Shadow Minister

Given Bruce Haigh wrote the offending article - who is Craig?

PL,

Sorry, Brain freeze, I meant Haigh.

Does Islam attract unstables or does Islam produce unstables? There seems to be a direct link between mental instability and Islam.

I very much doubt whether mental instability
in any one can be blamed on any particular religion.
Mentally disordered people are not concerned with
reality. Their behaviour can range from irrational
depression to delusions, hallucinations,
and very fractured forms of thought and speech.
Their behaviour can be unpredictable, incomprehensible,
and often frightening to others, making mutual
social interaction very difficult or even impossible.

To complicate matters there are many mental disorders that
have no known physical cause or definitive symptoms.
This means that there is rarely a simple, clinical test to
determine if and how someone is mentally disordered.
Instead, the decision depends on the opinion of trained
observers - who frequently disagree among themselves.

We've had quite a few tragic cases of violence from mentally
disturbed people in this country. Port Arthur springs to mind
as does the murder of the eight children up North, just to
name two incidents. Nothing can undo this latest tragedy.
However, Australians opened their hearts and arms in the wake
of this shock siege - and that is at least something good
that has come out of this tragedy.

<Port Arthur springs to mind>

NO. Martin Bryant had marginal IQ but he was not mentally disturbed. That is fact, no debate at all. He is an evil S.O.B., that is all.

<as does the murder of the eight children up North>

Where is the evidence that the offender suffered any sort of serious mental condition that is blameworthy for that terrible crime?

cont'd ...

I forgot to add that this nation had numerous
mental institutions in every state long before
the topic of "Islam" came into focus and most of
the inmates were anything but Muslim.