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Cultural Rage: A Severe Threat To Gay Men, Rhoda Howard-Hassmann Mar 2007

Cultural Rage: A Severe Threat To Gay Men, Rhoda Howard-Hassmann

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Men who have sex with men have become a world cultural flashpoint. Fomenting and exploiting cultural rage at the West is a useful way for Islamists to gain electoral and other types of support, even though the motives of the Islamists may have more to do with the drive for power, regional influence, or economic benefit.