Domestic violence and terrorism

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FermatsTheorem · 30/10/2018 19:47

Something we've been saying on here for ages - DV is a predictor of nutters going off the rails and going on to commit terrorist attrocities, DV against women is a form of terrorism and shares some of the same features (male pattern violence, propensity to hate and dehumanise people you perceive as "other").

Suzanne Moore in today's Guardian.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/29/lone-wolf-terrorists-and-domestic-violence-its-time-to-start-joining-the-dots

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arranfan · 30/10/2018 20:34

Yes - Hadley Freeman tweeted about this connection again on 26 Oct:

As sure as night follows day, so the background info on another suspected terrorist includes a history of domestic violence. Time for people to stop seeing this as an isolate issue at home and a real public risk

twitter.com/HadleyFreeman/status/1055897139098853376

Freeman linked her own useful piece from 2017: What do many lone attackers have in common? Domestic violence

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/28/lone-attackers-domestic-violence-khalid-masood-westminster-attacks-terrorism

The fact that you can write this article in any given year tells us something very depressing about the political lack of fervour for examining this issue.

Melanippe · 30/10/2018 20:31

I completely get where you're coming from, but we need to stop dismissing these men as nutters. They aren't mad, they're bad, but they're deliberate in their badness.

heresyandwitchcraft · 30/10/2018 20:25

This is so important. If people start properly looking at this as a spectrum of (overwhelmingly) male-pattern abusive behaviour, then we might get somewhere.
I think Laura Richards of Paladin has also noted the link between domestic violence and terrorism.

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