An Ancient Curse Still Holds Afghanistan In Its Thrall

Healing in His Wings

When Christian missionaries first came to New Zealand in the early eighteen hundreds they were confronted by the Maori inhabitants who were sunk into gross sin--the sin of cannibalism.  The first Maori cleric, Matiu Taupaki specifically mentioned this curse upon the land when he spoke at a memorial service for one of the early missionaries, Henry Williams in 1876: 

"In an attempt to preserve the good, and disinter it from the bones, around 900 Maori from all parts of the country gathered at Paihia on the 11th January, 1876, having raised 200 pounds to erect a memorial to the late Henry Williams.  Reverend Matiu Taupaki--the first Maori to be ordained--delivered the oration at the unveiling of the memorial for Williams before the assembled Maori representatives.

Think of the wickedness of our island.  The exceeding heavy stone which weighed us down was cannibalism, but that did not deter him.  He forsook his own country and people, parents and relatives.  He arrived here in 1823.  He landed at Paihia, and there built his first fortress, the church standing before you.  It was in that fortress he forged the weapons of war wherewith to overthrow the strongholds of the earth." [ContraCelsum.  Emphasis, ours.]

Sometimes a gross sin is so insinuated into a culture that it becomes a damning blight that only the power of the risen Son of God can remove.  In the words of Matiu Taupaki, the curse gets to the point where it "is an exceeding heavy stone" which weighs the culture and people down.  In pre-missionary New Zealand it was cannibalism.  In Afghanistan it is the homosexual rape and sexual slavery of young boys.

Letter From America (About US Military-Sanctioned-Child Rape)

The Afghan Military’s Child Rape

By Michelle Malkin
National Review Online

American soldiers are being punished for blowing the whistle on the systematic rape and enslavement of young boys at the hands of brutal Afghan Muslim military officers. Honorable men in uniform have risked their careers and lives to stop the abuse. Yet, the White House — which was busy tweeting about its new feminism-pandering “It’s on Us” campaign against an alleged college rape crisis based on debunked statistics — is AWOL on the actual pedophilia epidemic known as “bacha bazi.” On Thursday, Obama-administration flacks went out of their way to downplay Afghan child rape as “abhorrent,” but “fundamentally” a local “law-enforcement matter.”

This is the price the innocents pay for blind multiculturalism.

A New York Times report on the Afghan Muslim practice this week garnered attention and outrage on Capitol Hill — and prompted a river of denials from Obama Defense Department brass, who insisted that our troops were not ordered to look the other way.  But the subjugation and sexual assault of these children — by Afghan military personnel working alongside our troops — is not new.

Afghan journalist Najibullah Quraishi’s wrenching documentary on The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan aired in Britain and the U.S. in 2010.

Pederasty's Easy Facilitation

Evil is Never Static

The Sydney Morning Herald has carried a piece about pederasty facilitated by misuse of the Internet.  The core of the piece reveals not just the extent of the crime, but the sophistication of its perpetrators. 

A special police taskforce has discovered the number of sex offenders who target children in in Australia has been wildly underestimated and local paedophiles have set up secure online sites to share intelligence on how to trap victims.  Deputy Commissioner Graham Ashton says police are shocked at the number of active offenders operating in Victoria. "There are hundreds and hundreds. We have found some terrible stuff that would keep you awake at night," he told Fairfax Media.

He said Taskforce Astraea is conducting 120 separate investigations and has rescued 40 children in Australia and offshore who had been targeted by paedophiles.   The taskforce began by using computer software to identify encrypted child pornography images but soon discovered many offenders move quickly from "passive" observers to aggressive molesters.
Astraea has found: