American College of Orgonomy - The Global Breakthrough of the Emotional Plague in the Form of Black Fascism

Without an understanding of the operation of the emotional plague it is not possible to satisfactorily comprehend why America is the object of Islamic fanatic hatred. It is characteristic of the emotional plague that the stated reason for a destructive act is never the real motive. Some of those alleged reasons are the following: outrage over Western social, political, economic and military dominance in the world, indignation over U.S. support of Israel, the sense of grievance for the perceived humiliation of the Islamic people at the hands of the West, the decadence of Western society and so on.

The real reason that the Islamic fanatics are driven to destroy America is that they cannot tolerate the free-flowing, direct and life-positive impulses originating from the biological core that are part of and identified with American life. In principle, the American government embodies the core functions of human life (freedom, responsibility, independence, honesty, decency, fairness, generosity and so on). Since the emotional plague individual is incapable of experiencing pleasure from the biological core, life in America creates an intolerable, viscerally felt longing within the Islamic fanatic, which immediately becomes murderous hatred directed against the source of his emotional excitation. He must therefore kill Americans and destroy America. In order to accomplish this end he is actively aggressive and certain of his success.

The conditions leading up to the attack of September 11th were first set in motion in 1979 when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. In response, Washington fueled Afghan resistance to the Soviet invasion by passing billions of dollars of covert aid to the opposition fighters through the 1980s. When the Soviets were defeated and left Afghanistan in 1989, the opposition forces turned on one another and the country descended into anarchy. The United States and other Western governments did little to rebuild civil institutions. Militant Muslims eagerly stepped into the vacuum. In 1994 the Taliban, a band of militant students, launched a campaign to restore social stability and order. They also established a ruthless Islamic state and conducted a reign of terror. Although initially hailed as liberators who secured towns, made the streets safe, and cleaned up corruption and graft, the Taliban's strict form of Islamic law soon became a source of concern for the world. They subscribe to a very conservative, puritanical interpretation of Islam carried out through a policy of strict sexual suppression. They segregated the sexes outside the home, closed girls' schools, required that women be fully covered and veiled in public, and barred them from the workplace. They also banned television, cinema, and music, ordered men to grow beards and pray five times a day, and introduced hudud punishments (punishments for certain crimes as prescribed by the strict form of Islamic law, including amputation for theft, death for murder, and stoning to death for adultery). The process of social suppression acted like a double-edge sword. Not only did it promote social order and stability but it also served to heighten sexual tension and charge. This energy, which had no natural outlet, needed only the triggering effect of a hate mongering fanatic by the name of Osama bin Laden to awaken the masses of Arab youth, themselves the product of repressive upbringings in Saudi Arabia, Iraq and elsewhere, to wage a holy war on the infidels.

Like the Taliban, bin Laden is an emotional plague character of the black fascist variety. His association with the Taliban, who treat him as an honored guest for his support in defeating the Soviets, is based on the similarity of their character structures. Bin Laden was active in fighting the Afghan war against the Soviets because he saw them as a rival for the world domination they both sought, and as a threat to his religious mysticism. With the defeat of the Soviets, bin Laden redirected his hatred and destructiveness toward America by firing up Islamic youth who were characterologically primed and directing their rage in the form of destructive acts of terrorism.

His immediate goal now is to conquer the Arab world by provoking America to retaliate against Islamic states thereby uniting Muslims everywhere under the fundamentalist banner against the West. He rationalizes and hides the expression of his murderous hatred of unfettered life and his grandiose craving for domination of the Arab world by invoking the mystical cause of maintaining not only his own purity and that of the Islamic holy land but also the purity of his "race." To these ends he fanatically stops at nothing to attack and eliminate all who he perceives as threatening. Sadism, brutality and cunning are the rule and his object, rationalized as a pious duty, is to destroy races and religious sects other than his own through terror and consequent paralysis.

If it were not for the presence of the emotional plague in everyone, this behavior in an individual or particular group of individuals would be easy to deal with. In the current attack the dangers come from those groups belonging on the extremes of the sociopolitical spectrum, the black fascists (Islamic fundamentalists) on the right, and the red fascists (pseudo-liberals) 11 on the left. The black fascist terrorist rationalizes his behavior to his fellow Islamic fundamentalists so well that it is accepted by many of them as something desirable, for the common good. His effectiveness is also enhanced by striking a chord of emotional plague impulses residing in others at the opposite end of the spectrum, those of the liberal and pseudo-liberal character type. Because of pseudo-liberals feelings of guilt, their intellectualism and inability to act aggressively, they are quick to find fault with anything in American life that can be used to morally equate the Islamic fanatics and the United States-a form of moral masochism-thereby justifying the terrorist atrocities. Because contact with their biological core is either weak or absent, they are unable to fully sense the existence and destructiveness of the emotional plague.

While Islamic fundamentalists teach Arab children to hate America (e.g., "Dinosaurs were created by Americans to kill Muslims."), many American high school teachers and college professors on the Left masochistically tell their students to "understand" why Islamic fundamentalists hate America.

Contrary to popular belief, masochism does not mean the enjoyment of pain. Rather, it is a specific way of functioning that results in a person being mired in a state of chronic suffering because of an inability to mobilize healthy aggression. Harman summarizes the prominent features of masochism. 12 They include:

Harman continues: "All of these features result from an incapacity to express aggression. In the masochistic character this incapacity comes from an inability to expand and blocks all aggressive expression except complaining and spite. The liberal does not suffer from a general state of masochism, but is prone to react masochistically in certain situations, particularly one where authority must be exerted. Because of a tendency to retreat from the body into the head, the liberal's masochistic reaction is especially strong when the situation requires the exertion of physical force, because the impulse to use physical force comes from deep inside the body. "Thus, when his nation is attacked, the liberal is at risk for having the following masochistic reaction:

"This type of masochistic reaction only increases the sadism of the terrorist, leading to new attacks which further increase the masochistic response, and so on in a vicious cycle. The September 11th attacks were the culmination of a decade of such a cycle of sadomasochistic interaction."

The liberal is unconsciously sexually excited in a moral masochistic way by the moral sadism expressed in the ideology of the Islamic fanatic. The liberal masochistically submits to the sadistic Islamic fanatic. The relationship between the masochistic liberal and the sadistic Islamic fanatic is one of simple attractive opposition:

At the same time there is a covert expression of hatred toward America by the pseudo-liberal (red fascist) that is matched by the overt hatred expressed by the Islamic fanatic (black fascist). 13

This equation shows the hatred of the biological core functions that America stands for by the extreme left (red fascist) and the extreme right (black fascist).

The following are some general recommendations as to how to proceed in dealing with the September 11th emotional plague attack. These recommendations are presented in a highly condensed form and this should not be taken to mean that they are capable of being readily executed. We are dealing with a severe degree of social pathology that is deeply anchored within the biophysical structure of the Islamic masses. Under the best of conditions it will take generations to fully implement them.

Except for the Vietnam War, in no other war involving the Unites States has the ideological factor been as important as it is in America's war against the Islamic fanatics. It is of crucial importance that the emotional plague is recognized, first for its very existence and second, as a true medical disease. Without this recognition there can only be symptomatic treatment. It will not be possible to completely eradicate the roots of terrorism, which means an inevitable, future, protracted course of terrorist activity and war against it from time to time. Thus, effectively dealing with this attack of the emotional plague can be divided into four tasks of increasing difficulty. Each task is part of a stepwise process in eliminating mysticism in the Islamic masses.

The first task involves targeting and destroying all individuals who are involved in attacking America and those in other governments who are responsible for helping the attackers. This will be a continuing process of tracking down and eliminating these international criminals. For these individuals, the terror of experiencing pleasurable genital sensations has resulted in their turning into terrorists in their adult life. Because they have been terrorized into submission in early life, and because they are cowards, these fanatics in all Islamic countries need to be singled out and made to submit to American power through destruction and intimidation, without threatening the masses of Muslims. Black fascist regimes supporting terrorism against America must also be eliminated. This first step is identical to the policy goals announced by the U.S. government. The question arises: Given the cunning, mendacity and sadistic ruthlessness of the emotional plague, how does one effectively wage war against it without turning into a plague individual oneself? The answer is: By maintaining and sustaining full contact with one's biological core to maintain one's health and decency while using the methods of the emotional plague (clandestine activity, secrecy, duplicity and so on). The second task is to establish formal democracies in the Islamic states. Muslims must be free to choose their own government without external coercion. This process of democratization, which will take many years to accomplish, will provide a stable society and one that is not a threat to the rest of the world. The third task, which is related to the second, is to divest Islamic fundamentalist governments of their secular power over the people. 14 A democratic society cannot exist unless religion is separated from the state. The fourth task is to educate the younger generation over time about the importance of healthy sexual functioning and by doing so to lift the veil of ignorance that shrouds the Arab people in mysticism, ignorance, poverty and misery. Accomplishing this task will ensure that Arab youth, by not being terrorized as infants and children, will not grow up to become terrorists themselves. Without successfully implementing each of these measures, it is not realistic to think that the terrorist form of the emotional plague will be permanently eradicated.

It was stated earlier that it is essential to identify the emotional plague character to effectively combat terrorism and that before the emotional plague can be eradicated it's existence must first be recognized. Humanity must be brought into contact with its destructive presence in all aspects of social life in general, and in the active role it takes in Islamic black fascism in particular. Orgonometrically, this present day relationship between armored society on the one hand and the emotional plague on the other, is described in the following way:

This equation shows that the emotional plague exists precisely because the true nature of this form of human destructiveness is not recognized. The situation is exactly the same as that in combating any form of infectious disease. For example, the threat of smallpox being used as a biological weapon by the Islamic fanatics, although frightening and of concern, need not be the disaster imagined by many because medical science understands the nature of its communicability and how to prevent its spread.

The greatest danger to America lies in the fact that it does not fully understand how the Arab fanatics use the emotional plague as a weapon of destruction in their war against the United States. According to Western Islamic experts, "A mass murderer seems to be winning the fight for the hearts and minds of the Muslim world." 15 The author concludes, "If this public diplomacy debacle persists�the U.S. will 'win the battle but lose the war.' "

On a national scale, the belief system or ideology of the American Left that "Everyone is entitled to his or her point of view, that in general, one person's opinion is as good as another's, that all questions are open questions" is a highly destructive social force that threatens the well-being of society, especially in times of crisis. In past wars (except in the case of the Vietnam War) individuals holding these and similar views were suppressed because people were in better contact with themselves, their survival instincts were more intact. They would have had no difficulty in identifying the life-inimical nature of the Islamic fanatics of today. The degree of core contact of many people, especially of those on the political Left, is dangerously weak. Hence they are simply unable to recognize the enormous danger posed by the Islamic black fascist threat.

What is needed is a special effort directed from the highest governmental level to counteract the distortions disseminated by the Islamic world and to expose the true motive of the Islamic fanatics. American broadcasting to the Islamic world must be greatly expanded and intensified, as news not as propaganda. Preposterous charges such as blaming the Israelis for September 11th should not go unanswered. Western news media must be made aware of and prevented from disseminating pro-fundamentalist propaganda in America and in other non-Islamic countries. This information is highly inflammatory and excites the political Left to agitate for an end to America's defensive efforts. The war against the ideological component of the emotional plague attack against America must be waged as effectively as the military component. To this end a governmental agency must be established whose function is to publicize and respond to national and international manifestations of the emotional plague.

11. As we have shown elsewhere, the pseudo-liberal sociopolitical character type is, in fact, characterologically a red fascist (communist). back to text

12. Harman, R. "Responding to Terrorism in the Twenty-first Century," Journal of Orgonomy, Vol. 35(2), 2001, in preparation. back to text

13. Many Islamic black fascists started out as red fascists when it suited their purpose of undermining and destroying stable Arab governments. This happened in Iran when the Shah was in power and in Egypt when Sadat ruled. back to text

14. This applies to other Islamic countries such as Syria, Libya, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and so on. back to text

15. Wall Street Journal, October 25, 2001, "An Accelerated Agenda for the Terrorism Threat," by Albert R. Hunt. back to text

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