Last month, the London-based Arabic paper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat published an article by psychologist Dr. Ahmed Najam A-Din, who asserts that suicide terrorists have a "psychological disease."
He called on Arab society to fight it just as they would fight any other illness.
"Suicide is a sickness, and [the terrorist leaders] are using it for perverse political ends," he said. "The increasing suicide actions, which receive support and admiration amongst Muslim youth in general and Palestinian youth in particular, have become one of our most dangerous social and psychological phenomena. \ufffd"
A-Din said that "as a psychologist, I can say clearly that the psychological profile of the suicide killers is that of a mentally ill person in every sense."

Instead of being treated, he said, "there are groups within the Palestinian and Arab societies that encourage them not only to continue along this path, but even to broaden the ranks and get others to join in their 'sickness.'"