...and place him into a prestigious university where he and America can tell Yale where to shove it.
The government of Afghanistan is trying to find a way to avoid handing down a death penalty to a man who converted from Islam to Christianity, sources said Wednesday.
A top government official and an official from the presidential palace both said that Abdul Rahman, 42, would not be put to death for his religious conversion. The government is trying to find a graceful way out of a sensitive situation, perhaps by saying that Rahman is mentally ill and cannot stand trial.
The Afghan Embassy in Washington announced on Wednesday that the country's judicial system is evaluating Rahman's mental fitness, the result of which could end the court proceedings.
"That would be some kind of face-saving measure for the government," said the government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.