There's Something Wrong Here...

Here's a disturbing story about one Abdul Rahman. He is an Afghan man, who, after working as a medical relief worker, converted from Islam to Christianity. For this he was arrested, imprisoned, and faces the death penalty. At the moment most other nations are pressuring the Afghan government to release him, while Abdul himself facing psychological testing to make sure he's fit to stand trail. In this article , from CNN, a leading Muslim cleric has these encouraging words:

"Rejecting Islam is insulting God. We will not allow God to be humiliated. This man must die. Cut off his head! We will call upon the people to pull him to pieces until there is nothing left."

So the man's crime was converting to Christianity. Also, scandalously, when he was arrested he was in possession of a Bible. This is in a country that we recently "liberated", where we have a huge military presence, and whose government and people our soldiers are being killed to protect. Isn't there something wrong with this picture?

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Saturday update: The Afghan government is trying to find a way around a possible death sentence, perhaps by declaring Rahman unfit to stand trial (crazy for Christ?). Any trial might be as long as two months off. Most Muslim clerics are still calling for his death. And this past week a United States soldier was killed in a firefight with Taliban fighters in the southern part of the country. That would be a total of 283 Americans killed in that country since the operation began.