We, as Americans, have too often bought into the fantasy that it is all “One world” and that it is our moral obligation to export “freedom” and “democracy” to some of the “less enlightened” “Third-world” countries. This attitude goes back to the colonial mindset of the 1800s and the concept of “the white mans’ burden”. Time after time in place after place it has led to hostility conflict and bloodshed. Take, for example, our current involvement in Afghanistan, (and the involvement of the Russians before them and the British before them).
Afghanistan has long been considered one of the most religious countries in the world: a place where men and women follow Islamic doctrine carefully
But behind the devout exterior, the country is hiding a dark secret – one which the government has tried to sweep under the rug.
Bacha bazi, which translate as ‘boy play’, is on the surface a harmless form of entertainment – young boys dancing for the entertainment of their elders.
In reality, it is often little more than sex slavery, where boys as young as 10 are passed around a group of middle aged men for their own sexual gratification.
Afghanistan’s poverty has been a driving force in the rise of bacha bazi in the last 15 years. It makes it easy for predators to prowl the streets targeting ‘pretty’ young boys, enticing them from their families with promises of work or education.
These promises more often than not come to nothing: instead, the boys are trained as dancers, made to perform to groups of men dressed as girls, bells on their flowing skirts and make up on the faces.
They command the attention of the room as they move to the traditional songs, with words which do more than hint at what is to come.
Once the party is over, and the dancing has finished, the true horror of their role is revealed.
Then the boys are passed between the men, taken to hotel rooms where they can be sexually abused.
‘The boys don’t earn anything from the parties, but they live as though they are in a relationship with their masters, so their masters keep them, house them and buy them food and things.
They have sex with their masters and then at the parties they are abused by different people.
It is said one of the country’s favorite sayings is women are for children, boys are for pleasure.
The fact homosexuality is forbidden in Islam is swept under the carpet by those who participate, who claim there is a loophole. They are not in love with the boys, and therefore not gay.
Soldiers fighting in Afghanistan after 2001 spoke of their surprise at watching grown men walking down the streets of the conservative country, hand in hand with a young boy.
But even the coalition forces looked the other way.
Unfortunately, these dark actions are not isolated to Afghanistan. Back as far as 2011 there have been hundreds of arrests in regard to child abduction, slavery and forced prostitution. One of the early Interpol investigations was of an internet-based pedophile group associated with a website ,”boylover-dot-net”, that boasted over 70,000 followers.
On Feb. 23, 2018 President Trump gave a press conference from the White House addressing how human trafficking is a “dire problem” domestically and internationally. Trump’s press conference was barely a blip in the mainstream media and the arrests have been almost completely ignored by the MSM altogether.
-On Jan. 27 authorities arrested 42 in a human trafficking operation in Tennessee.
–16 people were arrested in January in Michigan for sex trafficking during the Detroit Auto Show.
-In February, authorities arrested 11 in Virginia in a child sex sting.
-On Feb. 14 the Polk County sheriff announced that 42 were arrested in Florida in child pornography related cases.
The president genuinely does care about children and he’s vowed to make solving the human trafficking epidemic a priority. The recent pedophile arrests are just the tip of the iceberg. We can only pray that this abomination is dealt with quickly and decisively.
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