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Prurience and Piety: that recent Malaysian case

November 3, 2011

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Prurience as well as piety: which recent Malaysian box Clive Kessler

Dina Zaman, in her commentary entitled "Let's talk about (halal) sex" (The Malaysian Insider, October 26) has already commented that: "Like many Malaysians, I was astounded as well as mute when I read online accounts of a launch of a [now-banned] book titled, 'Seks Islam Perangi Yahudi Untuk Kembalikan Seks Islam Kepada Dunia (Sex in Islam Wage War Against Jews To Return Islamic Sex To The World)'.

"One, a English patrician begged to be deciphered as it done no sense. Two, a title, even when understood, additionally begged for a cessation of disbelief. They cannot be serious about this: Having kosher sex meant which a Jews would be destroyed? How? What position would assistance destroy a Zionists for good?"

Not out of prurience, or any love of "raunch" as well as sexual scandal, nor even to expel most deserved gibe on these pitiable "wannabes", but to prove as well as reflect a peculiar inlet of a "full-on" Islamist "political psyche" and, some-more generally, for a speculation of a depth psychologists as well as domestic symbolism "decoders" courtesy must be called to this weird variant, or "transformation", of a 1960s aphorism "make love, not war".

Here a divine claim is which a great wife should obediently have loyal Islamic love to her Muslim father as a approach of making fight on a Jews, opposite Jewish domination.

Or in other words, a Obedient Wives Club, as well as a "militant Islamist lifestyle" organisations behind a OWC ladies, are here charity this neo-pietistic, "over-conformist" as well as rarely "patriarchal" Islamist sexuality (and their own obsessively disagreeable regard with which very thwarted as well as unfree nonetheless rarely licentious kind of sexuality as well as libidinal energy) as a approach to counter supposed Jewish domination of Islam: of a private intimate lives of Muslims, as well as thereby of a universe generally.

They are charity this rampant, voracious nonetheless additionally frightfully compelled as well as obsessively coerced "full-on Islamist sexuality" as, in effect, a approach for a great Muslim men, upon a bodies of their obedient wives as well as greatfully excuse here my, in this context inescapable, indelicacy "performatively" to say, or declare, or in actuality to order a proposition "f**k a Jews!"

Go figure! It sounds insane.But it goes to (or perhaps erotically "touches upon"?) something which people need to recognise.

It calls direct courtesy to a deeply ingrained, florid, as well as rank anti-Jewish attitudes, prejudices as well as obsessions which are "in-built", if not into classical Islam, afterwards into a common essence of those who have from a sources a kind of "old-time religion."

For those who are committed to such regressive forms of celebrated as well as over-conforming nonetheless disagreeable piety, these obsessions serve as key, powerful as well as (quasi-) religiously infused as well as "sacralised" penetrating motivators, or "drivers", of a militant Islamist genius as well as all a often weird projects.

* Clive Kessler is Emeritus Professor of Sociology as well as Anthropology during a University of New South Wales, Sydney.