Originally Posted By skinnerbox <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/28/INF21F2Q9H.DTL" target="_blank">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/...2Q9H.DTL</a> Yet another solid reason to get the H out of there. More and more, I'm sickened to my stomach with these tribes and the corrupt government which does nothing to stop their abusive behavior. Get the US out of Afghanistan. NOW!
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones The Frontline episode on the Afghanistan sex trade: <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/dancingboys/?utm_campaign=homepage&utm_medium=proglist&utm_source=proglist" target="_blank">http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/...proglist</a>
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo It is sad but true, and UNICEF has been trying to work to change this practice. It is also very popular in Thailand, and there is much evidence to show it was a wide spread habit in ancient Greece and Rome. Not good.
Originally Posted By Labuda That is sickening. As is the fact that they're using a sick interpretation of their religion as the "ok" to proceed.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo It's not necessarily the religion, but the local culture. That is often what happens with paedefilia rings in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe and the US.
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>It's not necessarily the religion, but the local culture.<< A good observation Dave, with parallels in other areas. For instance: Protestant Evangelicalism in Latin America is practiced rather differently than in the US. In the US Fundies and Evangs are very hung up with abortion and homosexuality, not so much in Latin America where they worry more about social justice.
Originally Posted By Labuda dave - my post mentioned their religion because of this sentence in the article linked in post #1: Sociologists and anthropologists say the problem results from perverse interpretation of Islamic law.
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones It's an interpretation that the majority don't necessarily agree with. It's guys who want to abuse children, and use their religion to justify it even though the justification is not really there. They are making leaps in their logic, so to speak.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Yep, just like some of the christian sects who have been known to behave in a similar way.
Originally Posted By fkurucz One thing I have learned about Fundamentalists of all stripes is that they can be very "selective" over which passages in their sacred scriptures they will actually heed.
