I can't even begin to fathom the thought process behind that.
I can't even begin to fathom the thought process behind that.
Islam is all about submission to Allah, and the fatalistic belief that everything that happens is "Allah's Will".
Some people are attracted to this. Nothing is your fault, it's all Allah's Will. No need for personal responsibility, nor for striving to make yourself better.
It's also a reason why some people like Communism, and some cult movements -- to submerge themselves in The Group.
Read the book The True Believer: Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements (1951)
From one of the reviews:
"The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause."--Eric Hoffer, The true BelieverNone of the terrorists of September 11 were destitute. Some even had wives and children. Nevertheless, they committed suicide for their cause. Anyone wanting to understand this horrible irony would do well to read Eric Hoffer's 1951 classic, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements. Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) was a self-educated US author and philosopher who was a migratory worker and longshoreman until 1967. He achieved immediate acclaim with his first book, The true Believer.
According to Hoffer, the early converts to any mass movement come from the ranks of the "frustrated," that is, "people who..feel that their lives are spoiled or wasted." The true believers' "Faith in [their] holy cause is to a considerable extent a subsitute for [their] lost faith in [themselves]." He says that we are prone to throw ourselves into a mass movement to "supplant and efface the self we want to forget." He then adds, "We cannot be sure that we have something worth living for unless we are ready to die for it."
RE: One Jewish gay kid even converted to islam.
I can’t even begin to fathom the thought process behind that.
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Maybe this article will help...
EXCERPT:
Sex in prison is often coerced or worse, but that reality doesn’t explain the consensual practice of homosexual acts involving prisoners who identify strictly as heterosexual. Such inmates often pursue sexual relationships with willing feminine homosexual prisoners. In other instances, self-described straight inmates might coerce same-sex favors or commit same-sex rape for predatory reasons. But the bottom line is this: homosexual sex is culturally permissible in prison, and it is practiced willingly by many inmates who claim to be straight.
This sort of homosexual culture seems similar to homosexual practices in Afghanistan where “Pashtun men interpret the Islamic prohibition on homosexuality to mean they cannot ‘love’ another man — but that doesn’t mean they can’t use men for sexual gratification.” According to an unclassified U.S. military study, “Pashtun men commonly have sex with other men, admire other men physically, have sexual relationships with boys and shun women both socially and sexually — yet they completely reject the label of homosexual.”
In America, I think the Pashtun culture is defined by the phrase on the down low, not to be confused with the word gay. But like Hilary Clinton once said, “What difference at this point does it make?” Words now mean whatever liberals say they mean.