Re: [Marxism] Review: When Skateboards Will be Free

[J.M.P.Cloke@xxxxxxxxxxx]

""Everybody in Iran is involved in such relationships" 
(i.e., pederastic relationships). After Ahmedinijad told 
the world a year or so ago that homosexuality does not 
exist in Iran, I thought back on this incident. Perhaps it 
was only a matter of terminology? But then, U.S. and 
European gay groups began to denounce Iran for persecution 
of homosexuals, yet not one of them ever mentioned > that 
pederasty (love between men and boys) is a historic 
feature of Persian society (and others--e.g., the Pashtuns 
of Afghanistan, U.S. allies about whom the bourgeois press 
expunges any mention of this un-p.c. behavior, 
anathematized by both the ruling class and the toadying 
gay/lez movement)."

Not just Pashtun allies of the British/US - when the 
Taliban started to take back Helmand province from the 
Brits a few years back, the Commander of the Talibs in the 
province (who was obviously keenly aware of their 
reputation pre-2001) passed round a message to his men to 
behave themselves properly, and specifically forbade 
messing around with the local boys - there's a Pashtun 
saying, I read somewhere, that goes roughly "women for 
breeding, boys for pleasure."

Just one of those kinds of 'love that dare not speak its 
name', like the fact that when the Ayatollah Khomeini was 
a younger man at religious school in (I think) Qom, he 
used to take advantage of the custom of 'temporary wives' 
for which the city was famous...


Jon Cloke


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