Hitler may also have been a repressed homosexual who sought and killed homosexuals because of his fear of being exposed as one of them. All these assumptions may be true, but their will to regain and affirm their masculinity, transformed in mass murder acts that communicate to the entire world is not plausible because they were not alone in their acts. In the case of the German dictator, there was a whole administrative and political apparatus that backed him up and even a whole nation stood by his as long as he was convincing enough. Should we assume that all those who believed in Hitler, associated with him or just did not oppose him were all repressed homosexuals who were afraid of being exposed?
It is true that in the case of terrorist acts, the authors of those acts are a few and they are usually impossible or difficult to attach to a certain ideology or movement. In other words, that being the characteristic that makes terrorism so hard to fight back because there is no particular country or region that once fought against and defeated will lead to their annihilation. The hypothesis that the American terrorist and the Egyptian in his turn were hunted by their own emasculation is possible and psychologists could back it up if there was enough evidence to support such a theory. On the other hand, supposing that turns out to be true, one cannot extend this theory to the whole world. Should we consider that as long...
In spite of these examples, there is certainly a long way until someone could declare that terrorist acts have happened and will still be planned because men feel threatened by the globalization effects on their own masculinity. The theory indicates a path toward a men conspiracy against the whole world.
Mohammed Atta was educated in the Taliban spirit of repressing any feminine competition and that might have just added the drop to his humiliated feelings. He left a letter in his abandoned car who clearly indicated that he hated women, but homosexuals, repressed or not do not usually hate women.
It is true that misogynists have an inclination toward despising or downplaying women, but that does not make them terrorists.
