Mayor of London: jihadis are porn-watching 'wankers'

[DonViejo]

London Mayor Boris Johnson described men who go to fight with Islamic State as “literally wankers” who watch porn because they can’t meet women, the Guardian reports.

Said Johnson: “If you look at all the psychological profiling about bombers, they typically will look at porn. They are literally wankers. Severe onanists. They are not making it with girls and so they turn to other forms of spiritual comfort – which of course is no comfort.”

He added: “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 – like winners.”

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http://politicalwire.com/2015/01/30/london-mayor-says-islamic-state-wankers-look-porn/

[TwilightGardener]

1. LOL--Boris seems like kind of a goofball, but yes, jihadis are "literally wankers".

I agree.

[hifiguy]

2. I suspect that there is a basketball-sized grain of truth

in Johnson's observation.

[McCamy Taylor]

3. This is silly name calling---like calling Jewish people Nazis.

Why not just call them murderers? The mayor is trying to hurt their feelings, but who cares about their feelings? They are murderers. Murderers do not have normal feelings that is why they kill people. And, if he moves the topic to pornography and the exploitation of women and minors, then he is helping the terrorists who can claim they are doing it "for the women and children so they will not be victims of sexual exploitation" which just muddies the water.

Stick to the facts---they are damning enough.

[mr blur]

4. An apt description of mad old Boris himself.

Although that would have to be, "Clueless, arrogant, old-Etonian, ignorant, porn-watching wanker" in his case.

[LeftyMom]

5. So is everybody else.

But yes, channeling the sexual frustrations of young people toward anger and violence is, if not quite the oldest trick in the book, at least a dusty and venerable antique.