Afghans want to chop off the head of man that converted to Christianity...

[kentuck]

Supposedly, he converted about 15 years ago. Peope are working behnd the scenes to get him declared "insane" so as to protect him from death. But, many of the Islamic hardliners are saying his body should be torn apart piece by piece. The Bush advisers are huddled today to try and figure out what to do with this situation without creating a big scene. They fear a Christian "backlash" in this country if he is put to death. But they fear an uprising in Kabul against Karzai if they take him out of the country. What advice would you give?

[Deep13]

1. Did he commit some crime?

Oh, he rejected the one and only true word of God as it was relayed to our primate brains 1400 years ago. I'm glad we restored freedom and democracy to Afganistan to prevent religious nut jobs from doing bat-shit insane things.

This is what the Christian Fundies want for our country.

[Deja Q]

2. Funny, how that works...

[Deep13]

7. Um, I don't get it...

...marshmellow peeps with cigarettes and hats?

[atreides1]

10. "Did he commit some crime?"

Well in a word, yes! But his crime was in violation of current Afghan law. Whether we agree with it or not, it is still their law. And the Bush administration is just as responsible for that law as if they voted in favor of it themselves.

We only restored freedom and democracy to Afghanistan to prevent a particular group of religious nut
jobs from doing bat-shit insane things, and then we allowed warlords and some former allies of those
religious nut jobs to become the new free and democratically elected government.

Go figure????

[valerief]

3. Let his God decide

That should make both sides happy.

[Vinnie From Indy]

4. You can almost hear the dump trucks backing up to Robertson's &

Dobson's and Fallwell's studios to carry all the loot they are going to soak out of the "true believers". Praise God and fill out this donation form!

[monktonman]

5. If this guy converted to Buddhism

would this be news???

[kentuck]

6. Yes...Remember they destroyed all the Buddhist monuments....

that were in the mountainside?

[monktonman]

8. your missing the point

[kentuck]

9. Sorry....you're probably right...

It wouldn't be news. So what does that mean?

[slackmaster]

11. It's newsworthy in the USA because most Americans are Christians

No great mystery. News organizations are in the business of selling advertising. They publish whatever they think people are likely to read.

[monktonman]

13. Bingo!

just a diversion.
hmmmmm wonder what else is in the news today?

[lukasahero]

14. It's newsworthy in America because we sent our troops over there

and invaded their country only to end up installing the same damn theocracy we were supposed to be getting rid of (spreading democracy and all that crap). It's a testament to the folly of shrubCo and we can learn from these mistakes. We have left their people vulnerable and it is now our responsibility to be aware of the mess we created and try to help diplomatically fix it.

[zulchzulu]

12. Freedom is on the march

"I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace."
George W. Bush

[TallahasseeGrannie]

15. A question...

What would be the "penalty" in the US Islamic community for converting to another faith? Obviously they aren't a legal entity, but how do they handle it? Does anyone know?

[Disturbed]

17. The man could be declared "insane"?

I cannot figure this out.

He has been a Christian for 15 years and now he is charged with a crime that requires the Death Penalty. Did he out himself recently or was he outed by someone else? This is a real problem for the Bush Regime that has a large RW Fundie backing.

[MadMaddie]

19. I think that this is another miscalculation on the * cabal...

They made this war into an anti-muslim war....* even mentioned the word "crusade" in many of his speeches...

This has become a religious war....everytime * invoked "His Christian God told him tooo...whatever the topic was for the day...", He made it a religous war....

When you have Pat Robertson and other wingnuts screaming about protecting Israel and obliterating all Muslim countries...has made it a religious war....

The Christians and Muslims seemed to have coexisted (perhaps uneasy) in these regions...

The Muslims in these countries are going to revenge the death and destruction done by the US by taking out Christians...

Everything that the * cabal touches always turns to death....

[k_jerome]

16. muslim on sun-tues, xtian on weds-fri. take sat off to rest. nt.

[Stinky The Clown]

18. Stand on a chair, put your head between your legs and kiss your ass g'bye

I was talking about this in another thread just today.

The religiously insane are all in a snit about this. Forget the backlash *from* them in this country. The real fear is a backlash **against** them in this country.

Religiously insane is religiously insane.

And then there's the other truth .... we 'liberated' them so they can be free to run their country. Well guess what, liberators ........ ?

[PurityOfEssence]

20. Isn't religion fun?

If you don't grant my fantasy the status of aristocracy, you must be destroyed.

Islam IS worse than Christianity, but that's no great achievement.

The mindset of exclusive certainty is primitive, ugly and dangerous.

[espera17]

21. despicable

so the administration goes into afghanistan, which I believe was warranted, and all its incompetence gives us is a country ruled by Islamic law.

[Sensitivity]

22. Why aren't Dem Leaders rushing to save Christian from Biush/Islamofacist

tragedy.

The image of a lone Afghan facing death rather that give up his Christian faith goes the heart of the American psyche. That this is the result of Bush’s bellicose foreign policy could shake the very foundations of the Republican electoral base.

Why aren’t Democrats taking the lead in stopping this madness and raising a voice of outrage. Please don't let the Puke get ahead on this one. This live-and-direct personal tragedy provides a perfect wedge to pry open the perverse contradictory corruptions of the Bush "War on Terror".

[Clarkie1]

23. dupe.

[Clarkie1]

24. This is a lesson in Democracy.

"Freedom and dignity spring from within the human heart. They are not imposed. And inside the human heart is where the impetus for political change must be generated.... if the events of the last year tell us anything, it is that democracy in the Middle East is unlikely to come at the point of our gun."

-Wes Clark

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0405.clark.html