I don’t know that “gay,” in our understanding, is an operative concept within that culture. It’s quietly accepted, for young Muslim males to have sexual contact with one another prior to marriage. Open, notorious professions of this are not accepted, though, to the point of stoning or public hanging.
It’s also not at all uncommon for older Muslim males to have relations with young boys. I believe this was found to be so open and common in Afghanistan as to be very disturbing to our troops.
Maybe therein lies part of the reason, for the peculiar axis of leftist radicals and militant Islam. Not only do they both want to destroy western civilization in general, but they both undermine Judeo-Christian mores, in word and deed.
The wedge appears to be western feminism. But, feminists remain oddly silent. For that, I have no explanation. Maybe they just see an opportunity to kill off the majority of males, leaving females transcendent? There are weirder notions in currency, among the more radical lesbian contingent, so it’s not out of the question.
The majority unwittingly allowed discourse to be captured and controlled by all these radicals, of wildly differing stripes but all in agreement as to the destruction of this society as we know it. It’s going to be a very difficult exercise, to regain the public square while maintaining our form of governance. They know this.
...but Hasan was 38 years old and unmarried. At some point, he would have had to make a decision regarding his sexuality, a decision that would have been complicated by other decisions that he had made in life, joining the military, joining a radical mosque and the decision not to marry.
I wonder how many of the people that Hasan shot were women? We know that one was a 21 year old, pregnant young woman.