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Subject: The Sexual Rage Behind Islamic Terror


>
>  The Sexual Rage Behind Islamic Terror By Jamie
>  Glazov Front Page
>  Magazine.com, October 4, 2001
>
>  Jamie Glazov holds a Ph.D. in History with a
> specialty in Soviet Studies. He is the author of 15
> Tips on How
> to be a Good Leftist.
> His father, Yuri Glazov, was a Soviet dissident during
> the Brezhnev era, who signed the Letter of Twelve,
> denouncing Soviet human rights abuses.  His mother,
> Marina Glazov, also participated in the dissident
> movement in the Soviet Union, actively typing and
> circulating Samizdat -the underground political
> literature.  To avoid imprisonment, Yuri Glazov took
> his family out of the USSR in 1972 and settled in
> Canada in 1975, when Jamie was 9.
>
>    ALL SERIAL KILLERS, almost without exception, are
> severely sexually abused as children.  The kind of
> people who hijack a plane with innocent people and
> drive it into a building with thousands of other
> innocent people are related to this phenomenon.
>   When sociopaths rape and kill, they do not see their
> victims as human beings, but only as objects.  This is
> because the sociopaths were themselves, at one time,
> used as objects - as their bodily integrity was
> repeatedly violated.  The rage that results from
> sexual
> abuse is one thing, but when combined with living in a
> dysfunctional culture of sexual repression and
> misogyny, where love is reduced to violent domination,
> it is quite another.
>   Throughout the Islamic Middle East, men and women
> are
> taught to be vehemently opposed to pleasure,
> especially of the sexual variety. Men are raised not
> only forbidden to touch women, but to even look at
> them. Sex before marriage is not just a sin -- but a
> criminal offense.  It is punishable by a severe
> beating at best, and an execution at worst. The sexual
> privileges that are
> allowed in Islamic cultures are permitted to men.
> Women's sexuality and social independence
> represent major threats to male supremacy and are
> tightly controlled.  Thus, as the Moroccan feminist
> Fitna Sabbah reveals in her book Woman in the Muslim
> Unconscious, there is a disturbing conflict in the
> Middle East between sexual libido and repression.  A
> deep-seated fear of, and hostility to, individuality
> prevails, and its main expression exists in misogyny.
> Socially segregated from women, Arab men succumb to
> homosexual behavior. But, interestingly enough,
> there is no word for "homosexual" in their culture in
> the modern Western sense.  That is because having sex
> with boys, or with effeminate men, is seen as a social
> norm.  Males serve as available substitutes for
> unavailable women.  The male who does the penetrating,
> meanwhile, is not emasculated any more than if he had
> sex with a wife. The male who is penetrated is
> emasculated.  The boy, however, is not, since it is
> rationalized that he is not yet a man. In this
> culture, males sexually penetrating males becomes a
> manifestation of male power, conferring a status of
> hyper-masculinity.
> It is considered to have nothing to do with
> homosexuality. An unmarried man who has sex with boys
> is simply doing what men do.
>   As the scholar Bruce Dunne has demonstrated, sex in
> Islamic societies is not about mutuality between
> partners, but about the adult male's achievement of
> pleasure through violent domination. There is silence
> around this issue. It is the silence that legitimizes
> sexual violence against women, such as honor crimes
> and
> female circumcision.  It is also the silence that
> forces
> victimized Arab boys into invisibility. Even though
> the society does not see their sexual exploitation as
> being humiliating, the psychological and emotional
> scars that result from their subordination,
> powerlessness and humiliation is a given.  Traumatized
> by the violation of their dignity and manliness, they
> spend the rest of their lives trying to get it back.
> The problem is that trying to recover from sexual
> abuse,
> and to recapture one's own shattered masculinity, is
> quite an ordeal in a culture where women are hated and
> love is interpreted as hegemonic control.
> With women out of touch - and out of sight -- until
> marriage, males experience pre-marital sex only in
> the confines of being with other males.  Their sexual
> outlet mostly includes victimizing younger males -
> just the way they were victimized.
> In all of these circumstances, the idea of love is
> removed from men's understanding of sexuality.  Like
> the essence of Arab masculinity, it is reduced to
> hurting others by violence.
> A gigantic rupture develops between men and women,
> where no harmony, affection or equality is allowed to
> exist.  In relationships between men, meanwhile,
> affection, solidarity and empathy are left out of
> the picture.  They threaten the hyper-masculine order.
>   It is excruciating to imagine the sexual confusion,
> humiliation, and repression that evolve in the
> mindsets of males in this culture. But it is no
> surprise that many of these males find their only a
> venue for gratification in the act of humiliating the
> foreign "enemy," whose masculinity must be violated at
> all costs - as theirs once was.
> Violating the masculinity of the enemy necessitates
> the
> dishing out of severe violence against him.  In the
> recent terrorist strikes, therefore, violence against
> Americans served as a
> much-needed release of the terrorists' bottled-up
> sexual rage. Moreover, it served as a desperate and
> pathological testament of the re-masculinization of
> their emasculated selves
> >
> >                See The School for Violence, by Riane
> > Eisler.
> >
>