Posted on 10/03/2001 11:51:38 PM PDT by samtheman
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 offence. 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 avenue 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.
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But the source of that rage -- and child abuse -- is not sexual repression. It's polygamy."
This conclusion has been becoming ever more firm in my mind since the attacks. The 72 virgin afterlife fantasy is simply part and parcel with polygamy.
Also, think about what kind of a relationship can a son have with his father, if he is one of 53 children? This is bin Laden's story.
The overwhelming evidence of modern criminolgy links fatherlessness and distant or abusive fathers with all kinds of the most heinous antisocial behavior.
And we see quite a lot of that in Moslem countries, don't we?
"From the viewpoint of this Roman Catholic, it does not. Jews worship the true God. Christians worship the true God. We merely disagree about the details. Nowhere in Scripture are Christians taught to persecute Jews. And, for obvious chronological reasons, Jews are not commanded to persecute Christians. This "allah" fellow, on the other hand, looks suspiciously like one of Satan's management team (if not the actual CEO), because his followers assiduously cultivate the persecution of both Christians and Jews (and anyone else why gets in their way). Islam is even more pernicious than conventional Satanism because at least honest devil-worshippers do not claim that Satan is, in reality, God, whereas Moslems have the effrontery to conflate their "allah" with the Judeo-Christian God."Christian, Muslims, and Jews ALL worship the same God. They ALL just differ on the details(Read your bible, i.e. the tale of the 2 brothers). They were at a time, together. There is a split in history. In fact, the practices of the Jews more closely related to the practices of the Muslim. Again read your Bible, a lot of things that the Muslims do (i.e. harsh punishments, female roles, no pork, etc.), can be found there. Us Christians just ignore a lot of those things, and go away from God's law, to side with Man's law, or the "socially acceptable". We often use the fact that Jesus died for our sins as jusification when we read the old Testment (if we read it), and pick and choose what rules we are going to follow, and which we decide that Jesus has declared that we don't have to follow anymore. I think that it is funny that a Christian can form an opinion that a Jew is more "Godly" that a Muslim. All three differ
You got me! I think I meant it differently, but as Yogi Berra might have said....
PS They also stay crazy for life.
You know Travis I have watched reams of TV news and documentary stuff on the Afghans and Islam et al and I have yet to see one talking head or scholar mention this polygamy component in any discussion. A fair number of these folks are well informed and I respect them but still I have yet to hear a peep about the obvious relationship between polygamy amongst the wealthy males and the endless supply of young poor "serfs" anxious to externalize their frustrations. --- wardaddy
It's amazing how something so obviously is so obviously and universally ignored by the mediots. Do they think we're all idiots like them?
If the above is true, I believe that bin Laden may be feeling sexually repressed right now.
Until recently Muslims married shortly after the advent of puberty.
Well, the mavens of multiculturalism insist all cultures are equal, so who are we to deny it?
Ping for a later read.
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Is this stuff for real?
It's from 2001. I didn't know you could bump threads that old.
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