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The AP story Rebecca put up earlier says that Rahman's case was dropped for "lack of evidence." However, this RTE News story, "Rahman to be freed in Afghan case review," says otherwise:
An Afghan man who has been charged with converting from Islam to Christianity is to be freed while his case is reviewed.Earlier today, a judge in Kabul dismissed the prosecution because of doubts over his mental state.
As I noted here, the idea that Abdul Rahman is insane is a more or less clever attempt to please both the irresistable force of Afghanistan's allegiance to Sharia and the immoveable object of American presence and pressure.
Officials say the man, Abdul Rahman, will be released from custody soon.
Who will protect him from raging Sharia-minded mobs when he is freed?
Posted by Robert at March 26, 2006 5:08 PM
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He wasn't released.. According to the following news story, earlier today he was moved to a notorious maximum-security prison outside Kabul that is also home to hundreds of Taliban and al-Qaida militants. In short, his life expectancy just went to near zero. Afterwards, the Afghan authorities can claim that they fully intended to release him but unfortunately he was murdered before they could finish the paperwork.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1769325
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at March 26, 2006 5:20 PM
Mahdi, that's bad news. The only silver lining is that this treatment (continued imprisonment, claims of insanity, pretense of lack of evidence) does not let the Afghani government, legislature or our own politicians off the hook in the least: we must keep pushing for full Human Rights and freedom of conscience in Afghanistan.
Posted by: Lili at March 26, 2006 6:27 PM
The evening news is more interested (as per their usual avoidance syndrome) in concentrating on the apologetics of the husband of Terri Schiavo, instead.
A safely meaningless story.
I see no cartoons.
I see no Christian.
I see nothing.
(Wasn't that the slogan of a comic Nazi on t.v.?)
Posted by: profitsbeard at March 26, 2006 7:05 PM
"(Wasn't that the slogan of a comic Nazi on t.v.?)"
-profitsbeard at March 26, 2006 07:05 PM
You're thinking about Sgt. Schultz on 'Hogan's Heroes'. He was Luftwaffe (German Air Force), not a Nazi.
Posted by: Eisenhund at March 26, 2006 9:53 PM
If I must die, I will die," Rahman told the Rome daily La Repubblica, which did not interview him directly but channeled questions through a human rights worker who visited him in prison.
Rahman said he chose to become a Christian "in small steps" after leaving Afghanistan around 1990. He moved to Peshawar, Pakistan, then Germany and tried to get a visa in Belgium.
"In Peshawar, I worked for a humanitarian organization. They were Catholics," Rahman said. "I started talking to them about religion, I read the Bible, it opened my heart and my mind."
After saying he was ready to die, he told La Repubblica: "Somebody, a long time ago, did it for all of us," in a clear reference to Jesus Christ
Yeah he sounds like a crazy Christian to me.
Thank God he left the truly insane ROP. I would rather die than become a Muslim myself, I guess to a Muslim I would be insane also.
at March 26, 2006 10:06 PM
So the sharia-lesson-for-today is this....that the divine law of Allah only calls for the executions of *** SANE *** converts to Christianity. Insane converts need not report to the gallows.
Got it?
Peas be upon you all.
Posted by: yadayada at March 27, 2006 2:23 AM
I believe that the UN is appealing to any country to take him in as he obviously will be under the threat of death.
This man may never ever see his two daughters again and he really needs someone to open their home and make him part of their family.
What a horrible infidel I must be for thinking that. I guess I would make a terrible Mohammedan because I wouldn't be able to shake off compassion. 'Tis a shame that their religion lacks any trace of such a thing which makes us all truly human.
PJ
Posted by: PJ at March 27, 2006 8:38 PM
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