Islam,Terrorism and Jihad
Terror and its roots in sexual frustration
By Farrukh Dhondy
I am as convinced as one can be about these things — that the impulse to terror in our times has its roots deep down in sexual frustration. I have observed, read about and have been peripherally acquainted with the young men who turned to Islamicist terror in Britain in recent years. Living in Britain one recognises the type. Even if one didn’t know these namak harams who are brought up, fed, housed and educated at the expense of the British tax-payer, what can one make of the motives of ugly young men who load a car with home-made explosives and attempt to blow up a night club? One may even distinguish between these losers and the 4,000 British citizens, the majority of them from Mirpuri immigrant backgrounds, who go to Afghanistan to fight American and British troops. One may understand the motives of a person who feels he should go and join Hamas in Gaza and shoot rockets into Israel, though one may wonder at his ignorance of the fact that there are enough people doing that anyway and it’s not the cleverest choice of revolutionary strategy. The fellows who want to bomb, in their own words "the bitches that drink and dance" at the night clubs of London — what sort of ideological commitment are they demonstrating? Are they setting out to prove some twisted Freudian thesis about cultural repression and sexual frustration finally breaking out in this rage of powerlessness?
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