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Choice and determinism
The Hidden Cause of Homosexuality · Dr. Alaa Alsalem
9. Homosexuality: a Preventable and Noncoercive Preference
Until now, there appears to be no scientific reason pushing people toward homosexual activities except their own will and choice of this abnormality.
1 - Neither studies nor research groups headed up by pro-homosexuality scientists, as we have previously seen, have successfully identified its genetic cause; this failure is enough to reject the idea of genetic inevitability. Even if such a gene were found in the genetic map, human beings are not only capable of resisting any homosexual tendencies; they can also oppose the selfish gene (refer to the topic of true altruism). Hence, pro-homosexuality scientist research groups do not have sufficient justification for their conclusions since no genetic cause has yet been found.
Dr. Richard Dawkins says: “Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.”
Responding to him, Ahmed Alhasan says in the book The Atheism Delusion:
The truth is that an unbiased person would have to say that we, as a human species, have indeed upset the selfishness of genes. The high morals or genuine altruism spread by the prophets and messengers of God and brought by the divine religions has destroyed this selfishness. The selfish gene says, “My son is better than my nephew; my brother is better than my cousin; my cousin is better than a stranger; a person from my city is better than a person from another city; a person from my country is better than a person from another country; a person of my race is better than the person of another race; and my country is better than the neighboring country.” As for the prophets and religions,they introduced the concept of being kind and altruistic to strangers before one’s self and children, and these altruistic morals spread among the people. I will only mention one historical story that is well-known in Islam and revealed in the Quran. It is about the people of Islam themselves: the family of Muhammad℗ (the Prophet of Islam), which includes Ali, Fatimah (the daughter of Muhammad℗), and their young children who all endured hunger after giving their food to the poor: “They feed food to the needy, the orphan, and the captive, in spite of its necessity, [Saying], “We feed you only for the sake of God. We do not desire any reward or thanks from you” [Quran, Chapter “The Human” 76:8-9].
The Quranic chapter “The Human” tells the story of the true human who triumphed over his animalism, and who came to rescue others from their selfish genetic animalism. They were not looking for renown with this altruism, because it was discrete. They initially kept it a secret and did not announce it or request reciprocal benefit for it. They gave, and they took nothing, and their giving was not easy because, for Ali and Fatimah℗, it put the lives of their children at risk.
Thanks to these people and those like them from the prophets and messengers of God, today we have individuals, groups, and even countries that favor strangers over
themselves, even if they provide a small amount of aid that does not affect them. Perhaps the generosity of countries or people has a motive at times, but, generally, it's a positive step modeled by the great individuals who are mankind's highest altruistic examples…
I believe the actions of Ali and Fatimah℗ should prompt the evolutionary biologist or the atheist sociobiologist to at least reconsider his position, considering that Ali and Fatimah identified the disease of genetic selfishness and prescribed the cure for it over a thousand years before an evolutionary biologist had even identified it.78
2 - Homosexuality for a human being is not an inevitable, involuntary sexual preference. We cannot even consider it a natural and fruitful sexual preference for them. In fact, as we saw in the previous point, it is an abnormal deviation from one’s genes and nature.
Hence, the idea that homosexuals are compelled and driven to this sexual preference is simply incorrect and there any scientific basis for it. The correct notion is that homosexuality is deviant sexual behavior and unnatural and unfruitful, be it a male practicing sex with another male, a female practicing it with another female, or a person practicing it with an animal or even a sex doll. It was a personal choice and decision to deviate from nature. It came from them alone, without compulsion; they were not forced into it nor compelled to accept it.
We can trace the reason for their misguided choice back to the following points:
1) Trying to revive a past in their body buried during the phase of gene growth, as Sayyed Ahmed Alhasan indicated in his response to someone feeling like the opposite gender on the inside 2) Following an incorrect and unnatural path to bring about sexual arousal (as we saw in questions 2 and 3 above in the discussion sexual arousal in both males and females) 3) Environmental factors and the influence of one's upbringing can provide the conditions for someone to explore homosexuality further if they are already interested in it.
Again we stress that no matter what the main reasons are, along with the "supportive causes" (e.g., environment, upbringing), homosexuality remains a personal choice for the individual, without inevitability nor compulsion.