'Because these encounters didn't result in pregnancies, they became more commonplace after Islam had taken root.' “A tradition in which adult males engaged in sexual pleasure with pre-pubescent boys- ghelman-including hermaphroditic boys, has existed before the creation of Islam,' Nahas said. The descriptions of the 15-year-old’s relationship with the commander are contradictory: It has been variously described as a “sexual relation” and “rape.” How consensual or coercive the relationship was is unclear, as is the nature of the relationship between the older and younger man. “Culturally, post the formation of Islam, people related homosexuality to pedophilia,” said Nahas, now an activist with the Organization For Refuge, Asylum & Migration (ORAM). “No distinction is drawn between the two. If somebody raped a boy they called him a homosexual, not a pedophile. Maybe this commander had a kind of waiver given to him by his peers.
We cannot kill him, but we need a scapegoat, the boy.’ They think, ‘He does great things for people. “They don’t call this relationship or men ‘gay,’” said Nahas.