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Sodomy, especially of young boys is something that is fairly common in Arab culture. It is not just sensationalism. If you do some actual research on the subject you will see what I say is true. There is certainly a pattern in the Arab world of raping young boys more so than the rest of the world in general. Part of the reason for this is they are so sexually repressed when it comes to women. They see women as being for reproduction and boys as being for fucking. This unfortunately is reality, not just sensationalism.
In other words women are for fucking and boys are for Fucking. Got it. Any Arabs in the house who want to tackle this one?
I am not trying to excuse any of this behavior, but I am simply trying to relate my experience from direct interaction with people from the middle east that I have had in various venues. They see women as for marrying and having kids only, and boys as sex objects. Many of these perpetrators were raped themselves as children, and they see it as a right of passage. They were used as a child and therefore they feel as if they have the same right to use boys this way. BTW you probably aren't going to find many Arabs here willing to comment on this topic because it brings a lot of shame to them and their culture, especially from the international community who finds such ideas to be vile and unacceptable. I have however had Arabs admit these things to me in private discussion. Perhaps maybe you should make an Arab friend first, then ask him?
[/quote]Unfortunately, the matter of "little boys and Arab culture" is true. I don't think you mean "Arab culture," more like "middle eastern culture" perhaps.
RE bolded above, there is an actual historical case which occurred only about 20 miles from where I live. An 11 year old and 8 year old brothers were walking to school, and for unrelated reasons were carrying four of their Dad's rifles. They were set on by a band of six Indians. The 8 year old proceeded to load, and the 11 year old fired. These were single shot muskets, and at the end of this skirmish there were four dead Indians, one seriously wounded, and one that fled. The two boys proceeded to their school house. There is no record of their being marked as tardy.
A Calvary officer arrived some weeks later, and wrote the incident up and recorded it. Pre Civil War era, which would mean 1845+.
Maybe we are headed back to those times? Does not bother me. This incident is interesting because it shows perhaps how we train children to be "children."
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Yes maybe my terminology was not correct, but it is difficult to be precise when the region has been in constant conflict for thousands of years and has so much displacement. As far as training children to be children, I agree completely. Observe the difference between parents that treat their children as developing adults as opposed to the ones who coddle their children constantly doing things for them they could do themselves, and observe the developmental differences. This coddling creates dependence that later develops into dependence on the government. Unfortunately the soviet based "educational" model currently deployed in the USA and elsewhere is not that. the soviet model also seeks to create a system of dependence on the government.
It is quite astounding what children are capable of if given the correct developmental environment. Not that it is the correct developmental environment, but I wonder if an armed child soldier in the Congo would have been so easily raped? I guess it is largely a matter of developmental acceleration for better or worse. History (and modern reality) shows us children can be just as capable as many so called adults.
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RE the "constant conflict for thousands of years," that's not the central issue. Behind that is "tribal thinking," and all they are trying to do now is export their stupid shit.
One movie that comes to mind which illustrates the capability of children is -
King of the Hill by Sodenburg
Also, La Misma Luna ("Under the Same Moon")