[lady lawyer]

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.

[steve-b]

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

I'm having flashbacks to 1960s pinkos trotting out statistics about all the wonderful things Castro, Mao, etc. are doing for their people.

[A_perfect_lady]

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

They also are completely free of child sexual abuse. I know this is true because they SAY it is so. And if they say it is so, why, it must be so!

[expatpat]

The muslims are indeed against sodomy. However, that means two male adults. Sodomizing a boy doesn't count.

[another cricket]

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.

What your friends say and what the historical record shows are two very different things.

You need to read a few books on the history of Egypt. There was NO such tradition there until the Islamic invasion. Egypt is one of the few countries that we have clear written historical records of what it was like before and after the Islamic terror.

I am sorry but you are wrong just as you are wrong about their views on sodomy. They regard that as grown man and grown man. Man and boy (what the degenerate west regards as child molestation and disgusting) is just fine.

The famous poem of "a loaf of bread, a jug of wine and thou" is actually "a loaf of bread, a jug of wine and a pretty boy"

The Mamluks-in-training, in fact, were cut off from all contact with women in their teen years and the boys were encouraged to, well, you know, with each other and their trainers.

a.cricket