Psychology

Inside the mind of the jihadist: a psychoanalytic anatomy of Islamist terror

For decades, Western intellectuals, journalists, and policymakers have searched obsessively for external explanations for Islamist terrorism. Poverty. Colonial trauma. Social exclusion. Racism. Humiliation. Western foreign policy. Israel. America. France. Capitalism. The list is endlessly recycled because it is reassuring. If jihad is the product of misery, prosperity will cure it. If it is born of […]