So much for bringing "freedom" to Afghanistan.....

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They want to execute this guy for his religion?

Afghan man faces death for being a Christian
Prosecutors, judge, family insist convert should die

By Kim Barker
Tribune foreign correspondent
Published March 21, 2006

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Abdul Rahman told his family he was a Christian. He told the neighbors, bringing shame upon his home. But then he told the police, and he could no longer be ignored.

Now, in a major test of Afghanistan's fledgling court system, Rahman, 42, faces the death penalty for abandoning Islam for Christianity. Prosecutors say he should die. So do his family, his jailers, even the judge. Rahman has no lawyer. Jail officials refused to let anyone see Rahman on Monday, despite permission granted by the country's justice minister.

"We will cut him into little pieces," said Hosnia Wafayosofi, who works at the jail, as she made a cutting motion with her hands. "There's no need to see him."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0603210143mar21,1,938137.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed

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1. What comments from Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, James Dobson - -

and Kirk Cameron for that matter about this? Have they signed on with Afghanistan under democracy?