In reality, terrorism is the same as it has been for centuries. Exploiting the infidel’s weaknesses has always been part of it. See The History of Jihad for numerous examples. Nowadays, with authorities eager to downplay jihad or deny it outright, they frequently classify Islamic jihadis as mentally ill. Jihadis accordingly exploit this, and feign mental illness. Darmanin and his ilk still haven’t figured out how they’re being played.
“France admits ‘failure’ in psychiatric care of radical Islamist who killed tourist,” by Stuart Williams, AFP, December 4, 2023:
PARIS, France (AFP) — There was a clear failure in the psychiatric care of the radicalized Islamist suffering from mental troubles who stabbed a German tourist to death in central Paris at the weekend, France’s interior minister said Monday.
The attack close to the Eiffel Tower has increased concerns in France over the risk of Islamist attacks, particularly with the French capital now barely half a year away from hosting the 2024 Summer Olympic Games.
The attacker was a Frenchman in his mid-20s born to a non-religious Iranian family who had already done prison time for planning an attack and was known to the authorities as an Islamist radical with mental troubles.
“There was clearly a failure, not from the point of view of his monitoring by the intelligence services, but a psychiatric failure,” Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told BFM TV, adding the attacker had an “acute mental illness.”
“Doctors said on several occasions that he was doing better, was more normal, and could be free.”
‘Exploiting weaknesses’
Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab, a French national of Iranian origin born in 1997, killed a 23-year-old German-Filipino man with two blows from a hammer and four stab wounds from a knife on Saturday evening close to the Eiffel Tower….
France’s top anti-terror prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said Sunday the man’s mother had reported concerns about him as recently as October, but there was insufficient proof at the time to take legal action.
He had already been arrested in 2016 for planning an attack, eventually serving four years in prison, and had been under close watch following his release.
Darmanin said the attacker’s mother had warned police that her son was no longer taking his medication and intelligence services had offered that he should be hospitalized. But she did not want that and then reported he was doing better.
He said regional authorities currently did not have the power to issue an administrative order for such an individual to undergo psychiatric treatment and “this has to change.”
Rajabpour-Miyandoab had been radicalized through contacts on the internet rather than meeting people at a mosque, he emphasized, adding the attacker had also been in touch with perpetrators of similar past attacks.
These contacts included the radicalized Islamist from Russia’s northern Caucasus region who would eventually behead teacher Samuel Paty outside his school in 2020.
“Terrorism is changing and exploiting the weaknesses of our system,” said Darmanin….
mike says
Must have take a politician with a public Hight school diploma PHD to figure this out
You can bring the worlds problem to France and not expect the problems to become go away
Don McKellar says
Strange how muslims who suddenly go mentally ill all do the same violence. It must be pure coincidence that the latest trend is stabbing people in a public place and creating terror. Although running a car into crowds of people seems to still be popular among the Muslim mentally ill. How odd. You would almost think they were aware of what they were doing and following some sort of instruction.
Ray Jarman says
Excellent points Don McKellar. Could his instructions have been from reading the holy (a bit of mockery) Quran? Or, heaven forbid, maybe he read some hadith about killing infidels? Just wondering.
Roadrunner says
Some time ago, someone remarked on this website that mental illness can coexist with terrorism. Not every mentallly ill person is so ‘off his rockers’ as to no longer be responsible for his/her actions. As a matter of fact, very few are.
Troybeam says
The weakness started when you let Islam in ….in the first place and it just continued to grow to the point of France losing its nation to Islam.
Pray Hard says
The French catch on quickly, huh?