[Magnum44]

I don't disagree with you. I think that this case exposes to those that say Islam is a ROP, that they must acknowledge that it has problems, inconsistencies in its teachings. Mohammad, being only a prophet, and not the Son, like too many before him, missed the boat about what God gave us in the new covenant, and like the pharisees, concerns himself more with legalisms and maintaining power than Gods will.

But religion aside, this exposes the true nature and problem with these clerics. They are like our left, leading perhaps a quarter or a third of the population through propaganda, fear, and intimidation. When they don't get what they want, they threaten to do their version of the million man march on Kabul, and the MSM eats it up.

The Afghan people have never had a choice in the matter before, now they do. Lets see how they handle this choice.

[jan in Colorado]

I disagree about "Mohamed being a prophet."

After Jesus, there was no need for any more prophets, and islam does not recognize Jesus as the Son of God.

Either Jesus or Mohamed are lying, and it's not too hard to figure out which one is righteous and which one is evil! An ideology that FORCES submission and does not allow free will, is, IMO, not a religion but a cult.

We can debate the authenticity of islam on another thread...

The Afghan people have never had a choice in the matter before, now they do.

I would add...MUSLIMS still don't have a "choice," but hopefully the time is approaching where they will have the FREEDOM to choose for themselves what/Who they want to believe and worship!

[Magnum44]

Well, based on the latest...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1603338/posts

it appears that Afghans constitutional test has been punted down the road. There will be another case like this no doubt, but the outcome of this one, even though undefinitive, already seems to give freedom of religion the edge over sharia law in Afghanistan. Like anywhere is though, that freedom will not come free. Now when the Afghan govt is will to put the kabosh on clerics advocating violence, then they will have really stepped out of the stone age.