The Sexual Rage Behind Islamic Terror
"...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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