Ex-Gitmo psychiatrist: US should kill 100,000 Muslim “zealots” to ‘treat’ Muslim communities.
This story reports on an extraordinary 2004 article by a Harvard lecturer and former Chief of Neuropsychiatry at Guantanamo Bay [William Henry Anderson, M.D.], which made the shocking claim that “hard-core zealots” had “brains that are structurally and functionally different from us.” Furthermore, the article stated, 100,000 “zealots” within the Muslim body politic would have to be eliminated, the way “malignant [cancer] cells” are removed from a healthy body.
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The text of Anderson’s article is not online, as Intelligencer does not post its articles on the Internet. However, I have obtained a copy, and can report what I read.
The article starts out as a bloviating howler. Anderson quotes Sun Tzu, recapitulates the Aristotlean causal categories, and fulminates about “credulous enablers” and “useful idiots” that sabotage U.S. efforts to mount an effective defense against its enemies. Anderson regrets that the enablers and idiots will be with us for a long time, as they represent unfortunate but necessary aspects of human nature.
It is only when we get to the “zealots” that we, supposedly, enter new territory. The zealots are “a pathological departure” from “human nature.”
The blogger quotes the article:
No, the zealots are another kind of person. They may be thought of as cells of a social body that have undergone malignant change.
For comparison, there is a quote provided from a Nazi concentration camp doctor reconciling similar comments about Jews with his Hippocratic oath.
Today, Anderson is a Massachusetts General Hospital senior psychiatrist.
Potter embodies all of the good principles and ideals that make Western society great, so I hope they take them to heart.
