Posted on 10/12/2001 10:56:03 PM PDT by ppaul
MOHAMMED ATTA, the terrorist involved in the September 11 crime against humanity, left behind an illuminating will. He sternly warned against women being present at his funeral - or at his grave at any later date. He also instructed that: "He who washes my body around my genitals should wear gloves so that I am not touched there."
Atta obviously had a lot of problems.
But far from being the testament of an alienated madman, Atta's will directly reflects the deep-rooted misogyny within Islam itself. And it is misogyny, and all the self-contempt and rage that it nurtures in males, that fertilized the soil in which the pernicious evil of Atta - and of his colleagues -- grew.
In Woman in the Muslim Unconscious, Moroccan scholar Fatna Sabbah documents how the crucial criteria of female "beauty" in Islamic society are silence, immobility, and obedience. Women are supposed to dehumanize themselves in order to be tolerated.
In Islam, males are taught to control desire (shahwa). Women are the incarnation of shahwa. Shahwa comes from the devil. It becomes clear, therefore, why the association of shahwa, the devil and woman is rife throughout Islamic religious literature.
Imam Ibn al-Jawzi taught that female beauty was a manifestation of the devil himself. In his text Dhamm al-hawa, he wrote that the "beauty of women is one of the poisoned arrows of the devil." It is no wonder, therefore, why Islam teaches that hell is largely populated by women. According to a hadith (the record of the sayings of Prophet Muhammad) in Imam Bukhari's Al-Sahih, the Prophet Muhammad states that, as he stood at the gate of hell, he observed that, "Most of those who entered there were women."
In Islam, sex is allowed only in marriage, but even then it is not viewed as an act between two complementary and equal human beings. It is an act concerning only the orgasmic need of the male. Since this need is prioritized, Islam allows the male to marry four wives at a time. The male can also go through serial marriages, since he is allowed to dissolve a marriage unilaterally at any time by simply saying to his wife: "you are repudiated."
Thus, a man does not have to invest in one woman. The concept of "the couple" is shattered; the individual woman is seen as useless and expendable. The confusion in which Middle Eastern boys grow up, therefore, is a given. With all kinds of siblings born of different women -- who obviously weren't good enough to be cherished alone -- the boys get their first taste of misogyny and, therefore, self-hate (since they internalize the notion that their own mothers were valueless).
Since it emphasizes the importance of Muslims conquering all non-Muslims, Islam bestows some intriguing sexual incentives. While it is a sin for a male to have sex with an unmarried woman, Allah makes an exemption for the Muslim male who rapes the women of the infidels that he kills. Muhammad did just that.
This explains why any time Islamic warriors defeat another nation, they call the inhabitants kafir (the one who, according to the Qur'an, is ungrateful to the blessings showered by Allah) and rape their women. Pakistani Muslim soldiers raped a quarter of a million Bangali women in 1971 after they massacred 3 million unarmed civilians. This atrocity is not considered a sin in Islam, because the religious leader of the soldiers decreed that Bangladeshis were infidels.
The Islamic temptation to wage violent war against non-Muslims also involves the sexual incentive of the houries (the 72 eternal virgins in paradise that are given to the Muslim warrior who dies in battle). The houri makes earthly women even more redundant. Yet even the individual houri herself is not sacred or special in any way. As Fatna Sabbah notes, she "has no spiritual dimension; she is a thing because she has neither will nor any possibility of development. . . . [she] has no intellect; she does not think. She is a thing that awaits consumption."
The houri is a manifestation of the ultimate misogyny.
In thinking about Atta's will in this context, his worries become understandable. So does his rage. A male cannot despise women and simultaneously love himself. Misogyny is the ultimate death wish.
Men like Atta and Osama bin Laden detest - and wish to destroy - the world that they see outside their cages. It is a world that delights in the beauty that they have demonized -- outside and inside of themselves.
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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. Today Jamie battles socialism from his high-tech warroom in Toronto. He writes the Dr. Progressive advice column for angst-ridden leftists at EnterStageRight.com. E-mail him at jglazov@home.com.
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Forgive me for sounding "touchy feely" for a moment. Consider this... Osama bin Laden was one of 53 children, the son of a polygamist.
How much could he have been loved by his father?
The link between dysfunctional father/son relationships and criminal, sociopathic behavior, is well documented. We're seeing now some of the bitter fruit harvested from a culture sewn with the seeds of polygamy and misogyny.
In what other culture are young men seduced by the demonic promise of eternal carnality with 72 virgins, or even young boys, in the afterlife?
In what other culture do adults raise their children to be suicidal bomb-fodder. Or send them out as bait, to hurl stones at soldiers in the hope of drawing return fire, and hence the sympathy of Western News audiences?
What other culture suckles such an evil, cold-blooded brood?
What other culture disdains its children so?
Only Islam.
The girls will square 'em away!
Regards,
I think he's just accepting that some Muslims are not following their Koran completely and are good people who can live with infidels without killing them. I don't think anyone can really look at whats going on in Indonesia, the Sudan, Nigeria, India, Israel, and now the USA and believe the religion itself is very beautiful. You could probably do some heavy editing of the Koran and make it a much thinner but nice enough book.
The illusory nature of the maya is not some hypothetical figment of someone's imagination. It is true.
The maya is an illusion, but, paradoxically, it is also reality. And we must function in it.
In fact, we can and do function of many different levels of reality at the same time, all of the time. And these levels are not isolated, one from another; they flow together, more like spectra.
On one level everything is paradoxical.
On one level, it's all a matter of probabilities.
I'll bet my eternal soul that these screwed-up guys are consumed by evil and will find no reward for their actions. In fact that bit about paradise and 72 virgins is a bad joke on them.
We will all face the judgment of God. That day will come. In fact, paradoxically, that day will come, and that day is already here. (Time is an illusion also. But don't throw away your watch; this is another paradox.)
As a Christian, I know that these terrorists are infidels who are guilty of terrible sin.
As a member of the human race, I know that they are disgusting, reprehensible, screwed-up loosers and that the world will be a better place when they are all dead. There is no excuse for their actions. They must be hunted down and killed or rendered powerless. And civilized people the world over must never forget the importance of eternal vigilance.
If the misogyny is the reason for the "covering" of women, why should we respect that "covering?" Bush was probably making an effort to communicate with American Muslims sympathetically but theres an essential dishonesty to view it as just another kind of tradition if it is in reality the root of this evil.
Then we are really into a religious war, which would rub Americans the wrong way. How else can it be described though?
"Women are a form of life between humanity and beasts.They are not fully human, as are men. They come closest to attaining human status in two situations : When they are pregnant with a male fetus, and when they are on their backs, with a portion of the male anatomy within their body."
I am not making up this quote to justify my hatred of Islam. It was reading that which led to my hatred of this religion. Neither Christianity nor Judaism comes close to Islam in the misogyny stakes. Even St Jerome and those who think like him never denied that women are human and possessed of an immortal soul (the belief that the Catholic church came within one vote of ruling women soulless at some synod is a canard or 'medieval urban legend'.)
I agree. The challenge is to promote the good in the Muslim faith and isolate the extremism. That the violence, murder and selfish carnality is found in the very center of their faith seems hard to deny. That makes the term "moderate Arab" seem like a synonym for "compromising Arab". This is a very tricky one and Bush has done well as a politician.
Where does this guy get off thinking he can dictate what happens to his body after the WTC war crime? If he hates pigs and women so much why don't we arrage for both of them to come to his grave and funeral in force? It just may prevent others from following in his infidel footsteps.
I would make the choices eithor "stupid" or "manipulative"
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