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Terrorism and CP
THE CHILDHOOD ORIGINS OF TERRORISM
A RESPONSE TO CRITICISM OF "THE BABY FACE OF HATE" June 26 2002 Friends, Some readers have responded to my posting of David Tell's "The Baby Face of Hate" with warnings that such an article could foment ethnic hostility by promoting a negative stereotype of people of Middle Eastern origin. I've had similar reactions to other articles in the section on Project NoSpank, "The Childhood Origins of Terrorism." I don't dismiss such criticism outright, but I am very skeptical that these materials could directly or indirectly fuel the fires of ethnic suspicion or hostility. Bigots warmly identify with child abusers, so my hunch is they are looking elsewhere than Project NoSpank for their "intellectual" stimulation. As for "negative stereotyping," I refuse to accept any obligation to sanitize what I publish on the chance that it might be misconstrued or unfairly applied. Readers of these pages are grown-ups. I respect their ability (and their right!) to evaluate these arguments on their merits. I do my best to give equal treatment to child abusers whether they are from the Middle East or from middle Ohio, whether they attempt to justify their bad behavior by this religion or that religion, by one set of cherished traditions or another. And I fully understand that "The Baby Face of Hate" may be especially painful to people who's cultural roots are shared by the subjects of the article. For the same reason, the facts about the overrunning of indigenous cultures, slavery, the KKK, the internment of Japanese Americans during WW II and McCarthyism are not the facts that make me swell with pride as an American. But avoidance or suppression of such information, or the sweetening of it by the addition of soothing qualifiers, doesn't serve any useful purpose. The truth about abusive child rearing and all its associated social pathologies, such as misogyny, sectarian hatred, war mongering and war making, need to be reported frankly and unapologetically. I wish there were more honest and lively debate about these matters in the mosques, madrassahs, and mainstream Arabic media, but at this precarious moment in history the voices of dissent in the Muslim world are few and hushed. One listens it seems in vain for the sweet voice of reason. Jordan Riak * Ali Salem: I Want to Start a Kindergarten for Extremism, November 2001 (Source: The Middle East Media Research Institute -- MEMRI.org * David Tell: The Baby Face of Hate -- MEMRI releases an astonishing example of the "true Muslim" faith, June 12, 2002 * Lloyd deMause: The Childhood Origins of Terrorism, November 2001 * Alice Miller: The Wellsprings of Horror in the Cradle, October 2001 * Phyllis Chesler: The Psychoanalytic Roots of Islamic Terrorism, FrontPageMagazine.com, May 3, 2004 * Jamie Glazov: The Sexual Rage Behind Islamic Terror, FrontPageMagazine.com, October 4, 2001 * Jamie Glazov: Atta's Rage Rooted in Islam's Misogyny, FrontPageMagazine.com, October 12, 2001 * Riane Eisler: The School for Violence -- A conversation with Riane Eisler, LA Weekly, September 28, 2001 * Salman Rushdie: Yes, This Is About Islam, The New York Times, November 2, 2001 * Philip Caputo: Afghan Boy Gets Lesson in Manhood, Excerpt from "20 Years of Training for War," The New York Times, October 4, 2001 http://www.nospank.net/origins.htm |
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