Author: Jamie Glazov
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: January 5, 2007
*Suicide through jihad represents a perverted
form of individual liberty that ought not to have any ethical or moral sanctity,
says Jamie Glazov*
Recently, the Taliban issued a new set of
30 rules to its fighters. Many of the instructions were to be expected: Rule
No. 25 commands the murder of teachers if a warning and a beating do not dissuade
them from teaching. No. 26 outlines the exquisite delicacy of burning schools
and destroying anything that aid organisations might undertake - such as the
building of a new road, school or clinic. The essence of the other rules are
easily left to the imagination, basically involving what militant Islam is
about: Vile hate, death and destruction.
But there is a curious rule that the Western
media has typically ignored. Rule No. 19 instructs that Taliban fighters must
not take young boys without facial hair into their private quarters. Aside
from the question of what is permitted if a young boy does happen to have
facial hair, this new Taliban commandment brings light to a taboo pathology
that underlies the structures of militant Islam. And it is crucial to deconstruct
the meaning of this rule - and the horrid reality that it represents - because
it serves as a gateway to understanding the primary causes of Islamic rage
and terror.
Rule No. 19 indicates that the sexual abuse
of young boys is a prevalent and institutionalised phenomenon among the Taliban
and that, for one reason or another, its widespread practice has become a
problem. The fact that Taliban militants' spare time involves sodomising young
boys should by no means be any kind of surprise. That a mass pathology such
as this occurs in a culture that demonises the female and her sexuality -
and puts her out of mind and sight - is only to be expected.
The key issue here is that the demented sickness
that underlies Rule No. 19 is by no means exclusive to the Taliban; it is
a widespread phenomenon throughout Islamic-Arab culture and it lies, among
other factors, at the root of that culture's addiction to rage and its lust
for violence, terror and suicide.
There is a basic and common sense empirical
human reality: Wherever humans construct and perpetuate an environment in
which females and their sexuality are demonised and are pushed into invisibility,
homosexual behaviour among men and the sexual abuse of young boys by older
men always increases. Islamic-Arab culture serves as a perfect example of
this paradigm, seeing that gender apartheid, fear of female sexuality and
a vicious misogyny are the structures on which the whole society functions.
It is no surprise that John Racy, a psychiatrist
with much experience in Arab societies, has noted that homosexuality is "extremely
common" in many parts of the Arab world. Indeed, even though homosexuality
is officially despised in this culture and strictly prohibited and punishable
by imprisonment, incarceration and even death, having sex with boys or effeminate
men is actually a social norm. Males serve as available substitutes for unavailable
women.
While secrecy and taboo surround this phenomenon,
some courageous Arabs have dared to discuss and expose it. Walid Shoebat,
for instance, a former Palestinian terrorist, has openly related the abuse
of young boys in Palestinian Muslim society. Amnesty International, too, has
reported that Afghan warlords routinely sexually victimise young boys and
film the orgies.
In the dysfunctional and morbid paradigms
of this culture, the idea of love is, obviously, absent from men's understanding
of sexuality. Like the essence of Arab masculinity, it is reduced to a form
of prison sex: Hurting others with violence. A gigantic rupture inevitably
develops between men and women, where no harmony, affection or equality is
allowed to exist.
Islamist terror, therefore, is, in part, very
much a release of the terrorists' bottled-up sexual rage in connection to
sexual frustration and desperation - and to the humiliation connected to feelings
of emasculation, which culminates in the act of striking out against "the
enemy" and violating his masculinity. The inner workings of this mindset
explain why Islamist terrorists consistently engage in sexual mutilation of
their victims.
This lust for violence against "the enemy"
and the accompanying yearning to die in the process are fuelled by the morbid
earthly existence that is engendered by militant Islam. Indeed, there exists
very few reasons for males to value their time on earth; their freedom of
action and ability to experience joy and pleasure are extremely limited in
terms of what is allowed. To be sure, most young men have absolutely no experience
in love, sex, affection or friendship with females, and they have no outlet
for their libido, which, to further pathologise the mindset, they regard as
evil temptation. Killing and dying, therefore, become the only areas where
free will can be exercised.
In essence, suicide through jihad represents
a form of perverted liberty through which an individual can express himself.
Theodore Dalrymple offers a profound analysis of this phenomenon in the context
of the Muslim fundamentalist's agonising hate and self-hate inside a Western
society. Analysing the motivations of the Pakistani suicide bombers who struck
in London in June 2005, he demonstrates that they saw no way out of their
confrontation with freedom and modernity except death.
What more convincing evidence of faith could
there be than to die for its sake? How can a person be really attached or
attracted to rap music and cricket and Mercedes cars if he is prepared to
blow himself up as a means of destroying the society that produces them? Death
will be the end of the illicit attachment that he cannot entirely eliminate
from his heart. The two forms of *jihad*, the inner and the outer, the greater
and the lesser, thus coalesce in one apocalyptic action. By means of suicide
bombing, the bombers overcome moral impurities and religious doubts within
themselves and, supposedly, strike an external blow for the propagation of
the faith.
All of these inter-related phenomenon serve
as windows of understanding for us, through which we become able to grasp
the demented and psychopathic psychology that creates the need for a rule
such as the Taliban's No. 19. It is a rule that exposes a fanatic mindset
that holds the sight and reality of an unveiled woman to be a horrific nightmare
and the greatest sin, yet simultaneously considers the forced rape of a young
boy to be in the normal swing of things.
-- *Courtsey*: frontpagemag.com
