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What is wrong with you? There are Muslim Sodomites and Muslim Lesbians, and I have met both. In Kandahar, the Muslim men have ashna's, or boy lovers, even when they are married with children. Muslims just hide things better, and most often do not make it public, for fear of punishment.

I'm sure it goes on, but I have to believe there is less of it than in most other places. Afghanistan is a different animal. Most of the Muslims I know deplore what was going on in Afghanistan among the Taliban. It was an embarrassment to them.

One statistic that is hard to argue with is that the Islamic countries have the lowest AIDS infection rate in the world, by far.

It is also true that sodomy is against the law in most Muslim countries, and they still enforce that law.

If I were to guess, I would say that the tradition of boy lovers in Afghanistan is probably something local that has nothing to do with the Muslim religion, but which has persisted in spite of it. In that sense, it is probably something like female genital mutilation, that is still practiced by some tribed that have become Islamic, but is not part of the Islamic belief system.