A couple of problems here...
Believing in lizard people is not a mental illness. There may be overlap, but strange beliefs are not in and of themselves a mental illness. Someone who believes in UFOs or lizard people or the freemasons may be, in that order, a member of the Nation of Islam, Alice Walker or a Muslim.
Eccentric beliefs do not make one unfit to stand trial. At least unless "one" is Muslim and therefore benefits from every possible excuse and leniency gimmick.
A federal judge ruled Thursday that a man suspected of trying to detonate a bomb in the Loop is not mentally competent to stand trial at this time.
The suspect, Adel Daoud, will be sent to a mental treatment facility for three months, the judge said, and then re-evaluated to determine whether a trial can proceed.
U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman said that because Daoud believes she is a member of a secret society of the Illuminati and a reptile overlord, he has a delusional disorder and cannot rationally understand the proceedings or assist his lawyers.
If the test is rational understanding, few criminal suspects would pass.
Muslims widely believe in the freemasons and illuminati. So this becomes a free pass for Jihadists.
That Daoud believes the only two outcomes of the case are execution by the government or being saved by a miracle underscore his inability to rationally understand the case, the judge said.
Or again, that he's Muslim. Islam is not a particularly rational framework. And such a belief would align with Islam.
Daoud, now 22, was a suburban Hillside teenager when he was indicted in 2012 on charges he plotted to detonate a bomb outside a downtown Chicago bar. Since his arrest, he also has been indicted on charges of soliciting the murder of the undercover FBI agent in the terrorism case and attacking a fellow inmate at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in May 2015.
In testimony from the stand during his competency hearing, Daoud said the government targeted him because he is Muslim. He testified, against the advice of his lawyers, that he believed he is fit to stand trial. Daoud also reiterated that he believed the judge, prosecutors and his own lawyers were members of a secret society conspiring against him.
So we've got yet another pass for Muslim terrorists.