People with psychotic mental illnesses are more vulnerable to radicalization - hear why, and look at new rules
requiring psychiatrists to report such patients, and two cases of terrorists on trial who have psychiatric problems.

It was determined, in France, that 1/3 of the people who were allegedly radicalized had psychological disorders.
So, the French Minister of Health has just decreed that patients committed involuntarily to a psychiatric hospital
must have their name and date of birth reported, so they can be compared to the profiles on the Terrorism
Prevention and Terrorization Reporting file - to see if there’s a match. This controversial decree is currently
being appealed, and is not unlike the U.S. controversy regarding whether psychiatrists should report patients
who would be dangerous if they possessed guns.

But, terrorists with psychiatric disorders are not only in France. In Chicago, Adel Daoud was just sentenced to
16 years in prison for having pressed a detonator on what he thought was a car bomb, but was actually a fake
bomb from an undercover FBI agent who had been surveilling him. Originally, the judge declared him mentally
incompetent to stand trial because Daoud believed his lawyers and the judge were lizards and had other delusions.
After treatment, at sentencing, he apologized and said he realizes he was crazy during the time he plotted terror
attacks.

In Arizona, coworkers of Ismail Hamed had noticed his odd behavior, such as using his employee radio to shout
“We are under attack!” and standing on a grocery belt yelling, “Bomb!” But, it wasn’t until he called 911 and swore
allegiance to ISIS that he came to authorities’ attention in regard to terrorism. He is charged with assaulting a
sheriff and with spreading Islamic State propaganda, such as his admiration of Omar Mateen, the Pulse
Nightclub terrorist, and video from cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.