So after 9/11 we rushed into Afghanistan to kill the Taleban and win one back for the ole USA. I mostly supported this move, as I feel these people were most likely harboring and supporting the people who planned the attacks. It is the Iraq war I am against, but I digress. It seems that a man who converted to Christianity from Islam has been arrested and could face the death penalty…. WHAT THE FUCK!? Was it democracy and freedom we are building in these places or just more shoddy two bit dictators. George Bush should be kicked out of office today, this instant. He has been doing a piss poor job of EVERYTHING.
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An Afghan who has renounced his Islamic faith for Christianity faces the death penalty under Afghan law in a throwback to the brutal Taleban regime.
Abdul Rahman, 41, is being prosecuted for an “attack on Islam”, for which the punishment under Afghanistan’s draft constitution, is death by hanging.
The charge comes as Britain prepares to send 3,300 nominally Christian paratroopers to stabilise the troubled south of the country.
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.
If Judge Zada, who is head of the Primary Court, passes the death penalty under Afghan law, Mr Rahman still has two avenues of appeal, the Provincial Court and the Supreme Court. The death penalty then has to be ratified by President Hamid Karzai.