Just a remote social phenomenon that can happen in all oth situ
Reader comment on item: Sudden Jihad Syndrome – It's Now Official

Submitted by Marco Hiirata (Malaysia), Feb 14, 2008 at 00:07

Sir,

IMHO, it is up to you to blog whatever view that you deem fit, especially those affecting society. To me this is just not worth blogging because I certainly do not feel in the intellectual sense it is pervasive in Muslim societies worldwide.

Perhaps you ran out of idea for time being.

I view it as a social phenomenon which can be extended to other situ: an IDF soldier shoots first & ask question later, a man mad about something spray bullets in a shopping mall, a buddhist monk in Burma burns himself as a sign of protest ... so are you saying mental disorders or deranged minds are confined to a certain social group only?

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Daniel Pipes replies:

This is a recurrent pattern with disturbing effect and implications. I do not see how you can compare Sudden Jihad Syndrome to these other phenomena.