Omar Sacirbey poses the question, “Did the alleged Fort Hood shooter lose control, at least in part, because he was sexually frustrated?” My question is, what has mass murder got to do with self control? No, no, no, I can’t hold it in any longer, I’ve got to – shoot 13 people dead..? Omar collates a range of opinion. –”All these men are so sexually deprived so much so that the sperm has gone to their brain, and they implode,” wrote Ani Zonneveld, a female Muslim activist– echoing Bin-Bazian teachings on masturbation. –”I’m skeptical,” said Kecia Ali, a religion professor at Boston University. People have tried to link Islamic extremism and sexual frustration for years, she said, but a causal relationship “was a bit of a stretch.”– It’s an absurd notion, Kecia. A more interesting interrogative would be this: why is the original question taken seriously? Brainstorming – confusing issue with relationship between extremist violence and hypermasculinity, the trend for psychological explanation, the relationship between racism and sexuality exemplified by phalloplethysmography…
Latest Updates: sexuality RSS
-
plimfix
-
johnpi
Sex braggart gets five years, 1,000 lashes.
JEDDAH: The Summary Court here sentenced Wednesday the 32-year-old Saudi sex braggart Mazen Abdul Jawad to five years imprisonment and 1,000 lashes to be executed in installments for boasting about his sexual exploits on the LBC weekly program “Bold Red Line” in mid-July.
….[Defense attorney] Al-Jumaie has insisted all along that this is a matter for the Ministry of Culture and Information to review. He filed a complaint on behalf of his client against LBC for allegedly editing down and re-contextualizing a long video shoot into a minutes-long segment aimed at portraying Abdul Jawad in the worst possible light. The lawyer contends that the court should have waited until the complaint with the ministry was resolved.
Al-Jumaie also criticized the ruling for not summoning anyone from LBC. Malik Maktabi, the host of “Bold Red Line,” would not comment on the case.
-
thabet
-
johnpi
Speaking of images of Arab night life, Muslimah Media Watch has a critique of the “Funky Arabs” video from Jad Choueiri:
My biggest problem with this music video is not the gratuitous amounts of flesh on show by the scantily clad women–which let’s face it, has become the norm in many similar Arabic music videos–but the political implications of Choueiri’s message. Because if not a parody, then the video is certainly a textbook case of cultural appropriation. Listening between the lines, you could well take home the message: the only way we can prove we are not evil is if we try to erase our identities and emulate selective (read: the most materialistic) aspects of Western culture.
Choueiri’s only concessions to Arab culture: bellydancing and shisha smoking, of course! Nothing else we have “over here” is worth anything anyway. The orientalist image is complete once an x-ray machine shows us that a woman is carrying on her person handcuffs, a mask, and a whip. Arabs are all hypersexual, doncha know?
-
johnpi
One of the values of all of the stories coming out of the Gulf Arab states right now about sex therapy and sex issues are just the examples of the range of struggle that people live with that may make others feel less isolated in their misery and seek help/improvement:
In Saudi Arabia and other countries where the genders are rigorously separated, many men have their first sexual experiences with other men, which affects their attitudes toward sex in marriage, Ms. Lootah said.
“Many men who had anal sex with men before marriage want the same thing with their wives, because they don’t know anything else,” Ms. Lootah said. “This is one reason we need sex education in our schools.”….
She reels off stories from her practice in rapid fire: the Emirati military officer whose wife had an affair because he was away from home too much; the woman who thought fellatio was against Islam (not true at all, Ms. Lootah notes); the wife who discovered her husband dressing up as a woman and going out to gay bars. She seems bent on showing that there is a whole world of sexual confusion that would benefit from open discussion.
-
johnpi
Rob at Arabic Media Shack has discovered more reports of the emo/goth alt identity (re)appearing among Muslims, with a report from Egypt that “security forces detained three people on suspicion of belonging to the group” after some chalk drawings appeared on a sidewalk somewhere. He quotes this, from the Egypt Daily News:
-
thabet
-
plimfix
“Desiring Arabs will venture to show that modern and contemporary Arab historiography developed to a considerable extent around the repudiation not only of men’s love for boys but also of all sexual desires it identified as part of the Arab past and which the European present condemns and sometimes champions.” The introduction to Joseph A Massad’s intellectual history would seem to be in the same territory (if not quite the same city) as that of Anne McClintock’s (although she is not referenced in Massad’s bibliography), but I wonder whether Massad will be able to compete with McClintock’s rivetting analysis of Hannah Cullwick.
-
thabet
The London Borough of Waltham Forest may seek the prosecution of parents who withdrew their children from LGBT history week. The prosecution will be sought on the grounds that the withdrawal of the children was ‘unauthorised’.
-
johnpi
Jamerican Muslimah opens up a can of worms with an essay on the topic of Muslimah sexiness.
I had a very honest conversation with two friends of mine. Both are converts- one from Latin America and another one from the Caribbean. They admitted to feeling, at times, “frumpy” and “old” in the headscarf and modest clothing. They felt ignored, unattractive and undesirable in the eyes of Muslim and non-Muslim men alike. They felt that Muslim men often placed them on a “purity pedestal” and non-Muslim men simply looked passed them. By the same token, both women felt ashamed of their feelings since their feelings run counter to everything we have been told about Muslim women and sexuality
-
fathima
Salaam,
Welcome to Al-Fatiha’s historic survey of Muslims who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, and questioning or exploring their gender identity and/or sexual orientation (LGBTIQQ), including Muslims who use other cultural and ethnic terms to refer to their own experience.
This survey is for Muslims of all cultural and ethnic backgrounds, and Muslims of all beliefs and practices, including observant Muslims, cultural Muslims, and those who are secular.
This is the first survey of its kind. The results of this survey will tell us all about our community, our experiences and our concerns. The results will guide Al-Fatiha’s educational and advocacy work on behalf of LGBTIQQ Muslims, and will be shared with the entire community.
All survey responses are ANONYMOUS and CONFIDENTIAL so you can feel comfortable answering all the questions honestly and openly. You may skip questions you do not wish to answer; however, we encourage you to answer the survey as completely as possible.
The more information you provide, the more useful the survey results will be to the entire community. Your experiences and perspectives are important! Be counted!
Al-Fatiha Board of Directors
-
johnpi
Imam Suhaib Webb has posted a CNN article about the value of virginity (or lack thereof) in modern society. On a different subject in the area of human sexuality, scientists have determined that women are more easily aroused than men, though they are often not cognitively aware of it. The scientists theorize that it is a self-preservation mechanism that evolved due to the prevalence of rape in human history.
-
thabet
‘Wrap your meat’:
Related: ‘veil your lollipop’, ‘wrap your sweets’.
-
thabet
Following ‘veil your lollipop’, it’s time to ‘wrap your sweets’:
(Via Hatshepsut.)
-
thabet
