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mcnally
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Afghan man faces death for converting to Christianity
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Mar 20 19:08 UTC 2006 |
Abdul Rahman, an Afghan man who converted to Christianity 16 years ago,
is being held in Kabul on charges of "rejecting Islam" and faces the
death penalty if he refuses to renounce his apostasy.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4823874.stm
As we labor to install "democracies" throughout the middle east and
south Asia, what does Rahman's case say about what we've achieved so far?
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klg
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response 1 of 32:
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Mar 20 20:07 UTC 2006 |
Are you saying that the current government is no better than the former
one? That would be mighty hard to swallow.
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twenex
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response 2 of 32:
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Mar 20 20:09 UTC 2006 |
Not given the evidence of #0, it wouldn't.
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rcurl
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response 3 of 32:
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Mar 20 20:29 UTC 2006 |
At least not in this regard. Women are now able to be educated and do much
more, but they also could not quit Islam without possible consequences.
This is going to be a real stumbling block to non-sectarian democracy
nearly everywhere in the Islamic countries.
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