The Sexual Rage Behind Islamic Terror

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.

When you mention Bin Ladin's 4 wives you touch on the critical issue of institutional polygamy in this pathology.

In nations permitting polygamy, the rich and powerful are able to claim many of the available pool of eligible young virgin girls. This leave a large number of poor and powerless men with no chance of every finding a mate.

These nations must then be tyrannies, to prevent the powerless men from turning their anger and frustration against the rich and powerful who have taken so many females. In Islamic countries, the clerics may be counted in this group: Mullah Omar, the leader of the Talibans, is rich with many wives.

In order to prevent the anger of the unmarried from turning against these regimes, they must focus the anger on outside targets: in this case they blame the West for all of their ills.

He looked puzzled for a moment, then, recognizing the word, explained that he was the "man" and did the penetrating--so it was OK.

Just keep repeating to yourself: Multiculturalism is wonderful. All cultures are equal; except Western culture which is the font of all evil.

I don't know how or whether they've escaped AIDS. One possibility is that most of the sex described in the article is "one way", a boy gets boinked by an older man and then boinks a boy when he grows up. Not the same dynamic as in a gay community, where there are many more "encounters" on many different levels.

Remember, no matter what the activity, the virus has to be present before it can spread. It's most likely off to a slow start, due to the insular nature of their society, but anal-sex is anal-sex and they can't escaped unscathed forever.

If this story is true --- and I believe it is --- then AIDS must come to them, slow but sure. And probably has, to a certain extent. And certainly it is covered up by the authorities.

I absolutely disagree with you that this article gives "aid and comfort to the enemy" by making us pity him. I do not pity him. This is a cycle of viciousness that we cannot ignore. And our first step, as an absolute minimum, is to keep these utterly vicious and disgusting people out of our country and away from our children.

WmBach, I thought about chimps when I read this too. Of course, they are human beings, not animals, but the fact is, the word "barbarian" has a definite meaning and if it doesn't apply to these people, where does it apply? This is a war between Civilization and the Barbarian Hordes.

I absolutely disagree with you that this article gives "aid and comfort to the enemy"

I stand by my post.

Muslims are allowed a maximum of four wives. I doubt that Omar has more than that. Mohammed had four wives. That is therefore the maximum. A Muslim will tell you that, by setting a maximum of four wives, Mohammed improved the status of women, because the powerful men in the pagan Arab cultures at that time had many, many wives. A Muslim will also tell you that a man can only practice polygamy if he treats every wive exactly equally, in terms of money, attention, etc. Therefore, most Muslim men don't consider it worth the bother.

Travis McGee#81

In nations permitting polygamy, the rich and powerful are able to claim many of the available pool of eligible young virgin girls. This leave a large number of poor and powerless men with no chance of every finding a mate. These nations must then be tyrannies, to prevent the powerless men from turning their anger and frustration against the rich and powerful who have taken so many females. In Islamic countries, the clerics may be counted in this group: Mullah Omar, the leader of the Talibans, is rich with many wives.
In order to prevent the anger of the unmarried from turning against these regimes, they must focus the anger on outside targets: in this case they blame the West for all of their ills.

This, I think, says it all. And the bottom line is, we must rid our country of these people.

Hmmmm . . . sexual rage at being violated, eh? Well, this info inspired me come up with a new punishment for terrorists: Strip 'em, bend 'em over a saw horse, tie 'em down real good, and introduce 'em to a pack of a dozen or so 700 pound sexually frustrated male wild boar -- until dead.

Four wives may be one interpretation, but there are many loopholes available to the rich.

Osama's father had 19 wives, many Saudi sheiks have even more.

As far as treating them equally, that's a joke: the husband is the arbiter of fairness, and is allowed to beat them if they complain.

. Nowhere in Scripture are Christians taught to persecute Jews. And, for obvious chronological reasons, Jews are not commanded to persecute Christians.

Obviously this person has never followed the antics of the ACLU and the ADL.

An A-rab and his wife were in the desert riding their camel when it all of a sudden keeled over dead.Stranded, hours went by when the man got horney thinking about his wife.He then whips it out and says to her"This is the Staff of Life"to which she replies,"How about sticking it in that damn camel so we can get the hell out of here!"

If anything, the Arabs get it on with their camels. Ever wonder why camels are so mean?

Is that why they spit, too?

ROFLOL!

Thought the name sounded familiar!

I remember Dr. Yuri Glazov from his days as head of the Russian Studies Department at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was an uncompromising dissident in the manner of Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn...not always a popular stance to take in academia!

When I was in the Foundation Year Program at the <A HREF="http://www.ukings.ns.ca>University of King's College</A> in 93-94, Dr. Glazov gave the lectures on Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment . He was one of the more capitivating lecturers, along with Rev. Dr. Robert Crouse (considered one of the world's leading experts on Dante) and Dr. Colin Starnes on St. Augustine's Confessions . (Dr. Starnes was installed as President of King's that year, and still is.) Foundation Year was the most intellectually engaging year of my undergrad career--a Great Books introduction to academic studies you don't get much of on our oh-so-politically-correct campuses.

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