Green Energy
Anyone who has read me over the past two years know that I am a supporter of George Bush and the War on Terror. I am a supporter of our attempt to spread Democracy within the Middle East. I am a believer in the idea that the desire for freedom beats within the breast of all human beings.
But, I am not a supporter of a Democracy project that allows this:
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 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."
In the aftermath of WWII, we banned aspects of the Japanese state relgion; Shinto Buddhism. No longer would we allow the Japanese people to teach that the Emperor was God. No longer would we allow the cultivation of Kamikaze warriors.
Why are we allowing this. The Afghans don't have the right to do this, no matter what law they voted into place.
I've said it before and I will now say it again. Mob rule Democracy is not a Constitutional Democratic Republic.
What you have going on in Afghanistan, apparently, is a group of humans, having been infantilized and enslaved by a religious ideology over the course of centuries, have now voted their slave masters into power, and are now carrying out their self-loathing as government.
That we are allowing this is the equivalent of participating in it. It is an abuse of human rights, and if we don't make it so that these kinds of things no longer happen, then our war will have been a colossal waste of money and blood.
- Taliban To Pope Benedict Xvi: Stop Christian Evangelism, Or Else
Also Jihad Watch: Taliban to Pope Benedict XVI: Stop Christian evangelism, or else This issue is much broader than the grievance du jour, as demonstrated by the Taliban's citing of the case of Abdel Rahman. Ultimately, absurd as it is to tell a pope...
- To Islam, Apostasy Is Sedition
As I say, Sharia is the Islamic Constitution, and Islam is a warrior ideology. Put those two things together and it is only natural that apostasy would be considered the equivalent of sedition. Here's evidence, from Jihad Watch: This morning the...
- More "apostates" Arrested In Afghanistan
Islamic Democracy? Our allies the Afghanis, those of the new "Islamic Democracy" we helped to create, are arresting more Christians in the wake of being forced to give up their first Moloch meal: KABUL, March 28 2006, (LifeSiteNews.com) – US-based...
- Afghanistan Drops Case Against Christian
I guess he's not an "apostate" after all: KABUL, Afghanistan - An Afghan court on Sunday dismissed a case against a man who converted from Islam to Christianity because of a lack of evidence, and he will be released soon, an official said. The...
- No! It's Not, George Bush!
The White House yesterday appealed for mercy in the case of Afghani "apostate" Abdul Rahman: The Bush administration yesterday appealed to Afghanistan to spare the life of a man facing the death penalty for converting to Christianity, but said the matter...
Green Energy
Our Disaster In Afghanistan
Anyone who has read me over the past two years know that I am a supporter of George Bush and the War on Terror. I am a supporter of our attempt to spread Democracy within the Middle East. I am a believer in the idea that the desire for freedom beats within the breast of all human beings.
But, I am not a supporter of a Democracy project that allows this:
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 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."
In the aftermath of WWII, we banned aspects of the Japanese state relgion; Shinto Buddhism. No longer would we allow the Japanese people to teach that the Emperor was God. No longer would we allow the cultivation of Kamikaze warriors.
Why are we allowing this. The Afghans don't have the right to do this, no matter what law they voted into place.
I've said it before and I will now say it again. Mob rule Democracy is not a Constitutional Democratic Republic.
What you have going on in Afghanistan, apparently, is a group of humans, having been infantilized and enslaved by a religious ideology over the course of centuries, have now voted their slave masters into power, and are now carrying out their self-loathing as government.
That we are allowing this is the equivalent of participating in it. It is an abuse of human rights, and if we don't make it so that these kinds of things no longer happen, then our war will have been a colossal waste of money and blood.
- Taliban To Pope Benedict Xvi: Stop Christian Evangelism, Or Else
Also Jihad Watch: Taliban to Pope Benedict XVI: Stop Christian evangelism, or else This issue is much broader than the grievance du jour, as demonstrated by the Taliban's citing of the case of Abdel Rahman. Ultimately, absurd as it is to tell a pope...
- To Islam, Apostasy Is Sedition
As I say, Sharia is the Islamic Constitution, and Islam is a warrior ideology. Put those two things together and it is only natural that apostasy would be considered the equivalent of sedition. Here's evidence, from Jihad Watch: This morning the...
- More "apostates" Arrested In Afghanistan
Islamic Democracy? Our allies the Afghanis, those of the new "Islamic Democracy" we helped to create, are arresting more Christians in the wake of being forced to give up their first Moloch meal: KABUL, March 28 2006, (LifeSiteNews.com) – US-based...
- Afghanistan Drops Case Against Christian
I guess he's not an "apostate" after all: KABUL, Afghanistan - An Afghan court on Sunday dismissed a case against a man who converted from Islam to Christianity because of a lack of evidence, and he will be released soon, an official said. The...
- No! It's Not, George Bush!
The White House yesterday appealed for mercy in the case of Afghani "apostate" Abdul Rahman: The Bush administration yesterday appealed to Afghanistan to spare the life of a man facing the death penalty for converting to Christianity, but said the matter...