Taliban forced orphanage girls to become married sex slaves

The Sunday Times (UK) ^ | December 23, 2001 | Matthew Campbell.

[aculeus]

Islam is good.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Islam is piece.

[NativeNewYorker]

The Taliban are providing us with a wonderful list of barbarities that much-maligned Western Civ doesn't harbor.

[Hitlerys uterus]

Islam is love.

[BlueMoose]

This is not Islam.

[McGavin999]

Ah yes, the Taliban and their "pure Islamic" state. I wonder how long it's going to take before the middle east manages to live down this humiliating shame?

[SolitaryMan]

Surprised the title didn't read "Taliban forced orphanage boys to become married sex slaves"

[Libertina]

Islam is piece play on words?
And they "encourage" marriage... how pure.

[my trusty sig]

I'll give you a barbarity. If it was my daughter or sister and I ever found the guy, I'd tie him up, dissolve his you-know-what in a beaker of sulfuric acid, then give him a lye enema, and finish him off with a slow feed into a chipper shredder.

[tet68]

The Taliban encourage marriage,like Bill Clinton encourages an intern.

[Anamensis]

Okay, this is a mixed bag. The Koran does say it is better to marry off orphans at a very young age. Like, 6. But technically, it's to ensure that they are financially cared for, for life. Now, to us, that is just sick. But to a breed (oops) I mean, in a cultural worldview where it is not expected that decent women enjoy sex anyway, the idea that you are "raping" a woman while offering lifetime financial coverage and social respectability (technically) doesn't strike them as horrific. Of course these girls don't want to sleep with you, Nice Girls Don't. But you are "making an honest woman" of her and all you want is that they perform their "wifely duties" in return. These men don't expect women to love anyone other than their own children.

Don't flame me too bad, y'all, I don't like these people, don't like their ways, don't like their religion... don't even like their food. BUT... I'm aware that no one thinks of himself as "a bad guy." One has to wonder how these guys can do such things and think of themselves as "not a bad guy." I'm offering an explanation (purely my own reading and reflection) of how they get away with it. That's all.

[Dallas]

What do expect from a cult religion that promises virgin sex in exchange for martyrdom....

[StoneColdGOP]

Damn, as if I needed any more reason to despise these people.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

International Religious Freedom: Afghanistan - 2000 Annual Report

[hillsborofox]

We should accept and celebrate cultural differences!

[watchin]

"This is not Islam."

That's right. If you want true Islam, you need to go back to the source.

... Muhammed liked his "women" much younger.

[Libertina]

Muhammed liked his "women" much younger
All 200 of them... There may be Koran connections with this practice, but it is too easily abused. Again, women are at men's mercy.
The Taliban encourage marriage, like "Bill Clinton encourages an intern" LOL Thanks for the big laugh!

[watchin]

Interesting analysis. I have to agree with you; these people actually feel righteous in doing the very things we despise.

I don't see how we can pluralize our society enough to accept a culture that commends what we condemn. I think it would be better to severely marginalize that culture.

[watchin]

"There may be Koran connections with this practice"

IMHO, that doesn't justify the practice, it condemns the book.

[DainBramage]

girls were snatched from their homes.