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July 14, 2006
UK: Islamic Bombers Motivated by "Masculinity", not Islam
Islam is a religion born out of a disturbed, violence-loving man raised in a culture of honor. As such it requires "masculinity" (if wife beating and political murder deserve to be called masculine) of its followers. But this "masculinity" is a derivative characteristic, not a cause: the cause is to be found in the life and message of Muhammad, son of Abdullah. (Were this a problem of masculinity, shouldn't there be other "poor and dischenfranchised 'Asian' men", who are not muslim, yearning to do the same thing?)
On the other hand, no one should accuse the UK criminologists who authored the study of being masculine. Because it requires an incredible amount of sheer cowardice to bow to muslim sensibilities with this much abandon. Readers should realize nothing coming from them in relation to Islam should be trusted.
Here is the story: Criminologists say London bombers were motivated more by masculinity than Islam
THE driving force behind the devastating 7/7 suicide bomb attacks in London last year was not Islam but a desire by the terrorists to prove their masculinity, academics have claimed.In a controversial paper presented to the British Society of Criminology's international conference in Glasgow last week, UK researchers argued that a major factor that led four Muslims to bomb the capital was that they thought themselves to be deficient as men.
According to the academics, males aged between 18 and 24 are at the optimum age at which to carry out atrocities, as they are also at this time struggling to be identified as men.
They claim that in Britain's consumerist society, in which masculine success is equated with material wealth, young Asians who are poor or disenfranchised or who feel oppressed will feel inadequate and will be vulnerable to manipulation by older men to commit horrific acts such as mass murder.[...]
Posted by Ruy Diaz at July 14, 2006 7:36 PM
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