Afghan Christian's plight draws U.S. pressure

[ProSense]

Posted 3/23/2006 9:10 PM Updated 3/23/2006 9:12 PM

Afghan Christian's plight draws U.S. pressure

By Barbara Slavin, USA TODAY

The Bush administration Thursday intensified pressure on Afghanistan to spare a Christian convert in a case that has raised outrage among Christians in the USA.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice phoned Afghan President Hamid Karzai Thursday to urge a "favorable resolution to this case at the earliest possible moment," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.

Gary Bauer, president of American Values, a conservative Christian group, said U.S. officials have to be "clear and bold" in talking about the case. "This whole enterprise is an effort to bring democratic principles to that part of the world. That means more than elections, it means religious pluralism."

Bauer sent an e-mail Wednesday to a quarter of a million supporters saying that the execution of the convert, Abdul Rahman, "would very likely result in a complete collapse in support for the war."

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-03-23-afghan-us-pressure_x.htm

[ProSense]

1. "Troubling"

President Bush, who visited Afghanistan on March 1 and praised progress there, on Wednesday called the case "deeply troubling."

[Sensitivity]

2. WHY, WHY??? Aren't Democratic Senators raising a voice of Outrage

Please don't let the Puke get ahead on this one.
This is a perfect wedge into the perverse contradictions in Bush "War on Terror"

[IndianaGreen]

3. Abdul Rahman must be insane!

No rational person would convert to Christianity!

[Johnyawl]

4. Of course he's insane!

No rational person would be a muslim!

[lwcon]

5. Free to behead you and me

Jesus told our theocracy to kill thousands of Iraqis. Muhammad told Afghanistan's theocracy to kill a guy for following Jesus.

Thank God we all have the right to http://vastleft.blogspot.com/2006/03/free-to-behead-you-and-me.html">worship in our own way.

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