January 27, 2010
Christmas Airline Bomber Really Just Wanted to Get Laid
Is terrorism the outgrowth of sexual repression? I don't actually think there's much to the theory. If there is something to the theory than I would call it a minor causal driver, not a major one. I think something bigger and more immediate is going on here.
But, the Christmas Day underwear bomber's own words on an Islamic forums does suggest that the kid was sexually frustrated:
“As I get lonely, the natural sexual drive awakens and I struggle to control it, sometimes leading to minor sinful activities like not lowering the gaze.A sexually frustrated 18 year old guy? Yeah, that's uncommon.“And this problem makes me want to get married to avoid getting aroused … but I am only 18.” In another post, he writes ”the hair of a woman can easily arouse a man”....
He talks at one point about his fantasies: ”The bad part of it is sometimes the fantasies are a bit worldly rather than concentrating in the hereafter.”
He tries instead to focus on more acceptable “jihad fantasies”.
But I think that Glazov does make some good points about the unhealthy relationship caused by severe power differentials in Muslim societies. But since these power differences occur in most societies (to one degree or another), yet terrorism is almost exclusively an Islamic phenomenon in the modern world, then something other than sex is going on here.
What that thing is, I think, is a political vision of an ordered society. Political Islam -- Islamism.
But, then again, maybe there is some merit to the argument .....
