Nationalism, Madness, and Terrorism

So you will see , and they will realise ,

Who is distracted .

So very soon , you will see and they too will realise

That who among you was insane .

So thou shalt see , and they will see ,

which of you is the demented .

Anon thou wilt see and they will see

Which of you is afflicted with madness .

You will see , and they will see ,

You will see , and they will see .

Which of you is the afflicted .

So you will soon see , and they too will see ,

which of you is afflicted with madness .

And thou wilt see and they will see

Which of you is the demented .

You will see and they will see ,

which one of you is crazy .

You shall see and they will see

So you will see and they will see

Which of you is the afflicted by a devil .

You will see and they will also see

which of you has been afflicted by insanity .

So you shall see , and they ( too ) shall see ,

Soon you will see , as will they ,

which of you is a prey to madness .

Soon wilt thou see , and they will see ,

At the height of the assault, some villagers, men and women, came out in the open in a state of frenzy and hysteria.

What is crazy about this is that the US has missed the obvious point and has missed it for 40 years.

Does their reasoning prompt them to this , or they are a people rebellious ?

Is this what their senses tell them , or are they a rebellious people ?

Or do their intellects bid them do this ? Or are they an insolent people ?

Enjoin them their understandings to this ? or are they a people conumacious ?

Do their minds command them this i.e. to tell a lie against you ( Muhammad SAW ) or are they people exceeding the bounds ( i.e. from Belief in Allah to disbelief ) .

Or is it that their dreams compel them to this ? Or are they aggressive people ?

Do their minds prompt them to say such things , or are they a people immersed in transgression ?

Do their minds command them to do this , or are they an outrageous folk ?

Is it their intellect which prompts them to say this , or are they a rebellious lot ?

Or , do their intellects order them to do this ? Or , are they an insolent people ?

Or do their minds command them to say this , or are they a transgressing people ?

Does their reason tell them to say this or is it because they are a rebellious people ?

Nay ! do their understandings bid them this ? Or are they an inordinate people ?

is it their minds that prompt them to say this , or are they merely insolent people ?

Is it that their faculties of understanding urge them to this , or are they but a people transgressing beyond bounds ?

As I argue in my recent book Mind, Modernity, Madness, the reason for high concentrations of severe mental illness in the developed West lies in the very nature of Western societies.