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Topic: Afghani Man being setenced to death for converting from Islam to Christianity!!! (Read 32725 times)
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Mr._Jiggles
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Abdul Manan is being sentenced to death in Afganistan for converting from Islam to Christianity. That isn't right and heres a news article on it by ABC news:
By DANIEL COONEY
KABUL, Afghanistan Mar 19, 2006 (AP)— An Afghan man is being prosecuted in a Kabul court and could be sentenced to death on a charge of converting from Islam to Christianity, a crime under this country's Islamic laws, a judge said Sunday.
The trial is believed to be the first of its kind in Afghanistan and highlights a struggle between religious conservatives and reformists over what shape Islam should take here four years after the ouster of the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban regime.
The defendant, 41-yer-old Abdul Rahman, was arrested last month after his family accused him of becoming a Christian, Judge Ansarullah Mawlavezada told The Associated Press in an interview. Rahman was charged with rejecting Islam and his trial started Thursday.
During the one-day hearing, the defendant confessed that he converted from Islam to Christianity 16 years ago while working as a medical aid worker for an international Christian group helping Afghan refugees in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, Mawlavezada said.
"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."
Mawlavezada said he would rule on the case within two months.
Afghanistan's constitution is based on Shariah law, which is interpreted by many Muslims to require that any Muslim who rejects Islam be sentenced to death, said Ahmad Fahim Hakim, deputy chairman of the state-sponsored Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission.
Repeated attempts to interview Rahman in detention were barred.
The prosecutor, Abdul Wasi, said he had offered to drop the charges if Rahman converted back to Islam, but he refused.
"He would have been forgiven if he changed back. But he said he was a Christian and would always remain one," Wasi told AP. "We are Muslims and becoming a Christian is against our laws. He must get the death penalty."
After being an aid worker for four years in Pakistan, Rahman moved to Germany for nine years, his father, Abdul Manan, said outside his Kabul home.
Those people in Afganistan are horrible, this is the kind of democracy our government set up there. Good job Bush, you had them right a constition liking that of Iran's.....
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Two things.
1) Their decision to execute the guy is a horrible affront to humanity.
2) It's their right to do it. The Afghani people can make up their own minds about Afghan law, can't they?
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I was just listening to my local news radio (KSL in Utah) and they said the courts through out the case.
Perhaps this will embolden others who may keep the beliefs under the table to come out in the open and really change things over there.
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Mr._Jiggles
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I don't think they threw the case out, let me see an article on this.
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Well, Qu'ran-only Islamists do not typically/always feel that apostasy should bring a death penalty, as the Qu'ran seems to mention how to deal with a person who has commited apostasy multiple times. Meaning to them that this wouldn't be possible if they were killed after the first time.
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My task masters would not tolerate my going out and protesting anything.
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