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Subject: Fox news: Afghan Man Faces Death for Converting to Christianity
reefdiver    3/20/2006 11:03:56 AM
So this is what Americans fought for...and American Troops may have to stand by and watch? Seems the Taliban didn't really lose...

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"An Afghan Man Faces Death for Allegedly Converting to Christianity
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.

uring 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."
 
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Azmodius    RE:Fox news: Afghan Man Faces Death for Converting to Christianity   3/20/2006 11:43:24 AM
Until islam is honestly studied by western people and its leaders, we will continually be shocked and outraged by the senseless and stupid acts of muslim leaders and countries everywhere.
 
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ArtyEngineer    RE:Fox news: Afghan Man Faces Death for Converting to Christianity   3/25/2006 12:18:16 AM
Cant believe I havent noticed this until now. All I can say is I am sickened.
 
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reefdiver    Convert Case Dropped.   3/26/2006 12:04:36 PM
The case was today dropped "for lack of evidence". In other words, the government used a legal loophole to get out of this. This just allowed the Afghan government to barely escape a very large bullet. If this guy had been executed, the US government would have come under pressure from the conservative right in the US that has been a major supporter of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Potentially this could have reduced funds to the Afghan government. The law is still the same. The next convert to Christianity, Buddism, or even Scientology won't be as lucky... This issue isn't going away.
 
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blooper    RE:The Scimitar of Damocles   3/26/2006 3:34:07 PM
There is a good article in the "The American Thinker" comparing this man to Damocles. The sword is suspended over this mans head by a horse hair, while he lives under Shari?a law. link Extract "For a decade, three courageous, prescient scholars?Ibn Warraq , David Littman, and Bat Ye?or ?have warned about the grave dangers posed by Shari?a-based ?human rights? constructs, such as the 1990 Cairo Declaration (i.e., the so-called Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Islam, to which all member states [now 57] of the Organization of the Islamic Conference?including ?secular? Turkey?are signatories). Indeed the intrepid Senegalese jurist Adama Dieng (a Muslim, who subsequently became a United Nations special rapporteur), then serving as secretary-general to the International Commission of Jurists, declared forthrightly in February 1992 that the Cairo Declaration, under the rubric of the Shari?a, ...gravely threatens the inter-cultural consensus on which the international human rights instruments are based; introduces, in the name of the defense of human rights, an intolerable discrimination against both non-Muslims and women; reveals a deliberately restrictive character in regard to certain fundamental rights and freedoms, to the point that certain essential provisions are below the legal standard in effect in a number of Muslim countries; [and] confirms the legitimacy of practices, such as corporal punishment, that attack the integrity and dignity of the human being."
 
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