Understanding Jihadism, Part One

Other parts will follow in due time.

In order to understand the near-psychotic rage, contempt for life and suicidal insanity of the Jihadists, it is important to comprehend the culture that brought them forth.

The fact that Taliban militants’ spare time involves sodomizing young boys should by no means be any kind of surprise or eyebrow raiser. That a mass pathology such as this occurs in a culture which demonizes the female and her sexuality -- and puts her out of mind and sight -- is only to be expected. To be sure, it is a simple given that the religious male fanatic who flies into a violent rage even at the thought of an exposed woman’s ankle will also be, in some other dysfunctional and dark secret compartment of his fractured life, the person who leads some poor helpless young boy into his private chambers.

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In the dysfunctional and morbid paradigms of this culture, the idea of love is, obviously, completely 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. [8]

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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 pathologize the mindset, they regard as evil temptation. Killing and dying, therefore, become the only areas where free will can be exercised.

Yeah.  I'd likely want to blow myself up, too.

Do me a favor or two, friends...pray for these ravaged, broken souls.  Ask our Lord to help them heal from the vile torments they've suffered, and turn to His infinite love and forgiveness.  Stand ready to aid those who require it.

But never give one inch of ground to those who continue to subscribe to this evil theocracy, no matter how benign they promise their intentions to be.