The Lonely, Murderous Sons of Allah: A Psycho-analytic View

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
December 29, 2009

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/678/lonely-murderous-sons-of-allah-psycho-analytic

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One is the 17th son; the other is the 16th son. Neither are the sons of a first wife. One is an engineer; the other was an engineering student. Both have ancestral roots in Yemen. Both are educated and come from wealthy families.

I am talking about Osama bin Laden–the 17th son among 57 children whose father is Yemeni–and the Christmas Day Bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab–the 16th and youngest son, whose mother is Yemeni. Both men were born "shamed," disadvantaged, because their mothers were not "first," or high-status wives.

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