Islamist terrorism? All about, er, chicks?

Excerpts from an article in the quite progressive London Review of Books (full text subscriber only):

Anwar Awlaki’s Blog

Three days after Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an army psychiatrist, murdered 13 of his colleagues at the Soldier Readiness Center in Fort Hood last November, Anwar Awlaki, an imam with whom he had been in email contact, posted a notice on his website. ‘Nidal is a hero,’ Awlaki wrote:

He opened fire on soldiers who were on their way to be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan … How can there be any dispute about the virtue of what he has done? … May Allah grant our brother Nidal patience, perseverance and steadfastness, and we ask Allah to accept from him his great heroic act.

Awlaki was writing from Yemen, where to commend an attack on American soldiers as they prepare for deployment in Muslim countries is such a commonplace that it is unlikely to attract much attention. But the US anti-terrorism authorities were already familiar with Awlaki from his career (1996-2002) as a preacher in San Diego, Fort Collins, and Falls Church, Virginia, and will have taken note…

…If I were looking into the reason young men from nice families in the West turn themselves into terrorists, I would hang around for a while in one of the mosques in Sana’a where foreigners pray. To do this is to undergo a speedy but effective education in the meaning of triumph to this particular class of young men. They are not life’s golden children. They don’t look like sports stars; they don’t know how to charm a room with their smile; many have the mousy air of people who were overlooked at school. But they too want success. Most of all, they want women, and the promise Islam makes all young male believers is that the ummah will smooth away problems concerning the female sex. We will bring you your helpmeet, it promises. She will have been raised on the Quran. She will love you for your Islamic learning, and for your dedication to the religion.

Young men in Yemen longing for wives believe this – and with good reason. Many of their older friends have asked the local imam for a wife, paid the bride price, gone through an Islamically proper engagement, and married. They really have arranged for themselves a triumph over the problem of women. Is Allah preparing a similar victory for their younger, loveless brothers? The Sura al-Nasr, or ‘chapter of victory’, which every student of Islam in Yemen memorises in his first days in the country, promises that he is…

The author:

Theo Padnos has studied Islam in Yemen and Syria. His book Undercover Muslim will be published later this year.

More interesting observations about Mr Padnos’ time in Yemen here.

18 Replies to “Islamist terrorism? All about, er, chicks?”

  1. Someone made a comment that marriage in the Islamic world is a class thing, which might explain why some do not want to educate women. If a man will be nothing but a poor cab driver for the rest of his life, he will want a woman of equal or lesser status to marry. A university educated woman will not marry such a man. A whole host of university-educated women certainly won’t marry such men. If the marriage pool is nearly depleted, problems will occur. Adding to the tribal and horribly misogynist attitudes prevalent there, one has a recipe for social disaster.
    I certainly hope no one is going to excuse the “socially awkward” Muslim fanatic for his crimes.

  2. Now that makes about as much sense as anything….the problem with violent muzzies is they need to get laid……
    Mr.g
    Yeah that’s a HEE HEE.
    If that muslim fella had read the Old Testiment he would have been forewarned…….

  3. Get ’em laid, they’ll still be Muslims, whose figure of religious veneration would still be one of the most vile turds it’s ever been civilization’s misfortunes to be plagued with.
    No, I’m against some sort of “Sex for
    Shitheeds” (Shaheeds?…whatever) welfare plan.

  4. chicks, virgins , or raisens , if you need them because your iman oppresses you ,you need them.
    where is “new” or “sure” to defend it .
    in “new”s world it all comes down to Lob laws and chicken.

  5. As wise Canadian Colin James wrote:
    “There’s only three things worth of living for and that’s chicks, cars and the third world war.”
    I wish I could find a video of the song to suggest for SDA late night radio.

  6. Someone pointed to a British Blog where a wealthy Saudi university student was detailing his seducing British gals and tossing them like old clothes.
    His boasting detailed accounts of total disrespect were impossible to judge as verified or fiction.
    Boasting usually brings about a kick-in-the- head.
    I’m hoping.

  7. No, I’m against some sort of “Sex for
    Shitheeds” (Shaheeds?…whatever) welfare plan.

    ~Mike James
    How about we get all the “chicks” a .38, speed loaders, and 1000 rounds of ammo for each.
    Seems cheaper to me and the Shahids get their ticket to Allah punched.
    It’s win-win all around for everyone, except for the goats.

  8. TG- For 40 years I’ve been scratching my head over the willingness of young girls to lower their standards, and be used and abused by all manner of lowlives. The fact that a rich raghead does it is no surprise, at all. As far as I’m concerned he’s no better, or worse, than any other abuser.

  9. aaaaaaaand the A #1 boss way way out in front intolerant religion?
    christianity.
    because if you don’t believe in *their* son of man y’all gonna BURN FO-EVAH.
    no word yet on the fate of 100s of millions of humans born out of earshot of the message. unless we refer once again to christian dogma and the verdict on the unwashed savages.
    christians are so intolerant they have been fighting each other for thousands of years and all the while splitting into countless denominations. read the 2nd paragraph:
    3w.religioustolerance.org/worldrel.htm
    approx a THOUSAND of them in n. america alone. with countless claiming to be the ‘only true faith’. LOL !!!

  10. I just finished reading a book called Cruel and Usual Punishment by a Muslim woman….she touched on the lack of women and sex for Muslim men…after all on the Muslim marriage certificate there is a section where you write the name of your wife(s). Muslim men can have four wives and if they want to go out for a night of sex with other women they have to pay them and it is considered a marriage for that evening….that way it is not adultry…the problem is rich men have four wives and have all the girlfriends and the young Muslim cant find a woman.
    Read this book and you will get a great insight into the way Muslim thinks and why there is no hope they will ever get along with us….they are taught to kill us and their holy book encourages it.
    Frustated sexual men have only one way to get women…..he is told to wage jihad and to die doing this is a sure guarantee of getting 72 virgins in heaven….can you belive this crap?

  11. It is largely about women. The Islamists
    say that our way of life is profoundly immoral;
    and because they see it as the way of death they
    blame it for alcoholism, drug addiction, and the
    low fertility which will bring our way of life to
    an end. They also fear its temptations: their Satan is the
    great seducer, “who whispers in the hearts of men”.

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