Sexual Rage Post
Bill Irwin
billi@aloha.net
Tue, 6 Nov 2001 11:45:53 -1000
Frances:
Please refer to your dictionary for the words; sophistry, sophism, sophist,
sophistic. Good words to know, especially around here. Some discussion
about this word here yesterday, but don't rely on ghetto definitions - use
your own dictionary.
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: Frances Morey <frances_morey@excite.com>
To: jaxon41 <jaxon41@austin.rr.com>; ghetto ghetto
<austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: Sexual Rage Post
> Jaxon,
> This is the first I hear in explanation of the dynamics that propell the
> terrorists into their destructiveness. It is very interesting that a word
> for homosexuality does not exist in a culture so repressed that they can
do
> it without even considering using a word to describe it. It becomes a
truly
> invisible act that way. Yet the feelings it festers won't disappear.
> Frances
>
>
> On Mon, 05 Nov 2001 16:53:06 -0600, jaxon41 wrote:
>
> > Something forwarded from Danny Garrett
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "thomas evans" <thomasmevans@yahoo.com>
> > To: <danny709@texas.net>; <syeates@texas.net>; <suzi@nabi.net>;
> > <erussell@texasmonthly.emmis.com>; <slewis10@austin.rr.com>;
> > <deforest@austin.rr.com>
> > Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 3:14 PM
> > Subject: The Sexual Rage Behind Islamic Terror
> >
> >
> > >
> > > The Sexual Rage Behind Islamic Terror By Jamie
> > > Glazov Front Page
> > > Magazine.com, October 4, 2001
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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 offense. 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 a
> > > venue 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
> > > >
> > > > See The School for Violence, by Riane
> > > > Eisler.
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
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