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SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 09/03/2010 : 04:02:35
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Words fail me.....
September 02, 2010 05:00 PM
In Afghanistan, We're Looking The Other Way As Police, Tribal Leaders Commit Child Rape
So our troops are fighting and dying for child rapists in a warped fundamentalist theocracy. And we're protecting them? This is too much for my mind to comprehend (h/t Matt Osbourne):
For centuries, Afghan men have taken boys, roughly 9 to 15 years old, as lovers. Some research suggests that half the Pashtun tribal members in Kandahar and other southern towns are bacha baz, the term for an older man with a boy lover. Literally it means "boy player." The men like to boast about it.
"Having a boy has become a custom for us," Enayatullah, a 42-year-old in Baghlan province, told a Reuters reporter. "Whoever wants to show off should have a boy."
Baghlan province is in the northeast, but Afghans say pedophilia is most prevalent among Pashtun men in the south. The Pashtun are Afghanistan's most important tribe. For centuries, the nation's leaders have been Pashtun.
President Hamid Karzai is Pashtun, from a village near Kandahar, and he has six brothers. So the natural question arises: Has anyone in the Karzai family been bacha baz? Two Afghans with close connections to the Karzai family told me they know that at least one family member and perhaps two were bacha baz. Afraid of retribution, both declined to be identified and would not be more specific for publication.
As for Karzai, an American who worked in and around his palace in an official capacity for many months told me that homosexual behavior "was rampant" among "soldiers and guys on the security detail. They talked about boys all the time."
He added, "I didn't see Karzai with anyone. He was in his palace most of the time." He, too, declined to be identified.
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What it is, they say, is that their women are covered head to toe, so they can't fall in love with them. Besides which, they're "unclean."
In Kandahar, population about 500,000, and other towns, dance parties are a popular, often weekly, pastime. Young boys dress up as girls, wearing makeup and bells on their feet, and dance for a dozen or more leering middle-aged men who throw money at them and then take them home. A recent State Department report called "dancing boys" a "widespread, culturally sanctioned form of male rape."
So, why are American and NATO forces fighting and dying to defend tens of thousands of proud pedophiles, certainly more per capita than any other place on Earth? And how did Afghanistan become the pedophilia capital of Asia?
Sociologists and anthropologists say the problem results from perverse interpretation of Islamic law. Women are simply unapproachable. Afghan men cannot talk to an unrelated woman until after proposing marriage. Before then, they can't even look at a woman, except perhaps her feet. Otherwise she is covered, head to ankle.
"How can you fall in love if you can't see her face," 29-year-old Mohammed Daud told reporters. "We can see the boys, so we can tell which are beautiful."
Even after marriage, many men keep their boys, suggesting a loveless life at home. A favored Afghan expression goes: "Women are for children, boys are for pleasure." Fundamentalist imams, exaggerating a biblical passage on menstruation, teach that women are "unclean" and therefore distasteful. One married man even asked Cardinalli's team "how his wife could become pregnant," her report said. When that was explained, he "reacted with disgust" and asked, "How could one feel desire to be with a woman, who God has made unclean?" |
And here's the kicker; they say that this is not homosexuality, forbidden by Islamic law, because they are not in love with their victims. That makes it ok. And of course, when the abused boys grow up, they'll likely want to be bacha baz themselves, and the disgusting practice continues unchecked.
Afghanistan is an armpit, but we knew that going in. Now we know that it is even worse than we realized and there's not a damned thing we can do about it. This behavior is set in stone with the population.
So to all of you wannabe theocrats out there, this is what comes of overdoing religion. But of course, it could never happen with godly Christians, could it?
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SFN Die Hard
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6891 Posts |
 Posted - 09/03/2010 : 07:14:05 [Permalink]
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This is a cultural remnant from the old Persian days. That part of the world supplied child prostitutes to a large part of the Mediterranean. It isn't like this is something new, just "news" for a slow "news" month. Most troops who have been in that country over the last 8 years will tell you they know about the practice, and anyone paying attention in the 80's (when the USSR was getting it's ass kicked by these pervs) might remember hearing about this too.
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This is what we're fighting for?
