*UPDATE* Doctors And Dungeons Of Dysfunction

In Doctors, Sadists And The Beasts of Radical Islam, Dr Sanity discusses the bright and dark sides of medical practitioners. Her remarks are needed to be understood in context as she proceeds to make the following observations:

Doctors are in a position to do both great good and great harm. Understanding a little of their own darker motivations can be helpful in keeping them from becoming monsters like Dr. Mengele or Dr. Zawahiri or Dr. Shipman (who has the distinction of being the most prolific serial killer of all time) –but that potential certainly lies within every physician–to a degree that is likely significantly greater than most other humans.

When those of our profession who have taken the Hippocratic Oath to “do no harm” are involved in incidents like the recently attempted terror bombings in England and Scotland, the horror experienced by all prospective patients who put their lives in our hands is palpable. When a terror plot is hatched in a hospital; and when some doctors who give into that dark side of themselves and find enjoyment, meaning or even religious awe by causing death instead of preventing it–it seems far more terrifying than any actions by your typical run-of-the-mill barbarian thug. After all, one expects a certain repellent style of behavior from barbarian thugs. It is extremely shocking to discover that the same repellent style can also exist in members of a profession that prides itself in saving human life.

Clearly, an advanced education is no guarantee of civilized behavior. After decades of institutionalized hate, racism and bigotry, is it any wonder that the broken and dysfunctional regimes of the Arab world have produced legions of broken and dysfunctional people? Of course not.

The Nazi regime, held in such high esteem in the Arab world (Mein Kampf is second only to the Quran in book sales) embraced an ideology of hate that was to last only a few years. The origin of Nazi ideologies was the purview of a few peripheral individuals, all outcasts. In the Arab world, the institutionalized hate is mainstream and has been mainstream for a long time. The Arab world has embraced and celebrated hate and vicious ideologies for over a century. It should come as no surprise to anyone that there are doctors and plumbers, lawyers and bus drivers that are morally and ethically broken.

What drives an individual to commit acts of terror is more often than not a very conflicted self.

For example, once free of the institutionalized hate, racism and bigotry so prevalent in the Middle East, many Arabs are shocked to learn that the hated kaffirs, Jews and Christians are not the beasts they were taught they were, but are productive, kind and caring members of society at large (Virtually every large American city has a hospital founded by the Jewish community, established to serve the community at large, in the same way there are Catholic, Lutheran and Methodist hospitals. There has been no equivalent effort expended by the Arab and Muslim communities, nor is there appear to be any inclination to do so).

If an individual who is taught not to value life from a very young age, it should come as no surprise that even if that individual becomes a physician, they will not suddenly come to value life. In fact, an internal crisis or ‘tipping point’ might emerge.

Surrounded by other physicians who do care about the lives of all their patients, Arab doctors may come to question their own beliefs and value systems. This questioning might cause a great deal of internal conflict. When confronted with these realities, they can choose to respond in one of two ways. They can embrace what they now know to be the truth, or they can retreat into their own dungeons of dysfunction. To accept reality means to acknowledge that every value and moral that embraces the mother’s milk of hate has served only to poison them and their society.

The lifelong struggle for self awareness and insight can give meaning to life. This assumes a person is relatively healthy. No search for meaning can result in a positive outcome of the individual is broken. There are no healthy bigots, racists any more than there are healthy societies of racists and bigots.

When a morally broken and failed society attempts to instill meaning and purpose into it’s own people, we cannot expect fully moral or ethical populations.

When Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon was killed in the tragic Columbia disaster, there were those in the Arab world who celebrated the event, openly and without shame. ‘Educated’ Arabs spoke of the ‘joy in the heart’ of every Arab upon learning the news of the dead Jew. All the while, the Arab world that so happily embraces the poison and venom of hate, deludes itself into believing that they are ‘just like us.’

Just like us?

A posting on www.alfajr.com by Sheikh Dr. Ali Al-Tamimi, an American citizen said: “The whole world heard about the shuttle crash. Undoubtedly, the heart of every believer leaped with joy at the disaster of his greatest enemy.”

Al-Tamimi said, “In my heart arose some thoughts that I would like to share with my brothers: First, the name of the shuttle, Columbia, is from Columbus, who discovered the American continent in 1492 following the fall of Grenada, the last of the strongholds of Islam in Andalusia. It is known that with the discovery of the two American continents, the Byzantines, that is, the Christians of Europe, exploited the resources of both these continents in order to take over the Islamic world. With the fall of the Columbia, a thought arose in my heart that this was a powerful sign that the supremacy of the West, and particularly that of the U.S., which began 500 years ago, is about to fall precipitously – Allah willing, as happened to the shuttle.”

The American continued, “Second, the shuttle crew included an Israeli astronaut, about whom the Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. said that he bore with him all the hopes and aspirations of the Israeli people. Thus, these hopes and aspirations burned up, Allah willing, in the fall and burning of the shuttle.”

Third, he said, “CNN announced at the beginning that the shuttle fell near the city of Palestine, Texas. I said to myself: Allah is great; thus, Allah willing, will America fall in Palestine.”

Al-Tamimi said that “Texas is the state of the stupid president George Bush Jr., about whom we hope, Allah willing, that, like the shuttle fell on his country, his idiotic policy will collapse the foundations of his country on his head.

Finally, he said, “in the president’s eulogy, to the American people … he quoted from the Book of Isaiah … . I said to myself: Allah be praised, in this book there is a prophecy regarding the coming of the Prophet Muhammad and the destruction of the Jews at the end of time … . Anyone who sought to elevate the Jews on whom Allah has cast humiliation and misery … will be struck by humiliation and by divine wrath.”

There will be murderous doctors and terrorists until we hold them accountable for their actions. Terror and mayhem are not acceptable forms of religious and political expression amongst civilized people. If the Arab and Islamic world want to be considered equals and loved, there needs to be a kind of ‘tough love.’ They need to be held accountable for their actions, inactions and words they utter.

*UPDATE* Shrinkwrapped doesn’t shrink away from his own take on doctors gone wild. In Doctors Of Death, he notes

Several trends intersect to produce Doctors of Death. The intellectual underpinnings go back to the Nazis, whose ideology forms part of the ideology of the Islamists, adapted to their interpretation of Islam. For certain types of Doctors who have an overabundance of intellect and an insufficiency of humanity, Physician training can be easily corrupted by ideology…

The Nazis took such objectification several steps further. They skillfully created an ideology, based on identity politics, that considered the population as a whole as an organic entity, akin to a person. The body politic was reified. Once such a conceptualization had been made, the step toward seeing certain sub-populations as being akin to infectious agents or tumors, causing illness and distress in the body politic, became inevitable. Medical Doctors then were tasked with curing the body politic by excising the offending sub-populations. The gas chamber followed.

Islam as practiced by the purveyors of Wahhabism, goes yet another step. Here the objectification of the sub-population is religiously sanctioned. Islamic states overtly treat non-Muslims as sub-humans, with limited rights, whose very existence is a stain on Islam, though Islam gains stature by not only tolerating such lesser beings but actually hold themselves out as moral and peace loving by protecting the “inferior” races and religions (”Muslim man’s burden”, perhaps.)

The confluence of the Nazi inspired objectification of entire populations with its attendant genocidal rationalization with the Islamic religiously sanctioned genocidal rationalizations, creates a powerful toxic mixture which can easily overcome the rationality of a Muslim Physician. Add in the tendency of the Muslim world to eschew any responsibility for their own suffering and the need to project all their hatred and failure onto others, and the Physician, in complete agreement with Mengele, Habash, Rantisi, and Zawahiri, takes it upon himself to “cure” his community by murdering the objectified other. Murder and suicide then become evidence of his loving devotion to the well-being of his people and all the while he keeps himself unaware of the sadistic hate that fuels his “treatment.”

These physicians are doing God’s work. In the eyes of these Muslim doctors, ridding the world of the ‘other,’ hides their own failures. The magnitude of those failures are only highlighted and magnified by comparison with hated ‘others,’ whose achievements, accomplishments and successes only serve to highlight their own spectacular moral and ethical malfunctions and dysfunctions.

If the ‘other’ can’t be seen, the ‘other’ doesn’t exist.