The first article I can recall reading by a psychoanalyst that wasn't psychobabble.
I urge everyone to click the link and read the whole thing. It's worth it.
unfortunately, it did babble in a few places, but I think he has a good start on an idea that needs some more work. He needs to make a more forthright comparison of the values and hypocrisies of these two cultures. The ideas he hangs on Jihadis are not without parallels in our culture.
In fact, it is all the more important that these expanded notions of erotic impulse as perversion expressed in murderous rage be clearly distinguished, Christian v. Muslim, in order to avoid liberals doing the usual superficial generalizations.
Plus, it touches on another issue he didn’t deal with: Do you make a wholesale rejection of another culture, or do you diagnose for both it’s strengths and weaknesses, or determine where religion has nothing to do with perversion? Arguably, child molestation is universal. Some cultures condemn it, some condone it, and others try to rationalize it in various ways. Same for violence, suicide, and the whole list of what we recognize as sins.
Actually, Charles Krauthammer (Dr. in Psychiatry) wrote THE article on Bush Derangement Syndrome
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/03/bush_derangement_syndrome_chen.html
Absolutely...and sent it around.