Posted on 01/29/2010 10:44:35 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
U.S. troops in Afghanistan are having a hard time understanding what is a strange Afghan cultural practice to them. The practice can be summed up in the ages old Afghan phrase, "women are for children, boys are for pleasure."
Yes, that phrase means what you think it means. It has been well known for a long time that some parts of Afghanistan have an odd sexual practice ensconced in its culture. Men have sex for pleasure with boys often eschewing women. Sometimes these men even claim to be disgusted by the idea of sex for pleasure with a woman. Yet none of these Afghani men think of themselves as homosexual because they don't "love" their male sex partners. They just love the sex.
This fact had become well known by Americans back in the 1980s when we were assisting the Mujahadeen to fight the Soviets. CIA operatives, social psychologists and cultural experts working with the government and Army personnel learned this strange habit long ago. But now that we are back in force in Afghanistan we are encountering this practice again and it is causing no end of confusion for U.S. forces -- especially medical personnel...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
This is old news. Check the date. 1/29/2009.
I never said the story was from the past 10 minutes, ya know? The issue is relevant whether it is 10 minutes old or a year old.
You mean the book of Daniel in the Old Testament?
One of the reasons that Islamic culture is psychotic.
Apocrypha ~ I’ve noticed different sources reference the various items by various names. As far as Daniel goes I just lump him into his own set of literature ~ which, in any one document might spill over into other things. He’s kind of a smart guy ~ take a look at: http://www.piney.com/ApocryIndex.html
Source:
http://www.publiusforum.com/2010/01/29/another-example-of-backwards-islamic-culture/
Heh, THAT’S why people are saying it’s a year old! Ooopsie. My fault.
How about for those of us that didn't see it a year ago? (Besides, a reminder about how homosexuality and many aspects of Islam are both perverse is needed).
I enjoyed reading "Contrasting Christianity and Islam", showing the MAJOR differences between the two religions.
http://www.faithfacts.org/world-religions-and-theology/contrasting-christianity-and-islam
I was discussing the movie the "The Hurt Locker" (an excellent movie if you haven't seen it) with a co-worker recently and made the statement "For anyone that thinks we can westernize the Islam culture, they should see that movie".
He ROARED with laughter in agreement.
But then it's really not about westernizing that culture; anyone knows that our presence in the Middle East is really about the big "I".
Ah. I've read the OT book of Daniel many times and was confused. That makes sense, though. I've been meaning to read the Apocrypha, just haven't gotten around to it.
It’s important “news” - something few American understand... and it’s one of the reasons Islamic cultures are always at war or “in hate” with someone.
That’s the “I” in the middle of the “O-i-L” right?
The letter following the capital "I" is "s".
I still am torn between American intervention in the Middle East. I know what the Founding Fathers believed (mind our own business abroad), yet if the destruction of Judaism in the Middle East is successful by radical Islam, then Christianity will undoubtedly be next.
Thoughts?
This whole place used to be a country far larger than the United States that stretched through most of 13 time zones.
There are those who would like to RESTART that country and they're naturally inclined to attack the strongest power in the world to make that happen.
If China were the strongest, they'd be going after the Chinese. If Brazil were strongest, Brazil wold be the target.
I see; so radical Islam only wants to ANNIHILATE Israel because they have "nothing better to do this month?
http://www.radicalislam.info/threat/religious-threat/jews
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hezbollah_e004.htm
Sometimes it was the "road North" or the "road South".
An anomalous religion grew up there. It's cognates dominate world religious thought.
As far as the Islamic Caliphate was concerned, it was fit for nothing so they started selling chunks of it to the Rothschilds. First, the Golan Heights ~
150 years ago no one cared, most certainly not the Arabs, nor the Persians, nor the Turks.
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