Save the Christian Afghani
Posted by Richard on March 22, 2006
On the off chance that you haven’t already read about this — Abdul Rahman is an Afghani who converted from Islam to Christianity. He’s been sentenced to death. How can that be under the new Afghani constitution? Well, it’s an interesting little legal formality — being Christian isn’t his crime:
Under Afghanistan’s new constitution, minority religious rights are protected but Muslims are still subject to strict Islamic laws.
And so, officially, Muslim-born Rahman is charged with rejecting Islam and not for practicing Christianity.
Doug at Below the Beltway has all the details and links, including email and snail mail addresses, online petitions, etc. Go read, and then do something — we didn’t kick Taliban butt to let crap like this happen.
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