Posted on 03/29/2006 3:15:25 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- The whereabouts of an Afghan man who had been threatened with the death penalty for converting to Christianity was unknown Wednesday, as at least one nation began considering granting him asylum status.
Italy is considering granting asylum to Abdul Rahman, The Associated Press reported.
Italy's Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini on Wednesday will press for Rahman to be granted asylum there, the government said in a statement, according to the AP.
Rahman was released Monday after being held by Afghan authorities for his conversion from Islam to Christianity, punishable by death in Afghanistan, which follows Islamic law.
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Why would they need assylum from the religion of peace just for being Christian???? I don't get why these people are so scared of the religion of peace. I am told if we are nice to them, they will be nice to us.
Send him to Mexico.
Once he crosses our Southern border, no one will know where he is.
Set him up with a vacation in the Vatican with the pope. He almost became a Christian martyr.
Italy is a haven of sanity in an insane self-loathing Europe that is willingly giving itself to proponents of throat slitting and suicide bombing.
I could not agree with you more... I love Italy.
Bring him here...with his daughters.
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