Lustful.

This is coolbert:

"a religious dimension as well as a cultural one"!

Here through Asian Times Online an article from the noted blogger Spengler [David P. Goldman].

NATO forces in Afghan, the troopers beardless, fit, muscular young men - - finding themselves the object of homosexual advance by Afghan males. Unanticipated and unwanted attention very troubling and disconcerting - - a cultural dimension and clash occurring ever since the very first NATO ground operations in-country.

Fit, muscular and beardless young men having lustful intentions directed at them - - from other men.

" Sodomy and Sufism in Afgaynistan"

NATO soldiers, on the hunt of Al Qaeda and Taliban, not only having to guard against ambush and sniper fire from an armed foe, but also having to guard against "attack from the rear" from an unexpected source!

The normally strict and very tightly controlled sexual mores of the Muslim, as perceived by the "westerner" being defined in a different sense by the locals [Afghans]:

"homosexuality is indeed prohibited within Islam,

warranting great shame and condemnation.

However, homosexuality is then narrowly

and specifically defined as the love of another man.

Loving a man would therefore be unacceptable

and a major sin within this cultural interpretation

of Islam, but using another man for sexual gratification

would be regarded as a foible -undesirable but far preferable

to sex with a ineligible woman"

Too - - that absolute insistence by American and NATO commanders that those soldiers under their command adhere without exception to the daily ritual of shaving and going beardless actually backfires within the cultural milieu of the Afghan?

Young men WITHOUT BEARDS ARE FELT TO BE SEXUAL FAIR GAME FOR THE OLDER AFGHAN MAN!!

Forward Marines - - just watch your back!!

coolbert.