What are we in Afghanistan for, if not to stand for our own values and the principles of human rights? Instead, U.S. officials are aiding and abetting the destruction of these boys’ lives — and all too often sacrificing the lives of our own troops. This is beyond shameful.
“Those are the ones brought near in the Gardens of Pleasure, a company of the former peoples and a few of the later peoples, on thrones woven, reclining on them, facing each other. There will circulate among them young boys made eternal with vessels, pitchers and a cup from a flowing spring.” — Qur’an 56:11-18
“And they will be given to drink a cup whose mixture is of ginger, a fountain within Paradise named Salsabeel. There will circulate among them young boys made eternal. When you see them, you would think them scattered pearls. And when you look there, you will see pleasure and great dominion.” — Qur’an 76:17-20
“Afghan soldiers are using boys as sex slaves, and the U.S. is looking the other way,” by Anuj Chopra, Washington Post, July 18, 2017:
KABUL – Last summer, an Afghan police commander invited me to his post for tea — and to view his “beautiful” boy sex slave.
I stumbled through a farm of chest-high opium poppy stocks to reach his mud-and-wattle outpost on the outskirts of Tarin Kot, the capital of southern Uruzgan province that is teetering in the face of a Taliban upsurge. On its open roof, a slight teenager sat next to his hulking captor, stealing sad glances at me as he quietly filled our tea glasses. A shock of auburn curls jutted out of his embroidered pillbox hat and his milky eyes were lined with kohl. The commander flaunted him the way a ringmaster exhibits an exotic animal. “See my beautiful bacha (boy slave),” he said, blithe and casual, a gun dangling at his side.
The commander, an ally of the United States in the war against the Taliban, is not an anomaly. Hundreds of such outposts of the Afghan Local Police (ALP), a front-line force armed and funded with U.S. taxpayer dollars, and other pro-government militias are believed to have enslaved young boys for dancing and sexual companionship, many of them kidnapped.
Freedom from the Taliban’s puritanical regime in 2001 also brought freedom to do “bacha bazi,” the cultural practice of sexual slavery and abuse of boys who are often dressed effeminately and whose possession is seen by Afghan strongmen as a marker of power and masculinity….
I reported last year how the Taliban are exploiting entrenched bacha bazi to infiltrate Afghan security ranks, effectively using child sex slaves — many of them brutally abused and hungry for revenge — as Trojan Horses to mount deadly insider attacks.
Institutionalized bacha bazi, described as culturally sanctioned male rape, is likely to continue unabated in the absence of any real deterrent. The United Nations has called on Afghanistan to urgently adopt legislation to criminalize bacha bazi and swiftly prosecute state officials guilty of the practice.
One senior official in Uruzgan described bacha bazi as an addiction worse than opium, saying commanders compete — and sometimes battle — one another to snatch pretty boys. Many prowl neighborhoods for boys “who have not seen the sun for years,” a cultural euphemism for unblemished beauty.
Last year when I unearthed a kidnapping epidemic of boys, it was disturbing to see local authorities pussyfooting around the issue and using security to rationalize their inaction. On the surface, President Ashraf Ghani has vowed zero tolerance for bacha bazi in security forces. But multiple officials in southern Afghanistan told me that any action against guilty commanders — a bulwark against insurgents — would anger them and cause them to abandon their posts with their loyalists, paving the way for the Taliban. There is therefore no desire to recover or rescue the innocent victims whose lives have been upended by this practice….
Steve Klein says
Shame on President Trump if he knows about this and is looking the other way.
Jan meyrick says
Unfortunately, there isn’t much he can do. It is abominable, but so is much of the Islamic culture is. Child marriage, FGM, abuse of girls and women, are a few examples from an endless list. He cannot fight it all.
Nona says
Islam is a satanic way of life.
Ann says
Totally agree with you, Nona!
utis says
Don’t pick on Trump unless you start the blame with Obama (he HAD to know about Afghan customs as the great understander of non-white cultures). As I recall from this site, there was a piece about an American officer punished for speaking out about custom.
It sounds as if these boys aren’t war captives. They must be from families with no clout to pay off or avenge their boys. And Bush II thought he could just send in an army, and instantly democracy would spring up among these trogs!
It’s so aggravating to look at that little kid, and know he’ll never have a life of his own making.
Mr. Goad says
Saddam hanged pedos like that.Gotta get rid of him and Assad for the NWO right?
Dennise says
There Sir you have the answer to all of this. ?
Frank Cicero says
We are not looking the other way , we are just busy writing their names on bullets and bombs.
jack grandville says
One does get tired of the excuses (on both sides) and the standard prattle of “it is a cultural thing,” — be that as it may, supporting it is no way to reduce or eliminate the practice — also, it appears that ‘the cultural” thing can be an excuse even in courts around the world by treasonous officials in many jurisdictions readily accepting that comment as one that removes any responsibility for actions by those charged; This is an indicator of just how far down the moral ladder the west has slipped — and if we do not alter that path, our culture is doomed.
Mike says
In my “culture” penectomies would be appropriate for the perpetrators…
It’s highly effective, I’m sure of it.
Nancy Albert says
Orchiectomies are what is called for. Removing the testicles, not the penis. Testicles are the source of testosterone which drives male aggression and sexual desire.
Bacha Bazi is just another manifestation of polygamy. Mohammed had the problem of sex-starved bachelors to deal with. Several solutions were legalized, but not homosexuality among consenting men. Those are; Sex with female domesticated animals, child marriage, rape of uncovered women, rape of infidel women, enslavement of infidel women and the murder and looting of any infidel, including babies, to enslave a woman.
Screeminmeeme says
But the penis is the weapon…..and shouldn’t we take the weapon away from sexual predators?
Aloha Akbar says
Penectomies sounds like the better option. Would be a great deterrent.
Should make that the penalty for all mooslim misbehaviour worldwide.
They cut one head off we cut off 10 penises.
Robert says
Regarding the institution of sexually exploiting boys and young men: Burn the whole thing down; raze it to the ground. Then salt it, so nothing grows there again.
These reprobates don’t know good from evil. They are sunk so deep in their own moral decay, they wouldn’t know how to get out of their downward spiral, if we showed them.
In the past, the West simply outlawed these barbaric practices, using the barrel of a rifle to enforce the law. Offenders were dispatched.
One of the many devastating effects of a post-Christian, post-absolute truth world is this type of wickedness. Men sexually exploiting boys, and BOASTING about it, as though nothing was wrong. And other men observing the spectacle, but doing nothing to stop it, and to rescue the boys from sexual slavery.
Robert says
In his biography of the Caesars, Suetonius reported on the life of Caesar Tiberius, including the morally depraved parts of the emperor’s life.
Tiberius was another evil man who exually exploited boys, some of whom were very young, perhaps as small as toddlers.
Suetonius held this practice up as proof positive that Tiberius was a terrible man, as well as a terrible leader. He basically said that he had left the worst part of Tiberius’s creepy character until the end, to show just how far gone the emperor was — on top of all his other faults, Tiberius was a pedophile.
The academic Left loves to picture Roman society as perfectly cool with homosexuality, and other sexual perversions, but Suetonius proves they are dead wrong. Suetonius regarded homosexuality in general, and pedophilia in particular, as moral repugnant, and deserving our widespread social condemnation.
He was a very civilized person.
Paul F Austin says
The arrogance and cowardice of the West go hand in hand. Those of us who KNOW anything about the goings on of Muslims WORLDWIDE are not in the least surprised by your article. Far from it. Don’t keep complaining about the decadence (as WE see it!) don’t roam around the world wringing our hands, whilst allowing these depraved people to populate our once pleasant civilised lands. Bar the bastards! We don’t want them in our lands, polluting our moderate societies with their methodical Islamic conditioning. So, why do we allow it? Go back to the top of the note. Arrogance and cowardice. How arrogant of the West to believe that the rest of the world should live to our particular ‘ideals’ yet are so cowardly we don’t even protect our own borders nor give support to the Christians and others who are systematically being murdered for their faith in Islamic States. On and on the posts come through – decrying the evils of Islam. And WHAT do we do to stop the murder and mayhem? Little or nothing, in fact we are welcoming into the Western fold the barbaric heathens in their hundred of thousands. All you do-gooders are living in the same mad world as the Muslim hordes. Watching as they bespoil our children and our towns villages and cities – and it is all talk, talk, talk. Stupid people. Remember the adage before you complain on these pages again. TALK IS CHEAP! ACTIONS COUNT! Stem the primitive tides, block them, send them back to their backward pits and slums, instead of accepting them in only to create their slums in our own lands – you will NEVER Democratise or civilise (in our terms) these degenerates – they are clinging to the conquest they have always aspired to, the slavery of that world which does not fit in with their ante-deluvian, monstrous, fairy-tale brain-washed Mohommedan nightmare. To stop them you have to face facts. IT IS THEM – OR US! Prepare for the battle NOW! OR SHUT UP!
balam says
Paul: your comments are extremely powerful and correct .It is the people in general who put people like Hussein Obama who himself is Gay and perverts like CLINTONS in the White House .These people are not leaders but just politicians .May God bless and save America.t
Keys says
“Prepare for the battle NOW!”
Many of us are prepared.
“OR SHUT UP!”
Never !
With respect Paul, because I know you hate Islam as much as most of us posting here, what are you doing to prepare for battle now? Most of us are open to more ideas.
Not many are doing more, or paying a bigger price, than Robert Spencer. I am assuming your post is not critical of him, but of those in power in the West, and those who continue to vote for them.
Daniel Triplett says
That’s right Paul.
Let’s get it on, and get it over with. Here’s the plan:
“Total War: Extinguishing Islam from Earth” @dantriplett
https://medium.com/@dantriplett/islamic-jihad-is-total-war-for-all-marbles-6c858098b76e
balam says
Sodomy is quite common in the Muslim countries because they keep their women locked up indoors .Then there is also shortage of females when they marry more than one and up to four .Hence ,Muslim men have no choice and it is also a status symbol to have a boy for sex beside the number of wives. They believe: NO JOY WITHOUT A BOY which to them is a sweet dish after the main course .Thanks to the holy prophet who made Islam so lovely and delightful in this world and the next.
Joy D. Brower says
As they say in the sicko world is Pisslam, “Women are for babies; boys are for fun!”
John A. Marre says
I can understand why nothing was done when Obama was president, but Trump?
ploome says
How many Americans are you willing to sacrifice to try and stop this centuries old custom?
I am not willing to lose one.
These scum have to be isolated and left to do whatever they do.
(I don;t even wat to call them people0
gravenimage says
If we are going to do nothing about this we should just pull out altogether.
wm1 says
With Satan (who identifies himself in the Koran as Allah) there are no morals. Depravity abounds without restriction. The West is, rapidly, following thereafter…Someday God will judge and destroy all wickedness. Until then debauchery will increase exponentially.
Dan says
Is there ANYTHING these guys WON’T stick their you know what in?
Anti-jihad says
Apparently not. Seems like they’ll do anything that walks. If they came across a hole in the wall, they’d likely be driving it into that too. These people are totally debauched. Debauchery must be in their DNA.
Aloha Akbar says
“Off with their HEADS” 🙂
Mickey says
Remember this: This was under Obama.
Army kicking out decorated Green Beret who stood up for Afghan rape victim
By Lucas Tomlinson Published August 21, 2015
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/08/20/army-kicking-out-decorated-green-beret-who-stood-up-for-afghan-rape-victim.html
Mark Swan says
Thanks Mickey, I just read what you linked here, what harm the Obama admistration has done.
Robert says
Great link. Thanks! I remember reading this story back in 2015. Let’s never forget who and what Obama is.
Barbara Ethel says
That thing next to the little abuse victim needs to be cleansed with fire. I didnt think I could hate this religion more.
Guest says
Disgusting
St. Manuel II Palaiologos says
Since the Orthodox Church banned this practice, it has become anathema for anyone to engage in paedophilic relations. Now, since the Church has been purged from Modernist and Enlightenment society, it’s coming back. The reason why the US wont do anything about it, is because it agrees with Islam in principle that it’s a good thing to do.
Rob says
Not true. You may hate the U.S., but the majority of Americans do not condone this perversion.
Mockingjay says
– Note that the Afghans who are doing the abusing in this story are the “good guys” – the ones allied with the West to fight the taliban.
– Of course you cannot criticize your Afghan “allies” too much or they might turn on you…
– Some years ago, i watched a documentary about British soldiers in Afghanistan who were encountering these same issues of child rape on their bases that they shared with local Afghan forces.. They witnessed these things going on on a daily basis, but weren’t allowed – strictly ordered – to interfere, or do anything about it.
– These British soldiers were suffering as a result.
They were good men who wouldn’t have liked nothing more than to beat the crap out of every single one of these pedophiles. But they were powerless – having been MADE powerless.
– Watching that documentary gave me a whole new sense of respect for the soldiers who are sent to and are expected to function in what is the perverse HELL of an islamic country like Afghanistan..
Anne Smith says
Each day that passes makes us wonder more and more why on earth we are in Afghanistan. Many good young British soldiers have died or been maimed horribly out there and for what?? As have Americans and other nationalities.
Whenever we rush in, effect some sort of truce and then leave, the whole thing starts up all over again. It is a really horrible vicious circle. (In more ways than one)
It is long overdue for some scumbag politician to explain exactly what our aims are and why we are sending our good young men to die for these horrible people.
I am sure it will all come down to oil/gas pipelines and money in one form or another.
It is time to call a halt, get out of there and let them rot in their own mess.
Rob says
I agree. No one can change these countries except the people who live in them. And a lot of Western troops are being killed or maimed with no real hope of altering anything – least of all introducing “democracy”. Their culture doesn’t seem to produce Mozarts or Einsteins, Satres or Monets, yet we in the West are flooding our own countries with these people. Why?!
gravenimage says
Afghanistan: Muslim soldiers are using boys as sex slaves, and the U.S. is looking the other way
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This grotesque horror has been going on for years. Good American soldiers have even been disciplined for trying to stop this terrible child abuse.
Ann says
Someone please tell me how this bassackwards religion can kill anyone presumed to be “gay” by stoning but not the men engaging in this sort of behavior, using male children for their own sexual pleasure?!! It is as if this world is being pulled back into the stone ages by this satanic cult!
sidney penny says
This is similar in Pakistan although not linked to Pakistani soldiers
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1149618/pakistans-shameful-denial-male-rape/
Adam says
One more example of why the left loves islam.
Both groups sub-human.
Keep the faith and hold the line.
Eric says
The photo accompanying this article is another thing that could bring the most hardened person to tears. The same practice occurs in Pakistan. The USA is there to have access to opium poppies and the natural gas in central Asia. For some western leaders when money is at stake morals and ethics take a hike. Before 9/11 the USA negotiated with Taliban leaders in Washington.
Many acts of sexual exploitation are not sexual at all. The sex is used as a means of domination. For some raping another male is the ultimate display of power.
For me Islam is repugnant and so is homosexuality!
Eric
Larry A. Singleton says
You have to disable your ad blocker to this Washington Post ad whore or buy a subscription to read their worthless screeds.
PC BS or not I like reading the whole “articles”.
Janice Disher says
This is why a lot of soldiers come back with PTSD. They had defended little boys and were told to back off. Disgusting for them and the little boys. Moderate muslims feel this is okay??
Daniel Triplett says
Bacha bazi isn’t the problem. Islam is, the ideology that promotes it. The whole show must end.
We’re wasting our time on the ground in Afghanistan. Let’s recall all Western personnel from Dar al-Islam.
The war against Islam can and should be fought from a cubicle dug under a Wyoming mountain, and a nuke-laden US submarine.
Leonard Hartley says
Why are we involved in this new opium war you ask. The Taliban had all but completely shut down poppy production in 99 and 2000. For filthy money for Big Pharma, AMA, EU Medical, CIA NWO elites, and the Bush, Clinton, and Obama Cartels. Sine we went in 2001 on yearly record breaking bumper crops of poppy. And it’s not the Taliban flying it into our streets as opiates and heroin to destroy and kill thousands. Not even to mention our precious troops bloodshed to prop up Shariah Law government headed by major drug lord families. We truly protect the poppy and such Islamic Meccan sodomites and child molesters. Not another dollar…not one more drop of blood to provide these NWO greedy savages!
DirkaDirka says
This sort of thing has been going on the entire time the US has been involved in that wasteland. A special forces officer beat up an afghan officer for raping a boy and the US Army is kindly allowing him to stay in the army.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/30/us/green-beret-who-beat-up-afghan-officer-for-raping-boy-can-stay-in-army.html
Bernard Roerink says
Terrible, terrible yousing boys as sex slave.