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Afghans to free Christian convert (may be sent to mental hospital!)
Chicago Tribune ^ | 3/26/2006 | Kim Barker

Posted on 03/26/2006 10:34:24 AM PST by Dark Skies

Once doctors decide if Rahman is mentally fit to stand trial, prosecutors will decide whether to refile charges against him. If he's sick, he'll be treated, officials said. After he's treated, prosecutors will again ask Rahman whether he's Christian.

"If he has the same answer, we'll see what happens," said Aloko, the deputy attorney general.

If recharged, Rahman would face the death penalty. If not, he could be sent to live in a mental hospital here.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abdulrahman; afghanistan; apostate; christian; islam; koran4a89
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"He will probably be sent to the hospital tomorrow," Mohammed Eshak Aloko, Afghanistan's deputy attorney general, said Sunday evening. "He is not considered a prisoner anymore. He is a sick person."

Ruh roh!

1 posted on 03/26/2006 10:34:26 AM PST by Dark Skies
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To: Dark Skies

Kind of reminds one of how the Soviet Union dealt with dissenters of any type...and how liberals view Christians in our own country.


2 posted on 03/26/2006 10:37:28 AM PST by Ikemeister
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To: Dark Skies

It might be the safest place for him in the country. If sent free, there could be a fatwa upon him.


3 posted on 03/26/2006 10:37:59 AM PST by Andy from Beaverton (I only vote Republican to stop the Democrats)
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To: Andy from Beaverton

If he is released, he needs to be released to coalition forces and spirited out of the country.


4 posted on 03/26/2006 10:40:33 AM PST by Dark Skies ("The sleeper must awaken!")
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To: Ikemeister
reminds one of how the Soviet Union dealt with dissenters of any type

Or FDR during WWII. He had the insane asylums filled with dissenters.

5 posted on 03/26/2006 10:41:00 AM PST by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: Andy from Beaverton
Then a Texas-style "fatwa," delivered courtesy of US special ops, should be visited upon the Islamofascists who call a fatwa upon him.

BTW, does anybody know where CAIR stands on this issue?

What does Zogby's poll have to say? / sarc

6 posted on 03/26/2006 10:44:26 AM PST by JCEccles
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To: Dark Skies
Here's how I think this one will play out. Rahman will be mysteriously murdered, Afghan authorities will make a token investigation, no one will be charged in Rahman's murder, and the Western World will quickly forget the whole episode.
7 posted on 03/26/2006 10:44:35 AM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: Dark Skies
where, if he doesn't commit "suicide" or otherwise meet his demise , he will still never see the light of day again,

Yep, that's justice

Now - on to the rest of the thousands of secret converts

8 posted on 03/26/2006 10:44:39 AM PST by maine-iac7 ("...BUT YOU CAN'T FOOL ALL THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME." Lincoln)
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To: Dark Skies

Uh, isn't Afghanistan one of our allies? That's some friends we are socializing with.


9 posted on 03/26/2006 10:45:45 AM PST by Fishing-guy
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To: ncountylee
Or FDR during WWII. He had the insane asylums filled with dissenters

and you will direct us to the documentation.............?

10 posted on 03/26/2006 10:46:04 AM PST by maine-iac7 ("...BUT YOU CAN'T FOOL ALL THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME." Lincoln)
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To: Dark Skies

We should take him into protective custody. This is a much bigger issue than just Rahman. They may yet kill him. Moving him to a mental hospital just insulates the judge and prosecutor from blame.

For conservatives this is no surprise, but this is a great object lesson. Democracy is not liberty; without the moral underpinnings of liberty, democracy is just a license for the majority to oppress the minority, which we are seeing play out right in front of us.

Bringing democracy to Afghanistan is an enormous undertaking, but the point is not voting booths, it is liberty. To allow the judicial murder of this man, or the extra-judicial murder if he is now to be killed in the hospital instead, will undercut everything we are trying to do.

"Democracy" that allows the judicial murder of this man means that the Taliban have returned to power, under our protection.


11 posted on 03/26/2006 10:46:18 AM PST by marron
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To: maine-iac7

Yeah, I'd like to see some evidence of that, too. Bet you don't get a reply...


12 posted on 03/26/2006 10:49:46 AM PST by Tallguy (When it's a bet between reality and delusion, bet on reality -- Mark Steyn)
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Well, I'll be. CAIR actually has a reasonable (for them) position on this.
13 posted on 03/26/2006 10:50:11 AM PST by JCEccles
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To: Dark Skies

If I said what I thought about Muslims placing a Christian in a mental hospital, I would be banned.


14 posted on 03/26/2006 10:52:00 AM PST by firebrand
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To: Dark Skies
Karzai's a politiician. I think in the end he'll find a way to quietly get this guy to a western nation (I'm sure we've told him through back channels that this HAS to happen).

However, what happens when the next Christian comes forward? And the one after that? If they keep harassing these folks it will get very, very ugly.

15 posted on 03/26/2006 10:53:00 AM PST by inkling
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To: maine-iac7
I should have said:

Or as FDR was rumored to have during WWII.

16 posted on 03/26/2006 10:55:50 AM PST by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: Dark Skies

After a few weeks in a turd-world hellhole "mental hospital", he'll probably wish he'd been beheaded, or "pulled to pieces".


17 posted on 03/26/2006 11:00:01 AM PST by butternut_squash_bisque (The recipe's at my FR HomePage)
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To: Dark Skies

We watched as they demonstrated against the Danish cartoons and now we watch as they threaten to kill a man for converting to another religion. This is a power play for world dominance. And it reveals that any religion which threatens its members with death to keep them from leaving is false.


18 posted on 03/26/2006 11:00:22 AM PST by FreeRep
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To: inkling
However, what happens when the next Christian comes forward? And the one after that? If they keep harassing these folks it will get very, very ugly.

Or, what happens when a Jew comes forward?

19 posted on 03/26/2006 11:04:09 AM PST by melt (Someday, they'll wish their Jihad... Jihadn't.)
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To: Dark Skies

They will off him at the Hospital, just wait!!


20 posted on 03/26/2006 11:04:16 AM PST by Empireoftheatom48 (God bless our troops!! Our President and those who fight against the awful commie, liberal left!!)
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