Comparing the two is simply silly. The Taliban have a manual of arms about 5 pages long. The US Military by comparison, has one probably a thousand plus pages long. That in that 5 pages the Taliban HAVE to include this prohibition says everything about how much of a problem it is within their organization.
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Or, as much or more likely, how normal and prevalent it is in the country and culture in which they operate and from which they recruit their members (see earlier referenced article indicating that only in Taliban dominated areas is bacha bazi supressed).
For example, if it wasn't normal for people to have sexual relations, the Vatican would not have to give specific instructions to priests on celibacy. The fact that celibacy is difficult, in particular when surrounded by an overall culture of sexual promiscuity, leads to the Vatican having to create process and procedures for when priests cannot resist temptation. Does that mean that priests have more sex than the population at large? No, just that they impose greater restrictions on themselves.
Its attitude to women and girls would seem to suggest otherwise. However, it does seem to draw a line at anything that might be deemed homosexual.
In any event, that wasn't the point of starting the thread. The wholesale re-branding of the war on terror (always a bad idea IMO) to a war on dirty old men OTOH..........
Some interesting comparisons with LDS sects BTW. The US federal government set a dangerous precedent in tolerating some of those practices IMO.
genocide is within purview of the UN and all countries who are members of the UN have signed up to agree to intervene in case of genocide.
How'd that work our for Rwanda? Or Congo? Or Sudan? In point of fact, the UN has shown itself to not only toothless and spineless, but also principle-less.
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But only where that paedophilia is also homosexuality. Paedophilia which is heterosexual - no problem!
Actually, I wouldn't find it difficult to believe that there is a lot of diddling with little boys between prayers and lessons. It's girls and women they seem to hate.
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UK deaths in Afghanistan to date - 206
UK deaths in Iraq to date - 179
And that's just the UK ones. I recall reading that the Canadians have also been hit bad in Afghanistan recently.
It's time for Americans to remember that other countries are grabbing a morality straw and sticking their necks out, only for the sacrifices of their soldiers to go wholly unrecognised by a jingoistic and ungrateful American public
The operation was part of the "Coalition of the Bribed" - and you can thank your dingbat ex-PM for jumping on the bandwagon so quickly, along with relieving you of what remaining privacy you had from the government during his reign.
My point is not that other countries should follow the US into a conflict, but that the UN should be the sole source of humanitarian or protectionist invasion policies and send UN-branded troops to handle the conflict.
The US should not be the first horse out of the starting gate every time.
If the conflict is that terrible that it is an affront to human society, then all of human society should come together to resolve it.
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My point is not that other countries should follow the US into a conflict, but that the UN should be the sole source of humanitarian or protectionist invasion policies and send UN-branded troops to handle the conflict.
whilst the blue-helmets have been doing their own systematic rape wherever they been deployed : Cambodia, East Timor, Haiti, Liberia , and lately Sierra Leone and DR Congo.
A 12-year-old Yemeni girl, who was forced into marriage, died during a painful childbirth that also killed her baby, a children's rights group said Monday.
Fawziya Ammodi struggled for three days in labor, before dying of severe bleeding at a hospital on Friday, said the Seyaj Organization for the Protection of Children.
