Afghan Clerics Demand Convert Be Killed

Senior Muslim clerics demanded Thursday that an Afghan man on trial for converting from Islam to Christianity be executed, warning that if the government caves in to Western pressure and frees him, they will incite people to "pull him into pieces."

"Rejecting Islam is insulting God. We will not allow God to be humiliated. This man must die," said cleric Abdul Raoulf, who is considered a moderate and was jailed three times for opposing the Taliban before the hard-line regime was ousted in 2001.

"If this fellow is executed, that small act could be decisive for our whole M-E project."

This "incident" will be a hard one for the Bush administration to cover over in their attempt to sell "democratization" of the Middle East. Bush's "mission" will be seriously harmed in the American public's opinion of why we should bother to invest our blood and treasure in the hard-core reactionary Middle East. The Islamic religion is just too much an impediment in making any serious headway. Islamic irrational thought, be it that of the ideologues or the fearful moderates, is just too deeply entrenched in the collective psyche.

We are on a collision course with this religion in the not-too-far future, and we shouldn't waste any more of our money on a hopeless cause when we will need that money to build and buy armaments for what's coming next with these Islamofascists. It's about historical time for another major war and it will be with Muslims, and it will be a messy one, as there are Muslims in just about every country, including our own. A built-in fifth column, all over the world. This will not be a traditional war, with armies clashing in conventional fashion. Afraid we will end up having to drop nukes on some of these countries eventually, if we ourselves want to survive as nations. The West will end up with their backs to the Muslim wall, and only then will they drop their "appeasement" mode. It will be do or die time, and that time is getting closer and closer. The next Armageddon.

Again you miss my point, it matters little to me if they agree or not. For, with no agreement in 24 hours we would leave, all coalition forces would leave immediately and permanently, and we would not prevent or interfere in the chaos that would follow and when a future terrorist attack orginated from their land, we would turn their land into a single molten slab. Their agreement is only for their benefit, and it would make no difference to me if they agreed or not.

Thanks-I am still stunned that the majority (or at least it seemed that was) of FReeprs were pro-Dubai on that deal.

We are in a clash of civilizations and the only solution is what Rome did to Carthage. We didn't start it, we certainly didn't want it, but it is here nonetheless.

btw, I saw in the NYT online late last night a major story updating the prospects of the Christian convert. It seemed to me ~very~ pessimistic relative to what seemed brighter prosepcts earlier as Condi and other governments used their bully pulpits. Conservatives in Af'stan are really dugin. (I dont think we are supposed to post NYT stories.)

If the fellow dies (and I hope not) his death may do more good WRT opening eyes to what Islam really is, than many hundreds or thousands of deaths previously; like the Martyr Stephen probably did more to shake up Paul and many others than a whole bunch of preaching and second hand news.....

Rant, possibly, but accurate. Mosaic law (The Old Testament for lurking Libroids) does differentiate murder from lawful killing.

"Done being SCHOOLED yet? " is a reference to both the educational level of America in general and the individual in particular. I suspect it is being used similarly to Limbaugh's now famous "scruel", that is - a commentary on the cruel hoax that the public schools have become..

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