Advancing Taliban go door-to-door and forcibly take girls as young as TWELVE to be sex slave 'wives'

[Rustyeye77]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9883367/Taliban-going-door-door-forcibly-marrying-girls-young-TWELVE.html

Taliban has swept across Afghanistan, seizing vast swathes of territory along with nine provincial capitals

Terrified locals say jihadist fighters have been beheading people and forcing women to marry their fighters

Girls as young as 12 have been put on 'marriage lists' that village elders have been forced to compile

Taliban are now threatening the city of Maza-i-Sharif, the largest in Afghanistan's north, as President Ghani flew there on Wednesday to rally the troops and sacked his top general in hopes of reversing Islamist advance

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The "reformed" Taliban

Sick bastards

No need to respond if you dont want to

[leftstreet]

1. Daily Mai....nevermind n/t

[SidDithers]

22. +1...nt

Sid

[Ohio Joe]

26. +2 - nt

[obamanut2012]

36. +3

[secondwind]

2. The fear in those girls' eyes...

I just want to sweep them up in my arms and never let them go!!!

[Quakerfriend]

5. Yes, me too 😔

How horrid.

[Rustyeye77]

16. Thats not fear.

Thats SHEER TERROR.

[Rustyeye77]

29. OMT

Those 2 little girls look like any 2 little girls you would in the US.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

41. Wtf? Why wouldn't they?

[Rustyeye77]

43. I agree.

[ripcord]

38. If it was good enough for Muhammad...........

[Dan]

3. I'm surprised its just little girls, I thought they had a things for young boys too.

[alphafemale]

7. They do.

They dress them like girls and make them dance then rape them.

But after 20 years it is obvious you can't force freedom on people that don't want it.

[Dan]

17. Thanks for clarifying...

I question whether its an issue of them not wanting freedom…

Sort of like Slavery, as the saying was “Slave young, Slave long”. Just don’t know any better.

It takes a special someone/ones to break the chains of bondage, and even more to find a Leader/Leaders to lead them out.

[Rustyeye77]

20. " They dress them like girls and make them dance then rape them."

Are you serious?

I swear I didnt know that.

I wish I didnt know that now.

[alphafemale]

32. It is in "The Kite Runner"

Major plot point as a matter of fact.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

42. That practice was outlawed by the Taliban.

[Sympthsical]

28. Yes, it's called bacha bazi. We ignored it.

It's a status thing among the moneyed and powerful. "My boy can dance better than your boy." And, of course, the rape part. Once they're old enough, with facial hair, etc., they're dumped and live in the underbelly of society as dancers and prostitutes. They usually cannot go back to their families because of the honor thing.

When injured, they're not cared for. It's too shameful. They just have "intestinal issues," which is code for, "torn and bleeding internally from all the rape."

American soldiers were literally told to leave it alone:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/world/asia/us-soldiers-told-to-ignore-afghan-allies-abuse-of-boys.html

KABUL, Afghanistan — In his last phone call home, Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father what was troubling him: From his bunk in southern Afghanistan, he could hear Afghan police officers sexually abusing boys they had brought to the base.

“At night we can hear them screaming, but we’re not allowed to do anything about it,” the Marine’s father, Gregory Buckley Sr., recalled his son telling him before he was shot to death at the base in 2012. He urged his son to tell his superiors. “My son said that his officers told him to look the other way because it’s their culture.”

Rampant sexual abuse of children has long been a problem in Afghanistan, particularly among armed commanders who dominate much of the rural landscape and can bully the population. The practice is called bacha bazi, literally “boy play,” and American soldiers and Marines have been instructed not to intervene — in some cases, not even when their Afghan allies have abused boys on military bases, according to interviews and court records.

The policy has endured as American forces have recruited and organized Afghan militias to help hold territory against the Taliban. But soldiers and Marines have been increasingly troubled that instead of weeding out pedophiles, the American military was arming them in some cases and placing them as the commanders of villages — and doing little when they began abusing children.

Horrible.

[alphafemale]

33. And some people dare to say America has moral authority.

Bullshit.

[Dan]

35. If this... why in the world are we bringing them here?

[maxsolomon]

44. Are you contending that all Afghanis are Pederasts?

Which Afghanis are OK to let in, Dan?

[Dan]

45. Of course not, so I could have expressed it better....

Having said that - there are definitely going to be some cultural challenges to the ones that are…

[alphafemale]

46. We are bringing those families here.

They'll become better Americans than the average person born in a Red State I'd bet.

[lpbk2713]

4. Who would have guessed?

It's going to be hell on earth.

[qazplm135]

6. whether true

half true or exaggerated...nothing we can do. Not our mission to save the world, and clearly we can't save Afghanistan from themselves.

[calguy]

9. Too bad their military

The military we spent trillion son and spent 20 years training them.... Too bad they ran away when the Taliban came to town. It was money down the drain.

[dalton99a]

15. +1. The Afghan army never tried to win, and it is not our fight.

[bottomofthehill]

18. 300,000 trained and armed.

We can’t stay forever, it is tragic but we can’t stay forever.

[LanternWaste]

13. No real point in ever affecting the change we want to see in others.

Often, it's simply more convenient to throw up our hands, plead futility, and point fingers.

[qazplm135]

14. yes

because I said this one situation isn't ours to fix nor can we fix it, that must mean I don't ever think we can fix anything at all.

Brilliant.

[mn9driver]

8. Anyone who thought this was going to be anything but a horror show

will be proven terribly, terribly wrong. This reminds me of Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. There is going to be a lot of innocent death.

[Drunken Irishman]

10. I mean, there already has been a lot of innocent deaths.

In 2018 alone, 3,800 Afghanistan civilians were killed by US airstrikes.

https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2020/AirstrikesAfghanistan

[mn9driver]

11. We are very unlikely to ever know how many the Taliban are going to kill.

That’s the way it was in Cambodia. But be well assured, it will be more than 3,800.

[Drunken Irishman]

23. They're likely to die in both scenarios.

The difference is that at least here maybe the US won't have blood on its hands.

It's up to the Afghan people to decide what country they want. We attempted to give them democracy and push back against the Taliban for 20+ years and we clearly didn't make a dent. It's sad but we've done all we can do.

More than 71,000 Afghan citizens have lost their lives during the US invasion. That's more than US troops who died in combat operations in Vietnam.

Either way, it's not our responsibility anymore. It's theirs. It's sad what is happening there but we weren't making much of anything better with our continued occupation.

[LanternWaste]

12. Unfortunately, brutality towards women is both a historical and worldwide problem

Would be manageable were it confined to today only and Afghanistan only.

The 'Enlightenment' of humanity as a whole was a good try, but never really took, and seems to have been denied equally... regardless of imaginary red and blue lines on a map.




No need to do anything if you don't want to...

[Rustyeye77]

19. What happens in a month or so when Afghanistan falls ?

What happens when we realize there is a bloodbath and endless 12 yo are sex slaves?

[roamer65]

21. Iran, China and Pakistan are going to carve it up.

The Chinese are ruthless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisation

Afghanistan is under the Sino-Russian sphere of influence now.

[JI7]

51. There have been terrorist attacks against Chinese in Pakistan . China may regret

their investment in Pakistan and I mean specifically helping them get the nukes .

[Drunken Irishman]

24. There's already bloodbath and endless 12 yo sex slaves.

Nearly 4,000 Afghan citizens lost their lives in 2018 to US airstrikes. The country was already on the Tier 3 watchlist by the U.S. State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. Tier 3 is the worst tier on the list and are governments who do not comply with the minimum standards outlined in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.

Only 19 countries are at Tier 3, including the likes of Syria, South Sudan, Russia and North Korea.

So, to answer your question again: it's already happening and has been happening.

[Lancero]

25. Two decades and trillions of dollars.

And the Afghan military folded within weeks. And worse so, the average Afgan person. They can't even find the will to try and protect their own children.

It's a sad realization, but you can only help people who want to be helped. And Afghanistan, in spite of all the money we poured into their nation and the training we provided their military, would rather be ruled by a group of religious radicals.

[Rustyeye77]

27. With all due respect...

I refuse to believe that.

[Lancero]

30. And yet you're the one posting story, after story, about how the Taliban...

Is tearing a swath right through the entire country.

You might not believe it, but you're the one posting all the proof for it.

[Rustyeye77]

31. I guess I'm a bleeding heart.

[alphafemale]

34. I would sew razors into their garments somehow.

You will die.

But do not die a slave.

And take at least one with you.

[ripcord]

37. To be fair we never tried to fix th his sort of thing

The U.S. has a thing about not interfering with the local culture, this seems to be an over the top example.

[Progressive Jones]

39. I'll catch some heat for this, but it's my side belief.

The Taliban should have been wiped out of existence, using any fucking means necessary, a long time ago.

[Rustyeye77]

40. No heat from me.

In fact, you’re a lot nicer than I would be.

[smirkymonkey]

48. +1000

[alphafemale]

47. Bless the Beasts and the Children

For in this world they have no choice. They have no voice.

[JI7]

50. Pakistan does the same thing

[Raine]

52. Awful 😢

seeing the fear in their eyes and the real horror is still to come, heartbreaking. 😢

[Rustyeye77]

53. It is heartbreaking.

We cant be the worlds police but as Americans we cant just look away.