The Arab Spring

is an idea cooked up by the Western media
to summarise protest from across 'the developing world'.
Due to both western disinterest and local censorship
the backlash against this protest has been poorly reported.
But now it can be made plain, in the many sects of Islam
homosexuality, like women's sexuality, is a powerful cause
for shame, since both threaten the myth of The Absolute Patriarch
by undermining him and all men from underneath by doing as they will.
It is perhaps inevitable then that the Islamic Military Police
choose the sexual abuse of arrested protesters of both genders
as their weapon of choice. The silent vacuum that follows the shame
follows sexual abuse is self compounding and definitively destroys
the individual's resistance to the state, and spreads the fear of arrest.
Thus the sexual abuse of protesters of all genders comes to justify,
and perfectly embody, the democratic deficit preferred by all-male oligarchies.