I think there is an issue with mental illness any time someone can just mow innocent people down. Doesn't matter what "ideological loophole" they use. An incel decides women deserve to die because they've forgotten their proper role in relation to men; a White Supremacist decides Jews, Blacks, Muslims or immigrants need to die becaise the White race\Western Culture needs to be saved or protected; a kid decides to shoot classmates because notoriety is a worthwhile goal - even posthumously; a Muslim decides non-Muslims should die because they have failed to properly honor Allah. None of.these reasons make sense to a person who thinks normally or rationally.
What the vast majority of.these people have in common are that they are male, young, loners and lack a sense of belonging to their culture or society.
They're also very angry, so they lash out in violence. You could say they're all emotionally troubled if you're that angry. Is that the same as all those kids who joined the army after 9/11 to kill terrorists because they were angry? Is Toby Keith mentally ill?
I guess it depends on what you consider mental illness? There's a difference in someone being isolated and PO'd and someone suffering psychosis.
I think there is an issue with mental illness any time someone can just mow innocent people down. Doesn't matter what "ideological loophole" they use.
But in a Muslim terrorists ideology, the innocent people aren't "innocent", they're either infidels complicit in causing violence in Muslim lands or apostates & heretics and enemies of Allah. What's the line between stupid and crazy?
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