As I mentioned back-handedly in a post yesterday, I’ve long contended that most suicide bombers just need a good lay to get their minds off jihad. Apparently, the same idea is gaining traction elsewhere.
Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle profiled a provocative new film on [suicide bombers], which some might say isn’t sympathetic enough. “Suicide Killers,” directed by French-Jewish filmmaker Pierre Rehov, posits that bombers and would-be bombers are “influenced by a religious culture that represses sexual desires and channels the resulting frustration into homicidal rage,” the Chronicle reports. The documentary’s subjects are Palestinians currently imprisoned for attempted suicide bombings; according to the article, they cite revenge, anger and the desperation and hopelessness induced by the prolonged Israeli occupation as motives for their actions. Rehov, however, fixes on another incentive. As one young man tells Rehov, “Those who blow themselves up get a good bonus from God — they marry 72 virgins.”
My first thought at seeing the pictures of the Infamous 19 [note: I refuse to mention perps by name -- it aggrandizes their perfidy] was “man, those guys really need a blowjob.” And how did many of them spend their last nights on planet earth? At a strip club in Miami.
To shift the discussion slightly, there’s another piece to this whole “72 virgins in heaven” thing. Can’t find the reference, but — much like many ancient languages — classical Arabic omits vowels in writing. So there’s some debate among Islamic scholars as to whether the reference in the Koran refers to martyrs recieving 72 houris (virgins) or 72 huris (white grapes — an expensive delicacy).
Regardless, as with any matter of faith, it’s probably more important what the faithful BELIEVE to be true about their sacred text, than what’s ACTUALLY true about it.
So, as I mentioned yesterday, let’s just donate to KAMEL.org and Keep Arab Men — Everyone — Laid. Volunteers, anyone?
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Disaffected Arabs should take a page from the Jews and bring sexy back — there’s no logical reason Woody Allen should be seen as “sexy” but yet there he is bonking 20-something chicks.
In short, we need a two-point plan. First what needs to happen is that the frustrated Muslim needs some more sexual cachet. Who can help? Hollywood! The music industry! Opinion leaders! The fashion industry!
Second, bringing sexiness to the frustrated Muslim will involve a coordinated campaign led by patriotic “Victory Girls”* who will subsequently relieve the tension.
Civilization depends on it.
*Scroll down this page, for explanation: http://www.warandgender.com/wggensex.htm
That link is hi-larious. Er, “young men are interested in sex! and they also fight wars! SCANDALOUS.” Which gets me back to my “never let a feminist discuss sexuality” comment from last week.
This point probably needs no more exposition, but what the hell. The pedantic side of me can’t resist. Male sexuality is the root cause of intra-species violence in, like, 100.00% of all creatures that have intra-species violence on planet earth. And according to recent research, the origins of such violence have a genetic root related to gender dimorphism and inter-celluar conflict WITHIN THE SAME ORGANISM before that. I.e., to simplistically ascribe inter-societal conflict to “male aggression” (as if you can just do away with it) ignores both the deep nature of such conflict AND the substantial advances made in sublimating and mitigating such violence in the 20th century — including female sexual liberation, which made sex itself less of a scarce resource, and thus something less worthy of fighting for.
So, Contrarian. I can sign you up as Ops Director for KAMEL? FYI, in the original vision for the org, I thought it could also double as a make-work program for underemployed American prostitutes, thus appealing to both progressives and pro-business Republicans.