By Prof. Paul Eidelberg

Nicolai Sennels, a Danish psychologist, contends that Muslim violence and rape, and that Muslim rage and aggression as well as Muslim irresponsibility, stem from Muslim or Islamic beliefs.

If this diagnosis is correct, we would have to conclude that Islam, above and beneath the surface, is a pathological and psychotic creed. This obviously has grave consequences, especially for Israel and America.

First, it means that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in negotiating for years with Mahmoud Abbas, the Muslim leader of the Palestinian Authority, has been dealing with a man whose Islamic beliefs render him a split personality, whereby the disparity between his words and deeds is not the result of hypocrisy – a common frailty – but of (unseen) schizophrenia.

Second, since Barack Obama is a self-professed Muslim, this means that the American people have twice elected a morally obtuse and irresponsible person as their President.

Since a person of Obama’s Islamic ethnocentric beliefs excludes natural rights, he thereby excluded “infidels” from any rights. Hence he cannot reliably distinguish right from wrong from a universalistic perspective. And since Obama also purveys the multicultural moral relativism prevalent in academia, this too will render him psychologically disinclined to disparage a Muslim as a terrorist.

Obama’s ethnocentric vacuity and moral insensitivity explains (1) his returning a statue of Winston Churchill to London; (2) his boycotting the anti-Islamic demonstration in Paris; (3) his hostility toward Israel; (4) his appointing Muslims to Executive departments and agencies, including Homeland Security and the CIA; and (5) his support of Iran despite its nuclear weapons program, and despite its threat to Western civilization.

Wafa Sultan was right in saying Islam is not a civilization. Lee Harris was right in saying Islam is the greatest enemy of civilization. From this I conclude that Islam manifests what is nothing less than religious nihilism, which is personified by Barack Obama, the occupant of the White House!☼