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.
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.
I once heard that the word "love" is never used in the Koran. Anyone know if this is true?
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.
Not true, that's also me.
This is exactly the social ordering behaviour in which chimpanzees engage. So we are basically dealing with diaperheaded chimps! Unbelievable.
If you go into a black urban community, you will find that there is no sexual repression. Obscenities are part of casual speech. Sexual relationships outside of marriage are the norm, as is childbirth outside of marriage.
Yet rape is exceedingly common. How can that be?
If you go into a black urban community -- and frankly, most of us wouldn't dare -- you'll find that it is also very violent. If sexual repression causes violence, then why is there so much violence in a community where there is no sexual repression?
Likewise, in the white American community, we've gone from a society that is puritanical to one that is very open about sexuality. At the same time, violence and rape have become far more prevalent.
The Japanese have very little crime, very little rape. And while pornography is quite liberal, the actual sexual relationships between young men and women are very restrained.
There are countless examples like this. The author of this article is merely propounding a theory, without testing it against reality.
What harms Islamic society is polygamy. The ruling elite can have more than one wife, which means that all the other males have to deal with a shortage of females. They compensate through homosexual activity, including the sexual abuse of boys -- who are 'more feminine' than full-grown males. Of course, for heterosexual males, this is not a satisfactory solution, and thus there is a lot of sexual rage.
But the source of that rage -- and child abuse -- is not sexual repression. It's polygamy.
Okay, this is only a supposition:
Western homosexuality involves impersonal sex with hundreds of partners, including disease-spreading acts such as urination, defecation, and abrasive (bleeding) penetration.
Muslim homosexuality must be less promiscuous and more restrained.
Also, in Western societies, AIDS victims are treated like heroic saints. In Muslim societies, they're put to death. In Western societies, they're revered as martyrs. In Muslim societies, they're martyred.
Interestingly the "love" shown to those who became the Columbine killers included putting them on perscription psychoactive drugs and ignoring them (hence not knowing about the arsenal in the basement).
I do not recognise these behaviours as being consistent with "love". Drugging a child in to submission because you can't seem to rally the personal fortitude to raise him properly is better characterised as "self-absorption" rather than "love".
Have any idea how they reconcile these customs with their intense hatred of homosexuals?
The world is very weird, indeed.
BTTT
Too many double negatives for me to even understand what you are trying to say. As far as "issues"--I believe you mean to imply that I have hatred in my heart, or a latent homosexual desire. I can assure you I have neither.
Too many double negatives for me to even understand what you are trying to say. As far as "issues"--I believe you mean to imply that I have hatred in my heart, or a latent homosexual desire. I can assure you I have neither.
Is that why they spit, too?
I have read that Lawrence was sodomized by his guards while he was a prisoner of the Moslem Turks during WWI. Some of his friends in England believed the psychological damage caused by that experience eventually led him to despise himself, and was at least part of the reason for his self-destructive behaviour after the war.
I read this in a British magazine article quite a few years ago, and I don't know how true it is. But some of his actions later in his life do seem to suggest a suicidal urge.
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