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Denial of Sexuality and Prostitution by Somali Clan Elders
September 27, 2010 - Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin, Ph.D.,, Joan Jutta Lachkar,
Ph.D.
Once again a few bad apples from the Minnesota Somali community make it into
the news. To the western mind this does not make sense as we discussed
<http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.7214/pub_detail.asp>
in our last article, it is part of an upside down world (Humpty Dumpty).
Although we still dont know the name of the gang involved in setting up a
prostitution ring -- Is it the Hot Boyz, Murda Gang, Somali Outlaws, or
remotely perhaps Al-Shabaab or a new gang, but will the papers tell it
right?
The Somalis who live in Minnesota are not different from any other American
parents and what they want for their children -- to clothe them, put food on
the table and have them receive a good education. Basically we are talking
about good people and law-abiding citizens. Nevertheless, one should also
read Andrew McCarthys chapter 21 The Enclave of Minnesota inThe Grand
Jihad.
This social/ cultural problem links to what the Muslim world refers to as
Inshallah; Allah Wills it. Problems are not to be solved but are the will
of Allah, to be accepted at face value.
But how does this fit with the discovery of a prostitution ring connected to
the Somali youth gang in Minnesota? What can we learn from this development
and what can we possibly offer to remedy such a tragic situation?
Already Muslim taxi drivers of Minneapolis/St. Paul airport are
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,241527,00.html> coerced and supported
by the Muslim Brotherhood front group MAS, many of whom were Somali, having
caused quite a headache trying to impose Sharia law on innocent travelers.
This is not a far cry from Chinese torture of death by ten thousand cuts as
they chip away at the fabric of the society in which they are embedded and
engage in lawfare.
It also is not a secret that Al-Shabaab, the terrorist organization, has
recruited here in the context of
<http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.6956/pub_detail.asp>
attracting people from the Somali community.
What is baffling is - what is the hook that brings children into gangs,
terrorist organizations or prostitution? It does not take rocket science to
understand the elements that bring people into this kind of deviant
behavior.
What follows are six points to be considered as basic elements of terrorism:
1. Terrorism is a Form of Violence
"Political violence" vs. "Criminal violence of organized crime", no matter
how we categorize it, the fundamental dynamics are shame, aggression,
denial, magical thinking and rage.
2. The Enmeshed Dysfunctional Clan
In Somali culture it represents the groups mentality as it is a fused,
enmeshed group where the individual does not exist. Scapegoating is routine
(shame/blame/humiliation) and the female pays the price. We wonder about the
15 year old female who was <http://www.t-g.com/story/1667338.html> pulled
into prostitution and what her history of abuse must be. Does it include
female genital mutilation?
3. The Denial of the Clan Elders
Why should they be shocked? In part, they are the authoritarian leaders of
this shame-honor culture. Breaking the law and being exposed are like
hanging dirty laundry in public. It is excruciatingly humiliating to the
group and reflects badly on these fathers.
While there have been other prostitution rings among the white population,
it is the constellation of historical, cultural, religious and social
factors that make for a much more volatile mix.
4. The Question of Mafia-like Organized Crime
Ironically the word <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia> mafia is thought
to come from the Arabic where it came into being in Sicilian culture. The
Arabs ruled there for seven hundred years. Arab culture is the most
venerated of all Muslim cultures by the Somalis.
Whatever the name of the Somali gang, its deplorable involvement in
prostitution is a good example of what David Gaubatz and Paul Sperry
describe in their book The Muslim Mafia.
5. The Underestimated Problem of Sadomasochism
The master-slave mentality runs deep in Islam. It is the tie that binds into
bondage. A very difficult bond to get out of. Islam is a religion about
submission, control and domination as it even extends to the expression of
ones sexuality, e.g. it is permissible to beat a wife Surah 4:34. The
other in Islam, like the infidel, is viewed as female. The female is to be
erased by the burqa its veil of delusion. There is a long standing
venerated history of concubines and sex slaves as well. This is discussed in
the Sira, which is the biography of the prophet Muhammad. All of his
behaviors are to be embraced and imitated. Sexual practices of domination,
submission and control course through the ideologies.
6. Denial, Dissociation and Trauma
These three elements are key to understanding what happens when children are
abused. It is the prologue to violence (see the work of Abby Stein, Jessica
Sterns, Denial and Ursula Mahlendorfs The Shame of Survival: Working
Through a Nazi Childhood as well as Dr. Kathy Seifert on how children become
violent.
The clan elders are in denial and we speculate that it is because of the
underlying unhealthy group dynamics and their own personal histories of
having been brutalized during childhood. They can not tolerate experiencing
their own bad feelings which is expressed by their shock, i.e being in
denial. The clan manifests fragile maladaptive social bonding because it is
shame honor based held together by a girdle of sadomasochistic religious
ideologies.
Tawfik Hamid, a reformist Muslim, characterizes the behavior of the ummah
and its clan/tribe as engaging in passive aggressive terrorism. The issues
of Al-Shabab, other Somali youth gangs and its sex-slave/prostitution ring
are cause for pausing to address these critical issues. From rape the
behavior can easily escalate to murder, even under the pretext of jihad.
What must we do?
First deal with being in denial. Then, interrupt the cycle of violence by
enhancing early childhood development which will in turn improve social
bonding, thereby diminishing the chances of producing jihadis early on. Help
for the little girl should be the replacement for shame! She should know
that we will be there for her.
Dr. Nancy Kobrin, a psychoanalyst with a Ph.D. in romance and semitic
languages, specializes in Aljamía and Old Spanish in Arabic script. She is
an expert on the Minnesota Somali diaspora and a graduate of the Human
Terrain System program at Leavenworth Kansas. Her new book is
<http://www.amazon.com/Banality-Suicide-Terrorism-Psychology-Islamic/dp/1597
975044> The Banality of Suicide Terrorism: The Naked Truth About the
Psychology of Islamic Suicide Bombing.
Dr. Joanie Lachkar is a licensed Marriage and Family therapist in private
practice in Brentwood and Tarzana, California, who teaches psychoanalysis
and is the author of The Narcissistic/Borderline Couple: A Psychoanalytic
Perspective on Marital Treatment (1992, The Many Faces of Abuse: Treating
the Emotional Abuse of High -Functioning Women (1998), The V-Spot, How to
Talk to a Narcissist, How to Talk to a Borderline and a recent paper, The
Psychopathology of Terrorism presented at the Rand Corporation and the
International Psychohistorical Association. She is also an affiliate member
for the New Center for Psychoanalysis.
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