Grex Agora56 Conference Item 178

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mcnally

Afghan man faces death for converting to Christianity

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?

32 responses total.

klg

response 1 of 32:

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.

twenex

response 2 of 32:

Mar 20 20:09 UTC 2006

Not given the evidence of #0, it wouldn't.

rcurl

response 3 of 32:

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.

nharmon

response 4 of 32:

Mar 20 20:49 UTC 2006

> Trial judge Ansarullah Mawlazezadah told the BBC that Mr Rahman, 41, 
> would be asked to reconsider his conversion, which he made while 
> working for a Christian aid group in Pakistan. 
> 
> "We will invite him again because the religion of Islam is one of 
> tolerance. We will ask him if he has changed his mind. If so we will 
> forgive him," the judge told the BBC on Monday. 
>
> But if he refused to reconvert, then his mental state would be 
> considered first before he was dealt with under Sharia law, the judge 
> added. 

I really do not believe the United States should support such a 
government. 

Of course, this totally blows away several leftist's assertions that we 
are instituting an Americanized-Democracy over there.

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