The canine phenomenon is not far removed from sexually deviant sub-
humans and is why many women refer to men as ‘dogs’ and unchaste women
are called “bitch’ by hip-hopster Americans. When the human sexual
response is mitigated by a lack of trust—this to say by the fear of rejection =>
fear of divine judgment => fear of hell => fear of abandonment—as a
fundamental but sub-conscious component of fitrah , then the obsessive-
compulsive inclination becomes a chronic subliminal fixation that governs
every thought word and deed. The bias of this fear is all-embracing and
permeates human activity at all levels in the absence of virtuous example and
restraint: meaning the absence of justice which equates to the absence of
Islamic adab spreads autonomously like a cancer.
With or without the leather and chain trappings of bondage, the lack of
tender trust is now manifesting on entertainment venues as institutionalized
forms of sado-masochism in the West. In this kind of perverted nikah , both
parties are desperately seeking to actualize trust and associate it with the best
of pleasures: sex. As cited previously, most sadists are males who derive
pleasure from touching the person whom they have subjected to pain or
threats of murder if their prurient intrusion is revealed, and marriages in
Islamic cultures that accept wife beating have actually established a kind of
consensual rape under threat of this violence. The primal need for human
touch is thus socialized in defiance of Allah’s tender covenant with the infant
and met by both parties through terror, a venue without which the sexual
deviant cannot achieve both dominance and orgasm.^ This and other
unmentionable perversions have long ago entered Islamic Institutions but
little are they dealt with consequently.^65 Hence, in the modern world, there
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` A Pakistani minister has revealed hundreds of cases of alleged child sex abuse at
Islamic schools, or madrassas. There were 500 complaints this year of abuse allegedly
committed by clerics, Aamer Liaquat Hussain, a minister in the religious affairs
department, said. That compares with 2,000 last year, but as yet there have been no
successful prosecutions, Mr Hussain told the BBC. The minister's revelations have sparked
death threats and infuriated some religious political leaders. Mr Hussain said he had
received death threats from clerics, but that he had done his job and his conscience was
clear. Leaders angered : The time had come for his country to face the bitter truth - the
sickness of child abuse, he said. The allegations involving Pakistan's Sunni majority and
Shia minority referred to a tiny proportion of the country's 10,000 or so madrassas, he said.
He added that the body responsible for them, the Federation of Madrassas, was willing to
co-operate with investigations because some clerics were bringing a bad name to Islam.
However, the revelations have angered some Islamic leaders. At a parliamentary meeting
this week, some demanded he apologise. The abuse revelations were made during a week