Crayons, Ping Pong and a Light Lunch
January 4, 2010
There are ideas, Orwell observed, that are so absurd, they could only be embraced by an intellectual (a status typically self conferred)
The Prince Mohammed bin Nayef Center for Care and Counseling in Saudi Arabia is one of those ideas.
It presumes that Jihadists, disproportionately represented among the criminally insane, will respond favorably to religious re-education in a resort setting.
Admittedly, those who consider mass murder an appropriate response to modernity have issues.
They also have convictions, that rest upon an unassailable certainty.
We trivialize their faith, the inhumanity it condones and the threat it poses by imagining we can “cure” them with therapies more suitably applied to someone with an eating disorder or nervous affliction.
Evil is not amenable to expertise, however credentialed and self-regarding.
