How Do You Turn a Man Taliban?
by Ted Keer
With the recent arrest of "brilliant neurologist" Mohammed Asha of Jordan in the failed car-bombing attacks in Picadilly Circus and Glasgow I am once again reminded upon looking at the pictures and description of the gifted 26 year old would-be killer that he fits into the strange, and while not undeniable, at least plausible mould of the Jihadi as a sexually sublimated self-hating killer.
The story of John Walker Lindh, "the American Taliban," now serving a 20 year sentence near his parents in the Federal prison in the North West is widely known, if not openly discussed. Raised as a non-practicing Catholic by both parents, Lindh experimented with many juvenile identities, none of which seemed to have meaning for him. He even adopted the hip-hop-moniker Hine. E. Craque, (see The Making of John Walker Lindh for details) a name which seemed to speak more about Freudian than matters having to do with rap music.
Lindh was an outcast in America, where he was homeschooled for a period due to his inability to adjust to moves made during his youth, but was always considered sensitive and gifted. After high school, he embarked on his overseas adventures, again, always an outcast, always seen as too serious, travelling from Yemen where he was seen as a Salafist outsider in the Shi'a land. He returned home shortly in 1999 to find his father had come out as gay and that his parents were amicably divorced. Lindh finally voyaged to Pakistan, where:
"Hayat met Lindh and took him on a tour of various madrasahs, searching for the perfect one from Karachi in the south to Peshawar in the northwest. The young American rejected them all and preferred remaining at Hayat's side. He helped Hayat at his store, a prosperous business dealing in powdered milk. Hayat, who has a wife and four children, says he had sex with Lindh. "He was liking me very much. All the time he wants to be with me," says Hayat, who has a good though not colloquial command of English. "I was loving him. Because love begets love, you know." Lindh's lawyers deny that their client engaged in homosexual relationships."
from http://www.rickross.com/reference/islamic/islamic56.html
From T.E. Lawrence and his rumoured relations with bedouins to the bizarre sexual pre-occupations of the 9-11 hijackers to the current boy-faced gifted young killers in Britain, the air of unhappy un-self-acknowledged frustrated men turned crusaders and warriors comes to the fore. It was a long-standing tactic of the P.L.O. and its cohorts to use youths caught in adultery or unmarried women found pregnant, and very likely presumed homosexuals (all of whom would normally be killed, and in dying, would have shamed their families) as willing victims who would redeem their sexual shame by dying a martyr's death. Given this tactic, I have to wonder when I see such sweet young faces such as that of Asha's on TV, is this the moral equivalent of the Nazi S.A. Brownshirts, and their openly homosexual adventurer/leader Ernst Roehm, once again seeking a thrill and perhpas some more covert shame before they redeem themselves by turning from mere self-identified perverts to willing victims if not wanton killers?
Ted Keer
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