Afghan citizen faces death penalty for converting to Christi

No wonder Osama was so popular there.

Hmm, quite a lot of people got some fame in fighting the communist Russian occupants elsewhere as well.

It really shows realpolitik at it's purest. When Washington and the CIA helped the oppressed Afghanistan people, the Taliban were heroes.
How quickly they became the scum of the earth, armed with US weapons.
The Taliban are sick fanatics who will fight for decades. We better ship more body bags over there.

The Taliban came into existence in the mid-1960's, and were originally a university student group. They were not armed by the United States. You confuse the Taliban with al Qaeda. The Taliban came to power during the post-Soviet civil war, when they seized the heavy armor, and especially the self-propelled artillery, of the Kabul Communist government, which collapsed with the Soviet pull-out.

As usual, you rant without knowing what the hell you're talking about.

You're right, my mistake.

Perhaps I should write an apology to the US. They only armed Al Qaeda and not the Taliban.

Afghan officials said Sunday they were preparing to release a man possibly facing the death penalty for converting to Christianity from Islam after a judge sent the case of Abdul Rahman back to prosecutors, ruling that he lacked enough evidence to proceed.
The Afghanistan attorney-general's office indicated that Rahman could be freed while it reviewed the matter.

In recent days the Afghan government and courts had come under significant political pressure from Western governments to clear Rahman, made additionally compelling by President Hamid Karzai's dependence on Western troops to keep order and suppress ousted Taliban elements still active almost five years after the US invasion of the country in 2001.
Several Western representations pointed to provisions in the 2004 Afghanistan Constitution guaranteeing free exercise of religion (Article II: "Followers of other religions are free to exercise their faith and perform their religious rites within the limits of the provisions of law.").
Germany had additionally suggested it would consider dropping or reducing aid.

AP: Afghan Court Drops Case Against Christian

Unless he is shipped far away and hidden for the rest of his life, he will be lynched by a mob of brainwashed Muslims.

Well, he lived for quite some time as an openly converted Christian in Afghanistan - I suppose you've read the background stories.

Remember Salman Rushdie? He had to hide forever. Same scenario.
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............the late Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini sentenced him to death in 1989 for allegedly defaming Islam in "The Satanic Verses,"
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http://www.salon.com/06/features/interview.html
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Rahman had "committed the greatest sin" by converting to Christianity and deserved to be killed, cleric Abdul Raoulf said in his sermon at Herati Mosque.
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"God's way is the right way, and this man whose name is Abdul Rahman is an apostate," he told about 150 worshippers.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20060324-0344-afghan-christianconvert.html

Obviously you didn't read anything about the background of this case and don't bother about it.

This story is scary. I am glad they finally decided not to punish him after pressure from Secretary Rice and President Bush. More attention needs to be paid to stories like these to insure they don't become the norm.

Well, those two belonged to latest of the world's politicans who protested.

Where do you see their speciall effect on the development considered with what others did?

Source

He is - it seems - still on a UN territory and according rumours ha asked for political ayslum in Italy or Germany.

He'll be hiding for the rest of his life, the poor man.

Why do you hope such?

It would be a perfect world, if this man could walk free.

He is now condemned by fanatic clerics who want him dead.

I feel sorry for him; he changed his religion without thinking of the consequences.

That's definately not true. But as I said before: you didn't read any background information.

Mr Rahman converted to Christianity over 14 years ago, but his situation was bought to the attention of the authorities after he tried to gain custody of his daughters who had been living with their grandparents. His parents then denounced him as a convert and on arrest he was found to be carrying a Bible.

"The Attorney General is emphasising he should be hung. It is a crime to convert to Christianity from Islam. He is teasing and insulating his family by converting," Judge Alhaj Ansarullah Mawlawy Zada, who will be trying his case, told The Times.

"He was a Muslim for 25 years more than he has been a Christian. We will request him to become a Muslim again. In your country two women can marry I think that is very strange. In this country we have the perfect constitution, it is Islamic law and it is illegal to be a Christian and it should be punished," said the judge.
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The info is mixed. He is either insane, slightly insane or not insane. He should be freed and left alone, or put to death for being a Christian.

Italy Seeks Asylum for Christian Convert

Walter, would he be safe living near you on the Quellenstrasse?