Sexual Frustration Driving Muslim Youths to Militant Islamism
Aby July 6th, 2007
The medieval king who persecuted St. Valentine must have had similar ideas when he banned marriages to get more warriors. He was of the view that married men who had more sex would not be able to make good warriors. His idea was not without a base however, as numerous historical trends and facts would show, including the profiles of current militant Islamist youths. Sexual deprivation does have an effect on organised violence as it is often channelled to terrorism as an outlet for the frustration.
Sexual frustration of unmarried young boys in their late teens and twenties did help Mao Zedong organise a ruthless, agressive and brutal thug army during the Cultural Revolution of China. It also helped Mahmoud Ghazni and the Islamic prophet Muhammad gain power; by enticing young, sexually deprived warriors with the promise of ‘booty women’, if lands were conquered or 72 houris (virgin women) in paradise if they perished in the attempt. Sexual frustration was one factor, if not the main driving force behind the nationalist Blackshirts of Imperial Japan, as evident from the trend where Japanese invading soldiers predated on women in the captured countries.
A cartoon by jesusandmo.net, commenting on how sexual deprivation leads Muslims boys to terrorism.
The scientific basis for the connection between sexual deprivation and violent instincts in men can be explained as the effects of the hormone testosterone, which causes both sexual desire and aggression in the human males. A high testosterone level in the body expresses itself in undesirably aggressive ways if sexual or other alternative outlets are not available. The methods of expression depends on the social system and taboos at the place the person lives in; in the post World War 2 world, physically intensive sports and games like cricket, tennis, football, etc. are used to keep high levels of male testosterone in control (as opposed to wars and asceticism in some places). Testosterone explains why wars are almost always initiated and fuelled by men which gives birth to the phrase “testosterone fuelled wars”. In the Islamic world the choices for these outlets are limited and hence the young men resort to religious fanaticism to distract themselves, or to terrorism with the hopes of pleasures in paradise.
Proponents of wars and terrorism in the name of Islam often exploited the frustration of sexually deprived young males and tantalised them with the prospect of captured women as ‘war booty’ if they succeeded. If they died, 72 lovely virgins in paradise as ‘houris’ would be provided to them which makes these boys ready to die for it, as suicide bombers. In this context, the Islamic terrorists differ from the real-politik terrorists like IRA or LTTE as the latter would not kill themselves through suicide bombing; being dead they would hardly achieve any personal gains. They would rather fight and kill while trying to protect their lives if possible, which reduced their driving force and made them less committed to violence than the Islamists.
The sexual frustration of the youths in the Arab world and Islamic societies has economic, legal and social reasons. In the Arab countries education is generally low and jobs are scarce. It results in young men being unable to marry till their late 20s and 30s, as without employment marriage would not be economically viable. Sex without marriage is a taboo and illegal in Islamic countries and is punishable by flogging in first three offences and death in the fourth offence in countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran. As a result there are unmarried men in cities like Jeddah, Sanaa, Damascus, etc. who live with their parents, anxiously frustrated about their sexual future. The access to western television channels with sexually stimulating themes create frustration, envy and hate for the luxuries enjoyed by the west and make their mind fertile ground for militant recruiters, for the fight against ‘the morally corrupt west’. The pattern can be seen in the profiles of militant Muslim youths both in Europe and Arab world, a majority of whom are in their late teens or early twenties - unmarried, virgins and contain a deep hatred for the free world.
This is not to imply that sexual frustration is the only cause for Islamic terrorism as there are other religious and political factors, each of which have their importance to understand the mind of a terrorist suicide attacker. This is also not to say that sexual deprivation leads to violence and terrorism in all cases, if that were so we would have faced destruction everywhere. But it would also be imprudent to throw away a theory with strong evidences and practical cases to back it up. As Ian Buruman of The Guardian says, “It has long been assumed that young men are better fighters when they are deprived of sex, like slavering dogs fighting in a pit.” We should never underestimate for a moment, the blinding passion which drives these young boys to blow themselves up, in the expectations of 72 eternal virgins in paradise.
More Information -
- Sex and Taboos In The Islamic World - Amira El Ahl and Daniel Steinvorth
- How a British Jihadi Saw The Light - Times Online, London
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it would explain why molims commit more rapes per head of capita than anyone else.
Wat rubbish … don’t u have any better article for commets than this….
Why Christians have more homosexuals… although there western society is more open and free with sex everywhere. Is this the reason why christians are getting trapped into organised state sponsored terrorism and aggresion on others.
I think extremism is in Islam not because of sexual frustation or Islam itself. its because of its followers local griefs, greed, iliteracy and power struggle and fundamentalism !! Iraq - US led aggresion…. was there high level terrorism before ?
And this is true for all othere religions in the world… may be Hindus fundamentalist who carry on lynching and massacare of minorities (both
chritians, sikhs and muslims islam). Jews Israel which in the name of its own existence is crushing the rights of fellow palestinians and lebanese
Christians .. dont forget that even many Nazis were christians…. see some self acclaimed policing country of the world who for some greed of power and oil are crushing others…
Come on…. guys…
Secretary Gates: “Al Qaeda is better at communicating its message on the Internet than America”…
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates called for the US government to commit more money and effort to “soft power” tools, including communications, because the military alone cannot defend America’s interests around the world. The NY Tim…
Nady, you proved yourself a fool in with your second statement- “Why Christains have more homosexuals.” Which, understanding that English probably isn’t your first language; should I suppose be interpreted- “Why do Christians have more homosexuals than Muslims?”
Well first, other than a select few parishes; most Christian organizations and parishes openly oppose homosexuality (so in other words don’t expect any leniency from the catholic church either……….ever). The bottom line however is that in Muslim dominant countries (with the exclusion of Turkey) it is actually a crime to be a homosexual. So if there are any individuals in a Muslim dominant country that happen to be a homosexual, you’re not going to hear about them.
Also if I’m not mistaken, the author also conceded that male testosterone is not the sole cause in the least for Islamic radical terrorism. So I suppose what I’m wondering is, were you just trying to have you own personal debate with the author?
fightback said, “it would explain why molims commit more rapes per head of capita than anyone else.”
Dude did you pull that piece of information out of your ass?
Would you like to elaborate and also present some evidence?
As for the article, frustration could be a factor, but cutting it down to sexual frustration is a weak arugment. You need to look at other determining factors such as education, political environment, religious extremism, etc.
There is something I came across in another site.
“A theory not unrelated, from a german article found here, says that part of the reasons for the violence in iraq is the so-called youth bulge: 25 — 25% of Iraquis are 15 to 25 years old. If short, there are too many youth who need a place in life and to few places for them to live, to be educated, and so on. So they turn to violence, which the author describes as just another kind of job: It’s what you do with your life.
Sechs typische Wege gibt es für die überzähligen Sohne einer Nation: Massenhafte Gewaltkriminalität, Bürgerkrieg, Revolution, Exil, Volkermord und Eroberungskrieg beziehungsweise Kolonisation. Saddam, seit 1969 Vizepräsident und zehn Jahre später Diktator, hat vorrangig die Optionen Exlilierung, Volkermord und Eroberungskrieg zum Einsatz gebracht. Die Tendenz dazu hatte sich schon gezeigt, bevor er an die Regierungsspitze trat.
Translation: Thereare six typical paths for the unneeded sons of a nation: mass violent crime, civil war, revolution, exile, genocide and conquest resp. colonisation. Saddam, vice president since 1969 and dictator later, primary acted to effect the option exile, genocide and conquest. The tendency showed already before he was leader of the country.”
I read this article recently in the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/12/world/middleeast/12saudi.html?pagewanted=1&hp
It really brought home for me how that old cliché – that a boy “becomes a man” when he loses his virginity – is very much true. In America, the angriest people are teenage boys who haven’t gotten laid yet, and grown men who have, but who are repressed homosexuals (we call them “Republicans”).
If young Saudi men are half as angry as your average American 15 year-old in a Metallica t-shirt, we’ll never win this war on terror unless we find some way to get them laid.
As Kurt Vonnegut said, all wars are fought by babes, not men; every war is the Children’s Crusade.
Complete Bullshit! Lol, so now there is no better excuse to defend the loosing traits in a silly war?
The fact that many young boys are fighting the west is because they have lost everything in life! Their parents, relatives, houses have all been destroyed by the major bombing campaigns of the West.
The people who wrote this are idiots. So I guess it is virgins in paradise that make young boys want to get into a fight? Lol!! If young Muslim boys were really that horney, why wouldn’t they just get some piece of ass off the streets? It is NOT virgins that thrive youngster, BUT the RESISTANCE OF FOREIGN OCCUPATION!!
@ Ahmed Abdul Rashid - You put it as if every young man that goes to blow himself up lost his family and loved ones in a war waged by the west. Which in reality, is hardly so. Take the case of the London or Glasgow bombings or the murderer of Theo Van Gogh, most of these acts are done by normal and well educated muslim men who have a normal family. The only missing factor in their lives appears to be a woman that they could have a sexual/romantic relationship with. The author has a point here, sexual frustration does drive people to violent things and I am sure he isn’t the only one who noticed the pattern.
when you say that sexual frustration is leading muslims towards terrorism.first of all you have to understand what is terrorism the best definition you can give is that a person who kills a innocent person he or she is a terrorist in that case you can see that how many innocent muslims have been killed by US in iraq and afganistan.in indian huge number of muslims have been killed by hindus.isreals killed many in palestine.russia killed many in cheney.and that matter of fact is that if HITLER was sexually frustrated muslim or US was sexually frustrated when they drop nuclear bomb on japan in ww2.
wow…Naveed- your ignorance is appalling.
Why dont you mention the thousands of people getting massacred in Darfur by muslims. Also, how did pakistan that had 25% hindu population in 1947 just has 2 % remaining today while India( according to you the country that kills muslims) has allowed its muslim population to grow from 10% in 1947 to 18% at present. Also, how can you conveniently forget the pogrom where 3 mill bengalis (mostly hindus) were killed by the pakistani army ? How about the pakistani sponsored terrorists killing hindus in kashmir and practically wiping out the hindu population from their native lands of 1000s of years?
How do you think islam spread? Do you think that Mohd. Gori or Ghazni were epitomes of peace? Didnt they invade/pillage and rape to spread their empire? Didnt they force their subjects to either convert to islam or die?
I guess revenge and pain are applicable only for muslims. Guess every other faith should just shut up and wait to be killed or converted to islam…
Until islam modifies its teachings and encourages tolerance of other faiths this will continue. I am afraid the next great war is going to be due to islam….
Mark.
Naveed
my friend you need really need to take some time and learn WHY those bombs were dropped on Japan …. usually when i see a comment like this, its from a person like you who has no concept of past history. To people like you, the dropping of those bombs are an unspeakable evil that trumps all the other horrific acts committed in that war by the Axis powers.
Let me enlighten you: the projected casualty figures for invading Japan in 1945 ran to the tune of 800,000 allied killed and wounded and 1.8 to as high as 3 million Japanese, mostly civilian, killed or injured. i cant remember the exact number killed and injured in the two cities, but i think it was like 250,000…. big difference huh?
Btw… the author of this Artical is dead on, its one of the main reasons why governments (and militant Islam) focuses on getting their recruits from the young who haven’t experienced life yet.
Amazing to learn this really it added to my knowledge that sexual frustration can be a factor to motivate me or someone else to go for a suicide bombing……
Well West (Specially BUSH administration) must take some precautionary measures to prevent this class of terrorists here are some suggestions
a). An army of Young sexy babes should be trained to tackle these terrorists hopefully it will work
b). US shoudl try throwing some beautiful guided gals instead of missiles on spotted locations of terrorists it will sure short help and reduce the number of innocent people being killed by missiles.
c). A plan B should be there if abovementioned plans fail.
Please I would appreciate if someone else could add some suggestions to stop these sexually frustrated terrorists.
My Best Regards,
Imran
You know what…… Mr. Imran……this was what i wanted to proof … that most of Pakistani… we dont take things seriously……. not even our country and even our religion..
than what u expect from non muslims and other nationals
Well, look, the topic, however well-intentioned, is on first sight very demeaning, so I can understand some of the frustrations here. Thanks, Matt. Unlike some, like Lisa Richards, I appreciate that you disagree with the atomic bombings; they were a crime against humanity, different in context vis-a-vis the Holocaust, but similar in impact/consequences. Well, younger, immature people are easy to influence, and have difficulty discerning the right from the wrong. Sexual pleasure is but one aspect of a complex set of issues driving these youth to how we perceive them—as maniacs
Muhammad took 6 year old Aaysha to bed !!!!
Where was Allah then ????
The overwhelming majority of muslim people are nothing but pathetic losers who love to blame non-muslims for everything. They have an inferiority complex as they are unable to engage in fair competition with non-muslims and get left behind in the dark ages. So what do muslim people do? Just like an illegitimate/bastard child who is jealous of the legitimate heir and plots to overthrow the legitimate spawn, the muslims also plot and scheme against non-muslims in the name of jihad.
The prophecies of the clairvoyant sage Nostradamus who several centuries ago predicted the threat that the world would be faced with due to the rise of militant Islam thru it’s followers is begining to come true.
Today Islam, which is inherently an evil, aggressive and militant religion is fast spreading it’s tentacles all over the world with the western civilization as it’s first target. If the west falls to Islam, as disturbing current trends in the west seem to indicate, the rest of the world will be next in the crosshairs of the muslims and their sinister religion.
Now that whatever Michel Nostradamus predicted centuries ago is beggining to come true, let’s hope that it all does indeed end the way he predicted. That an alliance of several major non-muslim powers will combine forces to crush the islamic serpants once and for all. For 14 centuries muslims have been a plague to the rest of humanity. Through the sword they usurped splendid civilizations like Zoroastrian Persia and Christian Byzantine and those who the muslims failed to conquer by force were converted thru deceit, subterfuge and bribes.
Let’s hope the rest of the world wakes up to this diabolic threat before it’s too late. Muslims and their religion are an abomination that the world must be rid of.
That has got to be the most pathetic blog I have ever seen. There is only one thing I have to say. There is a day where everybody is going to meet the god. And that day you will be really sad of what you have written today. Mark my words.
A Spanish Proverb goes something like this: “When the one downstairs starts thinking, the one upstairs stops thinking!”
In other words sex is a great stress buster and relief in a world that is getting more and more unlivable by the minute. If we were to turn that proverb on its head it would explain much of the terrorism rife in the world. “When you can’t explode from down there your head literally explodes with the frustration and what do you know…the next moment you are ready to explode yourself in the name of a stupid cause!”
thanx for the information and opinions… this has truly been interesting…
“The real-politik terrorists like IRA or LTTE as the latter would not kill themselves through suicide bombing; ”
The writer doesnt know that LTTE first used suicide bombing to kill Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and they constantly maintain a suicide attack force.
This article is absolutely rubbish and aimed at downplaying Islam.
@ Imran, those were nice suggestions…..lolz..
i agree with this article and think people need to lay off of it sexual frustration does have a factor and so does religious extremism and if they want to elaborate more on it ppl should go to other sites and get information and put the pieces together
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Yea sexual frustration… yea that’s the reason… what a crock of shit this is. It’s funny how liberals always find a way to channel and blame everything through sex. It’s absolutely ridiculous, these people do not blow themselves up because they don’t have sex, that’s an absurd assumption
They have other reasons that are much more viable than a lack of sexual relations. Taking one look at the situation between Palestine and Israel you can see EXACTLY the reason why they blow themselves. When you cage someone up in their own land and keep them imprisoned with military walls and barbed wire. When you’re pushed to the edge on a daily basis by these Zionist animals then you see the real reason why muslims blow themselves up.
looking back to 3 years ago and seeing this sheer stupidity really gives me a perspective on liberal vs conservative ideologies. It’s a back and forth crock of shit to keep you blind so that you don’t see the real enemies and who’s really to blame.
I total agree with this topic…”MAN NEED SEX FOR SURVIVAL” and the man who cannot find wife or girlfriend resorts to prostitutes and in worst case if he even cant afford that he resorts to rape….or masturbation…..i must say masturbation doesn’t make a man happy it only releases his sperms but not fulfill his desire of being with a woman, a person who have sex everyday with his gf or wife..is happy form inside…even unemployed man is getting sex from a woman ….he might be energetic and wont fall into depression…90% of murder-suicides and suicides in USA and all over the world is committed by men because when the female deny men sex..men becomes aggressive…its nothing wrong with that SEX is like food and breath to survive…regarding the person who says homosexuality is high among Christians let me tell him USA might be an open free society but there also its very hard to get free sex form a woman…a single man is also much more likely to develop physical and emotional illnesses and commit suicide, as men without women turn to other men for sexual outlets. I went through the list of societies which affirm homosexuality.
What a pathetic and completely waste of time topic.
The truth is what’s driving young Muslims to the militant Islam is the American double standard foreign policies towards the Islam.
When they see so many injustices around the world this angers many young Muslims and they became radicalised with deep hatred towards the America.