The Need for Scapegoats in All Forms of Oppressive Regimes

[Leonardo17]

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I could not find another topic where I can post this so I’m going to post this here.
 
Many authoritarian regimes in the past like the Fascists in Germany or even the Soviets have oppressed the LGBTQ community. In Germany they were simply exterminated. In the Soviet Union you were mostly forced to hide it. I have learned that authoritarian regimes like and need this type of scape goats. They are in desperate need of some people they can present to their brainwashed mobs. Sometimes these are “Jews” sometimes these are “gipsy’s” in many cases these are “homosexuals”. In history these have been “heretics” or “witches”. For the last example they will simply modify the first letter of the word and then use this word like they were using it in the past and no one is going to object.
 
In oppressive regimes there is always this need to target some groups of people. And if anyone has any doubt on the fact that political Islam is just another chapter in this row of fascist regimes that were invented for the most part in the 20’Th century, just look at the way it works.
 
Here is a very nice example on the speech of The One who is the President for One More Week:
 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/turkey-leader...46109.html
 
The issue here is this. Political Islam (as an ideology) has claims of cultural and religious identity (Just like fascism and other forms of populism). Yet before giving in to their claims I suggest that you do some research on Orientalism for instance. When I was in college I did study Orientalist painters like Eugene de la Croix for instance. Even in the beginning of the 20th century the Orient was seen by Europeans as this mystical realm that was visited by archeologists and treasure hunters like Max Mallowan or his wife Agatha Christie who became famous for her works like “Murder in the Orient Express”. Or the Howard Carter who uncovered the Famous tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922 (after which several archeologists had died leaving a debate behind them on whether the tomb was cursed or not.
 
Also, the orient was this realm of poetry, eastern philosophy and earthly pleasures that seemed very exotic to the European viewer. So I am going to share this picture by Eugene de La Croix called “The Women of Algiers”. These are women from a harem who are rather loosely dressed and are having a good time listening to some good live music, being served by their slaves and smoking some Hashish (the local version of Marijuana):


 
So it would not be an exaggeration to say that this was the reality of the era. Ottoman elites were known for their taste in all sorts of arts, heavy consumption of alcohol, a great sense of enjoyment for what we call “night life”. In fact the Greek music style called “Rembetiko” comes from Constantinople. The inhabitants of Istanbul or Smyrna of the 19’th / early 20th century really knew how to add some pleasure into their lives in every sense of the term.
 
And homosexuality was not that much of an issue at the time. I believe that homophobia in the East is a Western import product, directly copied and pasted from 19th century Christians doctrines. I am very sure of that because in Roman and Byzantine times we clearly know that there were emperors who were openly bisexual or homosexual. So when we came and took over the place after the 15th century, we didn’t really see a need to change that. You might want to check the novel called “Samarkand” written by Mr. Amin Maalouf on this issue. Medieval Muslim societies were not sexually repressive at all. All that was needed was some level of discretion.
 
I think it was with the Westernization that started to be felt after the 18th that mobs were beginning to start looking for some “infidel” targets in order to be able to show how pious and religious they are. But still, things kept happening and no one was really obsessed about these things.
 
So this hatred for homosexuality is relatively new and honestly, I don’t know where it comes from. In fact I do. I think it’s because political Islam is just another version of fascism and their target is the Kurds, the Alawi minority, Again Jews, Armenians, Greeks, “The West” (Direct import from Putinism and Maoism).
 
And in purely spiritual terms: There is this appeal (in all religions) for responsible sexual behavior. With some criticism of Homosexuality. But there is no open condemnation of Homosexuality in Islam. Yet were still called (If I am getting it correctly) to have a correct / responsible kind of sexual behavior (as heterosexuals and homosexuals). The way I understand it, we can be whatever we are but if someone starts living like Freddy Mercury and the Gay community of 80’s with a very exaggerated sexual behavior that is harmful to the individual (not in terms of AIDS but in terms of being completely submerged into superficial and purely physical relationships that are ultimately self-destructive) That becomes a problem, and there, the spiritual teaching is warning us.
 
Otherwise: We are to be tolerant toward people who are different. That’s the main point of all religions on earth. So there it is: Political Islam = Fascism. That’s my theory

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