Amerikayan think that we are all gays!

[Nazar]

This is how the so called Anthropologists come to our country, question some stereotypes and draw the picture of the country. I mean, how many of us really believe (rather than say) that ‘women are for children, boys are for pleasure’? These ‘gentlemen’ forget to understand that we Afghans, especially Pashtun are extremely rhetorical and exaggerate about everything; both the vice and the good.
The saddest thing is that these crap actually sell to the ‘men on the ground’ and the public in the west. Juicy stuff, they call it.

Pashtun Sexuality

[Kushan Prince]

Another western propaganda to fuel this so called 'War on terror" in Afghanistan. So just because a few afghan men show affection and kindness towards each other makes them gay? how pathetic! This just proves who paranoid and ignorant Americans really are by making these claims due to a few misconceptions. So Arab men holds hands in Saudi but does that mean they are gay? Of course not, it's part of their culture, Bush did it with the Saudi king a few years ago. The only Homosexuality that is practiced in Afghanistan is bacha bazi and is mostly practiced in the north often by Tajiks and Uzbeks. How come that's not being talked about? Just another dumb article posted by the Washington "Think Tank" to make Pashtuns look bad.

[Manzareh]

what i read on the very first page loses all the credibility from the rest of the essay. its states this as a fact, "A culturally-contrived homosexuality (significantly not termed as such by itspractitioners)" so people that are practicing Pashtun culture and are Pashtuns themselves say its not cultural but some outside source is telling us they know more about our culture than we do ourselves, lol how pathetic.. Who do they think they are? that statement is the equivalent of me saying its in western culture to be divorced or walk around naked or fornicate at the age of 12-13 is in western culture since is something that is a common norm in western countries...Sweden has the highest suicide rate in the world so is suicide part of Swedish culture?? ofcourse these things are not in British/American or western culture its just practiced by some individuals. Just because your a westerner is doesn't give you the right to re-write a whole culture based on your observations.

[Catya Sher]

I didn't want to read it, seeing the comment that it is from a think tank.
We all know how biased and propagandistic ALL those are.

But it does help to see that this apparent fascination with the subject
has been twisted into war propaganda. I hadn't realized that, or if o,
I had forgotten.

This topic is yet another bad link in a chain of such claims trotted out
to justify decimating a country.
How many Americans think rationally enough anymore to
see through the patently obvious intentions and fight back with accurate truth ?

I am afraid not too many even have brains LEFT at all due to the
degredation of this society here.

[gadoonwal]

What other think about us let them think what we think is important.
Also it is fact some pashtuns are for boys but they are minority.
This is not part of our culture.These typ of people are every ethnicity.
For example the tajiks in north are more influence by this culture then us.

[HalloIsBack]

Another western propaganda to fuel this so called 'War on terror" in Afghanistan. So just because a few afghan men show affection and kindness towards each other makes them gay? how pathetic! This just proves who paranoid and ignorant Americans really are by making these claims due to a few misconceptions. So Arab men holds hands in Saudi but does that mean they are gay? Of course not, it's part of their culture, Bush did it with the Saudi king a few years ago. The only Homosexuality that is practiced in Afghanistan is bacha bazi and is mostly practiced in the north often by Tajiks and Uzbeks. How come that's not being talked about? Just another dumb article posted by the Washington "Think Tank" to make Pashtuns look bad.

homosexuality and paedophilia is not the same!
and why do you insult tajiks and uzbeks again?

[Kushan Prince]

homosexuality and paedophilia is not the same!
and why do you insult tajiks and uzbeks again?

Oh it's not?

So are you saying a grown man who is attracted to a boy or a 16 year old teenager is not considered gay? I'm from the north i hear it from so many people how common bacha bazi is there. Just like the kidnapping of boys is very frequent there. I'm not insulting but stating facts. Why do you protect tajks and uzbeks again?

[کیش]

Americans don't just think Pashtuns are gay, they believe Afghans also have sex with donkeys.


I remember an old Afghan friend of mine said this practice is common in his area. I don't remember where he was from.

[srebrenica]

I Watch documentary in youtube about BACHA BAZI IN AFGHAN,kidnap a boy ,slave him and give the money to his parent, and they say it 's common in afghan

[srebrenica]

What about cultivation oppium in Afghanistan ? is that true ?

[ډګروال]

I Watch documentary in youtube about BACHA BAZI IN AFGHAN,kidnap a boy ,slave him and give the money to his parent, and they say it 's common in afghan

common?
they just want to create a pretext for their invasion.
they have actually created this bacha bazi while under taliban it was banned the same with opium.