In 1943, Harvard Dr. Henry A. Murray was asked to prepare a physiological profile of German dictator Adolph Hitler for the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA. He concluded that Hitler’s personality type was prone to:
Holding grudges, low tolerance for criticism, excessive demands for attention, inability to express gratitude, a tendency to belittle, bully, and blame others, desire for revenge, persistence in the face of defeat, extreme self-will, self-trust, inability to take a joke, and compulsive criminality.
I was reminded of the above when the FBI announced the arrest of three men in connection with a plot to kill the former cultural editor and cartoonist of the Danish newspaper that printed the 2005 Prophet Mohammed cartoon.
Unlike offending infidels, Islamic grudges never die.
According to an FBI spokesman, one of the conspirators, David Coleman Headley, posted a message on an Internet discussion site declaring, Yosemite Sam-like, “I feel disposed toward violence for the offending parties.” Some people, like Hitler or Yosemite Same, can’t take a joke.
What does it say about a mass movement’s worldview that a cartoon can so disturb its fragile equilibrium that men spend four years of their lives stewing and plotting the death of a cartoonist who sits at a drawing board?
Dr. Murray’s analysis of the German Fuhrer fits these Islamic misfits to a tee:
“Hitler perceives in other people the traits or tendencies that are criticizable in himself. Thus, instead of being devoured by the vulture of his own condemning conscience…he can attack what he apperceives as evil or contemptible in the external world, and so remain unconscious (most of the time) of his own guilt or his own inferiority.”
It belies what Bugs Bunny once said, "My, I'll bet you monsters lead innnnteresting lives."
-- Mr. Curmudgeon
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