What Are We Going to Do About All This Mental Illness?

Back in May 2022, a Muslim identified only as Mohammed L. murdered Alban Gervaise, a 40-year-old physician, by stabbing him multiple times as Gervaise was picking up two of his children, whose ages were three and seven, from school in the venerable French city of Marseille. As he stabbed Gervaise, Mohammed repeatedly screamed “Allahu akbar,” and later explained that he committed the murder “in the name of Allah.” Mohammed L. will not, however, stand trial for murdering Alban Gervaise. He has been declared “mentally unfit to stand trial.”

Almost a year later, on April Fools Day 2023, a Muslim migrant to Canada named Abdul Aziz Kawam spent two minutes praying at a bus stop in Surrey, British Columbia. Then he slit the throat of another person who was waiting for the bus. When the bus arrived, Kawam got on board and asked a fellow passenger if he was a Muslim. Kawam then slit the throat of a passenger; while it’s not clear whether or not this was the same one whose religious affiliation he had inquired about, there is no doubt that he performed both of his throat-slashings in accord with the Qur’anic command: “When you meet the unbelievers, strike necks.” (47:4)

Kawam had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS). The Toronto Sun reported Thursday that federal Crown prosecutor Sharon Steele said that Kawam’s “technique for attempted murder followed ISIS’s ‘signature execution style.” Steele and the Toronto Sun won’t tell you this, but I will: ISIS’s “signature execution style” comes straight from the Qur’an: once again, “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” Nevertheless, although Kawam has been found guilty of attempted murder, he could still walk free, or be confined to a hospital rather than a prison, as he could be found to be not criminally responsible because of a mental disorder.

Also in Canada is Mohammed Abdullah Warsame, who, according to a June 2025 CTV News report, has been “convicted of terrorism offences in the United States, and who had ties to al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden.” Now, he has “allegedly threatened to kill ‘a large number of people’ in Montreal.” He “was sent to hospital for psychological support between the date of the alleged offence and his arrest,” because anyone who did such things must be mentally ill, right? What else could he possibly be?

In March 2025, a 66-year-old Muslim named Assadollah Hashemi pleaded guilty to lighting a fire outside the Jewish Museum of Maryland in Baltimore. Before he set the fire, he sent a text message saying: “I’m going to have all Jews burned in the furnace.” After he got caught, however, he claimed that he had no hatred of the Jews, whom the Qur’an designates (5:82) as the worst enemies of Muslims. Instead, he explained, “I was out of my mind because I was under the influence of cocaine. I wasn’t thinking.” Not only that, but he claimed that he was suffering from bipolar disorder, and it worked: he was given a sentence of fifteen years, but will only have to serve the time he has already spent in custody. Hey, you wouldn’t want a poor mentally ill person to have to languish in prison for a crime he barely understands having committed, now, would you?

Austria’s German-language Unzensuriert reported around the same time that “a delivery van raced through Vienna’s inner city and crashed into the plague column on Graben. After the attacks in Magdeburg and Munich, as well as the rampage with an as yet unknown motive in Mannheim, many feared a similar terrorist attack, passers-by panicked and fled.” However, there was no reason for any larger concern beyond the incident itself: “A terrorist attack was quickly ruled out: The police said that an intoxicated driver lost control of his vehicle and that no one was injured.”

As it turned out, however, the police weren’t being honest. “The man resisted arrest and is said to have shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’, ‘I’ll f**k your mother’ and ‘I’ll sink you all in the canal’ several times.” The possibility of terrorism, however, still isn’t being considered: “Due to his psychological abnormalities, he was admitted to a psychiatric institution.”

I could multiply incidents of this kind indefinitely. European authorities refuse to admit that there even exists such a thing as the global jihad, and so they have to classify jihadis as something else. They’ve settled on calling it mental illness for now, but as psychiatric hospitals are increasingly filled with jihad terrorists, this will become untenable. As jihad activity becomes ever more frequent across Europe, European authorities may one day even admit what it actually is. But that will probably only happen when they’re surrendering and officially submitting to their new Islamic overlords.