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TN Religious Leaders: Free Jailed Afghan (GOOD NEWS: Said Musa Moved to Different Jail)
BigNews Network ^ | Feb. 22, 2011 | Bob Smietana

Posted on 02/22/2011 11:15:06 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o

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This shows that prayer, publicity and public pressure are starting to make a difference. Musa had requested to be moved to a different jail in order to avoid the regular torture/beatings; this has evidently been carried out as a result of rising international concern. Supporters are voicing cautious hopes that diplomatic pressure can push the Afghan government to release him to join his wife and six children, now in exile in Pakistan.
1 posted on 02/22/2011 11:15:16 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Sounds like a semi-anarchy there. This can’t be official Afghan policy.


2 posted on 02/22/2011 11:19:37 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I am so encouraged to see that his situation is getting some “big name” attention. After reading of the murder of the Bible distributors off the coast of Somalia, it is good to hear some good news.

Lord, hear our prayers, help Said be released safely to his family. Save many through his witness. Amen. Also Lord please heal and protect him from abuse.


3 posted on 02/22/2011 11:23:23 AM PST by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: <1/1,000,000th%; 1000 silverlings; 1035rep; 109ACS; 11Bush; 11th Commandment; 17th Miss Regt; ...
At the facebook page -We are all Said Musa there are some ideas:


We have provided sample text for email messages below to save your time, but writing in your own words is even better if you have the time.

1) Call or email your congressman TODAY via https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml. Ask them to call Afghanistan Ambassador, save life of Said Musa.

2) Call or email your senator TODAY via http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm. Ask them to call Afghanistan Ambassador, save life of Said Musa.

3) Call or email Political Counselor Abdul Atarud TODAY at Afghanistan Embassy via http://www.embassyofafghanistan.org/Atarud.html. Ask that Afghanistan free Said Musa.

4) Email Afghan President Hamid Karzai c/o Nazer Husain Rahimi, Special Secretary to the President, hussain.rahimi@gmail.com and ask that Said Musa and Shoaib Assadullah Musawi be set free.

5) Tweet @AfghanMissionUN and ask that Afghanistan free Said Musa.

6) Send an email message to Dr. Zahir Tanin, Afghanistan’s ambassador to the United Nations, asking that Afghanistan free Said Musa and Shoaib Assadullah Malawi immediately! The online form to submit a message is here: http://www.afghanistan-un.org/contacts/.

7) Email President Obama at http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact and ask that he continue working to free Said Musa and Shoaib Assadullah Musawi.

8) Like our Facebook Page at http://facebook.com/WeAreAllSaidMusa to increase the number of friends. Share and ask your friends to Like and Share this page as well.

9) Follow our Twitter account at http://twitter.com/#!/WeAreSaidMusa to increase our number of followers. Ask your friends to Follow it as well.

10) Pray that Said Musa and Shoaib Assadullah Musawi be freed.


SAMPLE LETTER


STEP 1: Send to your Member of Congress at https://writerep.house.gov/

Dear Representative -

I am deeply concerned that an Afghan judge has threatened to order the execution of Said Musa within days if he does not re-convert from Christianity back to Islam against his will. Please personally call the Afghan ambassador TODAY and demand that the execution of Said Musa be stopped and that Afghanistan free Said Musa and Shoaib Assadullah Musawi immediately and permit them and their families to depart the country if they wish to.

Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and the rights to life, liberty, and due process of law are some of our fundamental American values. Please convey to the Afghan ambassador that if the Afghan government does not show basic respect for the right to life, liberty, and freedom of religious choice, many Americans will begin to question whether we should continue to send our own children to fight and die on its behalf or continue to support it financially.

Please ensure that Afghanistan fulfills its obligations as a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and that all Afghans are free to practice the religious faith of their choice without fear of prosecution, intimidation, or harm.

Sincerely,

[Signed}

4 posted on 02/22/2011 11:31:02 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("Act, and God will act." ---- St. Joan of Arc, patroness of France)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
This can’t be official Afghan policy.

KABUL | Tue May 5, 2009 4:15pm IST

KABUL (Reuters) - Bibles in Afghan languages sent to a U.S. soldier at a base in Afghanistan were confiscated and destroyed to ensure that troops did not breach regulations which forbid proselytising, a military spokeswoman said.

The U.S. military has denied its soldiers tried to convert Afghans to Christianity, after Qatar-based Al Jazeera television showed soldiers at a bible class on a base with a stack of bibles translated into the local Pashto and Dari languages.

"I can now confirm that the Bibles shown on Al Jazeera's clip were, in fact, collected by the chaplains and later destroyed. They were never distributed," spokeswoman Major Jennifer Willis said at Bagram air base, north of Kabul.

5 posted on 02/22/2011 11:35:49 AM PST by optiguy (Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.----- Ronald Reagan)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

That’s wonderful thank you great ideas. As I said yesterday it seems Facebook can draw a huge audience. I hope someone on site who uses it can start a page about this issue as well. I don’t do social networking or I surely would but I can barely manage what I do now on the computer.


6 posted on 02/22/2011 11:36:30 AM PST by FromLori (FromLori">)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I cannot thank you enough for getting this information out, this gentleman and his family, along with others persecuted for their Christian faith, have been in my fervent prayers!

Certainly he is not safe, but safer, and my prayer now is that he can join his wife and family, even though in exile, and that others whose lives are threatened for their faith will be sustained and protected. In Christ’s Holy Name I pray, amen.


7 posted on 02/22/2011 11:40:27 AM PST by Judith Anne (Holy Mary, Mother of God, please pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Godspeed.


8 posted on 02/22/2011 11:43:13 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (Every knife in my back pushes me forward.)
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To: optiguy

An abomination to God too, but you’re talking apples and oranges. Not wanting to create a stink by refraining from evangelizing Afghan Muslims is one affair, for an Afghan Muslim to want to be a Christian is another affair.


9 posted on 02/22/2011 11:44:06 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Thanks for those links and samples. I will get right to it.


10 posted on 02/22/2011 11:46:08 AM PST by RedMDer (Stimulus... hasn't stimulated ANYTHING but The TEA PARTY!!! - Sarah Palin)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

BTTT


11 posted on 02/22/2011 11:58:10 AM PST by E.G.C. (Edward's Soft Rock Playlist: On Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=A7A56731DE671E6A)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

AS Mark Krikorian eloquently says in The Natl Review:

The Afghan justice ministry’s chief of staff says “They must be sentenced to death to serve as a lesson for others” — and we’re providing his salary and our men are bleeding and dying to protect him from his fellow barbarians in the Taliban.

If this is the nation building we are up to - I want no part of it!


12 posted on 02/22/2011 12:44:20 PM PST by eleni121 (MY HERO GREGORY THE V - a living saint hanged and dragged by the ungodly muslims and their allies)
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To: Judith Anne; Mrs. Don-o

Awesome... we have been praying for this man since we heard. Lets continue to storm heaven.


13 posted on 02/22/2011 12:58:47 PM PST by diamond6 (Check out: http://www.biblechristiansociety.com/home.php and learn about the faith.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Yes - we can make a difference esp. in individual cases that we hear about! But most we don't hear about.

We did NOTHING for the 4 million Christians slaughtered in Asia Minor and Thrace by the Turks and we did nothing for the 2 million slaughtered in South Sudan. Dittoes for those behind the Iron Curtain.

I am not hopeful unless we change the moral compass in this nation. Specifically the one that reigns in our capital where it concerns itself with making the world safe for business not faith.

14 posted on 02/22/2011 1:41:07 PM PST by eleni121 (MY HERO GREGORY THE V - a living saint hanged and dragged by the ungodly muslims and their allies)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Thank you very much for the post. This is appalling!


15 posted on 02/22/2011 2:03:40 PM PST by Mr Rogers (Poor history is better than good fiction, and anything with lots of horses is better still)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Where are they going to go in the Muslim world without having a similar problem. I was hoping more on the lines of the State Department getting them into the USA or Canada.


16 posted on 02/22/2011 2:10:52 PM PST by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned....Duncan Hunter Sr. for POTUS.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...

Thanks Mrs. Don-o.


17 posted on 02/22/2011 3:22:33 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

“This shows that prayer, publicity and public pressure are starting to make a difference.”

Absolutely!


18 posted on 02/22/2011 9:02:12 PM PST by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Yes I’ve been prayeing the Lord will open his prison doors and set him free. 50% there i guess.


19 posted on 02/22/2011 10:05:23 PM PST by Karliner (Now this is not the end. .... But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning, Churchill 1942)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Thanks for the ping!


20 posted on 02/23/2011 8:42:51 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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