[stripes1776]

Despite Foucault's intellectual pretensions, one must ask the question what a sexually-active homosexual like Foucault found so appealing about the Islamist revolution in Iran? Was it the highly segregated society of an Islamist state along strict gender lines? Was it the sight of men walking hand-in-hand down the street like in a city in Saudi Arabia, while the woman were out-of-sight, or else covered in black fabric from head-to-toe when in public? Perhaps it was his interest and participation in homosexual sado-masochism that seduced him to view militant Islam with uncritical fascination. Unfortunately we are not able to ask him now because he died of AIDS some years ago.

[eleni121]

Add the fact that the Islamic's world's understanding and acceptance of homosexuality is different from that of the West's. This is the foundation of Foucault's fascination, not the legitimacy of homosexual relations based upon affection etc but a drastically different world view based upon hypermasculinity. The "dancing boys" in the Muslim world would dance and then participate in obscene (to me) gatherings.

A more detailed explanation at:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/Printable.asp?ID=5704