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France’s Macron tries to reclassify Muslim terrorism as mental illness
by Daniel Greenfield
February 1, 2022

There’s hardly been a Muslim terrorist attack committed by a single perpetrator in Europe or America in the last five years that the authorities and the media haven’t tried to spin as mental illness. Both Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, the Syrian Muslim mass killer who shot up a Boulder supermarket, and Malik Faisal Akram, who took a Texas temple hostage to secure the release of “Lady Al Qaeda,” had their attacks blamed on mental illness. But France continues to lead the world in whitewashing Muslim terrorism as mental illness. When Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-old Jewish kindergarten director, was murdered by her Muslim neighbor while he shouted “Allahu Akbar,” the authorities gave him a pass because his pot smoking had supposedly brought on a “psychotic” episode. READ MORE