A Freudian View of Mass Murderers

Apparantly, it's because they're horny:

"Suicide missions are not always religiously motivated, but according to Oxford University sociologist Diego Gambetta, editor of Making Sense of Suicide Missions, when religion is involved, the attackers are always Muslim. Why? The surprising answer is that Muslim suicide bombing has nothing to do with Islam or the Quran (except for two lines). It has a lot to do with sex, or, in this case, the absence of sex.

What distinguishes Islam from other major religions is that it tolerates polygyny. By allowing some men to monopolize all women and altogether excluding many men from reproductive opportunities, polygyny creates shortages of available women. If 50 percent of men have two wives each, then the other 50 percent don't get any wives at all.

So polygyny increases competitive pressure on men..."

Does this explanation strike anybody as just a touch too simple? And too generous as well?

If Only I Could Write Like This

Like this:

"Until he was jailed last year on charges of soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred, a man known to the police of several countries as Abu Hamza al-Masri was the imam of the Finsbury Park Mosque. He was a conspicuous figure because, having lost the use of an eye and both hands in an exchange of views in Afghanistan, he sported an opaque eye plus a hook to theatrical effect. Not as nice as he looked, Abu Hamza was nonetheless unfailingly generous with his hospitality. Overnight guests at his mosque's sleeping quarters have included Richard Reid, the man in whose honor we now all have to take off our shoes at the airport, and Zacarias Moussaoui, the missing team member of September 11, 2001."

Praise the Lord for people like Christopher Hitchens.

Quote of the Day: 6/27/07

Right here:

"But then, the mind of the Western apologist is able to contort itself into the most unfathomable of positions when the alternative is the realization that sooner or later, some kind of action is going to be necessary — and it might involve more than just throwing on a headscarf and eating a plate of dates in a show of diplomatic resolve."

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