Atta's Rage Rooted in Islam's Misogyny

FrontPageMagazine ^ | 10/12/01 | Jamie Glazov

[StormEye]

"President Bush calling Islam "beautiful and peaceful" religion is either incredibly naive or incredibly cunning."

Naive -- possibly. But I believe he's just caving in to political correctness.

[End Cartesian math gnosticism]

He was certainly a highly strange dude.

[Travis McGee]

It just staggers the mind. Thanks.

[kaylar]

I wish I had the title. About all I can remember is, it was in the section of the CMSU library in the comparative religions/folklore & mythology section. And the "philosopher" who made the statement lived circa 700-1200, IIRC. The book also stated that his was an "extreme" view, rather than representative of most Muslims. But still...the fact that a thinker like that would be considered a philosopher rather than a maniac says it all. (Ten bucks says, if I tried to find the book at CMSU, it'll turn out to have been quietly discarded. It was published in the 1950s or 1960s, IIRC, and truth cannot be allowed today to interfere with the "greater good" of presenting only a rosy view of the Third World and its religions.)

As a "consolation prize", here's a book (and an atrocity) I can identify. In The History of Torture by Brian Innes, on page 173 is a photo of a Yemeni woman with a manacle through her wrist. Not around, like a watchband-an iron ring is driven through the living bones of her lower arm. That punishment was inflicted on her after she was recaptured by her abusive husband, after she ran away. But he didn't do it-it was done by court order , in the name of Islam and in compliance with shariya law.

[Travis McGee]

It's not a religion, it's a mental disease.

[aristeides]

That quote is very reminiscent of the thinking of misogynistic homosexuals in other cultures. You will find thoughts like that in homosexual writers in Greek antiquity like Theognis. The victory of Christianity represented a real advance in the treatment of women.

I'm now reading the new book by Lothar Machtan, The Hidden Hitler, which claims that Hitler was homosexual. The book seems to me to be very persuasive in advancing that main thesis. What is germane for this thread, however, is that the author -- who I strongly suspect is homosexual, but who does not seem to be a misogynist -- quotes a lot of pre-Nazi thinkers, proto-Nazis, and early Nazis who expressed much the same sentiment as the one you quote, the same contempt for women.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

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