"“In the course of writing classical and medieval Arab history,” Massad writes, “these modern historians encountered an ancient Arab society with different sexual mores and practices that were difficult to assimilate into a modern Arab nationalist project informed by European notions of progress and modernisation and a Victorian sexual ethic.”" (By why is Joseph described as "controversial"? Sometimes one has to be careful as Zionist hoodlums invent labels without connection to reality, and then they stick and get circulated. So Zionists can falsely make you controversial simply by calling you controversial. This is like when the Zionists invented a saying (about "throwing the Jews into the sea") and falsely attributed it to PLO leader Ahmad Shuqayri. Of course, nobody can find that quotation except in Zionist literature. In fact, the only similar quotation can be found in the official order issued by Israeli Air Force Commander in 1967 in reference to Arabs, Motti Hod: "...Fly, soar at the enemy, destroy him and scatter him throughout the dessert"--cited in Michael Oren, Six Days of War, p. 170).