Somehow, people still don't want to believe this. J. Post knows his stuff cold.
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Winnip...pf-573300.html
Terrorists 'normal'
Suicide bombers fit their culture, psychiatrist says
By CP
TORONTO -- Suicide bombers are rational, sane people whose choice to
end their lives as they kill others is considered perfectly normal in
societies they grow up in, the Globe and Mail reported yesterday from a
southern Ontario religious conference. In a chilling analysis of what
makes a terrorist, a U.S. psychiatrist who worked for the U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency said most extremists who use violence are not
emotionally disturbed.
In fact, they would be expelled from their organizations if they
appeared to be unbalanced, the Toronto Star said from Orillia, Ont.
"Most terrorists are quite normal. It's hard to understand but quite
true," Jerrold Post said Friday.
APPEAL BROADENING
Post, who interviewed terrorists in a 21-year career with the CIA,
said the appeal of suicide bombing is broadening.
The practice was once limited to very young men, a huge percentage of
them teenagers.
"Now women, mothers, have joined this pathway, and middle-aged men, a
43-year-old father," he told the Globe and Mail.
"I see it as a trend."
He said his colleagues have given up asking people why they join their
militant organizations to become suicide bombers.
"Because we would get these weird looks: 'Why do we join? Everybody is
joining. It's only the weird individuals who don't join,' " said Post,
who's now at George Washington University.
Post said suicide bombers are driven by deep despair over the forces
they see arrayed against them.
He said "psychological warfare," or education, is the most effective
weapon against terror. Young people must learn the version of Islam in
which they have been indoctrinated has nothing to do with mainstream
Islam.