Muslim paranoia: Enemies made us impotent!

http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn26.html

Absolutely. For one thing, a week after the Malaysian Prime Minister told an Islamic summit that their "enemies," the Jews, control the world and got a standing ovation from 56 fellow Muslim leaders, it's useful to be reminded that the International Jewish Conspiracy is comparatively one of the less loopy conspiracies in the Islamic world. That said, they'll probably figure out a way to pin the disappearing penises on some or other agent of Zionism. After all, according to reports in Middle East newspapers, Israel laces Arab chewing gum with secret hormones to make Muslim men hot for Jewish babes who turn out to be Mossad agents. Come to think of it, remember those stories in the National Enquirer after 9/11 about Osama bin Laden being, ah, somewhat underendowed in the trouser department? He spent much of the '90s in Sudan. Who's to say some Zionist didn't sneak up and shake his hand while he was on a shopping trip to Khartoum?

It is, in that sense, the perfect emblematic tale of Islamic victimhood: The foreigners have made us impotent! It doesn't matter that the foreigners didn't do anything except shake hands. It doesn't matter whether you are, in fact, impotent. You feel impotent, just as -- so we're told -- millions of Muslims from Algerian Islamists to the Bali bombers feel "humiliated" by the Palestinian situation. Whether or not there is a rational basis for their sense of humiliation is irrelevant.

One of the things I'd feel humiliated about if I lived in the Arab world is that almost all the forms of expression of my anti-Westernism are themselves Western in origin. Pan-Arabism was old-school 19th century nationalism of the type that eventually unified the various German and Italian statelets. Nasserism was transplanted European socialism, Baathism a local anachronistic variant on 'tween-wars Fascist movements. The Arabs even swiped Jew hatred from the Europeans. Though there was certainly friction between Jews and Muslims before the 20th century, it took the Europeans to package a disorganized, free-lance dislike of Jews into a big-time ideology with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Mein Kampf and all the rest.

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A handshake-fearing guy with a cell phone is one thing; what happens when the handshake-fearers have cell phones and a suitcase nuke? It's at the intersection of apparently indestructible ancient ignorance and cheap, widely available western technology that the dark imponderables of the future lie.


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ouch....the small penis conspiracy.

;-)

Sounds Jewish to me. He must be part of the shrinking penis conspiracy the Jews have unleashed in the ME. :)

I really cant get too AROUSED over this.

But it took a lot of balls to post it

to stiffen their resistance, because they feel they are getting the shaft, they're no longer the cock of the walk and they can no longer get a head.

you really know how to RISE TO THE OCCASION.

Mary Steyn is a right wing asshole and he even backed LGF http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=4503 More right wing BS

is this story false?

Yes, because it's generalising. If someone said the same about Jews people would be screaming anti-semitism. Obviously you can spit all your venom at Muslims, Arabs, post that on DU and still expect to get away with it. No thanks..

:boring:

What's so funny about right wing racists and jerks? And you will never see me hitting the alert button. I have no such intentions. I am simply amazed by the number or articles posted from (extreme) right wing sources. Now if they were target of mockery that is one thing. But if one continously posts from them and considers them credible then we do have a problem. This is as far as I know a progressive site. I don't expect FR type of BS and venom being posted as referential here and taken seriously. That's all..

did you actually read the entire article??

The Sun-Times should be ashamed. I have sent my objections to them and urge everyone here to do the same.

It has to do with widespread belief in magic in many African countries. The incredible disapearing penis events also happen in Nigeria where the sect Brotherhood of the Cross and Star(a spiritual group of Christians and Muslims) is suspected of being sorcerors who steal penises. In West Africa, for example, there is a widespread belief that women, who are possibly sorcerors, steal penises. The belief in sorcery and magic is pretty widespread in Sudan, among Muslims and non-Muslims.

The ability to steal penises by sorcery is widespread belief amoung tribally organized groups that believe in magic, even when they take up organized religions.

Patrick Scheob