The scapegoating of LGBTI people and other "deviants" deflects from this inter-connected matrix of issues in which all Africans have a stake.
There's a short scene in this book where a group of rebels rush into the town of Andamarca, whip the terrified townspeople into a revolutionary fervour, and get them to denounce and then attack the town's capitalists, sexual deviants and other undesirables.
Saudi officials argue that jihadists are deviants; the Saudi version of Islam, though puritanical, requires obedience to the ruler.
Learning from such "positive deviants", but also experimenting repeatedly and quickly, has much to offer the world of aid.Of course, the poor must be able to devise such strategies in the first place.
On June 16th Mr Zarqawi's Salafist mentor, Sheikh Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, was released from prison, but not before he had been persuaded to issue two fatwas declaring followers of ISIS as "deviants" and telling them not to make attacks in Jordan.Leading sheikhs, too, deride ISIS.
A website based in Qom, Iran's holiest city, deemed the men "deviants", "fortune-tellers" and "petty criminals", who were exploiting credulous Iranians for alms during the Persian new-year holiday, which fell in mid-March.
Thomas's descendants included Aldous, a noted novelist, and Sir Julian, another evolutionary biologist much given to smiting deviants from Darwinism.
He publicly backed the deputy head of his office, Petr Hajek, after he came under fire for denouncing participants in this summer's Gay Pride march in Prague as "deviants" and for opposing the "media lynching" of skinheads who had petrol-bombed a Roma home.
The surest way to the top of the American bestseller list (apart from writing piffle about how all liberals are deviants or all conservatives pin-heads) is to pen a biography of one of the founders.
Mr Hussein, he says, was different: a gangster leading a "handful of deviants" within a once respectable movement.
There are no trials for those in the political camps, but presumed deviants are suspected of, as Mr Hawk puts it, wrongdoing, wrong thinking, wrong knowledge, wrong association or wrong background.
