Posted on 03/29/2006 8:28:25 AM PST by areafiftyone
ROME (AP) Premier Silvio Berlusconi says the Afghan man who converted from Islam to Christianity is in Italy.
Good on ya, Silvio.
Ummm.loose lips sink ships (give the hit squad a place to look).
Bravo Italia!
Wonderful news!
good news.
ROME - The Afghan man who faced the death penalty after converting from Islam to Christianity flew to Rome on Wednesday after the Italian government granted him asylum. Abdul Rahman, 41, "is already in Italy. I think he arrived overnight," Premier Silvio Berlusconi said.
Love the way Italy did this on the quiet!
All you Catholics should be very proud today.
Vive Italia! Vive il Papa!
Leni
If true- this is a truly generous and gutsy move by Italy!
It looks like the guy is out of danger, but I can't say I'm happy about this as a Big Picture kind of thing.
The status quo in Afghanistan has not changed. Nothing happened here that prevents them from charging another guy for the same thing.
This case was "dropped for lack of evidence", which is as big a lie as they come, not because Sharia law was ruled to be an abomination or because the Afghanistan government respected the UN documents incorporated into their Constitution that specifically prohibit this kind of prosecution.
Good!
This is wonderful news....finally something positive for a change...
ROME Mar 29, 2006 (AP)— The man who faced the death penalty after converting from Islam to Christianity fled Afghanistan and arrived in Italy on Wednesday, Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi said.Italy offered the 41-year-old Abdul Rahman asylum after charges of apostasy were dropped against him by a court in Afghanistan. Rahman fled the country earlier in the day.
Many Afghans were furious at the decision, and on Wednesday members of parliament demanded that the government prevent him from leaving the country.
I agree. I think we, the US, should have been much more publicly involved in this (after all, we created the current govt of Afghanistan) and that we should have demanded changes to the statutes enshrining sharia.
The only thing I can say in our defense is that we were probably more naive about Islam when we started out there than, hopefully, we are now after several years of experience dealing with it. That must be why sharia slipped in, but I hope it's not too late to go back and change it.
Otherwise, you're right, nothing has changed in Afghanistan. It's just that the Taliban (in its new incarnation) is now receiving bundles of US foreign aid.
yeah... isn't it election time in italy ? I am gonna puke.
He'll be hunted no matter where he is. Cloistering him in a monastery for awhile might work.
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