. If they don’t always get their way and if you don’t do what they want you to do, they’ll attack you and kill you.
Face it, Islam has a bad public relations problem right now and the only people they have to blame are Muslims. They are ALWAYS the victims who demand some sort of compensation for some sort of imagined grievance. Well, they’ve done it to death. Personally, I’ve had enough of it. I don’t see any reconciliation with these people. We are involved in a generational war with radical Islamists that could last much longer than the Cold War ever did. And to think that these barbarians are still willing to kill people over their religion, or, more accurately, that they use their religion as an excuse to kill or terrorize people, is not only pathetic, but it also shows you just how insane they really are.
In some ways, the fall of all these Middle Eastern kings, dictators, and monarchs is the same thing as the fall of the Berlin Wall. When the Berlin Wall fell, it unleashed a lot of old nationalist and ethnic hatreds that were controlled by the Soviets. You only have to look at the former Yugoslavia or Chechnya to see what happened after the Soveit Union fell. When most of the major Middle Eastern strongmen fell, like Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, and Mubarak, it unleashed the radical Islamic forces that were repressed by these strongmen. And what you have now is pure anarchy, stoked by hundreds of years of religious hatred. I wouldn’t place any bets on the future of the Christians in Egypt, or even Lebanon for that matter.
And both Republicans AND Democrats are to blame in this. George W. Bush in many ways was foolish in trying to force Democracy onto countries that never, EVER, had any, such as Iraq or Afghanistan. We can see what a failure those experiements are turning out to be. And Obama was even more foolish to support this nonsensical thing called “The Arab Spring,” which simply unleashed all of the many radical Isalmist groups in places like Libya (al Qaeda), Egypt (the Salafists and the Muslim Brotherhood), and now Syria (again the Salafists, possibly al Qaeda, and God knows how many other Islamist groups we don’t even know about). The west has unleashed the horrific forces of radical Islam because of the stupid and naive Wilsonian desire to “bestow” democracy on people who don’t know the meaning of the word. And we can all see how “well” that’s turning out for us.
Expect to see a lot more embassies torched and a lot more Americans killed. After all, it’s what the radical Islamists do best. The sooner we embrace that fact, the sooner we can fight it and defend ourselves from it.
Not all Muslims are Terrorists but ALL Terrorists are Muslims.
There may be moderate Muslims , I know many myself, but what there is not is a ‘moderate’ ISLAM. It is ‘moderate’ Muslims who are the REAL misunderstanders of Islam.
Actually, I won’t even say that all terrorists are muslim, either. Look at Bill Ayers and the Weathermen Underground. Those guys weren’t terrorists, yet they certainly weren’t muslim. In fact, they probably doesn’t hold any religious ideologies, especially seeing how they advocated Communism, and thus were most likely atheistic due to Karl Marx, accredited as Communism/Socialism’s founder, pretty much made it clear that it was an atheistic ideology.
Sorry, I meant in that previous post “Look at Bill Ayers and the Weathermen Underground. Those guys were terrorists, yet they certainly weren’t muslim.” Mistyped.
I had no idea that the Irish Republican Army was muslim. Interesting…
“I had no idea that the Irish Republican Army was muslim”
No they werent muslims themselves
But they got lots of their arms, explosives, and terrorist training FROM Muslim dictators and regimes, who were more than welcome to the idea of Infidels blowing up other Infidels, and thus destabalizing England, NATO, and the west in general.
“the Enemy of my enemy is my friend”
Even if they drink,(hello? Irishmen?) and listen to The Pope.
Once again, Mohammad sowing the seeds of death and destruction among the West.
Somethings never change
Maybe, but Bill Ayers and his ilk in the Weathermen Underground were not backed by the Muslims, but rather by the Communists, and the Commies were hardline atheists and thus unlikely to ever believe in religion, never mind support Islam.
To all the braindead numpties bleating about the ‘Weather Underground’ and the IRA and even the ‘Basque Seperatists’ one you forgot. So tell me numpties which one of those groups has been carrying out indiscriminate Terrorist atrocities WORLD WIDE for DECADES. There have been multiple THOUSANDS of Islamic Terrorist atrocities all over the Globe just since 9/11 and somewhere in the world another MUSLIM terrorist will commit, or be caught TRYING to commit, an act of mindless terrorism EVERY DAY.
So I will repeat not all Muslims are TERRORISTS but ALL Terrorists are MUSLIMS.
^Responding to Pragmatist’s above post, as the reply button did not exist on it.
Anyways, I’m pretty sure Che Guevara was not Islamic at all (he’s actually closer to an agnostic, if not a downright atheist), yet his terrorist actions in the name of Communism were widespread for at least two decades (the Cuban Revolution being his start, and then continuing various revolutions until his well-deserved death at age 39 in Bolivia), and they were indeed worldwide. That’s also not getting into the Bolshiveks, which actually sponsored global terrorism for nearly a century in the name of Communism, and it is clear they were not Muslim at all, but in fact closer to Atheists, if not downright Satanists.
The fact that it’s Barack Hussein Obama’s favorite show should tell you something. That said, I find Carrie’s character very compelling and Claire Dane’s work extraordinary.
“There may be moderate Muslims , I know many myself”
No, you really dont.
The ones you “think” you know, are:
A) Islamic Apostates.
People who are, or have been, heavily influenced by the morals of Western Christianity, and who now merely eat foods and celebrate days with an “Islamic” identity.
They may even THINK are “good, true muslims” but they are NOT.
I dont say so, MOHAMMAD AND THEIR KORAN says so.
B) Actual “Good, true Muslims”, who are lying to your face
about their true intentions and motivations.
These are the people who will say Israel is a “terrorist state” that practices “apartied” and “stole the Palestinians land”
that we “encourage” more terrorism with our anti-islamic our policies,
and will cheer when Iran nukes Tel-aviv.
They may not ACTUALLY slaughter you and your family with knives THEMSELVES,
but they will never STOP a brother Muslim from doing what Allah demands.
How dare you presume to think you know what I mean ROOT. I live in a predominantly Muslim country Indonesia. I have a Muslim wife and I live with my Muslim relatives. They are all extremely tolerant and ‘moderate’. However I know that is because they don’t know the real ISLAM and their Muslim beliefs are still tempered by the Buddhist, Hindu and Animist religions which are still part of everyday life here.
It is ‘moderate’ Muslims like them who are the REAL Misunderstanders of Islam. There is no such thing as ‘Radical’ Islam nor ‘Fundamentalist’ Islam nor ‘Islamist’ Islam there is just ISLAM.
I like the recent addition of a TV journalist working with Abu Nazir. I’ve been wishing for SHO to do something following Sleeper Cell, which was much better I concede. Still love Homeland despite the many flaws and preachy moments.
Obama loves it?! That’s hilarious and chilling at the same time. Does he identify with Brody?
Although this article identifies the character as a “soldier”, he was, in fact, a US Marine. It’s this single fact that, for all of us in the brotherhood, makes this story line not only implausible, but unbelievable. Not so say that other Services would be more susceptible to “conversion”, but this just would not happen to a Combat Marine in this universe. Just look at the Vietnam POW’s many of whom were captive as long as this character, and there were no “conversions” that I can remember.
This is just tripe, created by people who don’t understand the Military Mind, and particularly the USMC Mind.
Look at John McCain. The guy spends years in a hell hole and at the convention he said essentially that he owes his country a great debt. He’s not the best politician in the world for sure but the man’s a hero. The only people who would turn are hippies and terrorists and hippies don’t sign up.
Who cares! Besides, of course, the Honey Bo-Bos. Nobody with an IQ above room temperature watches television.
“Nobody with an IQ above room temperature watches television”
You got that right!
Havent paid for cable TV in almost 20 years.
Haven watched a Big three Network (and their comercials!) in I dont know how long.
With the Internet, I can find any particular documentary or worthwhile “episode” of something funny/cool/interesting any time I like, at MY convenience. No networks, no cable bill, no Propaganda, thank you..
The Emperor has no shows.
And he has a small antenna too!
Of course this is all about cowardice and ideology. White Christian Americans EVIL! They must be destroyed. Besides Muslims will attach the producers in their lily white neighborhoods if they are truthful. That makes Homeland a no brainer in Hollywood.
My wife and I rented the video disk of the first season and watched the first episode. Although we have differing political views, we were both turned off by the facile, not to say cavalier, storytelling and plot line.
We didn’t get much about the religion of the POW in that episode, although we knew by the end he’d been turned. But we did get an earful and an eyeful about a rogue CIA agent who is distrusted by her own organization, is supposed to be suffering from mental illness and under medication, who performs a totally illegal domestic surveillance operation with her own resources–and because she appears to turn up something suspicious is welcomed back by her department, all is forgiven, and let’s go get the guy!
This is an interesting story only if you believe that our government and its people are corrupt and stupid beyond belief. I’m no fan of big government but I take it on principle that civil servants, like the rest of us, are mostly serious people of earnest intent. Homeland plays to the conspiracy theorists for whom the world is upside down. That makes it a sour fantasy.
The truth of the matter is that we have fallen into the same old trap of mistaking effects for causes. The moral sense, the ability to see ourselves in others, to empathize, nurture, to be fair and just is a human quality that is distributed over the human populace unequally. It probably falls on a bell curve ranging from those who we would describe as being conscience-less to those we would call saintly. The reason for this is probably a combination of nature and nurture.
Our civic morality is really dictated by the broad, moderate, middle range of the distribution. The problems the world has arise from the psycho-sociopathic lower end of the distribution. These are people who for all the world seem to hate humanity and, for all we know, themselves as well. The ‘religions’ and ’causes’ they claim to have sworn their allegiance to are simply socially acceptable excuses they use to blunt the fear and revulsion the moderate middle would otherwise, rightly, feel toward them, and even to inspire sympathy and tolerance for their ‘complaints’. Islam and communism are both nothing more than abstract vehicles for the pathologically ill among us to vent their rage toward life by terrorizing the ‘normals’. This is why there is such a thing as a ‘moderate’ Muslim. These are actually normal people who have had the misfortune of having been raised in the Muslim faith. They might condone the jihadists out of a misguided or cowardly loyalty, but would never dream of being jihadists themselves. This is why some who are raised as Christians manage to twist the teachings of the Bible into commandments to abuse and even kill others. The pathology comes first. The excuses and rationalizations come second.
So, do we save the world with psychotherapy? These people can’t be reached with psychotherapy. There is nothing to be reached.
All this protection and deflection of ISLAMS role in TERRORISM comes directly from Left Wing moonbat POLITICAL CORRECTNESS and is exacerbated by the USURPERS own MUSLIM birth,upbringing and family roots.
That raises another question
‘Can a 20 year member of a BLACK RACIST, Anti American, Anti Capitalist, Anti Semitic Black Liberation Theology CULT which has close ties to ISLAM than it does to Christianity (maybe thats exactly why the USURPER chose it as a smokescreen)Be truly considered to be a Christian.”
I think NOT.
The real truth about ‘Homeland’ is that the HollyWeird creators of virtually all “entertainment’ shows are fully paid up members of the Left Wing moonbat Politically Correct ‘Progressive’ movement. So you are never ever likely to see ISLAMIC terrorism looked at objectively by them. Hollyweird Left wing Political BIAS is inserted in to virtually all shows then this PROPAGANDA is presented “entertainment”.
Lets face just as it is with ISLAM so it is with RACE. HOLLYWEIRD has been punting BLACK PRESIDENTS, black Bosses, Black Chief Detectives, Black brilliant Scientists, Black computer EXPERTS, Black most moral men, Black as the hero’s bestest truest most longest friend ever for decades now. In Hollywoodland what the Black NEVER is the CRIMINAL (or if he is he is ALWAYS misunderstood and INNOCENT of this particular crime or FORCED in to the crime by wicked whitey and his persecution) nor is he the villain or the Terrorist. No those parts are reserved for Whitey and preferably South American or European whiteys. Now I am not saying some Blacks are not Chiefs of Police or Bosses or Scientists but in EVERY movie and TV show they ALWAYS are and that is NOT reality that is PROPAGANDA.