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| A Danish-Muslim Upbringing and Terrorism: What are the odds? | |
| 2011-03-07 | |
| Frontpage Interview's guest today is Nicolai Sennels, a Danish psychologist who worked for several years with young criminal Muslims in a Copenhagen prison. He is the author of Among Criminal Muslims: A Psychologist's Experience from the Copenhagen Municipality. The book will be out in English later this year. FP: Nicolai Sennels, welcome back to Frontpage Interview. I would like to talk to you today about how a Muslim upbringing creates terrorists. Let's begin with this question: as a child psychologist, how would you explain that so many Muslims become terrorists or sympathize with terrorists? Sennels: Thanks Jamie. I have been working with children and adolescents for 15 years and as an experienced psychologist I have both theoretical and practical experience with the development of children's personality. Having counseled more than 150 Muslim children and their parents, my clear conclusion is that Muslims in general raise their children very differently than non-Muslims. Even though all children are innocent babies when they are born, they can develop into violent and hateful fanatics when they grow up, if confronted with certain psychological circumstances. Many have asked themselves: Why do so many Muslims become terrorists or sympathize with the terrorists? The answer does not only involve theology, but also psychology. The question is if there are aspects of the way children are raised in Muslim culture that promotes a mindset that makes people more prone to become terrorists or to use terrorist like tactics such as using fear and violence in order to further a case that is directly against basic human rights, basic human values in general and the law. My professional experience from working with criminal and non-criminal Muslims is that the general Muslim way of educating children contributes to the psychological development of such a mindset.
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