A friend recently told me about a former Special Forces soldier who served in Iraq and frequently encountered captured militia leaders. According to him, the laptops of these warlords would inevitably be cram-full of gay pornography. I’ve long heard that the Middle East are some of the biggest consumers of pornography. Google now confirms it.
I’ve heard it said before that the Arab world’s sexual repression is the main fuel of its radicalism. The author points out that the West’s radicalism has the same roots. Seems to me that any religion that damns one for being oneself is not a healthy religion. It’s hard to serve such contradictory masters.
The attacks on Western women by Arab migrants in Cologne, Germany, on New Year’s Eve evoked the harassment of women in Tahrir Square itself during the heady days of the Egyptian revolution. The reminder has led people in the West to realize that one of the great miseries plaguing much of the so-called Arab world, and the Muslim world more generally, is its sick relationship with women. In some places, women are veiled, stoned and killed; at a minimum, they are blamed for sowing disorder in the ideal society. In response, some European countries have taken to producing guides of good conduct to refugees and migrants.
Source: The Sexual Misery of the Arab World – The New York Times