Pakisatani anti-Americanism has always been interpreted as ideological abhorrence of the US.
The payback for such investment would be incalculable – nothing less than a world where gender-based violence is seen as an abhorrence that no society should tolerate.
The political, cultural and economic "abhorrences" (as he called them), however righteous, are commonplace.
"Bestiality and zoophilia are treated with the same seriousness and abhorrence as wider society," he explains.
The mask is lifted and the results were viewed as more than cheap comedy or easy shock to local critics, who actually dubbed the revelation as a "moral abhorrence" and shut the show down.
Similarly, though Lady Macbeth is evil, "[s]he is only wicked to gain a great end" and it is only her "inexorable self-will" that prevents her being diverted from her "bad purpose" which masks her "natural affections"; whereas Goneril and Regan, in King Lear, "excite our loathing and abhorrence" as Lady Macbeth does not.
A new pan-African opinion poll*, conducted by the Afrobarometer Network, a consortium of African and American social scientists, has found strong support for democracy as the least bad system of government, and an abhorrence of violence as a means of resolving disputes.
But the overwhelming emphasis, particularly among mainstream organisations such as the Association of British Muslims, was on abhorrence of violence and respect for freedom of speech.
Further complicating the picture is that the country was founded by people who refused to bend the knee in obeisance to anyone, and as a result of that abhorrence of deference and servitude, the concept of any kind of personal service is looked on dimly.
Kathleen LeBesco, a communications professor at Marymount Manhattan College and another contributor, has put it this way: Fat people are widely represented in popular culture and in interpersonal interactions as revolting they are agents of abhorrence and disgust.
