Bacha Bazi:Afghan boys sexually abused by traditional practice

To Ex Labour, Islam is not disgusting. It is a peaceful and beautiful religion. Bacha Bazi is not a part of the Islam religion, and is not encouraged by Islam. Bacha Bazi- which I do agree is inappropriate and quite disgusting- is a part of the Afghan CULTURE, not their religion. Please educate yourself before making judgments. By the way, I am not Muslim.   Thank you for writing this story  

Thank you to Frontline for exposing this degrading practice of Bacha Bazi to the rest of us living in the US with little experience and understanding of the a Afghan Culture. As expected, the reaction of the non muslim audience was well expected because of their limited knowledge of Islam. I will limit my comment to this as far as the Sharia law (Islamic law) is concerned: All adulterer and homosexual practices are 100% punishable by death. If interested for further details, I will invite you to conduct your own research on the matter and askimam.org will be a good source. Back on this investigative report,  I will try to separate the facts about this abominable afghan tradition practiced by few afghan deviant  from the moral realism of Islam based on recent events in Afghanistan and some of the article above and ma Allah help me in my task. As you can recall, the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />US government invaded Afghanistan in 2003 on the pretense of being a safe heaven for terrorist (Muslims), which was then ruled by the Taliban which stands for student.  With the support of then their ally the Northern Alliance which was the sworn enemy of the Taliban which will later discover why, the US was able to push back the Taliban and gain control of Kabul. Takhar which is the city where the story took place and located in the north of Afghanistan was controlled (and still is) by the northern alliance commanders, from top government officers to police officers as the documentary shows. Although the practices of Taliban as portrayed by the media appeared violent to the rest of us, it was a significant deterrent to crime. The Taliban viewed themselves as the enforcers of the law of the land which the Sharia.  Was it any wrong with that? As watcher of those punishments being carried out, we were hang up on the effects (death) without trying to find out the cause (crime) which was purposely hidden by the news industry because the goal was to make the case for war by depicting the Taliban as barbarian.. Although the regime was very destitute, crime was almost inexistent; there was no drug, no corruption problems no pedophilia and homosexuality because people were thought moral discipline according to the law of the land. As the documentary portrayed, moral turpitude is rampant in places like Takhar with the poor and weak having no one to turn to because of the institutionalized corruption condoned by our government through their silence and financing of the provincial government in Afghanistan. Passages in the Frontline article like: “a disturbing practice that is once again flourishing in the country”, “an ancient practice that has been brought back by powerful warlords” suggest that Bachi Bazi was at one point abolished but yet the author deliberately fail to give credit the Taliban regime. Another article from nowpublic.com on the same subject traces the origins of this practice back to 5000 years, which will be pre Islam. This type of moral deviance is nothing new to us Muslims and it is Bidha or innovation which is straying from the creed of Islam. In the 3rd century of Islam, such group emerged as a group called batinis. They innovated Islam by saying that homosexuality and incest were permissible. Their beliefs were also inherited by the Qaramitah, Isma’ iliyyah, Qadiyanis and Baha’is.  They caused a great harm to muslims until they were decimated by the Abbasid leader Al Muktafi in 300H. I hope this was a great source of clarification on the separation of the afghan cultural tradition and Islam. Other source: “The lofty virtues of Ibn Tymiyyah”          

Correction: In my prvious post, I used the word Bidah ( innovation) where I should have instead use the word Haram ( sin, major sin). Thanks

Islam is the most intolerant religion

Islam is a Pissful religion. So Pissful infact, that the talk of death, killing, cutting body parts off, taking a 6 year old wife and deflowering her at the age of 9 by a 56 year old false "prophet" - pedophile. - What more needs to be said? Islam is a religion for a bunch of animals, who will cause global extermination of every living organism once enough of them acquire WMDs.

The Qur'an and the Body of Muslims as a unified people dates back 1431 years ago. As reported this perverted practise is over 5,000 years. It can not be no more attributed to Islam as homosexuality is attributed to christians and jews, although you find gays among both and all aspects of any society.

Greetings to everyone... i say no matter what religion or culture you may be, we has humans know what is right and what is wrong. We can't hide behind religion or culture for the sake of having an excuse and permitting these types of acts to continue. I applaud Frontline on their report of Bacha Bazi, it's heartbreaking to know that young boys are robbed of their innocence and forced to live a life of deceit. I must say that the reporter did an awesome job on investigating the truth behind the so called "taboo" of Bacha Bazi. I'm glad that the people invoved in the shows investigation brought to light the bitter darkness that the people of Afghanistan so quietly hides.   We can't play the blame game on this topic because we ALL have to be responsible in this world we live in, that means if we know something is wrong then we should do something to stop it. As a Christian I know that God watches over us and has everlasting love for us, but does not condone behavior that harms his children (you). Regardless of our diversity we need to work together to end any and all types of abuse and  exploitation towards children and adults.  

i watched this disgusting documentry last week,i previously knew nothing of this practice but was actually not at all surprised, what a bunch of hypocrits muslims are,and no doubt they will say that somewhere in the koran it says this is ok as long as you are a good muslim.A woman dare not show her face in public,but hey its ok to abuse little boys.They all make me sick!!!!!

Islam : we can call some one islam if they obey everything are mentioned in holy Quran, if they break the rule of book, then we can't tell them muslim.  Islam is the most peaceful religion in the world and the holy book is the most completed of all role of life.  eveyone kill anyone, doing adultary, robbery, gumbbling , disturbing people, or any thing that is not good for envirment, for others or for him/herself those are not muslim, even if they born in a muslim family or among a religious people.  Muslim is the only person that obey the rule of holy Quran doing what says quran and not doing anything is fobbiding in Quran.  if those doing bacha bazi (homosexuallity stuff) they are nonbeliever, we can't call them muslim.  by the way Talibans are the most people that they doing bacha bazi, just they want to by using islam name , make the islam and show islam worse religion. but people should no , who support them financially and weapons which all thier money is in US and all thier weapon made of western countries.  non of bacha bazan and Taliban are muslim.

All men are alike war, rape, and now boys they can exploit and pass them around to friends like potato chips and Coors light!. I am glad we have Diseases like AIDS hope men that do that get that disease thank god, mohammed, jesus, budda, we have such a killer disease to get rid of men that screw around to much. Oh and a religion like Islam that has to cover up burka: their women is saying I can't control my dick, I have to rape and blame women showing thier hair, legs, smile, teeth and let me do what I want as a man because my religion let's me get away with the rape of women, children, boys because they didn't show modesty oh my. So men of those muslim countries can do whatever and nothing will happen if they can show the woman caused it, oh and the woman is stoned to death. Bacha Bazi now how can we work this into the religion so I can shove my dick into a young boy and not feel quilty and blame the boy how silly of a religion is that. That's why our gods gave us AIDS and for that along should make men think about where they put their sorry ass dicks oops dicks shouldn't be put in asses unless you want crap all over it then you go home to your wife and make her suck it and new diseases E. Coli for the both of you into the blood stream, then you die and your children will become orphans, Bacha Bazi, your daughter raped by some warloard and the cycle started because of where you put your dick into a young boys ass. Stupid, Stupid, dumb men. And to think a woman wants to marry idiots like that! Leave your country go  to Paris, England, America, Canada at least men will buy you nice shoes, purses, house, car, education if you want/need to suck their dicks it's not free for sure.

Reminding everyone, homosexuality is strictly forbidden in Islam, It is Illiteracy and man made cultures for self satisfaction. Islam Stopped burying Girls when people used to bury little girls alive in grounds, Islam gave protection to slaves and made them equal to even kings they offer pray together in a row side by side, Islam teaches about Charity, and teaches what is right lawful and what is wrong unlawful. and even Islam teaches if woman is besides any man in relation, man should spread his shawl for her in her respect to sit in comfort.Rather then we comment without any proper knowledge, we should get proper knowledge to comment, if people say Quran is a bad book or teach wrong thing, why not try to see ourselves that what is really has written in Quran, is this a really the book of God, which testifies the older books including, Bible, Tora, Gospil and all other Scriptures sent on different holly Messengers. anyway, what is happening in Afghanistan or other countries regarding homosexuality in any way, it is extremely abnormal and disgusting. which should surely stop.  

It is so sad that there is so many un-educated, mentally challenged people that aquse Islam for this tradition. They have never hold a book nor studied history, that it is embarrasing to talk to them...It is so sad that they didnt get the point of the documentary, nor read the facts in the article. Because of them there is intolerance and war in this world. 

Hmmm, for those who try to equalize the practice of homosexuality and Bacha-Baazi, think again.  Women are not allowed to dance in public per Islam due to "moral" values, only allowed to move around in body bags, homosexuality is disallowed, where ever do you think men go for some R and R?  Women = honor, Consensual homosexuality = haraam. but boys are cool.  Just like some catholic priests think.I am sure that when these men take advantage of kids for their bodily satiation, they do not consider it homosexuality. Remember the 64 virgins and young boys that is your right to receive after Sahadat in the holy text?  What do you think those young boys are for? Cuddling?  So when it is perceived by a majority that even the Koran allows this, it is but easy to justify your actions and put it on thousand year old traditions.

The Quran teaches that after Sahadat you will receive your share of boys for being a good Muslim. This is fact. That shows how sex with boys is not considered "homosexual" sex. Homosexual sex is a western concept. In the west if you see two men holding hands walking down the street it would be considered homosexual too. Not in Muslim lands. By some of the comments written above, it is obvious there are Muslims who want everyone to believe this to be a peaceful religion. If so, how did most Arabs initially become Muslim to begin with? By force and the sword. Today, many women from Christian lands are abused and enslaved by Saudi families. Since it is known to happen, and the authorities,including the King, turn a blind eye, does this mean Saudi Arabians are not Muslim? On the contrary, anyone who is not Muslim is an infidel according to the faith. So, treating non Muslims as inferior people, in Muslim countries to be used, subjugated, or abused is not uncommon.  (Regardless if you are a devout Catholic, Protestant, or Jew, etc.) Although Bacha Bazi is twice as old as the Muslim faith, it is quite clear that the Quran itself, and therefore the Prophet, and therefore Allah does not condemn it since part of the reward ,for righteous Muslim men, in the world to come is boys!