What I wrote at the Wall Street Journal about religious brainwashing.

"It is gut-wrenching that a 15-year-old boy, who raised his hand at evening prayers after the local imam asked who among them did not love the Prophet Muhammad—mistakenly thinking that the cleric had asked who did love the prophet—would cut off his own hand to prove his faith to the imam, who had accused him of blasphemy after the incident."

Religious brainwashing, aka child abuse, made this disgusting atrocity possible. All religious people brainwash children because they know if their victims are allowed to grow up first they will never buy the nonsense. Without these child abusers religions would go extinct in less than a century.

In a Boy’s Hand, the Islamist Disease