The outspoken London's
Mayor Borris Johnson told The Sun newspaper: "If you look at all the
psychological profiling about bombers, they typically will look at porn. They
are literally w***ers. Severe onanists.
"They are tortured. They will be very badly adjusted in their relations with women, and that is a symptom of their feeling of being failures and that the world is against them.
"They are tortured. They will be very badly adjusted in their relations with women, and that is a symptom of their feeling of being failures and that the world is against them.
"They are rejected by
women, they are not making it with girls, and so they turn to other forms of spiritual
comfort - which of course is no comfort."
"Certainly, the young
men who get involved in this kind of thing do have a lot of problems in their
lives.
"There's no question
that they lack self-esteem and that they lack boundaries and that they feel
like losers.
"We need to address it
in all sorts of ways."
He added: "I don't
think there's anything remotely controversial about what I have said."
It is not the first time Mr
Johnson has launched an outspoken attack on jihadi terrorists. Mr Johnson warned that doing nothing would
mean a "tide of terror will eventually lap at our own front door".
But his inflammatory
remarks in The Sun may reinforce the view of those Conservatives who believe Mr
Johnson lacks the gravitas to be party leader and Prime Minister.
And Mr Johnson could also face
accusations from radical Muslims and other ethnic groups of Islamophobia and
racism.
The mayor, who is poised to
return to the Commons in May in the safe Tory seat of Uxbridge and South
Ruislip, told The Sun: "I fervently think we need to de-mystify this lot.
"The type of people
who are likely to get involved in ISIS or get radicalised are the same sorts of
people who are vulnerable to getting dragged into drug gangs or other types of
criminal activity.
"They are just young
men in desperate need of self-esteem who do not have a particular mission in
life, who feel that they are losers and this thing makes them feel strong and
feel like winners."
Mr Johnson backed the
Muslim Cabinet minister Sajid Javid - seen by some Tory rivals as an opponent
to the Mayor for the Conservative Party leadership - after the Culture
Secretary said it was "absolutely right" to say Muslim communities
carry a "special burden" to tackle terror.
The Mayor said: "I
want to hear a proper angry Islamic theological denunciation of what is going
wrong.
"We won't succeed if
Western politicians just go around bashing and blaming Islam; that is hopeless.
"This problem can only
be addressed if Muslim authorities and clerics find a powerful and compelling
way of setting up an alternative narrative for young people that makes this
seem irrelevant."
Pointing out his own great
grandfather was a Turkish Muslim, the Mayor added: "I often hear voices
from the Muslim intelligentsia who are very quick to accuse people of
Islamophobia.
"But they are not
explaining how it can be that this one religion seems to be leading people
astray in so many cases.
"They are not being
persuasive in the right way with these people. I am not yet hearing it in the
way that we need to hear it."
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