Psychopath Crown Prince Of Saudi Arabia: News Article And Social Construct Theory Of Psychopathy

Selection And Description Of The Current Event

“Jo Shelley, C. (2022). Ex-Saudi intelligence official describes Crown Prince as a 'psychopath' who boasted he could kill the sitting monarch in 2014. Retrieved 8 March 2022, from https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/25/middleeast/mbs-saad-aljabri-60-minutes-intl/index.html”

The article has depicted a class representation of the dictator or crown prince of Saudi Arabia as a “psychopath”. Over the years, the prince has used his people and his inept decisions have inflicted upon many (edition.cnn.com, 2022). The news has shown that the Saudi' Crown prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) is riddled with acts of a "psychopath" and has harmed his people in many ways. The daughter of an ex-diplomat of Saudi has told this in one of her interviews with CNN. Over time, the prince has learned to cope with the threats and lashes that the global media harnesses on the kingdom. However, he has always been a 'spineless' and 'nonchalant' creature (Ottaway, 2021). He harmed his people, the people of America, and the people of the globe at large by employing coercive decisions, legislations, charters, acts, and harmful diplomacy. This brave daughter of the ex-Saudi diplomat from the kingdom’s secret intelligence agency has talked for an hour and unearthed the true colors of the ‘Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)’. People of the world now know how acts of misogyny and extortion on women have always been a core value of the Islamist Sharia law-based political systems like the nations of the ‘Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)’ (Cowan, 2018). The monarch is one of the most fanatic and barbaric people on earth that rapes millions of women, poses uncountable harm to its people and people under his influence even abroad. Pakistan has been actively engaged in human trafficking and particularly minors to KSA as the nation has a culture of patronizing ‘pedophilia’. The global media now knows the dark secrets of the monarchic states of KSA and like Islamic fanatic nations or better ‘Kingdom of Allah’ (Koshelev, 2019). From the interview, it is now unraveled that MBS and his brother Mohammed bin Nayef (MBN) use their power and authority to almost misuses anybody in the government services or agencies headed by MBS. MBS once told the interviewee that they had committed many organized crimes across the globe and have inflicted massive harm to the people of the globe in many ways. Some stances cannot be revoked under any condition but some of the steps can be retrogressive and orthodox concerning ahead of a state can act with such imbecility (Glazov, 2018). Examples of MBS's act of psychopathic activities can be traced down to his ascendance to the throne of KSA after the death of his father King Abdullah at the age of 90. Along with MBN, MBS plotted their father's murder which was though failed due to the active efforts of Saudi's intelligence agencies and Royal guards (edition.cnn.com, 2022). Even it was taken out from the interview that after ascending the throne, MBS plotted murders of many ex-intelligence officers that halted across the globe post-retirement, and among them, the interviewee's father was one. However, they escaped the intrigue and revealed in front of the media and they also expressed their concerns that when the news will be aired, chances are there that they may be at high risk of assassination even if in the streets of Canada as the nation is also run by another megalomaniac dictator behind the safe and demarcated screen of ‘liberal democracy’ but indeed runs a ‘deep-state’ driven by the political elites of the feudalistic society of the 21^st century Canada (Butcher & Hooley, 2018).  Many CEOs of the companies that are currently acting from KSA have also expressed their rage that generated due to the indiscriminate and inconsistent laws in KSA coined by MBS and his ineptness. In the name of counterterrorism and ‘Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)’, MBS has taken a lot of money from these companies including Saudi Aramco and uses them in promoting international terrorism in the name of the proliferation of Islam and establishing extended ‘Muslim Brotherhood’ with Sword (Ottaway, 2021).

Selection And Description Of The Textbook Concept

As per the Social Construct theory of psychopathy, recently there has been a recent change in the fundamental character of a person. Reliably it is also being said by experts that the validity of one to become a psychopath essentially requires dishonesty, imbecility, ego, belligerence, sexual promiscuity, and selfishness with extreme degrees of anti-sociality (Maddux & Winstead, 2015). The theory also supports the reasons why some of the psychiatrists have been actively engaged in all racial, ethnic groups, women, men, and children. Even this can also be supported by the theory that not in all cases, necessarily be outbursts or visible examples of acts of psychopathy by a psychopath. It is also a matter of research why some psychopaths act so carefully without exposing their real or true nature in the public even in debate or public shows (Maddux et al., 2019). Hence, it will not be redundant to say that violent recidivism and differential responses to treatment are attached with modern kinds of psychopaths are portrayed with subtly psychological, cognitive, and neurological directions. In addition to that, development psychology theories predict that there is no bar to the extent a psychopath can act for executing their inner psyche and to shape it into culpable actions of violence, treason, genocide, xenophobia, hatred, and carnage in many forms (Widiger, 2019).

Any person can be called a “psychopath” if they are morally depraved, callous, belligerent, anti-social, and most importantly, unemotional. At times, psychopaths are misjudged as people suffering from an antisocial personality disorder that are people acting out of rules and breaking norms like rebels and that too due to ego and marked degrees of anti-sociality and carnage-mentality (Hopwood et al., 2021).  MBS’s behavior that has led to call him a ‘psychopath’ can be attributed to two basic theories that are discussed in the previous section. According to the ‘Social Construct’ theory of psychopathy, MBS acts as a “psychopath” as he possesses a superficial charm and dignity beneath which lies his gruesome violence and intolerance for women and non-Muslims (Maddux & Winstead, 2015). Lack of remorse, manipulative behaviors to achieve his political and financial goals, and grandiose over self-worth are very common that can socially be traced and analyzed by any psychiatrist (Butcher & Hooley, 2018). Additionally, from ‘Developmental Psychology’ theory, it can be said that MBS's birth in the royal family and upbringing have collectively developed his ego and self-worth to that level that has blinded him to act like a belligerent, destructive, fanatic, and gruesome Islamic fanatic (Glazov, 2018). His anti-sociality and hatred for women and non-Muslims are very much indicative of the eroding social structure of most of the Islamic societies that are dwelling with the 7^th century Islamic tenets based on radicalism, bigotry, and religious violence by employing swords and violence (Koshelev, 2019). Irresponsibility, lack of proper education, impulsivity, and lack of realistic perception of the world are emblematic of why MBS has gradually left the fabric of humanity and wore a vicious ideology of oppressive Islamic imperialism and coercion that persist in form of many such "psychopaths" common in Islamic radical individuals or jihadists in many forms (Cowan, 2018). Some do this by registering their names under various Islamic terror groups like Hamas, Al-Qaeda, Jaish-e-Mohammed, etc. while some do this by capturing the administrative posts in bureaucracy, state administration, governments, at various bodies of the United Nations, or even in thrones in the Islamic kingdoms such as Oman, Yemen, UAE, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Cowan, 2018).

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