Posted on 03/29/2006 7:53:41 PM PST by conservativecorner
KABUL, March 28 2006, (LifeSiteNews.com) – US-based Christian news source, Compass Direct, reports that more Christians have been arrested for their faith in Afghanistan in the wake of the release of Abdul Rahman. Compass, a news service that tracks persecution of Christians mostly in Islamic countries, says harassment of the Christian community has been stepped up.
Compass says two more Christian converts have been arrested in other parts of the country, but further information is being withheld in the “sensitive situation” caused by the international media furor over Rahman.
Reports of beatings and police raids on the homes of Christians are filtering out of the country through local Christian ministers.
The Italian newspaper, La Republica, published an interview with Abdul Rahman that the paper obtained through an aid worker who visited him last week. Rahman told the paper that, though he did not want to die, he was ready give up his life for his faith.
If God decides, I am ready to confront my choices, all the way,” he said.
“I read the Bible and it opened my heart and mind,” he told the paper. I have done nothing to repent, I respect Afghan law as I respect Islam. But I chose to become a Christian, for myself, for my soul. It is not an offence.”
The threat of death hangs over the heads of all Afghan Christians, of whom US-based groups say there may be as many as 10,000, meeting secretly in houses for prayer and bible study, and living in fear of their lives. Under Afghanistan’s strict Islamic law conversion to another religion is a capital offense and Muslim leaders have been calling for Rahman’s execution and threatening to kill him.
Rahman is in hiding and is thought to be under the protection of the UN through whom he has requested asylum outside Afghanistan. An offer has already been made by the Italian government. Italian Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini, announced yesterday that he would ask the Council of Ministers to “grant Rahman hospitality in Italy.”
Italy has close ties with Afghanistan; the Afghan royal family lived in exile in Rome for 30 years, returning to Afghanistan only after the fall of the Taliban regime.
When the announcement of Rahman’s release was made public, demonstrations broke out in which protesters chanted, “Death to Christians” among the anti-Bush and anti-American slogans.
democrats cheered the good news!
Hmm. Nation-building is complicated business.
Chapter I The State
Article 1 [Islamic Republic]
Afghanistan is an Islamic Republic, independent, unitary and indivisible state.
Article 2 [Religions]
(1) The religion of the state of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is the sacred religion of Islam.
(2) Followers of other religions are free to exercise their faith and perform their religious rites within the limits of the provisions of law.
Article 3 [Law and Religion]
In Afghanistan, no law can be contrary to the beliefs and provisions of the sacred religion of Islam.
I can hear champagne bottles popping over at ACLU headquarters.
But for those of us who are human, this is terrible news.
Like anything, the new rules will need to be vigorously enforced. Karzai is going to have to leave some bodies out in the streets ~ mostly of mullahs ~ and that'll be the end of that.
The ACLU probably has representatives over there learning the best way to persecute Christians.
Well, despite elements of the "new" Constitutions regarding tolerance, freedom of religion, human rights and such, we (or the UN or whoever set the thing up) were stupid enough to let them (both the Afghans and Iraqis, apparently) to establish at the very git go that they are going to be Islamic States, and the laws of Islam (Sharia) would be the law of the land, and no other law which contradicts said Sharia law will be recognized.
So essentially, all of the rest of the "feelgood" stuff like "human rights" in these "constitutions" is mere window dressing. It was already superceded and rendered moot by Islamic Sharia law as it was being written.
Islam played us for suckers, and the Coallition fell for it hook, line, and sinker.
So we now pretty much have the same thing that Afghanistan had before we got there - Islamic theocracy, which even the Mullahs proudly admit is totally incompatable with "Democracy".
Or, for that matter it seems, "Civilization".
They kept it under the rug for a while, but it's slithering out now like a cobra, ready to strike it's duped "Liberators".
For every Christian bailed out by the Civilized World, Islammonazis will hunt down at least two more to behead and dismember in retaliation. And there won't be much we can do about it, either. The savage lust for blood that Islam has inspired it's followers with for 1400 years must be satisfied one way or another.
I predict that it won't be long before we see this sort of conflict between civilization and Islam popping up in Iraq as well.
And the only thing that can save the situation, I opine, is a massive Christian revival in the ME, too big for the hardcore Muzzies to slaughter them faster than they convert.
The tactical battle could go either way at this point - but IMHO this is primarily a matter of spiritual warfare with tactical manifestations.
Praying about it might not be a bad idea.
Whatever these animals call themselves today, they sound suspiciously like that lovable group that caused us to go into Afghanistan in the first place.
Sure, shari'a law is perfectly Ok... so long as you lie about human rights, tolerance, democracy and "freedom".
Sometimes our national leadership is an embarrasment.
If we hadn't no one would know this was happening.
And Christians and women would still be being slaughtered.
Can you people get some perspective here? Good grief!!
Right on:
"(2) Followers of other religions are free to exercise their faith and perform their religious rites within the limits of the provisions of (Sharia) law."
Which essentially means; go ahead and practice some other religion.
You will be given one chance to repent and reunite with Islam, and if you refuse we kill you.
Welcome to "Freedom", Muslim style!
Sure fell for that one, didn't we?
Yeah..........freeing 50,000,000 people from the control of brutality is embarrassing. Shame on our military and their Commander in Chief.
What must they have been thinking? FAR better to have them being brutalized and slaughtered by the thousands than to have the work of a few publicized and criticized by the world.
We should have left things as they were. /sarcasm (in case anyone is too stupid to notice)
You'd rather he be dead?? Because if we hadn't freed the Afghan people, he would be.
No big deal to you, I suppose. Not if you can say cute things on the Internet and sound like a tough guy.......
This is sad indeed, but no surprise.
Christians will continue to be harmed and killed by Mohamads children.
Re: "Karzai is going to have to leave some bodies out in the streets ~ mostly of mullahs "
If he so much as messes with one Mullah, it's Karzai's carcass that will be feeding the buzzards, and he knows it.
Right now he's sort of caught between 7th Century Islam and 21st Century Civilization... neither of which are at all compatable with each other.
Not an enviable position, IMHO.
And if any of the Coallition happens to take out a Mullah, we will also likely be in an unenviable position, in that if any of our troops are going to get out of there alive they will have to exterminate about 85% of the Afghan population.
And that would not play at all well in the press.
We Christians will always be tested in matters of our faith.
Therefore, we should all pray for our brothers and sisters who may be killed over their faith in Christ Jesus.
USA has caved into a religion straight out of hell, and we share in this blame. Bush has called Islam a religion of peace, and he is not being truthful at all.
The only good muslim is a dead m--how's that go again???
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