[lit-ideas] Militant Ideology Sociobiology
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:38:40 -0500
You're all gonna lash me for this, but what the heck.
Looking at a photo of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, I had a weird
sociobiological thought. What if terrorism is not about
postcolonial stress, US foreign policy, religion, ethnicity,
ideology, or oil?
What if terrorism, on some deep genetic level, is about
hairy-backed males securing females with whom to mate?
Hairy-backed males are at a selective disadvantage in
mating. It's a real turn-off for females. In the secular
West, many hairy-backed males get their backs waxed so as to
appeal to females.
Islam -- and this is only incidental to Islam by the way --
creates a rigid male-dominant structure where the
hairy-backed male members can secure procreation rights to
females. The females cannot easily divorce and are more or
less the property of the males. Islamic societies allow the
hairy-backed in their populations to mate more easily.
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