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Afghanistan’s dirty little secret

Joel Brinkley
Posted: September 1, 2010.

Print: San Francisco Chronicle

Women are simply unapproachable. Afghan men cannot talk to an unrelated woman until after proposing marriage. Before then, they can’t even look at a woman, except perhaps her feet. Otherwise she is covered, head to ankle.

“How can you fall in love if you can’t see her face,” 29-year-old Mohammed Daud told reporters. “We can see the boys, so we can tell which are beautiful.”

Even after marriage, many men keep their boys, suggesting a loveless life at home. A favored Afghan expression goes: “Women are for children, boys are for pleasure.”

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Humans seek pleasure. Religion denies it. Living by the ludicrous laws of these ancient books must end for the world to have any hope at all.

posted on September 1, 2010
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2. Absinthius

Is this for real?.... That kind of hypocrisy must hurt like hell!

posted on September 1, 2010
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It seems like there are a lot of stories like this about Islamic countries. All sorts of public pious sanctimony, but out of view of westerners, pederasty, sexual slavery, widespread prostitution, and forced marriage of child brides.

Their perversion is a promising line of attack, because it undermines the core claim that they are more pious and pure.

posted on September 2, 2010
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I hope that Sam Harris shared this with Jonathan Haidt.

posted on September 3, 2010
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This is frightening . It shows how society sculpts the people who live in it .
The society here is totally repressed sexually , The islamic teachings drilled into these people that insult women in this way and cover them up for these reasons and stone them ect . .
These men never see women , never develop sexually with women around and grow up being disgusted by them . Meanwhile all the young boys who unfortunately appear lets say less masculine at the young age get preyed apon by these sexually repressed men(not nessasarily homosexuals).

Is this the same phenomena seen in prisons to some extent ? With no women around mens sexual desires being what they are get redirected they adapt and use this for power ect.

Who knows , its reallycrazy like some kind of NEo -Nazi society engineering research project gone freakishly wrong, where they tried to see what types of human condition disturbing societal controls could be installed on a population to create the most subversive and manipulated distortion of how a happy healthy human society should live, like some kind of Nightmare funhouse mirror version of a human society .

posted on September 3, 2010
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Could simply be the types of ideas about women that can naturally arise from a desert people I mean they are taught that women are unclean and women are not unclean unless they literally are unclean meaning they havnt washed and in a desert society where water is rare the mabey this is how this can happen

posted on September 4, 2010
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Tragically, this is real.  Frontline has a program on it: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/dancingboys/view/

posted on September 6, 2010
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8. MajorityofOne

I don’t know why I’m surprised by this but I am. Wow.

Agree with all the comments. This might be good to show the world…religion leads us down some really dark allies.

posted on September 12, 2010
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