The following essay by Nicolai Sennels concerns the use of madrassas as terrorist training centers. It was originally published at Europe News.
Western Quran schools are “terrorist factories”
By Dr. Nicolai Sennels
How would you turn normal human beings into murderous and hateful psychopaths who blindly obey their totalitarian systems and its authorities, suppressing and killing innocent people? In short: How would you create a terrorist?
Violent and murderous political, ethnic, and religious regimes have used the same effective methods all over the world throughout history. The procedure consists of two simple steps that are repeated again and again:
| 1. | You force a person to repeat the system’s doctrine over and over for months and years until he knows every word by heart and it pervades his or her whole way of thinking and it is the only truth he believes in. |
| 2. | You beat and scare the person (best if done randomly and severely), thus forcing him to become insensitive and unempathic in order to be able to bear the physical and psychological suffering and to increase his feelings of anger, frustration, and fear — feelings that are then directed against the system’s enemies. |
In this way you will create a person whose whole being is pervaded by the system’s doctrine and who has lost the ability to feel both his own and others’ pain. You will have an emotionally cold person who blindly follows his leaders and their political or religious doctrine. If you use this method on a child who is in the process of developing his personality, the learned doctrine will simply become a part of the child’s personality. The psychological impact of the physical abuse will also be deeper. As children and youth are dependent on adults for acceptance, they are easier to influence.
Being a child psychologist, I was shocked to realise that this is exactly what is done to millions of Muslim children in both the Muslim world and the West. Tens of thousand of madrassas and Quranic schools all over the world are making their students repeat the Quran and the Hadiths again and again, until they know them by heart. They are told to believe every word and never to question either the way or the goal.
It is normal in these schools that the defenceless and innocent children are randomly beaten and humiliated by the teachers and older students — who themselves are emotionally destroyed beings who have been abused in the same way that they now use against their pupils. They personify the goal: The abused becomes the abuser.
Britain has more than 2,000 madrassas, where more than 200,000 children aged from four to their mid-teens are taught the Quran on weekday evenings.
Investigations show that extreme violence is common in the British madrassas: “Students have been slapped, punched and had their ears twisted, according to an unpublished report by an imam based on interviews with victims in the north of England. One was ‘picked up by one leg and spun around’ while another said a madrassa teacher was ‘kicking my head — like a football’… Hiba, 7, was slapped across the face so hard by her madrassa teacher that her ear was cut. It later became inflamed and she had to have emergency medical treatment.” The teachers reportedly punish the children whenever they mispronounce a word or forget a verse of the Quran. One private investigator reported that “the victims had grown to accept the abuse. ‘They all joked about it. There’s a culture that accepts it.’”
Another investigation disclosed that the children are taught to hate non-Muslims: “‘You’re not like the non-Muslims out there,’ the teacher says, gesturing towards the window. ‘All that evil you see in the streets, people not wearing the hijab properly, people smoking… you should hate it, you should hate walking down that street.’” The same investigation reports that during less than three hours of lessons the teacher beat children as young as six at least ten times. In one occasion during the secret filming, one child is held down by an older student while another older student threatens to beat him with a small table.
These reports are from the West, where thousands of madrassas exist and millions of Muslim children are learning the traditional Islamic teachings by heart, while many of them are physically and psychologically traumatized. Research show that in Muslim culture “moral education seems to be neglected in favour of punishment”, which may explain the wide acceptance of the abuse by the children’s parents. Everybody is welcome to look for videos, for example on YouTube, about madrassas in Muslim countries, where the conditions and are even worse.
Seen from the perspective of a child psychologist, the many thousands of madrassas and Quran schools are literally terrorist factories creating an army-like Muslim population of youths and adults inside Western countries. From an early age they have been brainwashed to think that every word of the Quran should be taken literally, and they have been made hateful and emotionally cold by the physical and psychological punishments. To make the schools non-violent would require immense amounts of year long of control.
This also includes changing a central pattern of the Muslim culture — child-rearing — and the Muslim culture’s massive failure to integrate into non-Islamic cultures has proven that changing basic cultural values and behavior within the Muslim communities is almost impossible. If we, despite the immense challenges, were able to remove the widespread abuse, the children would still be learning the Quran by heart and would be taught to take every word at face value, which is exactly what Islamic terrorists do. Millions of children attend the madrassas, and when they and subsequent generations grow up, the consequences will be huge.
Nicolai Sennels is a psychologist and the author of “Among Criminal Muslims: A Psychologist’s experiences with the Copenhagen Municipality”.
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