Photo by Paul Avallone via DianaWest.net
Here’s another tidbit that should interest Americans who are questioning why our best and bravest are fighting and dying for the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Via DrudgeReport, The Guardian UK reports a scandal that was revealed by one of the thousands of stolen WikiLeaks cables – young boys who were hired by foreign contractors to entertain drugged- up Afghan police officers – by dressing as females and dancing for them.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/02/foreign-contractors-hired-dancing-boys
“A scandal involving foreign contractors employed to train Afghan policemen who took drugs and paid for young “dancing boys” to entertain them in northern Afghanistan caused such panic that the interior minister begged the US embassy to try and “quash” the story, according to one of the US embassy cables released by WikiLeaks…”
Indeed. I’ll bet he begged to have this one covered and concealed.
“…In a meeting with the assistant US ambassador, a panicked Hanif Atmar, the interior minister at the time of the episode last June, warned that the story would “endanger lives” and was particularly concerned that a video of the incident might be made public…”
Would that video go viral or what?
“…There is a long tradition of young boys dressing up as girls and dancing for men in Afghanistan, an activity that sometimes crosses the line into child abuse with Afghans keeping boys as possessions…”
Want some confirmation for that one? Here it is from Joel Brinkley in the San Francisco Chronicle, via Diana West:
“…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.”…”
Here’s a little more on this from Islam Watch:
“…Below is the poem, “Perfumed Garden” by Abu Nuwas:
O the joy of sodomy!
So now be sodomites, you Arabs.
Turn not away from it–
therein is wondrous pleasure.Take some coy lad with kiss-curls
twisting on his temple
and ride as he stands like some gazelle
standing to her mate…”
One more time: Is Julian Assange the bad guy everyone says he is for bringing to light that our best and bravest fight on for one among many of Afghanistan’s uglier longstanding customs? Or is our foreign policy perhaps in need of some re-examination?
By the way, my nephew, already a Purple-Hearted veteran of three combat tours in Iraq with the United States Army Infantry, is due to deploy to Afghanistan in the very near future.
What pisses me off is that Australian soldiers are dying to prevent radical Islam in a country whose constitution acknowledges Sharia Law while we are letting thousands of muslims flood into Australia so they can take over here.
We should be putting our efforts into keeping Australia muslim free or at least Sharia free.
We are doing the same thing here in the U.S. – our warriors fight and die over there while the immigration flood gates are open here. It’s insanity.
Best,
JW
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