Afghan man faces death penatly for becoming a christian.

[Uber-neggR]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,188364,00.html
Sunday, March 19, 2006


KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan man who allegedly converted from Islam to Christianity is being prosecuted in a Kabul court and could be sentenced to death, a judge said Sunday.

The defendant, Abdul Rahman, was arrested last month after his family went to the police and accused him of becoming a Christian, Judge Ansarullah Mawlavezada told the Associated Press in an interview. Such a conversion would violate the country's Islamic laws.

Rahman, who is believed to be 41, was charged with rejecting Islam when his trial started last week, the judge said.

During the hearing, the defendant allegedly confessed that he converted from Islam to Christianity 16 years ago when he was 25 and working as a medical aid worker for Afghan refugees in neighboring Pakistan, Mawlavezada said.

Afghanistan's constitution is based on Shariah law, which states that any Muslim who rejects their religion should be sentenced to death.

"We are not against any particular religion in the world. But in Afghanistan, this sort of thing is against the law," the judge said. "It is an attack on Islam. ... The prosecutor is asking for the death penalty."

The prosecutor, Abdul Wasi, said the case was the first of its kind in Afghanistan.

He said that he had offered to drop the charges if Rahman changed his religion back to Islam, but the defendant refused.

Mawlavezada said he would rule on the case within two months.

Afghanistan is a deeply conservative society and 99 percent of its 28 million people are Muslim. The rest are mainly Hindus.
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Sad. From when I know, thier are A LOT more christians thier than what the statistics say.

[puncheagle]

bull****, I hate this. I guess I should be killed too for being a Jordanian athiest.

[The Rob]

Originally Posted by puncheagle

bull****, I hate this. I guess I should be killed too for being a Jordanian athiest.

According to these guys? You bet your ass...........

[Thinman]

I heard that also. How can we support a country with laws like this. It goes against everything we stand for.

[TranceNRG]

wow
This is the third thread on this same news.

[AceVentura]

a leopard can't change it's spots. We can try all we want to spread western values of freedom of choice and democracy to middle eastern countries all we want, but the bottom line is, and many disagree with it but I think it's fundamentally true, is that Islam is compeltely incompitable with these kinds of concepts. At it's heart Islam is primitive, extremely rigid, and very intolerant of any variance from the hard line.

I was under the impression that the new Afghan government was secular, I guess not. But the truth is, all the crap the media always says about how Afghanistan is doing well is complete nonsense. I have a buddy in the RCR stationed in Khandahar right now and he's told me that the truth of the matter is that the only place that the central government really has any control over is Kabul, outside of that it's warlords and lawlessness everywhere.

[HALDEMAN]

Regardless of whether you are Christian, pagan, or follow another faith, this article is a prime example for WN's to use when discussing what is waiting in the wings in Europe if the current flood of immigration is allowed to continue.

Islamic leaders in Britain, Norway, and elsewhere have bragged relentlessly how Europe is going to be "Islamic". There was even a recent poll in Britain that said 40% of Muslims in Britain supported the idea of instituting Sharia law.

Well, folks, this article shows what Sharia Law will bring to the west.

I thought it was real "cute" that the judge pointed out how this case is not "against" any particular religion in the world, but that in Afghanistan this man's conversion was an attack on Islam.

The Muslims state quite clearly that the Koran is very clear on what to do with this man that converted to Christianity...namely kill him.

Is this taking place in some "radical" area of Afghanistan where the Taliban is resurgent? Nope. It is taking place right in Kabul, which is the heart of the international military presence. It is taking place right within the UN protected and UN approved government structure.

THIS is what all of the European soldiers and US soldiers are risking IED's, ambushes, etc. for.

I'm also pretty sure that this story is not what is told in classrooms when they are talking about different "cultures".

Here is a good example of what a dominant muslim culture is like.

I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for the western organized religious leaders to raise hell about this, and nor am I waiting for the UN to raise issues on the clear violations of its rights charter by a government installed and protected by the UN, but I would love to see what all their "official" responses to this story are.

I wish there was a way to get this story into the hands of every western soldier in Afghanistan so they would REALLY know what they are protecting and fighting for.

This should serve as a good reason for all of them to hurry back to the west and repatriate all of these islamic bastards right back out to their lovely societies where there is no freedom of belief (and a death penalty for it, in fact.)

This is the ultimate end for everyone if we allow Muslims to become majorities in the west and do nothing about it. The liberals and Jews will continue to fight this to death just so we can be tolerant anti racists. I wonder how tolerant they are going to be when the swords of righteousness kidnaps them and threatens to cut their heads off. They will be crying and beginning for help but it just wont be there. I dont know what is worse the taliban or the US backed regime.