OH GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK, the use of sex as an inducement and recruitment vehicle is hardly an exclusive or even characteristic feature of religion, it's ubiquitous. The many recruitment posters peddling the sexual attraction of a man in uniform for the American military, as secular an institution and armed forces elsewhere prove that. The military is, at all times and places a political institution. And that's what the friggin' Taliban is, it's a means of achieving quite worldly power and wealth for those in it and its backers. Look at the corrupt gangsters, Zia Al Haq and Hawaz Sharaif's encouragement of Islamic fundamentalism as a political tool in about the same way that America's first truly pagan president, Trump used Christian fundamentalists and Catholic integralists in the same way. I would bet you a billion dollars if I had it that Catholics and Protestant fundamentalists in the military who could be counted on to spout conventional morality at the drop of a hat are screwing around as much as the least pious among them and using their uniform to get it.
I would bet if you could read their thoughts that most of the Taliban are about as devout believers in the moral teachings of Islam as Sam Harris is, just as I am sure that the Catholics on FOX and a good percentage of the U. S. Catholic Conference of Bishops reject Catholic social teaching, the parables of Jesus and the warning of punishment for not doing good for the least among us.
I once heard a football coach talking about how he motivates boys to do awful things to themselves and each other, going to awful practices in the heat of summer, hurting themselves, eating themselves into obesity, destroying their brains, he said "The fastest way to a boy's heart isn't through his stomach, it's through his jock strap." And that is, in fact, the case with even the most "Christian" of jocks with few exceptions (and pardon me if I'm skeptical even in most of those professed instances) figuring that their being on the team entitles them to sex, as well as the many irreligious ones.
I would bet you that on every sports team at every Catholic school, the elite as well as the blue-collar, the most prestigious as well as the who-heard-of-it, there are very few who go long without sex which their own profession of faith holds is a mortal sin. Bret Kavanaugh didn't seem to be very influenced by the Catholicism of the Jesuits at his prep school as he was on the team. And most of them expect their membership on the team entitles them to get sex.
The use of sex as a motivator of men AND WOMEN is ubiquitous. And even when it is illegal it is hardly abolished in its entirety. The difference with the Taliban is that their gangster cult has a code that makes them as ready to practice it as the entirely atheist North Korean military-political class. It's among the good reason for rejecting both.
I'd listen to Muslim Women who oppose forced marriage on that before some twerp from America who doesn't know his own ass from his elbow and who probably couldn't find either Afghanistan or Rome on a map without coaching.
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