Emotional Drivers of TERROR
Reader comment on item: The Choudary Quandary - The Fox in The Hen House Redux

Submitted by Jack Rainbow, Aug 20, 2016 05:09

"We know that one catalyst in the radicalisation process is the presence of unvetted Islamic clergy in prison mosques." Sorry to be in your face, Mr Dunleavy, but you are talking nonsense. What you are describing is relationships between fellow extremists. This is not an underlying cause of extremist behaviour. The relationships they form are to support one another's acting out, but their acting out is driven by pathologies developed much earlier. You need to understand how extreme behaviour is driven by childhood experience of cruelty, brutality, confinement and corporal punishment/physical assault which lead to emotional repression and dissociation in the adult. You need to think differently about the underlying causes of extreme behaviour, Mr Dunleavy, if you are to successfully treat it. You are focused on policing ideation and all that gets you is more ideation. To counter extremism you need to include understaning the relationship between childhood conditioning and emotional repression. Secondly, you need to use your understanding to develop a practical challenge to these unconscious emotional drivers. Without an emotional understanding your actions are nonsensical and utterly ineffective in creating change in pathologised individuals who associate by shared but unconscious rage, shame, despair and terror.

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