Wolf Pangloss's Fish Taco Stand

"But, reverend father," said Candide, "there is horrible evil in this world."

"What signifies it," said the Dervish, "whether there be evil or good? When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?"

"What, then, must we do?" said Pangloss.

"Hold your tongue," answered the Dervish.

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"Individual misfortunes result in the general good, with the consequence that the more individual misfortune there is, the more everything is for the best."
Pangloss, Candide

The Chronological Koran. Read the Koran in the order that it was narrated. Understand the doctrine of abrogation, that states that everything that comes before is rendered meaningless by that which comes later. Then read the last three books and understand the problem.
John Stuart Mill, The Subjugation of Women. A seminal work, from 1869, by one of the greatest moral philosophers of all time, explaining why women should no longer be subjugated. This needs to be part of everyone's education, especially those who are poisoned by gynophobic Moslem dogma.
With the Fjordman Files, Fjordman exposes the cancer that is eating Western Europe alive.
The Euston Manifesto, working toward a revival of the classically liberal, anti-totalitarian wing of the so-called liberal movement.
Manifesto Against Islamic Totalitarianism, from the Jyllands-Posten.
Choose Your Friends Wisely, the impact of those with whom you associate on your own emotional health.
I, a Muslim, from Czech Television

Ibn Warraq's Secular Islam
Ali Sina's Faith/Freedom
Committee to Defend Women's Rights in the Middle East
Apostates of Islam
Know Islam
Dr. Homa Darabi Foundation
Arab Infidels
http://www.murtadd.org/
Anwar Shaikh
Freethought Mecca
Muslims for Christ
Walid Shoebat Foundation
Nonie Darwish tells it like it is
Thinkers' Web/Thinking Peoples' Cup of Tea
Secular Site for Bengali Humanists & Freethinkers
Taslima Nasrin: Nobel Nominee
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Dutch Parliamentarian/, screenwriter of Submission part 1, the movie that led to the murder of Theo Van Gogh.
Ibn Rushd2
Ampbreia
Islamic Reformation Movement
WebPortal of Free Spirits from North Africa and Elsewhere
Sabatina James

101st Fighting Keyboardists

29 November 2007

NAMBLA looking at Afghanistan

NAMBLA and the ACLU may need to open up a branch in Afghanistan.

Afghan boy dancers sexually abused by former warlords

They are known as "bacha bereesh", boys without beards, teenage boys who dress up as girls and dance for male patrons at parties in northern Afghanistan.

It's an age old practice that has led to some of the boy dancers being turned into sex slaves by wealthy and powerful patrons, often former warlords, who dress the boys up as girls, shower them with gifts and keep them as "mistresses".

It's fascinating in a disgusting kind of way.

Shir Mohammad, at 24, was already getting too old to be a dancing boy. "I am grown up now and do not have the beauty of former years. So, I proposed to marry my lord's daughter and he has agreed to it."