Souless people who write with disdain about prophecy which was first written about them.
Muleteam1
Posted on 03/29/2006 5:22:50 PM PST by Mazi83
In "Abdul Rahman's Family Values," Time Magazine (thanks to all who sent this in) reveals "an official police report on the Christian convert in Afghanistan" which "alleges a tawdry domestic life."
It never seems to occur to Time that anyone in Afghanistan might have any interest in blackening Abdul Rahman's name, and they retail these stories from supposedly disinterested officials and family members (that's right, the family that turned him in for apostasy) without critical comment.
Most importantly, these stories are a gigantic red herring, of interest only to the most befogged dhimmis. It doesn't matter if Abdul Rahman is a deadbeat dad, a father stabber, a mother raper, or the second coming of Adolf Hitler. If he is any of those things, of course he should be prosecuted in a sane society by a sane court system. But ultimately whether he is or is not those things is irrelevant to the question of whether or not he is free, or should be free, to leave the Islamic religion in Afghanistan.
He said he was a Christian, you see, so Time Magazine has to portray him in a negative light. Time's enemy, after all, is Christianity, not the global Islamic jihad.
By attempting to divert attention away from that central question, Time Magazine deserves the opprobrium of all free people everywhere.
Western leaders breathed a sigh of relief yesterday at the release of Abdul Rahman, a Christian convert who had faced the death penalty under Afghanistan's Islamic law for renouncing his Muslim faith. Rahman, 40, has become the poster boy for the Christian right and for religious freedom. Closer up, however, the picture painted by the local police who arrested him shows a candidate not quite ready for family values. Rather, a portrait emerges of a deadbeat dad with psychological problems who couldn't hold down a job, abused his daughters and parents and didn't pay child support.
Colonel Mohammed Saber Monseffi, the chief crime officer at the 15th district police station in Kabul, brought Abdul Rahman in for questioning after a domestic dispute turned violent late last month. Says Monseffi, "He told me, 'I'm a Christian,' and I said that is not of any interest to me. I asked him why did you beat your father, why did you beat your daughters?" The fact that Rahman was Christian was secondary to his family's desire to get him out of the house, said Monseffi, who adds that his own wife is a Russian Christian.
Witness statements by his teenage daughters Mariam and Maria, aged 13 and 14, on the night of his arrest appear to detail his failures as a parent. "He behaves badly with us and we were threatened and disgraced by him. He has no job and has never given me a stitch of clothing or a crust of bread. Just his name as a father," said his 13-year-old daughter Mariam in a statement signed with her inky fingerprint.
Both his daughters mentioned that he had converted to Christianity and abandoned the religion of Islam but also described him as "jobless, lazy and cruel." His 14-year-old daughter Maria said that when her father returned to Afghanistan three years ago after spending many years in Germany and Pakistan he was a stranger to her. "He said he was my father but he hasn't behaved like a father since he came back to Afghanistan. He threatens us and we are all afraid of him and he doesn't believe in the religion of Islam," her statement said.
Abdul Rahman's parents did not appear to help his cause. A statement by his mother Ghul Begum reads: "We brought up his children and for eight years he didn't come home. Because he has converted from Islam to another religion we don't want him in our house." His father Abdul Manan's statement says, "(Abdul Rahman) wanted to change the ethics of my children and family. He is not going in the right direction. I have thrown him out of my house." Abdul Rahman's own statement does not dispute his financial straits. "Since I am jobless my family is with my children. I had economic problems with my familiy and my father has many complaints about me. He has warned me if I don't become a Muslim, I will be driven away from the house."
Now, both his daughters and the rest of his family are in hiding in Kabul, fearful that they could be targeted by a now liberated Rahman or by Islamic extremists. On Monday several hundred clerics, students and other protestors gathered on the streets of Mazar-i-Sharif calling for his execution and shouting "death to Christians." Afghanistan's deputy attorney general Mohammed Eshaq Aloko said Rahman would be allowed overseas for medical treatment but that the case could be reopened "when he is healthy."
You expected less from Slime mag?
I clicked on the author's name (at the top of the article) and sent in a complaint to Time. It made me feel better if nothing else.
One thing you can say about those muslims, they're such sweet folks. Reading the article gave me the creepies, its as though an alien asteroid accidently crashed into earth and now two entirely different species that resemble each other in physical structure only, are trying to share the planet.
Well, the guy may have a lot of emotional and behavioral problems and even be a poor father or husband. However, that is not what they were charging him with. It revolved around his religion.
time asked me to renew my sibscription last year and of course I responded with no and told them why.ha.
What is Slime Magazine's circulation in Afghanistan these days?
Personally, I think we'd have an easier time getting along with Klingons.
He was not charged with being a dead-beat dad. He was charged with being a Christian.
He did not confess to being a deadbeat, and he was not sentenced to death for being a deadbeat.
If he was a man of low character, its hard to imagine he would go to the hangman refusing to deny his Christian faith. A lesser man would have no problem swearing to whatever he had to swear to, publicly, keeping his true beliefs private.
That's how I see it. He may have problems (although, considering their sources are people who want him KILLED, I would imagine there is at least some embellishment), but the case was specifically about his conversion. The 1000 or so Afghans shouting "Death to Christians" on the street and demanding his murder were doing so because he was a Christian--not because he was a bad father. Time completely twisted the story to suit their own agenda. Did you notice the "Christian Right" line they threw in there?
They most resemble the borg, they seem to have a mindless, primal drive to absorb, with out clear purpose, other than to feed the impulse.
Muleteam1
Hmmm -- maybe, just maybe, his conversion to Christianity contributed to his joblessness and absence? Might there be a slim chance, due to the possibility that he would lose his head by returning? Nah, Time Magazine, so tuned in to the culture of Islam, would have told us so -- wouldn't they?
As far as I know, in many Islamic countries, there are no laws against domestic abuse, because the father is absolute head of the house. Furthermore, it is common in the ME for the men to hang around loafing in coffee shops while the women do the work. Sounds like a smear piece by a rag that isn't even good for wiping paper (pages to slick).
"Most of the Democrats and certainly Time magazine would cheer for anyone who wanted to start making ethanol out of Christians."
So true.
By the way if you all check out this link you will see on the right-hand side and half way down yet another distorted image of Condi Rice:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1175760,00.html
tag the link and you will be brought to Time's 100 Poll (no conservatives apply)
Lemme guess, they found his name on an envelope at the bottom of a half a ton of garbage?
Souless people who write with disdain about prophecy which was first written about them.
Muleteam1
This article's biases are simply unreal!! Apparently it does not occur to the mindless liberal author that if Rahman had returned to Afghanistan any sooner he most surely would have been executed by the Taliban (and probably tortured first). Since his parents are determined that a non-Muslim cannot live in their house, there does seem to be just a wee little problem with his effort to re-establish his life with his family and his community. And since Muslim fanatics don't take too kindly to infidels, there may be a wee little problem for him to find a job in that place. Hope he can establish a new life for himself in Italy or wherever he finally ends up and try to forget about those Satan-worshippers he had to leave behind.
Well, for all we know, the Karzai government put that stuff in Time. The possible reason being that Karzai wants to release Rahman, but he's worried about all the Moslem extremists (such as Taliban or Hekmatyar sympathisers) raising hell. The reason why he sought to label Rahman as insane, is because he can release him without worring about fanatic Moslems wreaking havoc, or at least hopefully.
Of course, this could just as easily be a smear job by Pravda's American twin.
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