Sexual Rage Post

Bill Irwin billi@aloha.net
Tue, 6 Nov 2001 11:45:53 -1000


Frances:
Please refer to your dictionary for the words; sophistry, sophism, sophist,
sophistic.  Good words to know, especially around here.  Some discussion
about this word here yesterday, but don't rely on ghetto definitions - use
your own dictionary.
Bill


----- Original Message -----
From: Frances Morey <frances_morey@excite.com>
To: jaxon41 <jaxon41@austin.rr.com>; ghetto ghetto
<austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: Sexual Rage Post


> 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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