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Bergdahl: Taliban asked me if Obama is gay

Dec 25, 2015 4:41 pm By Robert Spencer

If Bergdahl is telling the truth, it is unlikely in the land of bacha bazi that these Taliban members were objecting to sleeping with men. They were asking if Obama was gay, i.e., did he sleep only with men — which exclusivity they would equate with weakness. Beyond lurid curiosity, they were most likely asking Bergdahl if the President was truly as weak as he appeared to be.

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“Bergdahl: Taliban asked me if Obama is gay,” by Beckie Strum, New York Post, December 24, 2015 (thanks to all who sent this in):

Bowe Bergdahl compared his first year in Taliban captivity — starved, stinking and chained to a bed — to being tossed in a closet and forgotten.

“Picture someone taking a bag, throwing it into the closet, shutting the door and just forgetting about it. That was basically how they treated me,” he said.

In the third episode of the popular podcast “Serial,” which is focused on Bergdahl’s alleged desertion from the Army in 2009 and subsequent five-year captivity by the Taliban, he details the misery of his first year held hostage — ending in a dramatic escape attempt that lasted 8½ days.

The interview was conducted by filmmaker Mark Boal (“The Hurt Locker,” “Zero Dark Thirty”) as part of a project on Bergdahl’s life. He lent the recordings to “Serial,” which is hosted by Sarah Koenig.

Bergdahl said he saw his first chance at escape soon after his abduction in Afghanistan’s eastern Paktika province, when a water delivery temporarily distracted his captors. He managed to slip off the chains binding his hands and feet and unlatched the flimsy wire holding the door to his cell closed.

He was free for only 15 minutes, running barefoot over rocks and climbing onto a roof and covering himself in mud to hide, he said in audio used by the podcast. He was caught in moments and hauled back into his cell, where men beat him with a rubber hose. They then blindfolded him and moved him to a new home, in what he now believes was North Waziristan in Pakistan, he said.

His new living arrangements were filthy and painful.

“In the new place, they put me on an Afghan bed and they chained my feet to the ends of the bed and chained my hands to the tops of the bed so that basically I was spread-eagle on the bed and blindfolded. And that’s how I spent the majority of the next three months,” he said.

He was allowed to use the bathroom twice a day and could shower around once a month. He developed bedsores and chronic diarrhea as a result.

“The time deprivation, too much light or too much darkness and too much randomness, it just wears away at you and drives your nerves into the ground. The constant worry ‘Am I going to die today?’ or is something worse going to happen,” he said.

Although watching over Bergdahl was a high honor, the guards were often bored and would pass the time by making videos of him, interrogating him with ridiculous questions or shaving his beard into shapes they found amusing, he said.

“They ask you, is Obama gay and sleeps with men?” he recalled. His young guards were also curious about where US military bases got their prostitutes, alcohol and drugs, and were obsessed with American soft drinks, he added.

“They love Mountain Dew. If you want to piss people off in that country, all you do is cut off their sugar supply,” he said….

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  1. Davegreybeard says

    Dec 25, 2015 at 5:04 pm

    Is he Muslim? Is he bisexual?

    Why aren’t those questions ever asked of Trump?

    • Dan says

      Dec 25, 2015 at 7:11 pm

      Seriously? If Trump displayed all the characteristics of a Muslim-loving metrosexual, I’m sure those questions would be asked.

      • Mazo says

        Dec 25, 2015 at 9:38 pm

        Prince Mutaib bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has been a long time tenant at Trump Tower, and Trump’s obsession with altering his physical appearance to younger than his age, including his painful scalp surgery testify to his “characteristics”.

        • Jack Gordon says

          Dec 26, 2015 at 10:43 am

          Yeah, wouldn’t you Dems love to believe this nonsense to cover for your choices of an inept affirmative action president preceded by a serial sexual predator. The only saving grace for the latter — really not much, though — is that we KNOW he prefers girls.

      • gonzales27 says

        Dec 26, 2015 at 4:51 pm

        He has a lover in Chicago,Reggie Love,had to relocate him from DC,to much of a chance of discovery in your back yard,Don’t think the Mooch approved of this relationship

    • Quicha says

      Dec 26, 2015 at 3:56 am

      Why are these questions asked at all??? It is irrelevant. Public should be worried about President’s brain and heart, not his/her genitals! It is disgusting discussion.

      • Kathy Brown, Esq. says

        Dec 26, 2015 at 11:53 am

        Uhh…it’s the muslim savages who asked this!

        Now you’re right, they are disgusting, and so are their questions. But in this instance, their ‘disgusting’ questions illuminate their corruption.

  2. Paladin says

    Dec 25, 2015 at 5:29 pm

    Bergdahl thought the grass would be greener in the Leftist/socialist taliban system so he wandered off post to find the noble mujahideen fighting the very corrupt US Army Bergdahl himself wanted to expose. What he found was Islam practiced in its purest form: cruel, destitute, intolerant of others and primitive. But make no mistake, this first hand exposure to the barbarity of Islam will in no way dissuade him or his Arabic speaking bearded father of their new found ‘respect’ for the Religion of Peace.

  3. jihad3tracker says

    Dec 25, 2015 at 5:32 pm

    Obama is not gay — he is a Metrosexual. There is a difference, but at this moment I’ve forgotten what it is.

    • jihad3tracker says

      Dec 25, 2015 at 5:57 pm

      IF YOU WANT TO WATCH VIDEOS OF MEN WHO ARE NOT METROSEXUAL — try these 2 search words on Youtube: “LIVELEAKS” AND “FUNKER530”.

      Settle back in a comfortable chair, open a refreshing beverage, and give thanks for MARINES WHO ACTUALLY HAVE TESTOSTERONE IN THEIR BLOOD and patriotic love for the U.S.

      Many of the ground encounters are recorded with high-definition helmet cams + superb sound — you will see and hear exactly how uncertain the outcomes of firefights are.

    • Susan B says

      Dec 25, 2015 at 7:20 pm

      I am so confused, when I watch TV or movies it appears that 90% of us are gay and for the remaining 10%, 9% are transsexual which leaves only 1% of us that are heterosexual. I am worried that being gay or a transsexual is contagious. Why else have things progressed this way. When I was young I don’t remember gays or transsexuals. Was everyone hiding in the closet back then?
      Likewise, it seems that according to the MSM 99.9% of muslims are peaceful even though over 25% support violence. I was always pretty good at math but something is not adding up.

      • Cliffhild says

        Dec 26, 2015 at 6:24 am

        —do you remember the ‘scaremongering’ a few decades ago about all the chemicals in our food and products and what they might do to, amongst other things, to our sexuality? Well, maybe we now have the answer.

      • Kepha says

        Dec 26, 2015 at 8:28 pm

        Suasan, just tell the movie industry to go and bleep itself. There’s a lot of interesting stuff to read out there.

        • Kathy Brown, Esq. says

          Dec 26, 2015 at 8:59 pm

          Hahahahahahahaha Kepha! Well, now you’re cookin! You’re thinking just the way the libtards would wish.

          Just because we hetero’s are, and always have been, 90% of the population, that’s no reason to consider us normal. And just because heterosexuality is the only ‘choice’ which produces new humans, thus ensuring the continuity of the world’s population, puhleeeze!

          Now turn yourself in to the Thought Police immediately because I sentence you to 6 months in the electric chair.

        • Angemon says

          Dec 30, 2015 at 8:30 pm

          Kathy Brown, Esq. posted:

          “Just because we hetero’s are, and always have been, 90% of the population, that’s no reason to consider us normal. And just because heterosexuality is the only ‘choice’ which produces new humans, thus ensuring the continuity of the world’s population, puhleeeze!”

          Indeed. Male, female, it’s just the gender we were assigned at birth. I don’t know who assigns gender to newborn babies, and on what grounds, but I’ve heard people (“people” as in “individuals”, not as in “what the hell is wrong with you people?”, because that’s a micro-aggression and hate speech) of the LGBTROLFOWTFBBQ movement saying so, therefore it must be true – I’m not a LGBTROLFOWTFBBQphobe, you know?

      • Allan says

        Dec 27, 2015 at 3:35 am

        The media is leftist and therefore corrupt. It is jamming people’s minds with the false idea that being gay is normal and healthy, by heavily promoting the LGBT lifestyle. Being full of leftists, it also promotes and defends Islam to fool the gullible and pave the way for their leftist allies in politics to be able to use the chaos sowed by Muslims, as an excuse to consolidate power among themselves and further their Marxist agenda.

  4. Joseph says

    Dec 25, 2015 at 5:50 pm

    And his (Obama’s) wife (Mike) is in the background licking his lips thinking “I could slide that whole thing down without it touching my teeth.
    _________________
    “Bergdahl said he saw his first chance at escape soon after his abduction”

    WOW…this puke of a human being can’t even admit that he walked away on his own free will.
    Give it another 5 years and Bergdahl will be portrayed as a hero who went out one night to fight the Taliban all by himself. Of course he would have won the war but he ran out of ammunition.

  5. eduardo odraude says

    Dec 25, 2015 at 6:17 pm

    Bacha bazi apparently is not really bi-sexuality. It seems to be the sexual use of boy dancers who are dressed as girls. It is thus a simulated heterosexuality. A kind of synthetic heterosexuality which no doubt may graduate in time to true bisexuality. It is also of course pederasty or pedophilia insofar as the boy dancers have not reached the age of consent.

    • Christianblood says

      Dec 25, 2015 at 6:34 pm

      I am guessing the Taliban asked that question when they saw the White House in these curious colors. Click to watch:
      http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/33300524/world-landmarks-lit-up-in-rainbow-colours

    • mortimer says

      Dec 25, 2015 at 9:19 pm

      Lack of consent is the main criterion that makes Islam appealing to the depravity of those who succumb to it.

      Lack of consent is the heart of Islam.

  6. Frank says

    Dec 25, 2015 at 7:49 pm

    He did have a boyfriend in Chicago that’s why his preacher set him up with Michelle.

  7. j_not_a says

    Dec 25, 2015 at 8:05 pm

    I remember a while back seeing Obama with his skinny legs crossed sitting in a semicircle with the hens on the tv show the View his head thrown back cackling away. Struck me as really wussy looking just saying.

  8. Angemon says

    Dec 25, 2015 at 8:33 pm

    If Bergdahl is telling the truth, it is unlikely in the land of bacha bazi that these Taliban members were objecting to sleeping with men. They were asking if Obama was gay, i.e., did he sleep only with men — which exclusivity they would equate with weakness.

    Well, Obama is no Alexander the Great or a Spartan…

  9. Ashley says

    Dec 26, 2015 at 12:43 am

    I think this post is ridiculous.

    I come here for Jihad Watch, not salacious soap operatic gossip and fodder.

    • Jim Peters says

      Dec 26, 2015 at 10:32 am

      Hey Ashley, roll with it and fight another day. Tomorrow , the topic will be whether Taliban fighters prefer female goats or male goats.

    • Kathy Brown, Esq. says

      Dec 26, 2015 at 11:08 am

      No Ashley: This is quite important actually.

      First of all: it highlights one of the sickest aspects of the ROP, its unparalleled duplicity. These subhumans condemn homosexuality spectacularly while practicing it sub rosa (‘women are for children, men are for fun.’). Second, it gives us an insight into the only clarity the muslim savages possess: The sure knowledge that Obama is the most limp-wrist=ed of cowards.

      Finally, it gives the American patriots on sites like these chance to publicly call out the homosexual lifestyle/agenda for the perversion it is. In fighting islam we meed to remind ourselves of this often. It is they who are the perverts and sickos. The foundation of our beloved country is Judeo-Christian, which is why we’ll win.

    • Carolyne says

      Dec 26, 2015 at 2:53 pm

      There’s a really simple way for Ashley to avoid knowing about this; don’t read here. See? Simple.

    • Mirren10 says

      Dec 26, 2015 at 4:04 pm

      ”If Bergdahl is telling the truth, it is unlikely in the land of bacha bazi that these Taliban members were objecting to sleeping with men. They were asking if Obama was gay, i.e., did he sleep only with men — which exclusivity they would equate with weakness. Beyond lurid curiosity, they were most likely asking Bergdahl if the President was truly as weak as he appeared to be.”

      That, Ashley, is what makes this article neither ridiculous or salacious, but very *relevant*.

  10. Vivarto says

    Dec 26, 2015 at 4:06 am

    There is a major misunderstanding here.
    The perverts raping boys are not considered homosexual in Islam. The homosexual is the one being sodomized, not the one who sodomizes.
    Secondly it is lawful for boy’s, too, because they are only boys not men.

  11. Jack Holan says

    Dec 26, 2015 at 8:30 am

    Why bother with a trial if this is the kind of contrived story a juvenile might come up with and his attorney is OK with him publicly releasing it. Firstly, he sought out the Taliban. I hope the idiot wasn’t expecting a parade, medal and pat on the back. His description of his escapes are Hollywood fare and besides they were his kind of people, we are the bad guys. In WW2, his Dad would be on trial too for treason making contact with the Taliban and promising more releases shortly. ThIs was after the Rose Garden News Conference unless Obama instructed him to go ahead and convey that message.

    • Mirren10 says

      Dec 26, 2015 at 12:50 pm

      I wouldn’t believe one word this traitorous little creep said, *especially* about his ‘captivity’.

      However, as Robert notes, *if* a Taliban ‘fighter’ asked this question, it probably does denote that the taliban see obama as weak. The question is, is he *weak*, or *complicit* ?

  12. duh)swami says

    Dec 26, 2015 at 8:38 am

    I doubt that ‘The Taliban’ asked Biwe about that…Did he get an official letter from Taliban headquarters? Most likely it was one individual,,,iRasool O;s history is ripe with lies, evasions, secrecy, forgery and fraud,,,.;Gay; ia aioer of beside the point….

  13. Jim Peters says

    Dec 26, 2015 at 10:41 am

    Regarding the “Putin watches Barry working out” video. The girlie sized weights Barry was using probably were the topic of his comments. Barry looked like a sea bird struggling to lift off with too heavy a fish. Barry’s forte is sausage swallowing.

  14. Avenger says

    Dec 26, 2015 at 1:31 pm

    Just because Obama is gay doesn’t mean he would be a bad military leader (though he is).
    Here is a short list of some excellent gay military leaders – Alexander the Great, Emperor Hadrian, Julius Cesar, Richard the Lion Heart, Lawrence of Arabia and GW Bush. Sorry, Bush was a horrible military leader.

  15. Mark A says

    Dec 26, 2015 at 2:02 pm

    Who cares what Bowe Bergdahl has to say? The soon his court martial is convened, the better.

  16. Nelson Abdullah says

    Dec 26, 2015 at 3:21 pm

    I’ll give you a different take on why Bowe Bergdahl made that gay comment. He’s gambling that Barack Hussein Obama doesn’t want that subject hashed out in a public court martial and will offer him a pardon to keep him silent.

    • Angemon says

      Dec 30, 2015 at 8:20 pm

      Allow me to disagree, Nelson. If it were proved, beyond any reasonable doubt, that Obama is, in fact, homosexual, in the current race/gender/sexual preference divided America, that would ensure him a 3rd mandate. A black, gay, muslim-raised President? That’s, like, a multicultural unicorn.

      • Kathy Brown, Esq. says

        Dec 30, 2015 at 8:46 pm

        Oh, of course you’re right Ange. I mean that’d be the trifecta!

        It does make you wonder what Moo-Chelle’s position would be tho’. On top I’m guessing. As usual.

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