Taliban Warrior Rule No. 19--No Beardless Boys in the Tent!

The West Fargo Pioneer (way ahead of the New York Times on this story) reports that the Taliban has issued a new set of rules to its fighters. Rule No. 19 instructs them not to take boys without facial hair into their private quarters. Jamie Glazov, writing at FrontPageMagazine.com, notes that, beside the obvious question of what happens to young boys with facial hair:

"[I]t is crucial to deconstruct the meaning of this rule -- and the horrid reality that it represents -- because it serves as a gateway to understanding the primary causes of Islamic rage and terror.
"Rule No. 19 obviously indicates that the sexual abuse of young boys is a prevalent and institutionalized phenomenon among the Taliban and that, for one reason or another, its widespread practice has become a problem.
"The fact that Taliban militants’ spare time involves sodomizing young boys should by no means be any kind of surprise or eyebrow raiser. That a mass pathology such as this occurs in a culture which demonizes the female and her sexuality -- and puts her out of mind and sight -- is only to be expected. To be sure, it is a simple given that the religious male fanatic who flies into a violent rage even at the thought of an exposed woman’s ankle will also be, in some other dysfunctional and dark secret compartment of his fractured life, the person who leads some poor helpless young boy into his private chambers.
"The key issue here is that the demented sickness that underlies Rule No. 19 is by no means exclusive to the Taliban; it is a widespread phenomenon throughout Islamic-Arab culture and it lies, among other factors, at the root of that culture’s addiction to rage and its lust for violence, terror and suicide."

Mr. Glazov's article is well-researched, with citations, and should be read in its entirety.