Posted on 03/24/2006 6:30:56 AM PST by NYer
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Senior Muslim clerics are demanding that an Afghan man on trial for converting from Islam to Christianity be executed, warning that if the government caves in to Western pressure and frees him, they will incite people to "pull him into pieces."
In an unusual move, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice telephoned President Hamid Karzai on Thursday seeking a "favorable resolution" of the case of Abdul Rahman. The 41-year-old former medical aid worker faces the death penalty under Afghanistan's Islamic laws for becoming a Christian.
His trial has fired passions in this conservative Muslim nation and highlighted a conflict of values between Afghanistan and its Western backers.
"Rejecting Islam is insulting God. We will not allow God to be humiliated. This man must die," said cleric Abdul Raoulf, who is considered a moderate and was jailed three times for opposing the Taliban before the hard-line regime was ousted in 2001.
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We must do all that we can to keep Muslims out of this country. Those we have will be problem enough when they decide the time is right.
This man is not really a Christian, he is a Muslim.
Sources please.
Lets be real here, the only sources are going to be the ones not wanting to reveal themselves. This is obviously a ploy, to incite the muslim population againt the west. What a fantastic way to do so. Think about it..
Yo, noob ... you need to pick yourself up one of these ...
Destroy pan-islamism. Then we'll see about the rest of islam.
We have to realize we are in the middle of a relgious war. This is not about Al Queda, Iraq, Iran or any other country. This is about Islam. The US does not want to admit that. This is a mistake. Declare war on Islam all together or get the hell out...period.
On a side note - seems Cair is really involved in helping this man.
http://www.cair-net.org/default.asp?Page=searchResults
0 results from Cair when queried for Abdul Rahman.
"How do you know he's a wonderful man?"
How do you know he is not?
Well I'm glad this isn't about anything serious, like a cartoon. I haven't seen much about this on tha whirled newz tanight either. Guess it's not important for Americans to know about stuff like this.
I didn't ask you for sources on this, you pinged the wrong person.
Not a PR coup for Islam.
A tree is known by it's fruits. This whole, "not judging others" thing gets way too much airtime. God gave us a brain. We're to use it. It helps keep us alive.
And you know he's not a Christian....how?
Really? Ready to nuke Detroit? Not that its not a bad idea, but it has the biggest Muslim population.
Why not simply send a Marine battalion into the prison and ask, politely, for custody to be transferred over?
And we freed these F*ckers. Have they learned anything having been repressed by the Taliban. So much for spreading democracy and democratic values in the middle east.
Kill the Infidels - Obviously Islam is not the peaceful religion that Muslims portray it to be.
I don't. I was trying to find out why he was called wonderful.
Islam has only three rules: Convert, Submit, or die.
Everything else is irrelevant fluff to confuse the weak minded.
If we nuked Detroit, would the property values go down - or up?
Don't know if he is wonderful, but he has courage.
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