In Afghanistan > The Taliban stick to Sharia, except when it come to sex and boys

 

Afghanistan: Taliban commanders engage in rampant sexual abuse of boys

Jun 1, 2026 8:00 am By Robert Spencer18 Comments

Women are so devalued and despised that boys are often considered preferable sexual partners. “Men are for pleasure,” goes the saying, “and women are for babies.” As long as a man marries and has children, he can carry on with boys is not considered a homosexual, and is not liable to be executed as such.

“Those are the ones brought near in the Gardens of Pleasure, a company of the former peoples and a few of the later peoples, on thrones woven, reclining on them, facing each other. There will circulate among them young boys made eternal with vessels, pitchers and a cup from a flowing spring.” — Qur’an 56:11-18

“And they will be given to drink a cup whose mixture is of ginger, a fountain within Paradise named Salsabeel. There will circulate among them young boys made eternal. When you see them, you would think them scattered pearls. And when you look there, you will see pleasure and great dominion.” — Qur’an 76:17-20

An Afghan boy by Lance Cpl. Catie D. Edwards, Public domain

The children forced into ‘Bacha Bazi’ sexual servitude by the Taliban: The group has decriminalized marrying girls… but their commanders are guilty of equally depraved abuse towards boys

by Eliana Silver, Daily Mail, May 30, 2026:

Adorned in makeup and dressed in brightly coloured women’s clothing, young boys are paraded before groups of powerful men to dance, before being subjected to rape.

For thousands of impoverished children in Afghanistan, this systemic sexual exploitation is the harrowing reality of Bacha Bazi.

The barbaric tradition, whose name translates to ‘boy play’, has persisted for centuries, turning boys into sex slaves for the country’s elite.

While Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers publicly claim to oppose the practice, Bacha Bazi continues as an open secret.

Survivors who have escaped speak of beatings, rape and psychological torment, only to be cast aside once they grow facial hair and are no longer considered desirable.

Many turn to prostitution, drug addiction or suicide, unable to escape the trauma they have endured.

Others face further violence upon returning home, while the suspension of much international aid following the Taliban’s return to power in 2021 has left victims with limited access to support and rehabilitation.

All this takes place in a country where homosexuality can carry the death penalty and pederasty is supposedly punishable by lengthy prison sentences.

Despite the Taliban’s legal ban on the practice, a recent report suggests it remains widespread.

The US State Department in its latest Trafficking in Persons report, found that child soldier recruitment, human trafficking and Bacha Bazi continue in Afghanistan.

The report said the Taliban recruit children through coercion and deception, including false promises, and documented cases of Bacha Bazi involving Taliban officials as well as other armed groups. …

The horror of the situation was laid bare when Dan Quinn, a former US Special Forces captain, was relieved of his command and pulled from Afghanistan for attacking an American-backed Afghan militia commander who had kept a boy chained to his bed as a sex slave.

‘The reason we were here is because we heard the terrible things the Taliban were doing to people, how they were taking away human rights,’ Quinn later said.

‘But we were putting people into power who would do things that were worse than the Taliban.’…

The Rape of Britain also includes little boys

 

Birmingham man jailed for multiple rape of boy and possessing hundreds of indecent images of children

A man from Birmingham has been jailed for raping a boy on multiple occasions and possessing hundreds of indecent photographs and videos of children.

Mohammed Ali, aged 23, was arrested after the person he abused disclosed the sexual abuse, which had been going on for a number of years to us.

When we arrested Ali, from Onisbury Road, Handsworth, we discovered 443 indecent images and videos on his phone, 250 of these being category A.

At Birmingham Crown Court on 27 November, Ali pleaded guilty to eight charges of rape, four of those being the rape of a boy under 13. He also pleaded guilty to three charges of distributing indecent images of a child.

He was handed an 18 year jail term, 12 years to be served in custody and six on license.

Detective Constable Georgia Taylor, from our Child Abuse Investigation, said: “ Ali took advantage of a vulnerable young boy raping him on a number of occasions over a number of years.

“The boy bravely came forward to report the sexual abuse to us and we must praise him for the courage he has shown in what has been a very sensitive investigation.”

The Child Abuse Department are specially trained to deal sensitively with sexual abuse survivors, offer them support and guide them through the court process.

It is important to note that survivors of sexual assault are protected by law and have life-long anonymity.

For more help and advice go to Support after rape and sexual assault | West Midlands Police

WAIT > Don’t post that photo!!!

 

Children, don’t post that photo on the internet unless you want your parents to see it

Children, don’t post that photo on the internet unless you want your classmates to see it

Children, don’t post that photo on the internet unless you want your friends to see it

Children, don’t post that photo on the internet unless you want your relatives to see it

Children, don’t post that photo on the internet unless you want your future girlfriend or boyfriend to see it

Children, don’t post that photo on the internet unless you want your future spouse to see it

Children, don’t post that photo on the internet unless you want your future mother-in-law to see it

Children, don’t post that photo on the internet unless you want your future children to see it

Children, don’t post that photo on the internet unless you want to explain to everyone why you posted it

Children, don’t post that photo on the internet unless you want to be blackmailed

Children, don’t post that photo on the internet unless you want to be thoroughly embarrassed

Children, don’t post that photo on the internet unless you want to crawl into a hole for the rest of your life

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Child Sexual Abuse > Online child exploitation almost quadrupled in B.C. in three years - Ottawa still does nothing to protect children

 

Online child exploitation almost quadrupled

in B.C. from 2021 to 2023

By Brieanna Charlebois  The Canadian Press

Posted December 29, 2024 4:36 pm

 7 min read

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Police say child exploitation cases in B.C. went from about 4,600 in 2021 to 9,600 in 2022 to 15,920 reports last year. Graeme Roy / The Canadian Press

Online predators are becoming increasingly resourceful in trolling media platforms where children gravitate, prompting an explosion in police caseloads, said an officer who works for the RCMP Integrated Child Exploitation Unit in British Columbia.

Data show the problem spiked during COVID-19 when children began spending more time online — but rates did not wane as police anticipated after lockdowns ended.

In B.C., they soared, almost quadrupling from 2021 to 2023.

Const. Solana Pare is now warning exploitation of children is likely here to stay, as a technological race between police and predators gains momentum.

“Technology is becoming more and more available, and online platforms and social media sites are being used by children younger and younger, which provides an opportunity for predators to connect with them,” Pare said in an interview.

Police say child exploitation cases in B.C. went from about 4,600 in 2021 to 9,600 in 2022 to 15,920 reports last year.

The upwards trend is seen nationally, too. Statistics Canada says the rate of online child sexual exploitation reported to police rose by 58 per cent from 2019 to 2022, and police data show cases have continued to rise.

The RCMP’s National Child Exploitation Crime Centre reported that from April 1, 2023, to March 31, 2024, it received 118,162 reports of suspected online child sexual exploitation offences — a 15 per cent increase compared with the previous year.

Online child sexual exploitation, Pare explained, includes offences such as sextortion, child luring and the creation or distribution of sexually explicit images of a minor.

“We don’t see these types of reports going away,” Pare said. “We only see them increasing because the use of electronic devices and social media, and kids being online earlier and earlier is becoming more common. There’s going to be more opportunity for predators to target children online.”

Monique St. Germain, general counsel for the Canadian Centre for Child Protection, said the most common type of child luring is communicating with a youth online in order get them to produce sexual abuse material. She said “the pandemic accelerated those types of cases, and it hasn’t slowed down.”

“The tools (Canadian authorities) have to deal with this type of behaviour are inadequate for the scope and the scale of what’s going on,” she said.

THE RISE OF ‘SEXTORTION’

Online exploitation gained international attention in 2015 in the case of Port Coquitlam, B.C., teenager, Amanda Todd, who died by suicide after being blackmailed and harassed online by a man for years, starting when she was 12.

The month before the 15-year-old died, she uploaded a nine-minute video using a series of flash cards detailing the abuse she experienced by the stranger and how it had affected her life. It’s been viewed millions of times.

Dutch national Aydin Coban was extradited to Canada for trial and, in August 2022, he was convicted of charges including the extortion and harassment of Todd.

Since then, the term “sextortion” has made its way into the vernacular as more cases come to light.

Among them was Carson Cleland, a 12-year-old Prince George, B.C., boy who died by suicide in October 2023 after falling victim to the crime. In New Brunswick that same month, 16-year-old William Doiron took his own life after falling victim to a global sextortion scheme.

Mounties across Canada have issued news releases warning of increased cases in their communities, noting that the consequences for the victims can include self-harm and suicide.

St. Germain said technology, such as artificial intelligence, is also becoming more user-friendly.

“The existence of that technology and its ease of use and ready accessibility is a problem, and it is going to be an increasingly large problem as we move forward,” she said.

Pare said police are also adapting to technological advancements in order to keep up with the ever-changing online landscape.

“Police are constantly obtaining training on digital technologies to increase our knowledge and understanding of all the intricacies involving their use and how to capture any digital evidence,” she said.

Pare said the true rates of the crime are impossible to determine, but pointed to increased social awareness and legislation across North America around mandatory reporting of child abuse material from social media companies as a potential reason for the increase.

It’s not going undetected any longer, she said.

“Additionally, there’s been a lot of use in artificial intelligence to detect child exploitation materials within those platforms.”

Pare said “it’s up to each individual platform” to ensure there is no child sexual abuse material on their sites or apps.

“With mandatory reporting, it’s putting the onus back on the electronic service providers to ensure they have measures in place to prevent this from happening, and if it is happening that it is being reported,” she said. “That being said, there are times when things don’t get located.”

That is why the Canadian Centre for Child Protection has been advocating for the adoption of the Online Harms Bill that the federal government introduced in February, St. Germain said.

Bill C-63 has not passed the House yet and is not likely to before an election is called, or before Trudeau parogues parliament. Consequently, it will be more than a year since the bill was first introduced before it can be enacted. This will ensure that Trudeau has done absolutely nothing in nearly ten years to counter exploding child sexual abuse in Canada.

“It’s shocking that up until now, we’ve relied on companies to self regulate, meaning we’ve just relied on them to do the right thing,” she said.

“What we are seeing in terms of the number of offences and in terms of all the harm that is happening in society as a result of online platforms is completely tied to the decision not to regulate. We need to have rules in any sector, and this sector is no different.”

‘CANADA IS REALLY BEHIND’

The Online Harms Bill covers seven types of harms, from non-consensual sharing of intimate images to content that can be used to bully a child.

Earlier this month, Justice Minister Arif Virani announced the Liberal government will split the bill into two parts: dealing with keeping children safe online, and combating predators and issues related to revenge pornography.

“We are putting our emphasis and prioritization and our time and efforts on the first portion of the bill,” Virani told reporters on Dec. 5.

Such measures would include a new Digital Safety Commission of Canada, which would compel social media companies to outline how they plan to reduce the risks their platforms pose to users, particularly minors. It would have the power to levy fines and evaluate companies’ digital safety plans.

St. Germain said such a split “makes sense,” noting that most objections to the bill are related to changes to the Criminal Code and not measures around curbing harms to children.

“There obviously are differences of opinion in terms of what is the best way forward, and what kind of regulatory approach makes sense, and who should the regulator be, but there does seem to be consensus on the idea that we need to do more in terms of protecting children online,” she said, adding that the organization is still in support of the second half of the bill.

She said the United Kingdom previously passed its own Online Safety Act that will come into effect in 2025, which includes requiring social media firms to protect children from content such as self-harm material, pornography and violent content. Failure to do so will result in fines.

“Canada is really behind,” she said. “The amount of information that has come out of the U.K., the amount of time and care and attention that their legislatures have paid to this issue is really quite remarkable, and we really hope that Canada steps up and does something for Canadian children soon.”

In the absence of national legislation, province’s have filled the void.

In January, B.C. enacted the Intimate Images Protection Act, providing a path for victims to have online photos, videos or deep fakes expeditiously removed. Individuals are fined up to $500 per day and websites up to $5,000 a day if they don’t comply with orders to stop distributing images that are posted without consent.

B.C.’s Ministry of the Attorney General said that as of Dec. 11, the Civil Resolution Tribunal had received a total of 199 disputes under the Intimate Images Protection Act.

It said the Intimate Images Protection Service had served more than 240 clients impacted by the non-consensual distribution of intimate images, adding that four awards of $5,000 each and one for $3,000 had been supplied as of mid-December.

Nova Scotia, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Alberta and Saskatchewan have also enacted legislation targeting unauthorized distribution of intimate images.

St. Germain said the use of provincial powers is also necessary, but it’s not enough.

“A piece of provincial legislation is going to be very difficult to be effective against multiple actors in multiple countries,” she said, noting that the online crime is borderless.

“We need something bigger — more comprehensive. We need to use all tools in the tool box.”

Unfortunately, the tool box is managed by the tools in Ottawa.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 29, 2024.

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Meta's new anti-sextortion campaign on Instagram looks quite promising

 

Meta launches new Instagram anti-

sextortion campaign to protect teens

By Doug Cunningham

Meta said Thursday Instagram is launching a new campaign to help teens and their parents avoid sextortion and fight the financially-driven scammers who prey on teens and children. File Photo by Terry Schmitt/UPI | License Photo

Oct. 17 (UPI) -- Meta said Thursday Instagram is launching a new campaign to help teens and their parents avoid sextortion and fight the financially-driven scammers who prey on teens and children.

"Sextortion is a horrific crime, where financially-driven scammers target young adults and teens around the world, threatening to expose their intimate imagery if they don't get what they want," Meta said in a statement Thursday. "Today, we're announcing new measures in our fight against these criminals -- including an education campaign to raise awareness among teens and parents about how to spot sextortion scams, and what to do to take back control if they're targeted by one of these scams."

The new measures include hiding follower and following lists from potential sextortion scammers, preventing screenshots of certain images in direct messages and globally rolling out a previously tested nudity protection feature.

Sextortion is extortion of money by threatening to publicly reveal intimate imagery of teens and even children. Victims are tricked into sending those images to the scammers.

Related

• Two Nigerians sentenced for sextortion scheme that led to Michigan teen's death
• Meta removes 63,000 Nigerian Instagram accounts in sextortion crackdown
• Meta tests auto-blurring nudity in Instagram DMs to fight teen 'sextortion'

"The dramatic rise in sextortion scams is taking a heavy toll on children and teens, with reports of online enticement increasing by over 300% from 2021 to 2023. Campaigns like this bring much-needed education to help families recognize these threats early," National Center for Missing & Exploited Children Senior Vice President John Shehan said in a statement.

Meta is providing a link to NCMEC's Take It Down Tool that helps prevent intimate images from being shared online. A video is being provided that helps teens affected by sextortion scams.

The video will be shown to millions of teens and young adults on Instagram in the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia.

Meta said last week 800 Facebook Groups and 820 accounts affiliated with Yahoo Boys were taken down. Meta said that group "were attempting to organize, recruit and train new sextortion scammers."

Yahoo Boys are banned for being a dangerous organization under Meta policies.

Part of the effort to counter sextortion are partnerships Meta is forming with creators popular with teens in order to raise awareness of the sextortion threat.

The creators will be part of a campaign against sextortion.

The anti-sextortion campaign includes new safety features within Meta's apps designed to protect teen users from sextortion.

These include teen accounts that come with built-in protections with limits on who can contact them. Teens under 16 can't change those protective elements without a parent's permission.

"Soon, we'll no longer allow people to use their device to directly screenshot or screen record ephemeral images or videos sent in private messages," Meta's Thursday statement said. "This means that if someone sends a photo or video in Instagram DM or Messenger using our 'view once' or 'allow replay' feature, they don't need to worry about it being screenshotted or recorded in-app without their consent."

A nudity protection feature Meta tested in April is being rolled out globally. It blurs images that are detected as nudity in Instagram DMs and is enabled by default for teens under 18.

A Crisis Text Line operating 24/7 will also offer confidential mental health support for issues related to sextortion.

Meta is testing new DM and Messenger safety notices that alert teens if they are chatting with someone in a different country.

"We're constantly working to improve the techniques we use to identify scammers, remove their accounts and stop them from coming back," Meta said.

In July Meta took down 63,000 Nigerian Instagram accounts to fight sextortion and removed Facebook accounts, Pages and Groups it said were operated by Yahoo Boys, described by Meta as a loosely organized group of cybercriminals operating largely from Nigeria.

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Child Sexual Abuse > Online CSA is exploding across Ireland

 

Almost 560 cases of online child abuse reported weekly,

new report finds

Ian Begley, Extra.ie

05/10/2024

Almost 560 cases of child sex abuse material were reported in Ireland every week last year, a new report has found.

The national reporting centre, Hotline.ie, received more than 29,000 confirmed reports of child sex abuse material last year, more than double the number in 2022 and a ten-fold rise since 2020.

In addition, illegal self-generated material, created by children on their phones or webcams, has soared by 280%.

Included in Hotline’s annual report, there were 470 reports of intimate image abuse, which includes non-consensual sharing of intimate images, commonly referred to as ‘revenge porn’.

Out of the 29,906 URL addresses found to contain illegal content, only 362 remained active by the end of last year, resulting in a 99% removal rate.

Mick Moran, CEO of Hotline, said: ‘If you give the child 24-hour unfettered high broadband access to the internet, you’re giving the internet 24-hour high broadband access to your child.’

He added that children are often exploited or coerced into making illegal material, while others exchange images and videos by choice.

‘All of these things feed into this increase, but more important is the fact that we’re seeing these images being produced by kids themselves.’

‘Is there a linkage to the fact that these pre-teen children- so children under 12, mostly under ten – have devices?’

Mr Moran said that parents should engage with their children and use resources such as Web Wise, the ISPCC website or Cyber Safe Kids for direction. The Children’s Rights Alliance said the increase is ‘deeply troubling to hear’.

The national reporting centre, Hotline.ie, received more than 29,000 confirmed reports of child sex abuse material last year, more than double the number in 2022 and a ten-fold rise since 2020. Pic: Getty Images

‘It is entirely unacceptable in our society that so many reports of this illegal and abusive material were found,’ Noeline Blackwell, the group’s online safety co-ordinator, said.

Global safety institute Childlight has also called for a new approach to better protect children.

Its CEO Paul Stanfield stated: ‘We estimate that the lives of one in eight children are blighted by this public health emergency.’

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Islam in South Asia > 25 Men, 280+ children - Pakistan's sextortion scandal to be investigated

 

Pakistan province orders probe into huge child abuse scandal

AFP News

9 August 2015

A Pakistani province on Sunday announced a judicial inquiry into a massive child abuse and extortion scandal allegedly involving hundreds of victims amid mounting calls for justice. 

At least 280 children were filmed being sexually abused by a gang of 25 men who blackmailed their parents by threatening to leak the videos, Latif Ahmed Sara, a representative for the victims' families, said. 

Children aged mostly under 14 were also forced to perform sex acts on each other in the more than 400 videos made in Hussain Khanwala village, southwest of Lahore, since 2007, Sara and local media reports said. "Around 300 videos of the kids have been leaked and every second child in this village is a victim," Sara, a legal activist said. 

Chief Minister of Punjab Shahbaz Sharif on Sunday ordered an independent judicial probe into the case, amid mounting anger from rights activists and a flurry of media attention. "The chief minister (of) Punjab has ordered a judicial inquiry into (the) incident, those involved in the case will be punished and the affected families will be provided with justice at any cost," the statement from the chief minister's office said. 

Saba Sadiq, chief of the province's Child Protection Bureau, described the case as "the largest child abuse scandal in Pakistan's history". In an initial report ordered by the Punjab provincial government last week and carried out by police, local authorities described the allegations as "baseless". It was rejected by media and rights activists who said the officials carrying out the inquiry were biased. 

It came after parents of the victims clashed with police in the town of Kasur near Lahore as they staged a protest blasting authorities for failing to prosecute the criminals. Over 20 people were injured in the clashes Tuesday when police used force to disperse more than 400 protesters. 

- Extortion - The gang allegedly attempted to extort money from parents of victims, selling clips of the videos locally for 40 Pakistan rupees each (39 US cents) if they did not pay up. 

"They made the video of my son in 2011 and we have been paying the blackmailers since then," the mother of one of the victims, who did not want to be named, told an AFP reporter. "I have seen the videos, they are disgusting," she said. 

Another woman said she came to know about her son's abuse last month when a video of him was leaked. "He was terrified, he had been subjected to sexual abuse for the past two years, today we went to the police station to file a report," the distraught mother told AFP. "Every child in the village has seen the videos, they (the accused) had been extorting money from parents, threatening to leak the video otherwise," she said. 

An AFP reporter who visited the village said young children had clips of the abuse on their mobile phones which they offered to show journalists for free. 

Local police reject the allegations of abuse. "This is a very old incident and those posing as victims are cashing in on the issue to settle a land dispute," Shahzad Sultan, the area's police chief told AFP. "We made announcements through mosques when we came to know about the incident and arrested eight people. The incidents stopped there." He said a group of young boys in their early 20s was making videos of "consensual" sexual acts for fun.

They arrested 8 people but, it appears, none were prosecuted. Another report suggests the boys were mostly from powerful, well-connected families in the village. The Pakistani justice system is very political.

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Hussain Khanwala village