Most people would think of it as Afghanistan’s dirty little secret. But President Obama may want to consider it a whole different brand of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”.
Either way, this is the kind of news that could make even the most recalcitrant Democrat support the Afghanistan war. It’s like Proposition 8 on steroids.
It comes from SFGate:
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.”
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.”. . .
“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?”
The bad news? That is one effed up society and one effed up religion.
The good news? PETA will be happy to that Afghanistan’s goats are safe and NAMBLA members will be racing over to Kandahar to join the war effort.
Source: SFGate.com
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That is disgusting, however not new and not surprising. Ancient Rome and Greece had the same rituals. Before the fall of Rome it was a common practice to kidnap boys and place them in "temples" as assistants who would be part raped by older men in these "temples". Ancient Japan had similar things as well in the society where women were for pocreation but they would sleep with boys for pleasure. It is not uncommon for Japanese culture even to this day to not find anything wrong with transvestites.
I don't know if Islam allows this per se, but I do know that these cultures (and so many others) are messed up and it is the innocent always that pays the price.
That's the thing -- I don't give a goat's ass if they are gay. But when their gratification depends upon the sexual abuse of children, then I'm really, really, really disgusted and opposed to it.
Right two consenting male adults doing whatever in the privacy of their home whatever...
An adult taking a child by force or through lies or through other means and using them as sexual tools is utterly disgusting. A society that accepts this and does not do anything about it disgusting. Those kids will just grow up and continue the messed up "tradition".
Does the muslims consider stoning their favorite goat or boy when accused of adultry?
Well let's hope that the practice catches on so much that the entire religion is wiped out from the face of the Earth b/c of their reluctance to have sex with women instead of other men...we could be lucky!
THis is beyond disgusting. And this is supported by the most caring and peaceful religion on the planet? Can't wait until they nail someone in the US trying this.
There's a longer version of that expression:
A favored Afghan expression goes: “Women are for children, boys are for pleasure.” --- But for sheer ecstacy, a melon! " ( Source-National Lampoon, sometime in the '70's)
Regarding pedo priests and Muslim dancing boys:
The priests infiltrated the church, whereas the dancing boys are a cultural norm.
I've often wondered how the Left could rationalize its love of gays and loose women and its love for the Muslim causes.
Are they not a bit contradictory?
Regarding pedo priests, consider this:
When was the last time you heard of a priest being on trial for molestation and the phrase "false memory syndrome" came up? Or how 'bout "therapist's leading questions"? Nope. Those concepts only show up when it's a day care worker or parent. With priests it's "GUILTY!" from the word go. "He's a priest: he did it!"
Of course, when it's a Satanist it's not just "false memory syndrome," it's a "witch hunt!"
Just think about that next time you hear a report in the media about a pedophile priest. Priest = guilty. Satanist = witch hunt. If you EVER see it the other way around give me a holler. The media leftists want religion destroyed. They are using the pedo priest thing to further their ends. As soon as they bring down the Catholic Church, they'll turn right around and start telling us how pedophilia's actually OK.
This site isn't called "I Hate The Media" for nothing!
Mr. tingle needs to get a grip.
Suspect that he's been "gripping" it too much already, resulting in hairy palms and insanity. The "NAIR" worked, but the madness just goes on and on.
Obama bows down to these people. Does that tell you anything about his morals?
It makes you wonder how long Barry spent as a "dancing boy" while being raised in Muslim traditions... and who he's still "dancing" for.
Barack the Dancing Boy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsWpvkLCvu4
For a black guy, he can't dance for s$%$
I was about to type something to that effect. Brotha can't dance.
That's just due to his Half-Cracker™ heritage.
Ok, now I think he's gay, in addition to being a Communist and Muslim.