Sentenced to death for being Christian
Tuesday, 21 March 2006 | 156 readers so far
The road to “progress” in Afghanistan is going to be a long one. One would almost think that the Taliban was still in charge after reading this article about a man facing the death penalty after having been turned in by his family for being Christian.
On Thursday the prosecution told the court Rahman has rejected numerous offers to embrace Islam.
Prosecuting attorney Abdul Wasi told the judge that the punishment should fit the crime.
He says Rahman is a traitor to Islam and is like a cancer inside Afghanistan. Under Islamic law and under the Afghan constitution, he says, the defendant should be executed.
So he was “offered” the “opportunity” to “embrace” Islam. I’ve used the cancer analogy myself, but I’ve used it against the mindset that allows a man to tell another man to embrace his version of God or die.
No wonder some people reject God entirely. Human beings act so inhuman in His name. Sounds like blasphemy to me. It also sounds like Afghanis need some help mentally getting out of the Middle Ages.
1 March 21st, 2006 at 2:49 pm
Dale says:
As Americans, we might take the separation of church and state too lightly. We grew up with it and may not recognize the value of preventing the government from punishing people for their religious beliefs.