That’s what this Examiner piece seems to suggest and frankly it isn’t shocking. Afghanistan, and the Islamic world in general, are no places to be children mainly due to how Islam sees both children and women. Both are commodities used for the advancement and pleasure of the Muslim man. Islam is in fact an attractive religion to rapists and pedophiles specifically because Islamic law, untempered by some reformation style re-interpretation like Kemalism, explicitly allows rape and molestation in certain circumstance, even homosexual rape which is surprising given the numbers of gay men executed in the Islamic world every year.

American Al-Qaeda member James Gray aka Musa Islam Abu Ayyum is a known peodphile active on pro-pedophilia boards. Rape by Muslims in Northern Europe, often on very young girls, is an epidemic and even Muslim women have publicly endorsed using rape as a political weapon. So why is it surprising that Muslim countries have an openly approving culture of sexual exploitation:

The Ottawa Citizen recently reported the claim made by a former Canadian soldier, that on 2006, he saw two Afghan police officers sodomize a young boy at knifepoint on a Canadian Forces base near Kandahar.

Former Cpl. Travis Schouten said: “It’s disgusting. We’re telling people that we’re trying to build a nation there and we let this happen?

“We allow rampant abuse of young boys at the hands of what is supposed to be their finest police officers and army officers, then what does that say?”

Schouten described the disturbing scene he witnessed, which still haunts him today. “I walked in and they were raping a kid,” he said “The kid was bleeding. The guy with the camo fatigues had a knife in his hand.”

“I wasn’t going to start doing something at the scene. “I’m in the middle of the ANP (Afghan National Police) headquarters. What do I do? Start shooting Afghan police? I’d get myself shot.”

Schouten says that after the incident, he was confronted by an Afghan interpreter who worked with the military. The man had two 5-year-old boys with him. Schouten said: “He brought up the fact he likes to rape little boys. He’s telling me how he likes to use a knife on them.”

Canadian Defense Department records reportedly contain complaints from military police the over the rampant child rape at the hands of Afghan soldiers and police officers, but apparently were told not to get involved.

The Ottawa Citizen reports that in 2007, Canadian Army officers held a meeting to discuss the growing problem of Afghan security personnel “having anal sex with young boys.” However, the main concern expressed at the meeting was keeping the issue secret from the media.

In May, 2009, Global Rights Afghanistan, said: “Rapes in the country, have been growing tremendously, particularly child rapes within the ages of 7, 8, 9, even lesser than that.”

U.N. special representative for children in armed conflict, Radhika Coomaraswamy, recently returned from a fact-finding trip in Afghanistan, she will be releasing a formal report this month.

Coomaraswamy told reporters: “In many cases of violence against children, there is a sense of impunity. People continue to violate children’s rights without any sense of feeling that they will be held accountable.

“What I found was nobody talks about it; everyone says, ‘Well, you know, it’s been there for 1,000 years, so why do we want to raise this now?’ ”

Coomaraswamy discovered the disgusting practice known as bacha-bazi,” or “child’s play,” in which little boys are forced to dress in female clothing, dance about, and are hen sodomized.

Coomaraswamy went on: “I can’t think of any country in the world in which children suffer more than in Afghanistan.”

Shocking, but then again the report has a certain blarney to it that makes me think this is mostly anti-war propaganda. I doubt all of NATO is simply turning a blind eye to pedophilia. The author of the piece comes to the conclusion that we should withdraw from Afghanistan, but that seems unwise and frankly evil. The Taliban’s proclivity for child rape became so bad that Al-Qaeda had to step in, and prison-like situational homosexuality exists in Afghanistan largely because of Islamism. Cracking down on these animals is in the best interest of the world.