Sexual Rage Post

[Frances Morey]

Jaxon,
This is the first I hear in explanation of the dynamics that propell the
terrorists into their destructiveness. It is very interesting that a word
for homosexuality does not exist in a culture so repressed that they can do
it without even considering using a word to describe it. It becomes a truly
invisible act that way. Yet the feelings it festers won't disappear.
Frances


On Mon, 05 Nov 2001 16:53:06 -0600, jaxon41 wrote:

>  Something forwarded from Danny Garrett
>  
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: "thomas evans" <thomasmevans@yahoo.com>
>  To: <danny709@texas.net>; <syeates@texas.net>; <suzi@nabi.net>;
>  <erussell@texasmonthly.emmis.com>; <slewis10@austin.rr.com>;
>  <deforest@austin.rr.com>
>  Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 3:14 PM
>  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.
>  > >
>  >
>  
>  


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