Posted on 04/03/2006 7:18:41 PM PDT by Mazi83
HAMBURG - Abdul Rahman, the Afghan whose prosecution for converting to Christianity led to worldwide controversy, was judged to be mentally unstable by German officials who interviewed him six years ago, a German news magazine reported Saturday.
Defying Afghan Islamist politicians, Kabul officials released Abdul Rahman this week and he was whisked out of the country to asylum in Italy. The account in Der Spiegel backs up the Kabul officials' view that he was not mentally competent to be tried.
Der Spiegel said there were accounts going back years of Abdul Rahman being violent and disturbed.
In February 2000 he had entered Germany illegally and claimed political asylum.
The German official who interviewed him at the time noted that he seemed "very confused."
The magazine quoted his brother as saying, "Abdul Rahman has been mad for years." The illness had begun in the early 1990s. "He has had delusions the whole time that someone is persecuting him and wants to kill him."
The relative said Abdul Rahman had physically attacked his wife, his children and his father. A doctor in Pakistan had certified in 1991 that he was "pathologically jealous" and "delusive."
In its report to hit the streets on Monday, the weekly magazine said Abdul Rahman had spent seven months of 2000 in a refugee hostel in Germany's southern state of Bavaria.
Western nations protested when he was prosecuted under Sharia law for abandoning Islam to become a Christian. This is punishable in Afghanistan with death. He was released from a Kabul prison on Monday after a supreme court judge ruled that he was not legally sane.
By the way, if anyone has the actual Der Spiegel interview, could you post it?
Well, having been born and grown up where he did, is a bit of his phase shift any wonder? Others there are still worse.
Even paranoids have enemies.
If people (insane islamists) are actually after you, then your "paranoia" is certainly justified. I predict that, in the not to distant future, many sane people will be hunting these monsters with live ammunition.
Great post.
The USSR used to commit Russian believers to psychiatric units I believe.
And that, more than possibly anything, confirms LoveDoc's RULE #1 for dealing with liberals, to wit:
Liberals are always guilty of what they accuse you of.
LoveDoc
Ps That's why it's IMPOSSIBLE to not lose to them in a debate if you have any skills.
Just lie low, patiently plod, and wait for them to make some absurd recrimination. Rest assured, they just told you what they think...
Well, as I recall, people did persecute and wanted to kill him. But that was only last week so what do I know?
I do fear that if the left gets any more powerful in the West, that people who offend the Islamofascists will be brought up on charges of "offense to multi-culturism" or other "thought crimes" or even charges of "heresy." We might have leftists allowing Sharia courts in the name of multi-culturism before it is all over -- and then it will be all over.
We already have "thoughtcrime". It's simply been renamed "Hate" crime
Dr. Johnny Fever: "When everybody's out to get you, paranoia is just good thinking."
...Christians, pro-lifers, Evangelicals, (name your specific)...
..have long been marginalized to the world by words of others....demonized by description.
So here we have a man who Condoleeza Rice, and others....went out on a limb to protect...
..and the Germans come along and say he's crazy...a real looney tune.
Some things never change.
It apparently saved his life. God must have a purpose for him.
... a source claiming to be an old friend of Rahman who says that Rahman suffered a horrible youth with many dead. According to the source, the Soviets and their allies bombed Rahman's village at least eight times, leaving the local river swollen with corpses and fish feeding on the human remains.
But the article is practically trying to make him look like the anti-Christ. Oh and look at this jab here:
In his first statement after arriving in Rome, Rahman said "I know that I have lost my family, but that is the price I pay for my faith." However, instead of spending his first night praying in a country that guarantees freedom of religion, Rahman ate pizza and ordered one espresso after the next. Then he went to shave.
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