Heavily suppressed under the Taliban, the custom of “bacha bazi” (“playing with boys”) spread explosively in Afghanistan when the Americans drove them out.
Today, with the Americans back at work and the European left scrambling to welcome a new wave of migrants to Europe (after the Afghans, Syrians, Africans…), we should focus on a custom that is not really compatible with our European civilisational values, but which has already done some damage, including in Brittany.
Bacha bazi, which literally means “playing with children” in Iranian-Persian and “playing with boys” in Afghan-Persian, is a form of sexual slavery in the form of prostitution of prepubescent boys and teenagers who are sold to rich or powerful men and usually married off to serve as dancers in shows offered to their spouses or to dance at wedding ceremonies, with the men always strictly separated from the women who stay in other rooms.
These boys also have to satisfy the sexual needs of their master. This custom flourishes in Afghanistan, where many men own them as a status symbol. Some of the young people involved report forced sex (rape).
The Swiss newspaper Le Temps explains:
“The Taliban strictly condemned ‘bacha bazi’ as all forms of sodomy. And when they came to power in 1996, they tried to eradicate the practice in Afghanistan by relentlessly prosecuting paedophiles and sentencing them to a punishment as severe as it is curious, originating somewhere in Muslim tradition: burial by means of earth masses (…) The American invasion at the end of 2001 immediately revived the practice (…) Men accompanied by their young lovers have also resurfaced.” Fifteen years later, there are countless officers and warlords practising “bacha bazi”. In the Pashtun province of Uruzgan, “at almost all of the 370 police checkpoints and posts […] there is at least one young sex slave, sometimes up to four,” according to AFP research. This outbreak of paedophilia has horrified many in the US military. A soldier named Gregory Buckley told his father in 2012 in disgust that he could hear from his bed Afghan police officers abusing boys.”
No humanitarian worker, no NGO and no politician responsible for the safety of Europeans can promise and guarantee that tomorrow, when they take in thousands of Afghans who are officially “refugees” and “fleeing the Taliban” (one wonders how they will check the veracity of the facts), this practice will not invade our soil and claim victims among our native population as well. However, the years of abuse of white women (rape and prostitution) in the UK by Pakistani gangs – whose customs are sometimes similar to those of certain Afghan tribes – should by definition force our leaders to take a cautious approach and close our borders completely.
What happens in Afghanistan is not our business!
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