July 29, 2006

SEXUAL PERVERSION AND ISLAM

        Before he gunned down five defenseless women, Seattle jihadi Navid Haq, had been arrested for 'lewd conduct': "...In March of this year, he climbed up on a raised coin fountain inside Kennewick's Columbia Center mall and began "catcalling" women at the makeup counter at the nearby Macy's store, said Lisa Beaton, a Kennewick city prosecutor. When young women walked by his perch, Haq unzipped his pants and allegedly flashed his penis at them, Beaton said..."
        The Seattle Times profile of Haq is careful to tell us that he was a good, good boy. After all, his high school yearbook photo "..revealed a big smile, friendly eyes, buttoned-down collar and smart tie. "Peace Be Unto You" were the words that appeared with his name and picture. Other students said that image and message fit the young man..."
        Where could such a good boy possibly have gone wrong? Perhaps he absorbed Jew-hatred at the local mosque, one of whose founders was his father? And perhaps gunning down five defenseless women has something to do with his identification with cowardly Islamo-Nazi Jew haters who lob missiles into Kindergartens? Or might it derive, in part, from Islam's 'religious' support for the enactment of sexually perverse, sado-masochistic wishes and fantasies? Remember those snuff porn, beheading videos? Oh we forgot, Islam is a Religion of Peace, so it must be something else. Maybe he was a victim of Islamo-phobia, or maybe he was provoked by Jews. That's it, he was provoked by Israel and the Jews. And how might Jews have done that? First of all, their very successes are humiliating to an unhappy loser like Haq who was unable to successfully make a life for himself in our non-Muslim culture. Just like so many of his fellow Muslim brother losers in the Middle East, he has been a failure at the most basic task of life- growing up- and like his Hezbollah role models, he looks for scapegoats to explain his failures. Israel is of course the constant reminder of Jewish accomplishments, contrasted with Muslim failure. It's also a regular reminder that a liberal (in the original sense of that word) democracy requires mature adults to make it work. Like his brethren, Navid Haq found Jews a convenient scapegoat for his own dysfunctionality and failures and the failures of the Muslim world.
         It comes as no surprise to Horsefeathers, that an aggrieved, envious Muslim fanatic would turn out to be a sexual pervert. Adult perversions, as Freud pointed out, to the shock and horror of the Victorian world, are persistent residues of childhood sexuality, and symptomatic in adults, of arrested psycho-sexual development. Or read the Marquis de Sade and discover how murder and sexual gratification may combine. Mr. Haq, we learn, was socially inept, and was angry at being unable to acquire a girl friend.
        Among the various tasks of maturation for boys, overcoming fears of castration by the opposite sex, and developing a strong sense of manhood are crucial. This peace lover, Haq, was unable to function as an adult male and was arrested for exhibiting his penis, a phenomenon seen, clinically, in men who are immature sexual failures and have to reassure themselves that they actually possess a penis by exhibiting it and revelling in the shocked response. Islam, we would venture to say is a religion for male sexual losers who can't tolerate the threat posed to their manhood by the existence of an opposite sex. It endorses exhibitionistic sadism, as witness the many torture videos circulated by the Muslim world. Read any of the accounts by Muslim, or former Muslim women like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, of how Islam deals with women and the threat women pose to sexually immature men. Women are essentially reduced to the status of objects, of non-human animals in order to reduce the sexual threat they pose. They are forced by the men who enslave them to cover themselves hand and foot with ugly garments so as not to reveal the dangerous allure of their sexuality. Sexual mutilation of girls, treating women as objects and even killing them for transgressing the sexual rules, all help reduce the sexual threat they pose to inadequate, fearful men. These men try to hide their own fright, by demonstrating their control over helpless individuals. Essentially, in the sexual realm Islam accords dhimmi status to its women, thus supporting male sexual perverts in their struggle to master their own anxieties. Male perversions are the sexual defensive acts of men seeking to control their fear of women. Islam is thus a perfect ideological home for the likes of Naveed Afzal Haq.