OK, where do we start?

Fortunately, Guest Ohmygawd, I was lucky enough to have resolved any deep seated sexual identity problems at the age of sixteen.

I kind of go along with the Robert Plant school of thought, when he said in an interview many years ago "Yeah, I'd like to be gay, but I just have too much to offer to women". However this does not stop me doing an annual drag act each Halloween at our local music venue, the Main Street Café in Homestead FL. And I enjoy it! So, apparently, do the patrons.

I digress, however . I feel that you are all missing my point which is that religious fanaticism alone does not drive a man to commit suicide for any cause. We have to look for other factors. Mental illness could be a factor, or as I wrote earlier , the shame of being a homosexual in a fundamentalist Islamic environment.

And I was not suggesting that these men committed suicide because they were deeply depressed, I am putting forward a hypothesis that they could have been offered some sort of redemption deal by their fundamentalist Islamic masters. "Go destroy the World Trade Center and your place in Paradise is secure, despite your filthy sodomizing". That sort of thing.

And since none of us knows anything whatsoever about homosexuality in Islamic countries, (although I intend to explore Jim Dixon's links) then my postulate still is valid.

Let me state it one more time. I do not "believe" that the hijackers were gay. I do not "know" whether they were gay or straight. Neither does anyone else. I am simply putting forward a hypothesis which may or may not go some way to ezplaining the actions of these disturbed individuals.

Murray