This Week in Terror with Carole Lieberman M.D.

This week’s headlines reveal a pattern of how terrorists in London, Paris and the U.S. prey upon the most vulnerable: women, children and the mentally ill. “Mosque where terrorist taught stripped of responsibilities for children,” the headline read, referring to Umar Haque who taught at two Islamic schools in London, who had turned a blind eye to him while he built an army of children to attack Big Ben and other top targets. He made them watch terrorist propaganda and role-play to recreate terror attacks and beheadings. “Trappes, France, Stabbing: Man With Terrorism History Kills 2, Injures 1,” read one headline, while a conflicting one read, “Man stabs to death his sister, mother in Paris suburb: authorities doubt ISIS claim.” Indeed, though Kamel S. was said to promote radical Islamist ideology, he also had a significant psychiatric history. The headline “Indiana ISIS widow faces terrorism-related charges,” brings the impact of terrorism closer to home. Samantha Marie Elhassani was a middle-American housewife who got swept up in a tornado when the man she married turned out to be a terrorist and she found herself a prisoner of ISIS in the middle East.