This has been known since 2009. This US Army Human Terrain Team report is interesting reading, if you find strange & violent forms of misogyny and pederasty morbidly fascinating https://info.publicintelligence.net/HTT-PashtunSexuality.pdf """ Another example of cultural misinterpretations of Islamic tenants, bent to support homosexuality over heterosexuality, comes from a U.S. Army medic completing a year-long tour i…
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#92This has been known since 2009. This US Army Human Terrain Team report is interesting reading, if you find strange & violent forms of misogyny and pederasty morbidly fascinating https://info.publicintelligence.net/HTT-PashtunSexuality.pdf """ Another example of cultural misinterpretations of Islamic tenants, bent to support homosexuality over heterosexuality, comes from a U.S. Army medic completing a year-long tour i…
> She and her male colleagues were approached by a local gentleman seeking advice on how his wife could become pregnant. When it was explained to him what was necessary, he reacted with disgust and asked “How could one feel desire to be with a woman, who God has made unclean, when one could be with a man, who is clean? Surely this must be wrong. The dialogue sounds fishy and constructed to me. Local "gentlemen" surel…
Don't be so sure about that. Only a few decades ago doctors in Ireland (which used to be hyper-conservative on sexual matters) would sometimes encounter couples who were not having any luck conceiving, only to discover that they were attempting to procreate via the wife's navel. Highly religious people have historically not considered themselves to be fundamentally similar to the lower animals.
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
Remember not to place these men in the same socio-economic and cultural categories you grew up in. This comes from the same culture that believes it is not homosexual to penetrate another man (receiving is what makes you effeminate to them). IIRC, this was the same for pederasty in ancient Greece.
I believe Rome too. I've wondered for a while if this is a long holdover from the short-lived Alexandrian empire.
Why assume it must originate from a single source? It doesn't seem odd to me that similar social structures might emerge of their own accord under similar social conditions rather than necessarily being learned behaviors from other cultures.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your cowardly attempt at legitimizing an abhorrent practice that violates individual rights by attaching it to the mystical word "culture" is downright disgusting. If this is not a troll post, you are the most despicable human being I have ever personally encountered. To even debate the merits of your argument is an insult to humanity and only an ad hominem will suffice. Fuck you.
Are you American? Do you support the mass imprisonment of your (mainly black, male) poor? Do you support the death penalty? Are you anti "ObamaCare"? Do you suppory the casual ownership of guns? Is the death of children as a direct result of pointlessly having a gun in the house an "acceptable risk"? Different cultures have different values. You can dislike it and work to correct it but your attitude makes you look l…
Your attitude makes you look like a devil, I'm sure you think you are so edgy and sophisticated now that you try to compare a primitive culture with the west.
We are not talking about America here and I am not American. Debating rape of children is heinous, and rape of children is heinous.
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#95"Afghan soldiers told to ignore American Allies' eating pork" Well, reading this you might think "how can that compare to raping boys? Boys are human beings and human beings have rights, just like you and me? But at the same time a Muslim may consider refusing to eat pork a law by god which is way higher than anything considering humans. The point I try to make is this: In an intercultural environment you need to acc…
Culture is a distraction. The actions in the articles against boys and girls fail the live-and-let-live principle on the most basic levels. The word 'uncivilised' gets thrown around a bit, and loses weight. Here we see it in the raw. These practices are uncivilised behaviour. They favour might-is-right over the freedom of the victims. People should not be slaves. Humans should be able to live their lives to pursue th…
>Culture is a distraction.
Culture is a lie. It must be re-told in order to perpetuate.
Abandon any culture that allows - or requires - one to hate and destroy the life of others.
Its as simple as that. Cultures are lies. Stop telling the lies; end the hate. Abandon any culture that allows you to hate.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
Buses in London used to have signs saying 'No Spitting'. They don't have them anymore, but not because it's now OK to spit on buses. You don't make rules against things that nobody does.
I suspect that will change as tourism becomes more widespread.
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#97Which sort of begs the question: why the hell are we over there, now? Originally, I guess we went to hunt OBL and punish the Taliban, but then there was the whole oil question (they have it, we want it, etc.). But we failed to stop the Taliban (Mission Definitely Not Completed), which just shows we failed to learn anything from the Russians and/or the British. So, why are we there now? Anyone? Bueller? Sure, we can b…
>But we failed to stop the Taliban (Mission Definitely Not Completed), which just shows we failed to learn anything from the Russians and/or the British.
That's why the Taliban are comfortably ensconced in Kabul, right?
>So, why are we there now? Anyone? Bueller?
We've withdrawn all but a token force. There are less than ten thousand US troops in Afghanistan.
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#98The key to this is what you think about the morality of one's own countries soldiers ignoring and so tacitly approving the rape of children.
Structurally what do you think of the idea that soldiers were ordered to do so.
Rape of children is outside the limits of what I will tolerate from any culture.
First things first, the idea that those of my own culture and country condone the rape of children for political ends in a foreign country is something for which they should be facing charges and entitled to proper legal defence in my culture and my country.
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#99Which sort of begs the question: why the hell are we over there, now? Originally, I guess we went to hunt OBL and punish the Taliban, but then there was the whole oil question (they have it, we want it, etc.). But we failed to stop the Taliban (Mission Definitely Not Completed), which just shows we failed to learn anything from the Russians and/or the British. So, why are we there now? Anyone? Bueller? Sure, we can b…
>But we failed to stop the Taliban (Mission Definitely Not Completed), which just shows we failed to learn anything from the Russians and/or the British. That's why the Taliban are comfortably ensconced in Kabul, right? >So, why are we there now? Anyone? Bueller? We've withdrawn all but a token force. There are less than ten thousand US troops in Afghanistan.
>failed to learn anything from the Russians
I chatted to some exiles from Afganistan and they thought the Russian period was the best in terms of economic growth, human rights and the like. It only really ended with the US arming people like Bin Laden to overthrow them and didn't that work out well.
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#100This is a good headline. I wish we could get back to informative page titles.
Sorry itself is sickening.